The Van Buren press., 1872-10-22
MISCELLANY.
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MI, AIM ph StiI Wy yS' '"'N''
Ind a pink silk dress, aud-O, every.
rling" 49,
., 4" The likes o me in apink silk dress =
70, lid Ann NO, it's be ter than that Il
lsp with it. It's land | be buying; a
a, la-ter section, maybe. y,
an "What do you want land p Johnny
, uestioued, as Alice ided her head
III every curl danced You don't want
to go and live by yours = 40 yon =
"Ot course she doT, said Allce
"she'll have house w. Dennis will
live with her Wokbsal .a.2'
Its no big DennS,,l An<s said Ann
looking rather guiltu@rSWhy shouldn
| live by myself, thir 'hlI',
"But ysu wouldn,&G tst to 60 away
from us, would you 2'FoAlice asked re
proachfully, after ,ou've been here
so long, and all? 10
"NO, | wouldn't TIN, " said Ann
4" But there's no harm "A having the land
1t can't break nor be Stolen like as if
put it in a bank. The it II be the same
as money any day, an III have an estate
to III, self an my own hands to thsns
for it.
Maybe you'll find another calf and
sell that Johnny said
"No such luck, " said Ann, rising
" Now I'll SO and put this away with th'
rest It's smear milking time.
Let me come, too, Alice said, fol-
lowing on to AIMS ropm opening from
the kitchen and overlooking the orchard
Ann took an old family Bible from hel
closet and laid each bill carefully between
the leaves, putting it back on the tor
shelf
"If thieves were as thick as blackber
ries, which they isn't she said, no,
one O them would ope'n book to hn0
money, let alope a Bibfs.
That's so, Johnny said, confident
ly, "they don't like to VHaye much 10 &c
with Bible, guess ~
Nobody saw two e,les whieh looked
eagerly in for mono and then disap
peared as Ann went ,"Hi the kitchen, anc
the children returned t.. ileir pay III 'n'
barn. Nor did they lice the 10 NJ rus
tie in the COW house, O. eel that the same
sharp eyes watched. hem between th'
boards of the old stall I the very enc
where straw was pile, for the COW
bedding. Mr.. Csr.o'J LIP irom th
field presently as NUaSI - Oell rang 10
supper, and stoW r "'"ei iI.' I"e !apeht as II
passed the bar stri, io' l."9
ALICE Io- M 'uat,%'o.'soa was a d&F4aS1s
once l.,,,,rlo,r
80 papa! are y; 'onI,!s ~ tc,ake u
all ? Ann and evers ariraG
"All but one, W. e'.I '' III Il stay to keel
house Mr.. Cart 'c0I .ered "Yor
did last time, ALICE, e. 3 htis johnny
turn now.
80, dear! l wish Souses cold keel
themselves, papa; Tohnny Sroanod
" You won't be gone ptu dsY' Will you
It'll late afternorNh, my boy. W.
must get in our winter, supplies, for soor
the creek will be so lsollsn VIZ canno
cross the ford You ChalI go next day
whom we shall haul the IN home. John
nv frightened up at ornce, and began to
ulan what should be done in the hour:
he would spend alone; and the family
went in MIkingtims passed, the grea
barn doors were shut, and nobody saw
tho dark figure which later in the evening
dropped from little window in the sta
bic and skulled away through the orchard
muttering, "All alone all day Couldn't
have come round better y
Now forty dollars will not seem very
much to YOU, but it was great deal to
Ann, who worked hard for all she earn
cd in Mr. Carter's family, and to whom
this was lust 50 much clear beyond her
yo,rly income And this is how it came
to her. Three years before, an cmigran,
wagon, bound still futher West camped
all night on the great Illinois prairie, in
the midst of which WIS Mr.. Carriers sec.
ton of land. The Ntrmillion river ran
close by, a stream full of rapids and deep
holes and treaehereus qGicksands. Sup
posing the ford perfectly safe, the owner
Of ,be foremost COW did not unite the
COW following behind but drove in care
lessly, to find his hoses, in q moment,
of their feet and struggling in the swift
currant. How they lot across at last he
could not nave told, hut when the scream
| inc children were saii on the other side,
the poor COW was iound to be dead,
strangcd by the ropf which had wound
about her neck. Tie calf, only day
old, had been lifted hto wagon behind
and the owner discouraged Att the loss Of
tho mother, went onasxt morning, leav-
ing the little thing b,tho campfire. Here
Ann found it in the afternoon, almost
dead. and in her ow strong arms took
il home and fed it viii warm milk. No
body thought it cotd live; but AIMS
b.by, as Alice callscit. after month or
two, wherein it seemd daily dying turn
ed about and grew q il to make up for
lost time Insyea there was no finer
heircr among all Mr. Carter's cattle, and
when by and by shdDegaa to give milk,
the neighbors all ddared it was as good
as their cream Faners came to see her
and Ann in time foud that her nursing
WAS Devon, and with more than any
COW in the neighhrhood. The calves
were in demand all bout, and the mon.
ey you know aboutvas the second forty
dollars Ann had rseived and iaid IN the
old Bible. Big Denis, tho head man on
the farm, looked upn her AS ah hciress,
and wa, ready at an time to begin house.
keeping in the waytalked Of by Alice ;
but Ann, like manNnothor hsress, was
afraid he loved he money better than
herself. and still hd back from answer
;.c b;e ouastion