Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-07-22
DEL, THURSDAY, JULY %. 1859.

Herman. "Can you get me strip of board
and hammer and few nails?"
II do know but can. My father is down
on the Point cutting corn. What kind o
nails do you want ?" replied Joe, swinging
bis foot, and looking about as efficient as a
bag of beans.
Meanwhile, Paulina looked on from be-
hind the Stats of the window blind and cha
fed. There stood Herman Willard, really
himseI, as slender and straight and hand
some-eyed as ever, and she would not meet
him for the world. She should never dare
look him in the face again Never! For
with youthful intensity she had magnified
the last summers misadventures until, as a
penny held close to the eyes shut out the
shining heavens and spreading earth, they
had covered everything.
II should not know how to go to work
to bring about an explanation, she had
thought hundred times over, sand
should die with modification.
But there he was, in need of help, and
there was Joe, sure, whatever he did, to do
it wrong.
why don't Joe put the horse in the barn
and fly around ?" said Paulina to herself in
an agony of repressed energy. "Now what
has be fished up? That old dish of rusty
nails. and bless me he is actually carrying
Herman drink of water in the old le eaky
wooden dipper Is the boy born fool, or
don't he know anything ! always have
the slimsiest kind of pity for folks that go
through life not knowing the commonest
things ~
=" Pauly :" screamed Joe, who had way
of making his voice save his feet, where's
some stout thread and big needle The
harnefs's broke. You needn't pretend YOU
cant hear, for there you be behind the
blind we can see you plain as day"
Paulina, at this rude summoning, hardly
knew whether she wanted to drown herself
or drown the boy but IL was scarcely
suitable time for either so she did, instead,
what the situation seemed to force upon
her. And, trying to forget herself in the
emergency and its requirements, she pre-
scntly came out with all sorts of suitable
tools-a little tremulous aud shame faced Mt
first, but very efficient.
Then-why, how different things appear
when you think them over, and when you
meet them face 10 face. Herman looked so
familiar and sensible, that before either were
aware, in fastening the broken harness, they
had fastened also their old friendship.
:" am really sorry you didn't come before
our peaches were gone. We had such
quantities." Paulina was saying an hour af-
terwards. with easy cordiality,in the parlor
where Herman sat drinking sweet fern beer
and eating grapes.
will remember the peaches next year,
Herman, with that old look in his
eyes that seemed to say that he would re-
member something besides.
Sure enough, he remembered, and came
when peaches were ripe once more; but he
did not wait for peach time before he came
again, and again, and again. For, like the
wondrous wise men of our town, who
scratched out their eyes in one bramble-
bush, and scratched them iu again in
another. Joseph had set right BY The second
blunder what he set wrong the first.
And when cherries arc ripe once more,
Paulina and Herman are tn be married un.
der the sweet apple-tree in the garleu.
All, well
g Ever twas thus, and ev,' 'twillb,
When the world hss fprgo'ten yJn u, d me-