The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-12-24

aud to win him And nov this child
for Janet was still not woman grown-
only called Dan two or three times, and
down through the un1erbrush came the
great hulkug creature. gowcring at her !;
aud AS she slowly walked up to him with
IA handful Of raspbcrrcs he did not turn
away; and then aud there he stood and
she stood she on a rough bowlder, he
nibbling ut the fruit; she rubbing his
head between the ears,he whinuying with
satisfaction that he had company. Aud
ut last when Janet thought the entente
cordiale was attained sho coolIy put her
little green scarf through his mouth, he
hiud his great teeth, and, before he knew
it, she had flung herself upon his back
and was away. Tney were not long max
ing the six miles to the village. As she
came 10 by the saw-mill, she met DR.. KIT
tredge. She told him her story and in
three minutes he and four or five other
men were in lum,er-wagon on thci
way TO the rescue. Kittredge told me
this himself. They asked tho girl it she
would not 60 with them; but Janet said
no somebody must take Dan back to
the pasture, and so she went ahead Of
the party. Poor Trevor vas released in
less than two hours from the time he fell.
But you want to know how Widair first
met her, 1t is John WilJair remember,
not Taylor; Taylor is in Australia
John is Taylor's brother. That is just
the way with you young people. All you
care about is the love-naking aud the
wedding Now, might entertain you
for an hour with pleasant accounts of how
the Trevors came into tho Piscataquis
valley, aud how l came to be there, aud
Of the origin OF the Trevor family; and
you would skip it all to see how the sto-
ry would turn out, and who married
them Ouly Helen, of all of you, would
read about the early history Of Cornwall,
and she would do it, not because she
wanted to know, but from love Of me.
Well. John Wildair FIRST saw Janet on
board Kennehcc steamer,-literaliy on
board, it you will rightly consider the
derivation of that term. John Wildair
was sitting Oh the deck, at Bath, watch.
ing as the passengers came on board
Aud two men brought an old lady, in u
chair, down the wharf and upon the d.ck;
aud Janet came with her, and wrapped
her rp warm. and coddled her, AMI made
her feel quite at home. Then the old
lady wished she had some of the orange.
which u German woman was selling OF
the wharf; and Janet ran ashore to buy
them. While the German e idlod about
the change. the boat cast oif,thc captain,
bell struck, and they had fairly pulled
the gangway in. when Janet came run
uing back with her fruit.
Did sho stop? Not she.
"Please run it on again" she said
and the whari.hands obeyed her,-just a
Dan obeyed her in The pasture. Aud tn,
little bird, AS called her before, rat
right over the board tho boat movu!
tho eud along steadily as she did so,-
and sprang upon tn deck, as perfectly
unconscious as if she had been walkin.
the floor. Years after John WildAir tri
ed 10 make her remember it; but sh
did not rememoer it all said. Indeed
there was nothing to remember. She salt
there was no danger, and consequently n
courage; that the plank would renal
on the boat fully five seconds, and tn
slowest woman iu Christendom could hav
crossed in two. Still John Wildair won
dered when no saw her DO it and, as
believe, admired her then and there. tn
she did not spend ten seconds first in it
quirles Of the wharf-men whether or D
1t would be safe to cross the gangway.
But John was destined to see her ,
gain far, far away.
Tom Trevor went to the war in tn
Forty-seventh Maine Rifles Tom WI
the wildcat, black-haired brother th'
dared everything. and went eyorywher
, Aud after that horrid carnage at Bell
Ford, when the lists of the Forty-seven'
were printed, Toms name was among tt
, missing. Dead perhaps? Janet sal
> No, not dead" She was sure he Wi
i not dead. If he hal been shot, son
man would have told it; for they all Ill
ed Tom. No; Janet. with all her ow
clear-sightedness. which is what Mr. Bill
y ings and call "Confdence," pronounce
. that he was in rebel prison. Then Il
next thing for her to do was to 90 al
find him Her father would not hear
;. IT,: for, as said, he wo-shipped Jane
y. But, because people are fain to obey tho
, whom they wor,hip. he had to do as a
!, ct bade him before he knew it; and
# lever days than it has taken me to t'
n this story. as we say when we write
+ the Dime Series, Janet was in Wa,hn
:, ton, besieging Knapp at the Sanitary,a'
"a Stanton in his den. and Gen. Townshcr
"a in his, for some sort of pass that wou
7 carry her across the lines Little go
10 did she get of that. Ofcourse there W
=, no pass for her of any kind or sort; a
m they all told her, with great tcnderne
~ that she would have done much better
|. stay at home.
N But Janet did not 90 home 'or
=. tha. by this time they knew and :
m knew that Tom Trevor was in Richmor
IA ia Hospital No. 81, where were o
ol wounded prisoners. Whether he "
=, there because he was sick. or because
- WAS wounded. she did not know nor cot
j. anybody learn; but he was there. WI
=. Janet did was to 60 up to Harper's f.
=. ry. Then she turned up at Stanton a
. Lexington, and, one fne day, appeared
e, ct Lynchburg,-quite comfortably witt
20 rebel territory,-very seedy, and spea
nr ing very bad English aud very GO
n. French. She called on all the minist
a " in Lynchburg; abe waited at Lynchbr
ho till she could be sure whether they wol
, not want her as a teacher ia the acadeu
as Meanwhile she knit stockings like fl
10. for the wounded; f; and in tho hospi
nn there was not volunteer nurse as rea
n. and careful as Janet, nor so universe
he favorite as she. And SO it happened Il
n when, in the spring of GA, Butler strl