The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-06-12

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me PeualerLhoG snarP enough y. DAT
gaaiilnS. nos .iiIeLestea euouSh ~ n,.s
BUSINESS. AM tnen l hoticeu ne never
Dad sign; ;,,c,..tis,.I, -,
1ba""Weli," observed his thrifty wife, ~
can y say l iiked MN tiie pes, iof MS
easy pargdins. ne doht nlahe lnuch
proht ny en- thougn, guess, ludging
rom that oid camiet coat Oh ms, WIN lts
patciied elbows ana old iaSIionsd iong
taiis mapping about MS heeis. can re-
member my grandmother had Just sueh
another. But Jennie, glrI, II you're
gong 70 tne nee, it,s high time 70 pestir
youlsen' why, Tvs hiSh siA o'ci'cA a.
reauy."ii'i' '.1oJ a.f- lo fstnI
,,, AZ. ....
:, IL, Mis sun. i,oohllgns Summer
M'Sne as 'ehhn Ha,ies WalNeu iLngel-
ngigf amng sne neauow paIn, h1iie-
Wa.u rom arinet DurlwelIs. E'i-
lgerIig!yE-ior iler iahd was claspeu III
!aat o' + RANK duncan, ana ne vas ss .a,h- LIN
ing 20 her earnestly, rs they passed un-
DER tile shadows OF the water, willows,
OF paused ior memeht on .ne rustic
pr.ugr, t,iaC spanileu tne ineauow creek.
Ia III Il, 40 N' Jennie iierc swear 'eaS
4 7T--o,r,a,l f...i,, ..'-
| Uh, rahk' uon1 swear
~ nen pron''se-yes, mere .;l pTo,a,se .nse
not TO rest, gay or night, untii nave
nve hundred dollars TO snow TO your
iasher ~ - -. I.I o,,
bae now VIII You gct IT. rrankr.-
n..,. oo,' = Know yeti o,is ~. nm. llnu o,L I
hhum.t; he Iona oei,n'e' peaf ieief 10 WI
nuS ionS 1,,,o; % ,,..l.4 'ft7
iref MaiNeu on.ii s:tu slienee,
80 WISH were rlch DHfst ITO " D'sn-
Gun, passioh''ieiy'. II never cafed lor
- epe!o,e, wy 80 how' TOT yo'f sakc-
anu NINE Jennle; Ii had only one
'hossalu uoiiarS r...,4F
~, IN moasana 10y ;'3 uoiiaI :, : ram .,.,, 49,
,,.;iihU nea itta' ne n,iS,ss as WI III .Is i,ase
"isHeu ioI the "eaitii Vi MoliIe Cnrisru. ~
itis noS iarge sum, oennle. let
! i've huiureu uoiiars WQuiu purcnase s !,
tnat pretty httie place pear the oiq
cnurch 'nat yo. admire 20 mucns- ahd
VIII announcer nve htihdred 10 STOCK u
ana pegih Mlth -, Oh.Jennie. only
thiiik now happy ilttie money coutd
MAKE us
no use Ihihkihg, salu the g'ri,
sauiy. anu rahk, yo4 are 50 given
,oa ~ s,ii'Alhg anu oteatsatg, CltI -Ts.c
looked up WIN tendefi laii-smiie - III
aifaia youli never isectO WORK hafd. e.
hougn 10 make even the hve puhdred.
!, Try, oehiiie' never nave lear OF
thaa. - ri1.H,
Ihey nag now reachcd the potion Oh
larMe, Ha,iets gar9eh' anu mere Ihey
paused awhiIe, exchanging iew ast
sentences. Ihen, with SAD, nnger-
ing adieu, Ghey Parted; y -ipy,gt
lt was eleven O'Clock. Jennie heard
the oid kltcnen CLOCK strike as she pass
ed slowly up the walk; she paused at
Tue gate, anu looked Dack toward the
meadow Will strange yearning and
desoiation at her neart. lie was gone.
ana tne wo:ld seemed very drcary TO
her. one ieared IL would never De
Drignt again. 90 the young Always
tilinN M 1ieir hrst disappointmenC.
fuIainS at length to open the gate.
her fooe struck something soft and
yieldlng. ohe looked down, and saw
some dark oDJect on the ground. near
~ ~ hddeh Deheatii the low iiiac oonghs.
Iaklhg IL up, she saw IL was acoat--her
latner ,, sne iahcleo. ana WIN mo.
menVary wonder as TO now lt should
have come there, she went softly into
tne fohse: bearing the garment with
her; AS she stole upstairs to her own
niue foom' she fancled, she heard a
siignt nolse below, IN che kitchen adj
joining her parents bedroom. She
heare kagain as silc was retiring, ana
thei a step The little back stoop; aud
as she looked ONT OF ner WINDOW, fam
cieu t'iiI she saw Hgufe disappear
thfough the garden gate. she wonder
eo Who u couid De- was u some one
lookiHg ior tne coat! ana turning TO
where sne haa mechanically dropped 1t
on ciaif, sne examined IL Dy the cam
ulshSuc. ~ was hot her Iathers. IL
was patched and faded, long-skirtcd.
camieF coat-the coat she had seen worn
py the peddler that evening. ff.
lie VIII come back for 1t, perhaps
said the girii and she hung it carefully
on a nan Ill the upper entry closet.
] But the peddler never came back for
the lost garment; aud it was understood
WHY; when, ON Thursday, farmer Hal
let, opening the bureau to take out his
hundred dollars for deposit in the Lo-
gansvil;e bank, found the tin box and
the wallet safe, but the money all gone. |
search was made for the peddier, but
IN vain. No one had seen a person at
all answering MS description, uhiess it
was a pious Methodist preacher who had
passed hurriedly through Logansville
on journey TO the West, as missionary
TO me Indians; and to suspect him
would be a shame! - 4l1 ~ i |
I Yet, some time after, neighbor Burn |
we'll, reading in n city paper tleserip- |
tion of a noted burglar who had brok-
ken out OF prison, and for some weeks
past baffied the detectives, remarked |
that he and the peddler must be either
the same or twin brothers. SO exactly |
did the description tally with the APP
peafanee OF the peddle,. ~ = |
SO the old coat hung, unseen and for
gotten, in the back entry closet, until |
fall, when Mrs. Hallet, in her quarter
ly "cleanings, 'espied it. ii
NJenuie nSaid shn tsT vich that xn,, |