Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-04-08

her cheeks flaming up like sumach in
October.
"But hadn't you better take little
time to think it overs Ma be it come
sudden to you" pleaded Captain Ben.
No, thank you. Some things don't
need thinking over" answered Miss Doo-
little. plucking at the barberries more
diligently than ever.
81 wish Lyddy was here. She would
convince you you were standing in your
own light" returned Lyddy's widower
in perplexed tone.
II don't need one to come from the
dead to show me my own mind" retorted
Miss Doolittle, firmly.
Well, like enough you are right"
said Captain Ben, mildly, putting few
stems of barberries in her pail "ma' be
t wouldn't be best. l don't want to be
RASH"
And with that he moved off, on the
whole congratulating himself he had not
decided to marry Miss Doolittle.
thought, after she commenced her
miserable gift of the CAB, that Lyddy
used to be free to admit she had fiery
tongue, for all they were such friends.
And I'm all for peace myself. / guess,
on the whole, ma be she amt the one
for me, perhaps, and it is as well to look
further. Why! what in the world !
Well, there what have / been thinking
of? There is Mrs. Davids, as neat as
new cent, and the master hand to save.
She is always taking on and she will be
glad enough to have somebody look out
for her,-why, sure enough! And there
| was right at her house this very day,
and never once thought of her What
an old duncel"
But, fortunately, this not being sin
of commission, it could easily be rectifed
and directly Captain Ben had turned
about and was trotting again toward the
red house on the beach.
"Pound for pound of the best white
sugar." he heard Miss Tame say as he
neared the door.
White sugar +" repeated Mrs Da-
vids, her usual sigh drawn out into lit.
tie groan. White sugar for cramber-
ries Who ever heard of such thing
, I've always considered / did well when
| | had plenty of brown"
"Poor creeter.' thought Captain Ben
How she will enjoy getting into my
pantry. Lyddy never complained that
she didn't have enough of everything tc
, do with"
And in the full ardor of his intended
benevolence, he went right in and open
ed the subject at once. But, to his as
tonishment, Mrs. Davids refused him.
She sighed, but she refused him.
"I've seen trouble enough already
without my rushing into more with my
4 eyes wide open" she sighed.
Trouble? Why, that is just what
D was meaning to save you' exclaimed
the bewildered widower. "Pump righ
+. in the house, and stove e'enamost new
! And Lyddy never knew what it was It
+ want for spoonful of sugar or pounC
, of -four. And such a handy buttery ant
sink! Lyddy used to say she felt tn
! worst about leaving her buttery of any
thing"
"Should thought she would" answered
/ Mrs. Davids, forgetting to sigh. "How
ever, cant say that feel any banker
/ ing after marrying buttery. I've 20
! buttery-room enough here, without tn
trouble of getting set up in a new place.
!. "Just as you say" returned the reject
j ed. Il amt sure as you'd be exactly tn
7 one. / was a thinking Of looking 70
i somebody little younger"
q "Well, here is Persis Tame. Wh,
n don't you bespeak her. She is younger
and she is in need ofa good home. cal
recommend her, too, as the first-rate of
;. cook" remarked Mrs. Davids benevolent
ly.
Miss Tame had been sittins little
! apart by the open windor, smiling t.
herself
But now she tuuaed about at once
: "Hm I'' said sle with contempt. q.
should rather live under an umbrella
tied to st.ke, than marry for hum"
II So Captain Ben went home withou
u engaging either wife or housekeeper.
IS And the first thing he saw was Cap
.ain Jacob Doolittle's old one-eyed hors
eating the apples Loizah Mullers ha'
strung and festooned from nails agains
: the house, to dry.
The next thing he saw was, that, hav
: ing left window open, the hens hat
! flown in and gone to housekeeping, OF
e their own account. But they were not
9 like Mrs. Davids, as neat as new cent
and not, also, such master hands to save
Il ssCl L 70 Lone Al,