The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-20

rarely seen anywhere.
We were received i'm "A most hospita-
Ole manner, and after resting while
and washing off the dust and WEAKNESS
of travel, supper was announced. such
a supper as it was! Vegetables sweet
and crisp just from the garden; fruit and
berries just gathered-ah, how unlike in
their flavor to those that have sweltered
for days in the sunny door of the green
grocer in town; then the milk unwat-
ered-how strangely real it tasted; then
the cream and the newly made butter,
the roasted pigs, the fresh eggs and the
tender chickens, and above all the
snowy bread and pastry, that we could
eat with the agreeable reflection that no
heather Chinaman's hands had sullied
their purity. In spite of our delicacy,
Araminta and / never failed to appre-
ciate this part of our country life.
The next morning-there is a morn
ing in the country-I made the startling
discovery that the sun rises there-I
don't known just when-but some time
in the night, L think; consequently
the days are ever so many hours longer
than they are in town.
Ofeourse the first thing forus to do was
to explore-and, as tourists should, we
went through everything in our reach
the poultry yard, the barn, the spring
house, and the green meadow, the wood
lawn spring, and the creek, along whose
banks we wandered till We almost for
got to go home at all.
Every day brought Its separate de-
lights, and we never wearied of the
fresh, healthful enjoyments around us.
We picked berries and got torn nearly
to pieces-hands and all; we climbed
apple trees Araminta declares she
didn't, and she wouldn't do such thing
for the world. Well, perhaps she didn't
but l know somebody did
One glorious, breezy afternoon pd
been out alone-Araminta had declined
accompanying me-and I'd wandered
everywhere and exhausted everything
myself included-and I came home
toward sunset tired and a good dea
travel-stained in the shape of mud
briars, etc. Far down in the woods Tt
found such beautiful MOSES that l coule
not resist the temptation to take then
home, and in default of basket, 1 ius
made one for the occasion of my straw
hat, felicitating myself greatly on M
thoughtful ingenuity i'm so doing, unit
nearly home, when / discovered tina
some of my lovely MOSES were wet, an,
the earth and the water and the green
ness had run through the said hat till i
looked as if it had been soaked in fro
pond!
didn't much care, but when I cam
in sight of the porch, where Aramint
sat arrayed in fresh clean muslin, an
looking so clean and sweet and pretty
and so calm withal in contrast with m
tangled hair, sun-burned face and ger
. orally disheveled not to say dirty az
pearance, Il petty feminine spite too
possession of me, and felt an irresist
, BILE desire to in some way break up tn;
r calm repose of manner.
5 sat down on the door step, and Ar.
minta admired the MOSES, and condole
, with me prettily for the spelling of NJ
r hat, and in sweet low phrases said I wg
/ "a sad tom-boy," etc., when, happenin
r to look up, saw Rastus, the hired MAJ
in the barn-yard milking, and at once
: spoke of the interesting process, IL
| gentle, large-eyed cows, and wanted h'
: to go with me to see.
Now Araminta is Uely timid an
I nervous, easily frightened and afraid
p everything, and she didn't want to G,
but 1 insisted strongly, and finally "
started.
"Hold up your dress" I said, San
hurry along"
1 led her round about through IL
. back yard directly past where, hoverin
her brood, knew there sat most V
, cious and belligerent fowl, whose tempe
l had more than once thoroughly teste,
I went past the corner behind whic
she sat so rapidly that she had onl
time to get well bristled up, but at sigl
a of my friend she gave a hurried squa
and flew at her in real high TRACED
style! Terrified at the unexpected a
> tack, Araminta screamed and turned
4 run; but a few steps and her foot caugl
q in something and she fell headlonl
\ Penitent and sorry, 1 hastened to ASST
her, and as she lay on the lounge, M
! much the worse for her fall, fit of con
: junction seized me and ] straightwa
!. confessed my fault and asked to be 70
!, given. But she was indignant.
"HOw could you be so cruel?" 81
cried
> GLOW could you be so CHECKER
hearted ?' answered. ''The truth i
Araminta, you looked so provokingl
clean and pretty couldn't bear it, al
Modified by the compliment, she smile
y and forgave me.
4 I'd not been long in the house till
. discovered that 'Rastus lived only
. the light of the soft dark eyes of Eliz
: the daughter Of our host. Six feet hie
y and formed like Apollo, he would tren
ble and look shame-faeed if Eliza
7 glance happened to rest upon him.
1t had for some time been agre,
II among us all, that we would spend ol
! day with the hay-makers. So on
II cloudless morning 'Rastus helped us 8
o into the big wagon together with lar