The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-16
BUILDING A HOUSE WITH A TEA
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Yy,g,n Harpel's Magazine.

Yyg'n Harper's Magazine.
3" Let it alone, Lucy u exclaimed
Granny Grey to her young visitor
e." Why did you remove tie shade ?'
q" We'll, dear Granny, only because |
really wanted to see it"
"See it r' said the very handsome
woman, with whom the aspect of youth
yet fingered. "Why, darling, surely
your eyes are not in the tips of your
j.lzcers? You could move 1t without
removing the shade. You mean, sup
pose, you wanted to feel it?"
Lucy laughed. In common with all
the girls in Woolen Reach-the name
of the village in which Mrs. Grey
reslded-she called her Granny; =
" Granny" was the pei name, the name
of love, by which oil the young people,
boys and girls, recognized Mrs. Grey.
Lucy Lynne was one Of the good wo
man especial favorites. There were
s5sadier and wiser girls in Wooden
Reach: but there was not one gifted
with a gentler heart or kinder nature
than Lucy Lynne.
~ TO not know what | wanted"
laughed Lucy "but you all make such
L wonderful fuss about that cup that
thought | should like to know why
.aud Just now, when you had done read
ing, and closed the Book, leaving Mr..
Grey's spectacle-case in it for mark, |
am sure you sat for quite five minutes
looking at that cup-at least your eyes
were fixed on it-and yet" The girl
paused.
And yet what?' questioned Mrs.
Grey.
Why, though your eyes were fixed
ON she cup, it seemed as if they were
somehow looking beyond it; and then
indeed, your cheeks grew red, and
your eyes had tears in them, and |
thought, without intending it, you
acltsge& your hands and you got up
and looked at the sheet almanac, and |
thought you said to yourself, Thank
Sod I
"Wby, Lucy" exclaimed Mrs. Grey,
20 what an observant puss you are !
little thou ght you were watching me as
a cat would mouse"
Cd" That won't do, dear Granny"
lau2hed Lucy. "'rhe cat watches the
mouse because she wants TO catch and
eat 1t. Now you do not believe that |
want 70 eat your"
mo. dear child, | never thought
Won wanted to eat me-" answered
Xw. Grey, laughing in her turn
"A 6Et + did not think you were so OBJ
servant"
81 I am sure" said Lucy, there are
sffycen tea.cups in the house much pref
tick than the old thing you lay such
st9-c by. Some enc said here the other
day that the willow pattern was con-
.sidered very old-lashioned and in bad
Gaste;' and you said it was, and that you
mated the sight of it, and would have "a
new dinner service as soon as your ship
came home; but" added Lucy, with "a
little povt, that ship is long time on
She seas. As long as | can remember
I have heard you talk of what was to be
done when the ship came home; per-
hans, when it does, Granny, it may
hging you a pretty cup to put under the
shade. instead of that willow pat
tenn"
"No." said Mrs. Grey; not all
the cups that ever came from China,
even If they were filed with gold,
would be half as valuable in my eyes
as that ,discolored old tea cup Of the
willow-pattern,' which | have cared
Fo~ and cherished for thirty years /;
and Mr. Grey values it as highly as |
do b"
<NGranny, will you not tell me why
inQuired Lucy, that also may value
It? know you think great deal OF
IL, for you always dust the shade with
your own hands,
of you can sit still, Lucy, and listen
at1entively, it will be a pleasure to me
% tell you oohy value that tea-cup.
There BRING your favorte stool to my
side, and sit down, and you shall hear,
not an imaginary but true story,