The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-09-27

80 ~ t.uSokcs SASieintuSs 'ikku, IC Will
do it win do !! He's q fine. young
fellow, I see, only that confounded
red hair-he got that from the Rich
ardses." sst
A week and more passed on. Lucy
and her cousin agreed wonderfully
well. and Mr.. Willis was in perfect
ecstacy of the recovered. bloom ana
spirfts of his daughter.a3$a
6"Ah, Lu," said he, ono day, silly,
pinohing her cheek, '.what do you
think of cousin Reuben now 4? Amt
he worth a dozen of your college
fellows ?" And Lucy protested she
really liked cousin Reuben just as
well rs she had ever done Mrs Laoy's
nephew.
Cousin Reuben, who was now per-
fectly domesticated, made himself
not only very agreeable, but useful
to his uncle in various ways, and the
farmer regretted more and more,
every day, that he had not known
him before. Reuben was geologist,
and he explained to Mr.. Willis how
some portions of his farm, which he
had thought most unproductive.
might be made to yield good crops;
he was an architect, and he drew the
plan of the new house his uncle de-
signed to erect in the spring. He was
botanist, geometrican.
"And Latin was no moro deficile
Than for blackbird tits to whistle"
"Why, how in the world did you
pick up SO much learning out West?
l should think you had been to COL
lege, by the way you talk" said Mr..
Willis, one evening, addressing his
nephew, who had just been expound-
ing some knotty point.
eyes, uncle, and have just taken
my degree, replied Reuben, looking
at Lucy.
"You! the deuce you have! Why
where did your mother raise money
to send you to college?"
"My education was provided for by
my grand fathers will"
cit was, eh? we'll, we'll, I am sure
l never dreamed that you had been
to college, though I thought from the
first you knew considerable for your
years.
"Thank you, Uncle Andrew"
"And what are you going to do
now?"
"My dear uncle, shall soon re-
ceive my diploma for the practice of
medicine; then, if you will give me
dear Lucy for wife, will buy that
pretty cottage at the foot of the hill
and commence business"
"You buy it! No, no; am able to
buy it myself, and give it to Lucy on
her wedding day. / am sorry you
don't like the farm better, for I had
set my healt upon seeing you settled
upon the old family estate; but no
matter. Come here, Lu; will you
marry your cousin? All, I see you
will; here, take her, nephew, she is
yours-God bless you!"
Lucy burst into tears, and for a
moment her lover also appeared much
agitated. He then took Mr.. Willis
hand.
"Then you really like me, uncle?"
"First-rate, lad"
"And you don't know of any one
whom you prefer for son-in- -law?"
always had my eye on you, Reu-
ben."
"But suppose you had been i'm
posed upon; suppose I am not your
nephew at all?"
"Ho, ho, imposed upon! Pooh,
don't 1 know the Willis look-all but
the red hair-I wonder where you got
that from?"
II bought it of Frizeur & Frizette,
French BARRIERS, Broadway, New
York; it is a capital wig, don't you
think so?" replied the young man,
coolly taking it off, and handing it
for the inspection of Mr.. Willis. rss
"Hey! why, what's all this? who
are you? what does this mean?' ex-
claimed the farmer, staring at the
tine-looking youth, with dark brown
locks, who was bending so tenderly
over Lucy.
"Mr. Willis, why should 1 hesitate
to confess who L am," was the an
swer. "since you have already as
sured me of your affection, and your
willingness to bestow upon me this
dear hand. My name is Edward
Bartine.'
"Bartine- Bartine-why, that is
the same fellow"
"That you were going to try your
new hide upon, my dear sir!''
"Hum! and if 1 had it here, I
would try it now"
"Oh, no, you wouldn't, father"
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