Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-05-17
The Leisure Hour.
WI. SO.V-S WIFE.

baking day, and in those days you couldn't
buy what you needed, were you ever so la
zy, but must make it all with your own
hands ard your own mind and, say what
you like, tisn't only needful for folks that
write, and speak, and preach to have
brains, for a cake that's made without
thinking won't be apt to rise light, and
what looking bosoms would there TO be TO
shirts If the ironer was wool gatberer.
The more brains both mistress and maid
have the better goes the housekeeping.
That day we were all at 1t hard, and 1
was just putting my gingerbread into the
oven, when the door opened and in walked
my son Daniel, giving mo start, for he
never came home at that hour. Steadily,
like his father before him, good man, he
was at his work with sunrise, and never
left it till sundown.
"What brings you home, Danf asked
/. "You're well, l hope"
"Never better, mother" says he.
"Wbat?" says I.
"Pve begged holiday" says he.
.'To be idle in ?" ask ed I, a little cross.
lie laughed little silly laugh like a
shsmed child, and blushed red, and says
he:
"No, mother, to be married in"
Thought 1t pure joke.
"Now, who will you havef" says /.
"Tve chosen her, says he.
And his face look ed earnest. Hannah sat
down fiat on the floor.
"He means it, mother" says she. "Sure
as live he means it."
"Tve meant it a good while," says Dan,
and there wasn't another word spoken for
ten minutes. think we were all listening
TO the clock-for one never heard her tick
so loud-and she seemed to say, like some
old woman in trouble, going over the same
thing again and again:
Dams going to marry. Dams going to
marry"
"Well |" says I, after while with great
sigh, "you must expect your grandfathers
to die and your boys TO marry. Both of
'em are blows, but they must be submit
ted to. But deary me, to think how I've
cared for you, and kept you, never but
ton gone nor hole in heel or Toe. hope
twill be so for you always, but l don't
know. The time will come perhaps, when
Won will miss vour NANNY"
"Miss you, mother" says Dan, 81 hope
I'll never do that. Tiny wants a mother
as well as l."
"whars her name" saysL
"Christine," says he.
"Let's call her that" says /. mo good
| I'm baby names. Iva, never called auebt
but Margaret"
"He laughed. Then savsbe:
"Come. Hannah. dress In your best. You
and mother must see us married."
"Baking dayp' saysL
| ..pn, ,b,pt of Nan with No ona noa,
him. so lonesome" saws Hannah.
swell. l." saws I. "let's hear who vou arc
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