The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-05-06
Miss Dolly COrnercd.

Il shouldn't bo surprised any day, Dol
Iy, to see David Wiggin tying his horse
at your gate, said Mr.. Blount, roguish-
ly, gathering up the roins.
Nonsense, brother anything the mat
ter with MO own h;tnh;nG rce+ - ~"t""t"l
Miss Dolly, turning in the doorway.
Mr.. Bount laughed. Everybody felt
bound to laugh at Miss Dollys crisp say
ings. She had kept her friends in good
humor these 40 years.
And when David does call on ycu,'
pursued Mr.. Blount, more seriously, Il
hope, Dolly, you'll give him chance to
do his errand. Thatll be no more'n fair,
and the man won't be easy till he has
freed his mind
What mischief are you the forerunner
Of now, James Blount ? cried Miss Dolly,
facing about like a soldier on drill. What
upon earth have | to 90 with David's
errands "
We'll, his wifc's been dead Il year or
So said Mr.. Blount, suggestively, shut
ting one eye, and squirting with the 9th
er down the length of his whiP-stork,
and lately he's been asking about you.
You can put that and that together to
suit yourself.
'Fiddle-sticks = said Miss Dolly, oner-
getically.
Il sha'nt say have him, or don't have
him--though there isn't a likeier man
man living than David-but | do say,
Dolly, you ought to give HIM hearing.
And having convinced himself beyond a
reasonable doubt that the whip was all
right, Mr.. Blount tickled his sleepy horse
with it, and drove away.
'Oh, my sorrows" calculated Miss
Dolly. closing the door with an afflicted
countenance, aud sitting down so quietly
for once that a photographer might have
copied her then and there.
Not that he could have done her JUS
tice, for her expression was too quick and
varied to be caught by any trick o
chemicals, and without it Miss Dolly
physiognomy would have been rather
characteress but for her prominent Ro
man nose. This organ gave tone to hcl
face. By which l would not be under
stood literally, as saying that she talkeC
through it in a nasal whine. | meal
simply that in metaphorical sense thi
bold feature spoke loudly of energy. AnC
Miss Dolly had always had abundan
need of cncrgy-else why the nose
Every two years during her childhood
she had been tiptoed into the east bed
room to see new baby, till, at her moth
er's death, five little brothers fell to he
charge to be coaxed and scoded int
manhood.
You cant bring up them boys. croake
dolorous aunt. They'll run squar
over you, Dorothy Almeda.
Dorothy Almeda was Miss Dolly's baG
tismal name, but it was SO maniiestly to
} big for her that most of her friends woul
as soon have thought Of labelling a Tin
homeopathic vial with Il quack adve
tisement as of calling her by it.
let 'em run over me, as long as
doesn't hurt em = laughed Miss Doll
skowering her haxon hair with a goos
quill, apd tying tow apron over h'
cali,o long short, preparatory to 'bringr
up said youths.
From that day forward She we
!. cheerily on, making the best OF ever
thing. though it must be confessed 81
- often had odds and ends to work with,
people usually do who are born with
faculty. Somehow she found time for I
ry her duties excepting matrimony. lfth
az az were duty, it was one she couldn't Al
"a wouldn't attend to while her father al
th the children needed her. Divers you
me me men thought this Il great pity amo
i'll them David Wiggin.
zee Don't be silly, David = said Dol
"T when he hinted as much to her, whel
ID. upon David went off straightway a
married Olive Searlc, the piainest glrl
the parish. This happened 30 years al
:, aud now David was again wlieless, Il
IL again the current Of his thoughts turn
W, toward Miss Dolly, who still lived at I
rds old homestead near the foot of Bryan
We, fall. Her father had died some mont
ng before. OF the boys, James aud kAek
" had settled on neighboriug iarus, and
ae. remaining three were in the West. /
yids benevolent heaIt warmed with 60
Die passion as he remembered Dolly's lon'
sn gut condition, aud he !elt that it would
me exceedingly kind in him To olier he
nd home, especially as he owned as goo'
ym place as you'd find on the river VIII
rbl the Blount cottage was fast falling to
cay. He wouldn't let her former Ieiu
of him tell against her, for now he iooS
back, he really didu't see how She col
have married anybody at that PERI