Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-09-13
did she do that forf She knew l was
coming didn't she ?"

like many of his age, to hear what was
not meant to be heard, and tell it again
to the person not meant to know it. Here
was fine opening, and Master Lorenzo
plunged headlong into the dialogue.
why, don't you know? Huldah
went and had the small pox to get away
from you. She said she'd rather have
the small pox than John Pike any day
didn't she ma 7"
Lorenzo, you hush up, and go after
your cows this minute" said his mother,
I've great mind to take and shake
you !"
Did Huldah really say that ?" asked
John Pike when the terrible child had
departed.
Well, she did John Pike. 1 can't
deny it. I'm sorry for you John," added
Aunt Symantha kindly; "but Huldah
can't bear you. That is the truth, and
you may as well know it"
Great was the amazement of Mr.. and
Mrs. Beman when John came home with
out Huldah, and loud was the rage of
the one, and the grief of the other, when
the tale was told.
Thought it would be good chance"
snarled the old man. "Yes, she thought
it would be good chance to see Doctor
Marcy every day, aud get away from
John. | don't care. hope she'll lose
every hair off her head, and get her face
as full of holes as a ,iddle p
Oh, Father r sobbed Aunt Prudy.
I" We'll, l do May be she'd hear rea-
sonl'
Look here Father Beman, this is all
nonsense" said John Pike, who had been
silent heretofore. eff Huldah don't
want me, don't want her. Do suppose
| am going to marry girl that hates me
worse than the small pox ?"
Uncle Jake was silent; he had not
thought of that.
:" I've always liked Huldah," contin-
ued Captain Pike, in rather husky
voice; :" but if she don't like me she's
got the right to say so. She has been
good girl, and sensible girl, all her
life, and if she wants to marry the Doc
tor, you'd better let her have her own
way"
Uncle Jake blushed and stormed but
John stood firm. He had great inhu-
ence with the old people; and before he
left he had not only made them promise
to take Huldah into favor again, but he
had won from Miss Hannah Brown, the
minister's daughter, pledge to marry
him when he came back to Eastfeld in
the fall.
Meantime the small pox patients pro-
gressed favorably. Nobody was very
ill, but poor Martha Jane, with whom
the disease went hard. She was the only
one who failed to earn her silk dress,
but DIR. Marcy said she should have it
all the same, because she had behaved
SO we'll. Martha Jane herself declared
that she should have died only for HUI
dab.
1t was very odd certainly. Huldah
vas inoculated like the rest, and she had
been exposed besides, but she did not
take the disease at all. Never had she
been better than during her stay with
Aunty Sharpe. Of course she she saw
a good deal of DIR. Marcy, and none of
the girls were surprised when she mar
ried him about two months after her re-
lease from the hospital Doctor and
Huldah Adams were published in meet
ing. Uncle Jacob had recovered his |
temper by that time, and gave Huldah
his blessing, and very substantial "set-
ting out" Huldah's new silk came lust
right to be married in.
Now, Grandmother Adams had been
visiting in Boston all summer, and only
came home in time for the wedding. of
course she had to hear the history of the
whole matter, and when it came to the
incubation she, as Aunt Prudy said,
+" screamed right outp
Well, If ever! Law bless your soul,
Huldy's he'd the small pox-hed it when
she warn more'n year old, when her
mother was living home with me. We
never knew how she got it, but she he'd
it real bad, though she warn't pitted
none to speak of. Symanthy. / should
have thought you'd have remembered, if
40 one else didy'
Well, / did have some kind of recol-
ections about ii" said Symantha "but
wasn't quite sure. Anyhow it has all
turned out right, hasn't it, Doctor p
Yes ~ answered the Doctor. at has
been the most profitable case ever at
ended. ."-Aidine for August.
Our brains are seventy.year clocks.
The angel of life winds them ND once .