Connecticut western news., 1873-04-25
MISS DOLLY CORNERED.

MISS DOLLY CORNERED.
 CT shouldn't be surprised any day, Dolly, to see David Wiggin tying his horse at your gate," said MT. Blount, roguishly, gathering up the reins.
 "Nonsense, brother any thing the matter with his own hitching- post P retorted Miss Dolly, turning into the doorway. --.s zEt MT. Blount laughed. Every body felt bound to laugh at Miss Dolly's crisp sayings. She had kept her friends in good humor these forty years.
 "And when David does call on you,' pursued MT. Blount, more seriously, "I do hope, Dolly, you'll give him chance to do his errand. That Il be no more'n fair, and the man won't be easy till he has freed his mind"
 "What mischief are you the fore runner of now, James Blount ?" cried Miss Dolly, facing about like a soldier to with David's errands ?"
 "Well, his wife's been dead year or so,' said MT. Blount, positively, shut other down the length of his whip-stock, huu 1dGC1y AO D OCCA boh1uSS yOu' You can put that and that together to suit yourself"
 Fiddle-sticks p said Miss Dolly, energetically. ...-. .-.....
 "I sha'n't say have him, or don't have him-but there isn't hke1ier 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, MT. Blount tickled his sleepy horse with 1t, and drove away.
 "Oh, my sorrows p ejaculated Miss Dolly, closing the door with an afflicted countenance, and sitting down. so quiet ly for once that 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 of chemicals, and without it Miss Dollys physiognomy would have been rather eharacterless but for her prominent Roman nose. This organ gave tone to her face. By which I would not be understood literally, as saying that she talked through 1t in nasal whine. l mean simply that in metaphorical sense this bold feature spoke loudly of energy. And Miss Dolly had always had abundant need of energy-else why the nose?
 Every two years during her childhood she had been tip-toed into the east bed room to see new baby, till, at her mothers death, velittle brothers fell to her charge to be coaxed and scolded in- to manhood. "You can't bring up them boys," croked dolorous aunt, They'll run square over you, Dorothy AL meda. D
 Dorothy Almeda was Miss Dolly's baptismal name, but it was so manifest ly too big for her that most of her friends would as soon have thought of labelling tiny homeopathic vial with a quack-medicine advertisement as of calling her by it.
 s'Let 'em run over me so long as it doesn't hurt emp laughed Miss Dolly, skewering her faxen hair with goose quill, and tying tow apron over her calico long-short, preparatory to "bring- ing up" said youths. -.-..z IL.
 From that day forward she went cheerily on, making the best of every thing, though it must be confessed she often had odds and ends to work with, as people usually do have who are born with faculty. Somehow she found time for all her duties excepting matri- mony. If that was duty, it was one she couldn't and wouldn't attend to while her father and the children need. ed her. Divers young men thought this a great pity, among them David Wiggin.
 ''Don't be silly, David ' said Dolly when he hinted as much to her, where upon David went off straightway and married Olive Searle, the plainest gir in the parish. This happened thirty years ago, and now David was agai1 wifeless, and again the current of his thoughts turned toward Miss Dolly who still lived at the old homestead near the foot of Bryant's Falls. He father had died some months before Of the boys, James and Ezekiel had set tied on neighboring farms, and the re maining three were in the West. Da vid's benevolent heart warmed witl compassion as he remembered Dolly lonely condition, and he felt that i would be exceedingly kind in him t. offer her home, especially as he owned as good 8 place as you'd find on tn river, while the Blount cottage was fas falling to decay. He wouldn't let he former refusal of him tell against her for, now he looked back, he really didn' see how she could have married an, body at that period. She ought to b rewarded for the devotion she haC shown to the family, and, for his part he felt magnanimous enough to giv her 2 second chance to accept him Such was the worthy widower's state o mind when he asked James Blount, wit mock humility, whether it would be 0 any use for him to try to make bargai with Dolly. -...-... .-
 That more'n I can tell, i" Mir. Bloun had answered "Dolly's a puzzle You'll have to find out for yourself"
 MT. Wiggin smiled, in complacen anticipation of acceptance. Indeed, it might not seem like a reproach to tn memory of his lost Olive, I should sa that the kind-hearted man reioiced i this opportunity of making Miss Dolly happiness. @
 RauavoIenca yvaa in his fana hanAv,