Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-05-16

we shouldn't have been more than a
quarter through now, would WEI Ny
how my poor bones would have ached
through this time tomorrow night.
I'm glad the Lord knows what's best for
me, " she added. taking the baby from
the deacon, and looking around for the
twins.
It was but few hours ride to c.,
twilight they walked up the street to
their new home, very tired, and thank
ful that they were not Squire Ransom S
folks. but Just themselves, if they did
have to work late that night putting up
the kitchen stove and unpacking dishes
and bedding.
Tuesday was a day of many troubles.
The babies were tired and fretful; day
light revealed a coating of dirt on doors
and windows, and the heat was intense.
But the deacon possessing untlrng
energy, and his little wife the sunniest
of tempers, they succeeded so well that,
by Thursday night, as he came into the
kitchen with an armful of wood, where
his wife was washing dishes, she COM
menced singing;-
The deacon thinks his work is nearly done.
But feel az if mine has just begun.
Did you hear that, Samuel ~ she
said, laughing and turning around TO
look at him.
1t was prayer-meeting night, and the
deacon went to prayer-mceting for the
first time in c., took an active part, and
after meeting waited to shake hands
with the minister rand some Of the breth-
rem, answer their inquiries and present
their letters. He had the satisfaction
of feeling, on his way home, that he
had made n good impre ssion it plea
sed him: 1t would have pleased
us and he told his little wife that
night, in his grave way, that he
" hoped, coming as he did in the midst
of strange people, there might never
be any occasion of remark against him
while he remained among them.
"Tm sure, hope not, Samuel, y she
said, looking innocently up III his face,
and adding, as she nestled up her little
brown head on his shoulder, " don't
feel much alarmed about it, "
The next day, Friday, the deacon
went back to the old home, having
some business settlements to make
there Can't tell certainly when |
shall be back probably not till Mon
day noon; guess there's enough wood
split to last till then. Goodbye" he
said, and was gone.
The wee woman went singing back to
her half washed dinnerdishes, and with
one foot ON the cradle.rocker, she
secured the knives, while she told the
story OF Jack and Jill " to the twins.
When the last kettle was washed, the
kitchen stove and table brushed and
secured TO the usual shade Of black and
white the baby asleep in her nest of n
cradle" bless her :" she washed the
pretty twin faces till they blushed like
red peppers, and then settled them IN
their trundle bed for nap,
Dear little woman! she did look so
tired as she came ont from the bed room
and stopped to brush a fly away from
the musketo-net over the baby; it
would have made your back ache to
look at her. But the CHEEKY heart in
the weary body asserted itself, and she
smiled with the thought of all she
would do before the deacon came back.
" must slick my hair over a little,
so if any one should come | wouldn t
spoil the deacon's reputation, she said
to herself, going up to a little glass that
hung between the kitchen windows -
Just then n gem of sunbeam flashed
in at the window, and seemed to tangle
itself all up in her wayy brown hair
= Oh how pretty" she said, with a
blush and laugh like n child -
. Guess # somebody had been at home
I'll had kiss, then y and off she flew
to her work.
How like magic the white curtains
went up aud the cobwehs came down !;
how the lest room looking-glass shone
after its polishing, and the old daguer-
rctvpe of Samuel in his best days ="
never shone through 50 clean a surface
MS it did that day So the time flew,
bringing the deacon's return nearer.
One morning she awakened early, en-
hreiy tree from a wretehed headache
She had the day before, | want 1t all
done; the kitchen cleaned mp aud my
dress changed before Samuel comes at
noon. Quietly dressing SO as not to
awaken the children, She slipped ont
into the kitchen, built fire, and com
meuccd operations How she did work!
every step told of something done, and
ut half-psst ten, despite all her him
ORANGES from baby, who was cross, she
was hanging ont the clothes, SO snowy
white they da2zled her eyes as the sun
shone on them Que end of the clothes.
line ran nearly out to the front fence
through the side yard, and the whitest,
incest clothes we're hung there, of
course. How many people are pass
ing, she thought 10 herself, and
how they all stare ut me; guess it must
be at the clothes though, instead of
! :