Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1870-10-29

men on lhC manlCI. lhCrC was no
one here, but She heard a childish
voiro in ho next room and again
knacied. \ dark-oyed girl Of ten orI
elc 9, years opened the door.
Mile explained why she was there:
VITA the 'ase and good manners OF
oncmuch llder, the child badc her
welcome, placed a chair near the stove
and ook titles dripping hat and
shaw.
al wa, lust beginning 10 get dim
ner; hat was the reason | didn't hear
YOU knock. 1t will be long time be-
fore the shower is over, and you must
stay with Us to dinner. 1t will be
ready by the time Ben comes; but
hat will not be for an hour,
"Es dinuiell be weddy when Ben
tams :" lsped and laughed little girl
Of three years.
The older child, whose name was
Hetty, resumed;
Il can't get very good dinner |
amt quite old enough, but Ben says !
/ d nicely. He puts II on TOR me, ana
see TO it. But he does not allow me
to take of kettles, for fear | will burn
or scald myself but think am large
enough TO do thai, like to have eV-
ervthing ready for him when he come
| in tired and hungry, | can't make
buiscuits--I wish ] could, for Ben
IIikcs thcm over so much but Martha,
who comes III to make bread Tor Us,
says she will teach me- =,
"Where is your mother ASKED
Millic of the little Eva, when hctty
was cut Of the ROOM
"Wc is got no muddcr but len,
the little one lispcd. 80, =,
When lotty came back MlIly salo
Now | have got nicely warmed
land my dress will dry Just as well a
work as sitting still; so | will nell
{ YOU get dinner. If you like ! Val
, make some biscuit, and we VIII nav
/ dinner in q very short time. -,
l IIcttv was delighted. Ben Will b
: 81 d. Might she look on and lear
! h "? -.
b, Millie was Young, and frank, an
;, gay, and she and the children 500
# became very well acquain ed over til
+ biscuit. She said presently, trying
; potato with fork
u "Thc potatoes are done. l WI
y pour the water off o, and lnGh P,'
u them on again to DRY Ihatwlll mab
= hem mcalv. In a few minutes "
. viii peel them and then dinner WI
h be ready except taking it up
The dinner seemed very mea9re
Is little IIetty rs she ron over the imlcn m
y in her minU--potuoes, peas, per
p biscuit butte, cucumbers, milk al
is water. She had wanted to maEe u
OF for her visitor, but she declined q q
n cidedIv The poor child SAID apoI
~ ~ gcticaIly .ao, ,.o
~ ~ alive, we used TO have a good MAJ
y things for dinner, and Martina, o
80 : hired Girl. used to get them all; D
In9 when they died, md Squire Jon
re said he bought a mortgage OH o
70 farm, and that We had got to pay c
Is ery cent tue daj it was due OF 70
ne everything, w had to do WllhouV
a GOOD many III ugs, and we arc We
e. moor now, an ben is afraid we caI
us have enough TO pay 1T, aud they.
ne nc say we may look for no mercy i i5'
J., Squire Johns, ror he IS very halu
VI the poor, and he has always want
""rs orr farm, because it Joins some Oh
IL own land where &c wants to Oullu'
nd heard all about it when ono ol
,c- ncighbors was talkiug with our D
though he didn't want me 10 Nn'
IS. about it," ..:n,
of Millic had listened 10 this With
at curious mixture of feelings, Tor Squ
g Johns was declared lover OF nc
ke and though she had not YET acoeP'
ne him. she had been pleased WIN
no attentions, and had certainty CIV
p h m encouragement Moreover,
nc was to receive his final answer
hs three days from that time, and
,'e was not sure that the answer rrserN
m and laid away for that time was - II
H., Trnc Mile was not III love with Ii
/, but she had waited SO long Tor |
lc estate state OF feeling She had r'
ro- and h, ard so much about, lIIon!
we ,hc was not capable OF love, and
tic likcrauv one was as much as she co
lnt rvpect. But she certainly Ill
II Suuiro JoAns as y ell if not BET
~, than any one, and his love must {
II - tainly be disinterested, Tor he co
30 30 not know that--but now Mlllie ST
led % nd, Could he not? Might he
en- have found out in some way! Ii
story was true, would such a man
Tkciy to marry a poor girl:
m. Millie Warner was really III heilHs'
rel \ small way. She was q oio inherl
an of n small, unincumbercd farm II
ing her father, and five thousand dol
a IN hank stock. But tho farm was
M hundred miles south OF this to
zee, wherc She was visiting her cot
2 81, ! and nobody knew of it; and dur
III lIn hcr visit she had helped her cousil
" her work as she always helped
mother when sue was at home--co
ere ble M industrious little girl that
ehe was. IN, u,;,
cen she had heard hinted at, but only
lnd ted at, and even they The next m'
ana inc were smoothcd over, for 50
ing johns .'io W"H oomld moi afford. will
en- some reason, to loss his favor