The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-04-24
"She sees him through colder
mist, Jane said.
81 should SO dearly like to see i'll

mist, Jane said.
81 should SO dearly ike to see It'll
the wedding
Gf you go, you may go by your
self, said Jane. 81 do think you are
like a child in some things still, Net
tie, and yet you are twenty-five"
"I shall never forget that fact, dear,
you remind me SO often; but when I
think of your age, I feel quite like a
child; thirty-fve sounds quite import
ant after my two-and-twenty. No,
Jane, never mind, Tn sorry I said it +;
it was spiteful of me. Don't be vexed
this time, and I'll never say word
about your age again" And Nettie
put her mouth into such a pleading
Shape, that Jane could not have been
angry if she had tried. A late learned
prelate tells us, in an erratic offspring
of his genius, that little ,aez retroatsse
has had power before this to reverse
the destinies of an empire. wonder
what his verdict on Nettie's mouth
would have been. I know she ruled
us like little queen-my father in
cluded; and I think her power was in
her mouth. There was silence for q
while, and our needles sped fast.
81 wonder if she is young or old?"
Nettie broke out.
'FYoung, of course" said Jane.
"Silly old men are always taken in by
girls young enough to be their grand
daughters. Do you suppose he is
going to marry an old woman?"
"Of course she's young" said.
81 should MT have thought he would
have noticed, one way or the other"
said Nettie, laughing.
''Hush!" said Jane; sfhere's my IA
ther coming"
S 'Nettie," said my father, entering,
''come into my writing-room; I want
you to copy me some letters-I am
going out"
'Very WELL" said Nettie; "only
mind, papa, dear, you are not to be
cross if I make mistakes. That's to
be your part of the bargain. Now,
come and show me-"
Before a week passed, my father
had another letter from Uncle Jacob,
naming the wedding day, but not ask
ing any of us to be present.
although he invites himself here,
in the coolest manner possible, the
fortnight after, said my father.
'I would fill the house, sir; ask the
Jenkinsons and young Give here, and
tell him there was mt ROOM" was
Toms sapient reioinder.
"And make his wife an enemy for
life" said Jane.
My father shortly enjoined Tom to
keep his ideas to himself-so he had
evidently decided to receive the visit.
The next question mooted was,
whether Uncle Jacob would expect
wedding-presents to be sent by his
only relations. After much argument,
it was decided that he would, so we
girls set to work at once. I worked
a most elaborate handkerchief for the
future Mrs. Jacob, and enclosed it in
the most perfect of sachets. Tom
rode into Worcester, and bought
case of prettily cut and topped scent
bottles gem of its kind-for her
toilet into which piece of complai-
sance, however, it took us whole
mornings work to persuade him.
Jane shone conspicuous in the manu-
facture of a working; but Nettie
naughty Nettie, set to work on the
braiding of a most striking waistcoat
for Uncle Jacob himself. In vain we
pleaded that he could never be in
duced to commit himself to the wear
ing of so very ornamental an article.
"He shall wear it, she said: ''he
ought to be gay on his weding-day.
This will smarter him up from a din
gy old moth to a butterfly. He won't
know himself" My father saw her at
her work, and asked who it was for.
"Uncle Jacob" said Nettie boldly;
and when my father looked amazed,
she fairly laughed in his face. "He
will look very nice in it." My father
was not equal to the occasion, and
turned away. As to commanding or
exhorting Nettie, when she was mind