Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-06-26
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pet she was going to take it up and
cleanse it, anyway"
This remark. which was warmly ap.
plauded, terminated the discourse.
Johny did not seem adverse to the
arrangement. He was at the age when
bodily comfort oversh adows the mental
He appeared to have great deal of af-
fection for his father, but there was
! Bridget. at the very mention whose name
he almost gnashed his teeth. "She was
awful-she had shaken him, pinched
him. pulled his hair"
Eunice Higgins warm heart almost
melted within her at the recital of his
sufferings.
A week passed away. and daily had
Miss Higgins man gained upon her
affections. She was the youngest child
of her parents, and had never known
the delights of childish society. She
had dwelt SO long alone. that to have
that bright manly little face opposite
hers at the breakfast table. looking out
Of the window, hailing her return from
her short absences, his merry, innocent
prattle and ringing laugh, was all the
more agreeable to her than she would be
willing To "~l"o - laA 60.
She grew lenient to the boyish nerve
of her man. for the best of boys have
unregulated moments looking benig-
nantly upon him as he captured in the
garden paths in startling proximity to
her marrowfats and cluster cucumbers
She revelled out long stocking, and
out of one of her second best Morocco
shoes made ball for him and when
he lost it in her best meadow she herself
boldly breasted the clover waves, side
by side with him in pursuit of it.
So that pleasant week passed away,
and one morning Eunice Higgins was
called from her snowy dairy room by a
ring at her front door.
Opening it, she confronted pleasant
looking man of about her own age. Wo
mans unerriDg intuition said to her this
is he" Here was the opportunity to
witber him with her g!ances. But how
could she when he looked so much ike
Johnny, just such pleasant, manly
look to his face Eunice did not wither
him.
i have been Informed, Madam, that
there has been boy, runaway boy
here-is it so 2
Instead of the prussic and vinegar that
sac had designed to have in Ler tone,
the likeness to her nan so soitened her
voice that it was only pleasantly acidu-
lous like ripe lemon, as she replied
"Yes, sir, it is
is he here now T.
Yes, sir, he is"
His anxious eyes so Enlightened at this,
that she entirely forgot her carpets and
her enmity, and actually invited him
in
No sooner was he seated than Johnny
ran in with eager eyes.
Father father! y
He threw his arms around his fathers
neck, aud kissed his bearded lips, and
then, in his delight he turned and threw
his arms around Eunice Higgins reck
and kissed her with the same pair of
lips, and still Miss Higgins could say
in the dying words of the great states
man:
ii still live!''
s.Mr- Dale was n man of means and n
man of leisure. He thought the air of
the little town exceedingly good. He OBJ
taine2 board for the summer, for him
self and son, at the little hotel. But in
Chesterville no air was so pure and salu
brious, he thought, as the air of miss
Eunice Higgins parlor' consequently
he sought that healthful retreat often.
Johnny going before like on olive
branch.
Day after day did Mr.. Dale tread over
the immaculate purity of her carpets
and they were not taken up and cleans
ed" Hour after hour did he sit upon
her parlor sofa. and it was not purified
with soapsuds or benzine.
And at last, one peaceful twilight, it
wac on the fourteenth day of September,
at the close of a long conversation-both
of the parties being, at the time. Of
sound mind-Johnny's father kissed
Miss Higgins upon the cheek.
When say that she did not i'm
mediately burn out the spot with lunar
caustic. you may be prepared for the re-
suit.
The next week Eunice Dale, late
Higgins. was ignominiousiy expelled
from the allied forces of Chesterville
her name washed out in hot streams of
Hyson. and still more burning indigna-
tion But Eunice made happy home
for her man and her father, and rejolc-
ing in their content and her own. size
cared not for the "allied" proceedings.
And thus endeth the story of Miss Hig
gins Man.
LoBsTEas will be very scarce this year
-"probably because the long winter has