Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-03-16
From he Little Corporal.
AMONG THE RELATIONS.
BY A. H. POE.

I've been visiting our relations. 1
don't mean Grandma Collins folks, nor
Uncle Pettengill's, nor none of them,
It's mammals relations in Illinois. l
went by myself, only a man, one of the
students that studies with papa, went
with me as far as Springfield. We'd
been travelling all the day before, and
all that night. Pretty soon after he got
off, Gt wasn't quite morning yet, the
cars stopped again, and the conductor
said,
"Come, little girl; this is your sta
ton" And he helped me off, and car
ried my travelling bag into the depot
for me, and there, instead of finding
grandpa, there wasn't any one except
two men, and they wasn't very nice
looking. I was so disappointed; and
said to the conductor,
q was speeding somebody here to
meet me-"
The conductor said, "Wen, never
mind; sit still and wait little while.
They'll be along presently And he
put ny travelling bag down, and went
off quick.
'Twasnt much of a depot, / tell you.
The lights were dim, too, but they had
a good fire. ] sat real still, and after a
while one OF the men said:
Fur to go, sissy"
/ told him ! thought twas about FIVE
miles; and then was feeling so un-
easy 1 asked, "Do you know grand
pat"
whats his namei" said he. And 1
said twas Grandpa Harvey.
60" said he, 81 reckon it's old
'Sqnire Harvey. I've heerd him spok-
en- of, but amt acquainted. 1 amt
been long in these parts myself"
Just then I heard a quick step out
side, and the door opened, and there
was Uncle Guy. He laughed right ont
and said, "This is our city girl, is it,"
/ hadn't seen him but once before, and
1 was almost 'shamed when he took me
up in his arms and kissed me, and car
ried me ont, and put me into the
spring wagon, Just as if 1 had been no
bigger than Robby. Then he told me
to hold the lines while he got my trunk.
The horses were beautiful gray ones,
like papa's carriage horses, only wilder:
and they jumped and pranced as if they
wanted to run away. / was afraid, but
L wasn't going to let Uncle Guy know;
and when he came back 1 found /
needn't have been, bit, because he
hadn't united them yet.
1t took long time to get there.
There wasn't any houses along the road
at all, hardly, and it looked so cold;
colder than it was The lanes were
long, and the ground was covered with
little spots of ice. Uncle Guy said the
horses "broke in" After awhile we
came to the woods. 1t was grandpa's
maple woods; and it looked beautiful
in October, Uncle Guy said, but l came
a little too late. At the end of the
woods there was white house with
green window blinds, and four front
doors and back of that was a red one,
with white strips up and down It. That
was the barn, but 1 didn't know it
then. The yard was full of maple trees,
and the grass and walks were covered
with dead leaves. Uncle Guy drove up
to the hitching post, and whoaed y
loud.
We got on to the porch before any of
them saw us; and then twas Joe, first.
Joe is boy that lives there. He came
from the poor house, and his mothers
crazy; but he's a real good boy He
was coming out of the house, but when
he saw us he ran back and cried,
They've come, they've come -
and grandpa and grandma, and Aunt
Ollie came out. and kissed and Rugged
me, and grandpa called me Little
Irene Harvey" Irene amt my name,
it's mammals: SO / said, as loud as /
could, because grandpa can't hear
easy, 'My names MignonetteC Collins.
The breakfast was good, but don't
remember much what they had. be-
cause / was so sleepy. After breakfast
1 went to sleep on a little trundlebed
IN grandma's room. Aunt Olive said
they brought it down stairs on purpose
for me. II was the same ono mamma
used to sleep in.
When. woke up grandma was I'M
packing my trunk. She said there
wasn't anything suit'ble; and said,
wasn't'my new white silk nice enough
She asked me if / had any everyday
clothes, and / showed her my blue
merino, and my scarlet suit. and the
Others, and she said:
Never mind, Wen manage tn
| asked grandpa what made him have
a fire In the wall, and he said twas to
keep summer all the year round. II
did look splendidly, and Joe kept put
ting on wood.
Aunt Ollie's real old. She's fifteen:
and she's just beautiful. She makes
pies on Saturday, and mops the>1oor.
L think it's nice to make pies. There's
three uncles besides Uncle GUY: but
they've all got wife, only just him, he
hasn't got any.
The next day 1 went with grandma to
q town called Pike City. 1t wasn't the
one where got off the cars it's the
other way from there, and the roads
are better. We went in the carriage.
and grandma drove her red horse. It's
as gentle as can be, and its names Su-
san. We went into O store where a
woman was buying some black alpaca.
She talked so funny it made me laugh.
The man kept showing her different
pieces, and she kept saying:
Il don't want crow black: i want
blue black. Crow black turns brown. "
Grandma bought some flannel two
kinds. She said there was little girl
in her neighborhood who needed some
warm, flannel dresses, and she told me |
10 choose; so chose. / asked her II / |
might go and see the little girl some
lime, and she said might. That after |
noon she began making one of the
lresses, the red one. She measured n |
20 n'e because she said the little girl
vas about my size, and they made ito 1
he machine, she and Aunt Ollie. Whe
vas done she tried II on me, and sal |
Now go and show grandpa"
asked where the little girl was, ar