Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-05-11
He AND SHE

They had grown up together, in the
full sense of the term-and that was lust
the matter. They had eaten each other,
mud pics, taken the Group in each other,
snow forts, cried out the sums on each
others states, tipped over each others ink
bottles, sopped up the ink with their mu.
tual handkerchicts, "told" of each othe,
in about equal proportions, and ''made up
in a common exuberancc of sobs and sas.
safras. They had played at lovers be.
niLu INC Wuuu-pirv, Vvou 1880
prize speaker, been divorced by the "Grst
base" been reunited by the ministers
daughter, and gone to housekeeping in the
peat swamp, at regular intervals, as fal
back as their memory extended.
She had blue eyes, and never under.
stood vulgar fractions.
lie used TO miss, so that she might get
to the head of the class.
One day she braided her hair in two
little braids behind, and tied it with a
pink lute-string ribbon, at three cents 4
yard When they walked home together
he touched it gently, to signify his ap.
probation, and she blushed like q May.
Cover. .....
1t could not have been long after that
before she grew shy at singing-school, and
was apt to be going home with her bloth.
or. In another year, when he went tc
St. David's College, she cried herself to
sleep, forgot to crimp her hair, and said
nothing was the matter.
So, of course, when he came home on
his first vacation, it all happened as it
could not very well help happening, and
as | suppose it must 60 on happening to
the end of young things dreaming Or Of
old ones warning.
She sat in the choir in blue dress with
white spots, with pink bonnet aud pink
check, and sang in very sweet little
country voice, that quivcrcd and curlcd
about the pillars Of the sunny white meet
ing house like incense in an open field on
a May-day, you might have thought-or
you might not.
He, grown rather tall, rather quiet, with
lonc hair. and ,ii0 unn,"''"'--'----
-. ,..,l a.4 hollow in his fathers bon
pew-and listened. ,..f.
One Sunday it CHANGED that the Rev
Mr.. Love, the recently settled and very
popular shepherd Of the ''meeting-house,
felt moved in the spirit to preach 10 hi
flock a sermon upon Christian amity, anc
to suggest us its most fitting accompani
mcnt LYNN S57 Of the "Swcet Singer o
Israel" (just introduced.)
All, You excellent mothers with wash
ing-days on your minds, and ye father
struggling TO keep your faith under th
discovery Of Toms first cigar, do yo'
never suspect in your stupid good hearts
the tears Of solid comfort rolling into you
spectacles as you sing, and your souls
glow with all the hidden meanings Of fcl
lowshp in the one Master whom they VIII
love not never know--do you never sus
pcct the flirtations conducted over tha
admirable hymn?
1t may be very much too bad, but it
very much the case. 1t is quite as ba
in me TO suggest the sacrilege to you
young people. Bless your indignant souls
, they stand in need Of no suggestion. As
them. | do not deny that it is atroco'
, in me to spoil the hymn ior you; but th'
, is another matter.
She then, in her blue and white dres
. with a sunbeam struggling through lit
/, ground glass gallery window upon herpir
/ bonnet, sang:
"Best be the tie that binds
{ Our hearts in Christian love;
: The fellowship of kindred minds
. Is like to that above.
1t struck him that her voice was le
like incense now, and more like melt
silver; which was very good fancy
the way, and he would make a note OF
7" against some indefinite exigencies as ella
orator. -H2''e- ~
: "0ur fears, our hopes, our aims are one,
'r Our comforts and our cares, rI
1t faltered the little silver voice and SO #
| tered into this: ta .
N "When we asunder part,
1t gives us inward pain;
But VIC shallstiIl be joined in hcart--'
n And he turning round VITA the au
IN ence, back to the Rev. Mr.. Love, as "
IN the fashion in the Bloomsbury First Chur
D. lifted his face to hers, and their fool
g young eyes mct,--met and dropped, a
~ the work was done.--Harper's MaJasi
If If man should be murdered
w his own workmen, ought the coronor r