Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-04-10

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( At tits Homent appeared Hester, a
pretty blonde Of seventeen aud her two
dark eyed aud brighiloosing little charges /,
with pals and baskets filed With the rich
fruit. Anon tho cows came slowly down
the lane from the rich upland pastures.
fled into the yard and stood patiently chew
ing their cuds while they were being mill
ked The pretty Hester went in TO prepare
the evening meal, and took the opporiu.
NIFTY TO ask more particularly after Mrs.
Mills.
She was" said Mr.. Stone, "the only
child of our village blacksmith. She was
married when but seventeen TO young
Mills, considered the likeliest young man
+ ia these parts. On the death of Mrs Mills
l parents, which occurred shortly after her
o marriage, she found herself in possession
of their pretty place in the village. That
S was sold and their home in this neghbor-
a hood secured with it. Mills thinking he
could do better at his trade, and live
J cheaper am ing the farmers than elsewhere.
u They have been married seven years and
:, have had no more sickness or trouble than
l. falls to the ordinary lot Of morials, but
l. she was no housekeeper aud Mills, altho'
temperate and Industrious, lacked calcu-
II ation. There was no prcttier or more in
"a telligcnt girl in Fairmount, than Fanny
"A Cabot when she married Mills, aud | am
disappoited in the way she has turned
IL out"
DC The sun was casting long shadows on
nc the grcensward and across the road, and |
IL hent my steps villageward; not, however,
vs. before drinking a glass of the new milk,
" and promising my kind friends | would
come and eat strawberries with them on
> the next evening, and congratulated
:. myself on the coming opportunity of stud
" wing for myself character in which, with
out seeing. | had become deeply interest
" " ed. The opportunity however, escaped me
> for the next day was summoned home
,'' " by telegram, and thus ended for the
=" time, all chance of my knowing poor Mrs
"V Mills.
=. Three years after, / was spending some
weeks at Saratoga. Among the celebrities
l., was one vino differed from celebrities il
general in that she was entirely unassu
~ ming and perfectly agreeable. The was
young widow accompanied by her invali'
' w child, boy Of some eight or nine years.
~ She had achieved considerable success
has
= as a journalist, aud her poems were il
everybody's possession. Of unexceptiona
. -, bic department, singularly fascinating i
manner, and Of more than ordinary pei
sonal attractions, it was not strange tina
:: ~ she was popular in the little world tina
h., gathered at the springs that year.
~ We became warm friends and it wa
-, with regret that thought Of ofparting wit
Mrs. Mills and her dear little invalid bo,
o On announcing my intention of eayin
49,. her to reioin my party in Fairmount-
"Fairmount!" !" she exclaimed, "then "
do not part so soon, as go there mysel
l., 1t is my home have always lived there
,,,.., 'lndeed" +" rejoined [, "strange. | noN
-, er heard Of you"
0'e "[ think you have said she, "thous
~" you may have forgotten. | was po
she Nlieres wife"
| felt a little uncomfortable for m
self, ment, but she went on to tell that she hi
overheard our conversation thro ough Il
light open window Of the north chamber, "al
her that, though incensed at the light
ing, which the neighbors regarded her, she d
two termincd to make herself independent
ii a them; that she Immediately engaged he
self as 'hired girl in farmers famil
ught and though "no housekecper. sue ma
at the sacrifice of many tears and ireque
burnt fingers a very passable domest
lont Thus she earned board for herself and Oh
o as dren. At night she studied rhetoric Al
lbors composition and wrote articles for pub
part cation, urti in few months she was
only fered a position as regular correspond
for a leading Journal. From that time b
fall way was clear.
ugbt She had paid off the mortgage on tn
Eng. little place paid off her husbands deb
tc.do bought back her old home in the viaI
that which, beauti6ci and adorned, was h
even her residence, placed Fred the oldest
ntive at first.cIass school, and, she add
phil .'werc my little Cabot only well again
rance should have nothing more to wish for
cman have never thanked my old neighbor
@ MIR. nv present success, but it is none the
due to them for showing me myself al
host. was" @
tn all We travelled together TO Fairme
All, and went more than once atterward TO
done Strawberries with Hester, her mot
ills'es and Mr.. Stone, and observed. not W
ont satisfaction, that she had becme 50