Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-06-10
To Let.-InquIre Within
The lady fiounced out in a rago

4 = Ia
the parlor. III
, Il like the house very much" said H.,
spinster aunt, solemnly, "and with a e.
alterations, / will engage it for NV h..
Tiers family"
, "Very well, ma'am," said Nahum. r,t
bling his hands, and seeming a sna.s,
termination to his trials. Name en- -
"The door handles must be gilded al
: / should like the house newly papered =
( velvet and gold, and repainted. and r.
partition between the parlors taken dow,
and replaced by an arch, and an exteu.io,
dining-room built on behind. and r.
stile of range in the kitchen, and a dun,b
waiter put in, and new bronze chandelier
} throughout, and another furnace In the
sub-cellar, and"
Hold on, ma'am-just hold on ona
minute" said Nahum, feebly gasping r.,
breath. Wouldn't you like the ola
: house carted away and a new one put IA
its place / think it would be rather les
trouble than to make the trifing altera.
tions you suggest"
''Sir y said the spinster, loftily
Il don't think we can agree, ma am
Every well-very well. Come, girl q"
With prime dignity the lady marshalel
HtI lND Guar St5 Du HBillEAl44LE
about the "extortionate ideas Of Landlord.
nowadays"
While Nahum, wildly rumpling hi,
iron grey hair with both hands, solio.
quized
well, If Job had been alive, and Lad
house To let, there never would have been
any book Of job written. Their goes that
everlasting bell again I'll haul il ont Nv
81. 81. - 1
er. III tear down the bill, and put up the
place at auction"
Another lady, but quite different from
the other-a slender little cast-doRr
lady. with a head that dropped like lii
Of the valley, and dress Of brown Fix.
that had been mended and turned and re-
trimmed, and even Nahum Briggs, nau
and bachelor though he was, could -aa
how shabby it was. Yet che was pretty.
with big blue eyes, and shining brown
hair, aud cheeks tinged with a fair feet
ing color, where the yelvety roses Of you'll
had once bloomed in vivid carmine-, And
a golden-hAired little hssie chung -
lar drc-r. a. like 10 her a. the tiny
lily buds 80 a blooming chime Of l0wer
bells
- Nahum Briggs stood looking at her
there came back To him the sun-hiny day
If youth; a field OF blooming clover Grim.
. sonel the june light ike wave- OF blood
and q blue-ey.d girl leaning over the
fene with her bright hair barred viii
level sunset gold, and he knew that b.
WAS standing face 10 face with Barbara
Wylie, the girl he had quarrelled with
years and years ago, and whose blue ers-
had kept him an Ola bachelor adj hi- III
long.
This house j. 10 be Let. / iclieye
she asked. iimialy, with little quiyer lH
her mouth.
II believe il i-. Elrbira Wylie"
She looked AZ. startling viii a sudden
Hush ii reep gni'Ign.
And then Barbara turned very pale stl
began 80 weep, with the little gol1eE
HAIR girl elinging ~ hcr -kirt-. and W-l.
ing
MlInsaa. m4Inma-Nh4t's the matte
mamma
" Nothing, now, -4iI Barbara. r..
lntgiy brushing away the tear.
% Ii you please. Mr Brigy-, ! will l##a
al the house I am wiaO@ uow. and
very poor, and ] think u keeping a board
ing house 90 earn my daily bread. J. b..
the rent i- not very high =
4" Wen talk about the rrilt s.ftsrwarl-.
-.iJ S.tb,n t.r..l,, .,,...Il.,,,.i,., a., d.
tig lulnp IA bi. t4rs,t fbat ,l,r.,t.,,ea =.
choke ham.
Come here. little girl, aud ki-- me- ]
u-,48 H., lr,a,y ,antf ,u,t,,,,., ,slan ~.
wasn't bigger than you are
g4rl.,f.. v,tt4 49, Tim. ..s..s -,ill dr,s.r.
i,,., ,..,.t Id ~. I,,,. ,.,,i,.,,, g,,s
,n., d, a...rI - f,glt1 srl %,tuf. I.,5.g-
,g.lkeB IN lar -,d... .yonderin, h !, ~.
really fifteen year- since thr Juua -au.
shine D., -. ,,.,l,l, -, Tie clover fala
II think the hoIIss j. beautiful. -.8A
meek Barbara. aWilI yoli rent IL ~ taa.
Nahum T"
"W,n. yc-.~ sail Nahum. thougbtiully
IN let. su base my house II son Halr
~. Barbra"
with the privilege oi keeping "a i,s.
bJarler-
NO. ma'am
"B,rb IRA .t.pr.al and f..ls.g u.f.tf.,fs,
At him
bat I don't think yau understood 1.s..
very poor ] an. Mr. Briggs"
"le-, ] do
And that ! cannot at ri t. take tta
house without the privilege - keeping
bJarder-.7
III til you what. Barbara aid IL
Briggs iietA;arially. III give YOU TIE
frlsi.,ze ri keeping just one boArder. and
bin. you hayc ct to keep al you- l.i.
loug. If you once take him
81 don't think quite understand vaa
-Nahum Brigg-,' ,aid Barbra. but Sac
oIu7Aei very becomingly, and We ar
rather inclined 10 think that -he told
naughty little flo.
hha' do You say 70 me for boarder.
Barbara aid the old bachelor, taking
Dom ID" "ido~- hands IN has. = Barbara
we Were young fools once, but that u 80
reason Why We should be old fools now J
l TX. you Just ID, well ~ ever did, aal
i dpm my beet to be good husband q.
you, and a good father to your little giIl