Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-07-21

and tomorrow L will go and comfort
him"
Il guess you will find him, first, y
said Betsy Babbet. "And | guess if
he was found, there is certain person
he would be as glad to see as he
would another certain person"
"There is some mistake" said
Maggie Snow. "Jake Coleman is al
ways joking"
1T was a male" said Lucinder
DobbS, "else why did she call him
Hugh? You have all heard the min
lister say his wife hadn't relative on
earth except her mother and maiden
aunt !; it couldn't have been her moth
er, and it couldn't have been the
maiden amt, for her name was Martha
instead If Hugh. Besides" she kon-
tinude, fer she had so hardened her
mind will mathematics, that she could
grapple tie hardest fact and floor it,
so to speak. Besides" said she,
"the maiden aunt died a year and a
half ago, that settles the matter con-
clusively il was not the maiden aunt. "
Il have thought something was on
the minister's mind all the spring,
said the Widder Tubbs, Il have spok-
en- to sister Ann about it q number
of times" When she kinder rolled up
her eyes, jest as she does in class
meetin, and sez she, at is an awful
dispensation, but | hope he'll turn it
into means Of grace; | hope his Spir-
etooil strength will be renewed
But" sez she, q have borryed a
good dea. of trouble about his bein'
so handsome; | have noticed that
handsome ministers don't turn out
well, they most always have some
thin happen to 'em sooner or later
but hope he'll be led"
"WeIl, l never thought that Miss
Linden was any too good, said Bet.
/ sy Babbet.
Neither did l." said Lucinder
Dobbs.
''She has turned out just as always
thought she would said Ophelia
and | have Jest as good an opinion
of her as | have for them that stand
Iup for her
Maggie Snow spoke up then; jest
as clear as bell her voice sounded
she amt afraid Of anybody, for she il
lawyer Shows only child, and has
been to Boston to school. Sez she
"Aunt Allen (she is a little related
to me on her mothers side Aunt
A4t=. 80 49, - are,, o.,.e,
rule, the very worst folks are the
| first nroa 70 angrant nthap 4~liao- vi UU
ing bad 2
Sez |, Maggie, they draw their pic
lures from memory And sez |
They want to pull down other folkses
regulations, for they feel as if THEN
own goodness is in totterin' condi
ton, and if they fall, they want some
thing to fall on, so as to come dowr
easier like"
Maggie Snow laughed, and so did
Miss Edwards, and the Joneses, bu
Betsy Babbet and the Dobbs' girl.
looked black as Erobious. And, sel
Betsy Babbet to me, Sez she: I"
shouldn't think, Josiah Aliens wife
that you would countenance such con
duct"
Il will first know there is wrong
conduct" sez l. Sez |, "MiSs Linden.
face is Jest as innocent as a baby 5
and | amt a-goin' to mistrust any evi
out of them pretty brown eyes till
am oblceged to.
Jest at this minute the hired cir
came in and said supper was ready
and we all went out TO eat it. Mis-
Jones said there wasn't anything OF
the table fit to eat, and she was afraiC
we couldn't make out, bnt we die
have a splendid supper, good enough
for the Zero Of Rushy.
We hadn't more'n got up from tht
supper table and got back into tn
parlor, when we heard a knock ont,
the front door. Miss Jones went ant
opened it, and who, Of all the liv,
world should walk in but the minister
| The faces Of the wimmen as he enter
ed would have been a study for Mich
aeI Angelica, or any of the old paint
ers. Miss jones was so illustrates
that she asked him the first thing t.
take his bonnet of, then she bethough
[ herself and sez she. "How's you
mother p before she had sOt him
chair or anything. But he locke,
just as pleasant and composed as ey
er, though his eyes kinder laughed
, And he thanked her and told her b
, left his mother, the day before, goo,
deal better; and then he turned t
Maggie Snow, and sez he:-
81 have come after you, Miss Mag
gie," 8ez he, "My wife came hom
night before last, and wanted to Sc
you SO bad, that | told her as | ha
business past your house | would cal
for you as | went home, and you
mother told me you was here.
z think | know, sez he, "why she want
] to see you so much now, she is S
proud of our boy she can't wait till
Y "Your boyI' gasped the nine win
r men to once.
b "Yes, sez he, smilin' more pleasan
s than | ever see him. Il know yo
t all wish me joy. We have a nice lii
q tie boy, little Hugh, for my wife ha
e named him already for her father. II
is fine, healthy little fellow-almos
: two months old"
:, at wouldn't have done any goo
s for Michael Angelica to have bee
there then, nor Mr.. Ruben, nor non