The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-04-22

f sitting up for anything else 1T that tim
t of night, Mr.. Phil's little matter of bus
c mess seemed to have been satisfactoril
; arranged
One other little matter remained 70
, Phil to attend to, on reaching his owl
lodgings which was to destroy the let
ter he had written to the President O
the Ice Company, and to write another il
!, its place, which consisted of two words
simply:
"I0ccept."
The next day Phil entered his new du
ties as foreman, with an energy that au
Cured we'll for his own future, and for the
Interests of the Company.
The harvest had begun; an army OF
men and horses were at work, cutting
fields of ice into checkers, and breaking
these blocks into blocks to be raised
by machinery, and stored in the
great ice-houses; when, toward noon
! farmer Corbett, who had been kept away
from the pond by an attack of rheuma-
tism, came limping along, with quicker
ing and suffering countenance, to see what
was going on
"We'ye begun to cut, you see," said
Phil "And Clint has been found"
"You don't say Where ?"
81 discovered him, when taking look
at the ice off Jones's shore"
~ teIled we so telled ye SOP said the
prophet, although the spot indicated was
half a mile from the deep water which
his theory favored. Exactly where
said. Froze in the ice, wasn't he? Ye
remember what telled we.
"Not precisely frozen Oh to the ice-he
was walking on the ice" said Phil.
"Not drownded ?" cried the old farmer
with alarm.
"Not bit of it; but alive and we'll,
Mr.. Corbett.'
Where at the prophets countenance,
which had frightened wonderfully anon
ent before, assumed once more its pucker
ing and suffering expression, and he was
observed to limp away more painfully
than ever At first, he professed an ut
ter disbelief in Clint's return to life, de-
claring it to be "agin' natur, and agin'
reason :" but after he had beheld with his
own eyes the miracle, by the young man
moving about bodily on the pond (tor
Clint ''in the ice again, with his friend
PhiD, he consoled himself by saying that
eff the feller had a been drowned, he'd
a. been found exactly as he telled en-"
Clint got along very we'll with Phil,
and, consequently, with everybody else on
the pond, after this. We must here do
him the justice to add, that he gets along
very well with the old folks, too. A fort
nights rough experience as hostler and
man-of,a all work, in a country tavern, I'M
der hard master, had prepared him to
appreciate the privileges and comfort of
home while the great change that had
taken place in his grandparents did much
to bring about reform of manners in
him.
Clint missed the chance of attending
his own funeral but he had something's
perhaps quite as good in its stead.
"Did you think, Jonathan" said old
lady Dracutt, one day, that that was the
Iiftieth anniversary of our wedding the
might fore Clinton went away?"
ayes and I've thought ont good
Ideal since" replied the old man. "Pm
sorry it should have passed SO. Some peo-
pie have golden weddin on that ami
versary. l don't think we desarve a
golden weddin' exactly but if any old
couple ever needed to set the example Of
bein' married over agains in new sperit,
it's you and me, Jane Don't you think
so?"
q do! dol / wish that anniversary
wasn't past; though maybe it amt too
late to have our golden weddin' now. Our
unnatural way of Twin together has been
| known to everybody so long, feel as if
ia like to make some public profession of
our change OF feelin's-just have our
| friends come in and see US married over
again, in better sperit as you say"
| Friends favored the idea, and proffered
their assistance; and SO it happened that
! instead of funeral in the old Dracutt
house, there was, before many days gold
en- wedding.
The peculiar circumstances of the oc-
casion invested it with extraordinary in
terest; everybody seemed eager to witness
the second marriage OF an aged couple
who had lived separated under the same
|roof, without speaking to each other for
so many years Their first marriage, fifty
years before, had been called a romantic
one; but this, all things considered, was
I even more romantic-it was certainly far
more gnificant-tha that.
Old and young were present, q houseful
4 of guests-those who had lived through
the great experience of welded life, and
those who werej just entering upon,i it with
Youthful passions and rainbow colored
hopes Nor. were absent little children,
: vet innocentof the sweet yetawful knowl-
edge Of love. All Emma's little flock
were there, even down to little Sissy,
whose, dancing golden curls and cherubic
checks presented strong contrast to the
e GRAY hairs and wrinkles of the aged pair.
4 Dear, laughter-loving child! the world
was all before her now, while they were
t leaving it fast behind them. Little