National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1869-07-30
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short curling hair, and a resolved
expression of countenance.
But, dear me, Bell, you're not
going out in the wilderness actually
to Hre9'
Wen, rve no idea ofdying there,
epigrammatically Replied Miss Bell.
Mrs. Parkesworth Pryce stood in
open amazement, her garnet colored
moire-antique dress trailing over
the carpet, and her lace carriage
shawl testoOncd gracefully over one
shoulder-thc very personifcation
and embodiment of a brainless vo-
tary ofthe latest fashion.
My goodness gracious p said
Mrs. Pryce, teebly, as il the magni
tude of the idea rendered it impos-
ible for her mind to grapple with it.
Yes said Miss Bell, Il am.
And what's more, Katie Appleton is
going with me. You see, Mrs. Pryce.
I'm not so young as was, and poor
dear Katie was DISAPPOINTED when
that young scamp Harry Messenger,
went South and married Julia Levy,
SO we've concluded to retire on a
farm of our own in western New
York, where we can raise calves and
chickens, and grow our own aSpar-
agus ami strawberries-a place. in
short, where we can be entirely in.
dependent Of men =
Dear me, said Mrs. Pryce, what
a very Quivotic plan, to be sure
1t may be QuiXotic,' said Miss
Bell, rubbing her chin thoughtfully ly;
but were going to give it trial,
nevertheless, Katie and |.
You will be heartily sick of it,
and come back to New York in less
than a month, predicted Mrs. Pryce.
NO, we shall not said Miss Bell
Martin. resolutely. / hope I'm old
enough to know my own mind, and
Katie will be governed entirely by
me-
And in spite of the pathetic re
monStrances of Mrs. Pryce and 9th
ers of her stripe, Miss Bell Martin
and her cousin, Kate Appleton, Il
shy little maiden, with modest blue
eyes and face like a peach blossom,
packed their guitar and canaries
and croquet and handboXes. and
went out West. Isn't this ]ollv ?
cried Bell, warming her plump
hands betrore the blaze of huge
. woodtire on the night of their ar,
rival. Just see the fringe of moss
on the end of that log. Aud such a
picturesque red brick hearth =
'Oh yes, certainly, said Kate,
timidly; but don'tyo think it's a
little lonely. Isabel 2
I'VE don't mind that, child said
Bell, briSkly; were going to be
company for ourselves.
Are We
'WhY. of course we are. Just
wait till we get our flower beds
planted, and the daisy roots set ont,
and the chickens hatched, and we
shall have no time to think about
being lonesomer
And Miss Bell jumped up to
bring in fresh supply Of wood from
the covered shed of the door; for a
Fundamental element of her dreams
of rural felicity had been the strict
inetrdiction of anything in the sim
| ilitude of a servant.
For I've been quite sufficiently
Irishridden in New York " she had
said.
This is luXury,' went on Bell,
basking before the genial blaze for
tie April evcn.ioc was chill and
raw. Il feel Just like Robinson
Crusoc on his ueSert island, ard
Hush y cried Katie ncrvouSly,
grasping her cousins arm, what's
that 7
What's what ?,
That noise! Oh, Bell, if there
should be ghost in this ruinous old
house y
sOh, fiddle stick p said the mat.
ter fact Bell Its only the COW
looking in at the easement; don't
you see ner nOrnS 7
Miss Bell rushed ont of the door
to rout the enemy.
Such n deer little dot of a red
calf as there is in the barnyard p
she cried, ccstatically, as she return.
ed. But we must take it away to-
morrow
'Oh, don't take it away-the dear
little thingr coocd Katie. Let
MS be a little considcrate. ,
And have no milk to use = scoiled
Bell. THAT would be nice farming.
| saw a fine lot io hens in the barn.
yard this afternoon, Katie; eggs
are fifty cents dozen, and spring
chickens forty cents % pound. We
shall make our fortunes, Kate. And
old Mr.. Tully says Strawberries
bring fifty cents % quart, and the
asp lragus yielded hundred and
seven lunches last year ut forty
cents bunch. And buttcr--dcar,
dear, there's no saying what we
shall realize out of our butter with
three cowsv
TO he sure said Katie. sympa'
thetically.
It was raining hard the next
morning when they walked up. Now,
if the agricultural world was all
made up of lcafy dolls where the
drops 'tinklcd muslcally' as they
fall and onpninp hiittar.ctiuS ant