Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-01-25
Agatha'S Fortune.


STORY Of OLD NEwspArERs
The yellow November sunshine was doing
It's best to brighten the old farmhouse kitchen;
the yellow leaves, blotched and stained with
scarlet, which he'd oddiod down at the touch
Of many hitul wind aud midnight frost from
the big maple tree by the door-stone' lay IN
pools Of shaded gold, stirred by every gust,
aud the guarded winter apple tree by the well
had long since been rltied OF its weight OF
fruit
81 do believe the apple crop is the best
we've had this ten years said Moses Jet1r-
SOU as he slrole INTO the kitchen with a bag
OF secd-corn over his shoulder
Mrs. Jefferson, "A spare wlry-looking wo-
man. as different as possible from her burly,
beaming husband sat at the Whitley secured
pine table, shelling beans vigorously into a
pan. Agatha, the only child, was close to
the window, her pretty profile outlined against
the blue cameo of the sky, intently busted in
the uuromantic but useful occupation of set
ting thrifty patch on the elbow of her faith
cr's brown cloth coat with quick, agile hn-
gers aud needle that glanced in and out like
a flying shaft Of silver.
She was a pretty girl, with soft hazel eyes,
abundant brown hair, coled picturesqlely
round her head, and complexion which,
albeit somewhat touched with the too ardent
finger Of the snn, was full Of delicate reds
and whites. Moses Jefferson and Carissa
his wife were, to use the farmers expression,
las humly as hedge fences, without grace
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iul line or beautiful feature IN their whole
composition; and how pretty Agatha ever
came to be their daughter was as incomprehen-
sible riddle as It is how the magnificent cac-
tus blossom with It's leaves OF hame and heart
of scarlet fire should spring from the wrlnkled
old stick by courtesy called plant But
so Nature manages her affairs, and yet we
humans have not been able to improve upon
her.
Mother AMI daughter were earnestly talk-
ing together as the farmer entered and he
could Just catch Agatha last words
wouldn't mother wouldn't
" Wouldn't what what Is 1t you re
ta'kin ABOUT anu MOSES 'enersou iooAea
quesuomng'y from one iace 70 tne o'ner,
why s''u Aba'n'' 'ooN'ns Up n'u
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on' ne won . anu " ne uoes we ,.a can pu'
MN oil win some excuse or o'ner' Il ven
ture. easy enough Nan Darw'ns %'uoV
says paper IS iour cents pound, ana ! cal
culated could get new SET oil mhN'pan'
with tue money besides Agatha wants 'h'
closet to keep her clothes H. now mat She
nome from the iIctory LOT good'
can get along without 1t Just as well
mother, sa'd Agatha ana 1t qoes seen seer