The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1873-02-07

and said, gayly:
81 swear by the holy poker, Sally mine
that l will convert that female species Of
the antique, and you shall bid farewell to
every tear, and wipe your weeping eyes in
pickles |" gasped he, as the door swung
back, and grim and gaunt on the threshold,
stood Miss Keturah.
"You are aperfect monster Of ingratitude,
Sarah Jane, and if you ever hold the slight
est intercourse with that ungodly young
man again-for he is one Of the present
rising generation Of vipers--you shall leave
the shelter of my domcil forever"
Il should be what you call me, if dis
,obeyed you, dear Miss Keturah, after all
your care and kindness to me through my
helpless, friendless childhood, /" sobbed Sarah
Jane, penitently.
"Then send that goddess fellow away"
said Keturah, sternly.
"Tom, you need never try to see me any
more, for / will not aflict my beneiactress
if it breaks my heart"
"You will have me, if she says so?
asked Tom, nonchalantly, twrliug his rather
loud watch-chain, which he knew Keturah
considered an abomnation.
The childish face quyered with emotion,
as Sarah Jane, mournlully shaking her head,
began
"Yes, Tom, but"
81 shal! never, no, never, sanction any
thing Of the Kind" interrupted Kcturah,
decidedly.
"We shall see what We shall see, said
Tom, throwing kiss at Sarah Jane, and
grumbling as he tore down the street.
"The.unleeling old fossil suppose she
has sweat all the little heather to- death, SO
they do not need any more Greenland shirts,
or she would not have got home so soon
But will out general h,r yet, if there are
never any more red flannel missionary meet.
ings. The blood of the O'Gorrys is up Y
Things dragged on dull enough for q
while, and meek little Sarah Jane dropped
tears into the biscuits and slapiacks, and
wished she was dead. One evening Ketu
rah brought home from prayer meeting 9
tall, high.shouldered ed.haired, solemn in
dividual, who looked like an old comet will
fiery head instead Of tail. whom she intro
dueed as Ezekiel Storms from down Fast
Sarah Jane, who was pining for glance
from pair of loving black eyes, only bowec
courteously, and did not look up, but sal
down dreamily to think Of the only mans
face in the universe to her, handsome Ton
0'Gorry's.
A week from that time Miss Ketural
made her little handmaiden do her scant,
front hair in curlpapers when she went t.
bed, bought an immense twenty five cen
chiguon ard bottle Of cold cream for he
complexion.
In fortnight she took to reading Moore
spoony ballads, and sitting up nights, look
ing at the stars, and remarked TO Sara
= Jane, confdentially, that she admired re
; hair, it was such cheerful color
In three weeks she unlocked the Ion
/ slumbering piano, a relic of antiquity lik
herself, and with many quavers, and dem
; semi quiverng quayers, perpetrated mos
) dolefuly, Am l not fondly thine own
. to the intense disgust Of her venerable tai
4 by, which, with an exasperated "mew' {
i being eclpsed by a human mowler, spran
distractedly out Of the window, while he
ancient poodle howled in concert, and II
. man next door raped at the front entranc
4 armed with a gun, rusty sword and crowba
. to help Miss Keturah, as the neighbo
!. said her superannuated pug had probab
gone mad.
/ In month she put on pair Of slipshc
n slippers, some stockings with big holes
them, and with her hair in disorder sat dow
"a TO court the muses..
At They coyly repulsed her advances, fc
d though she remained long time with h
d weak, watery eyes staring into vacancy, 81
n only accomplished one line of the piece
Is poetry contemplated
r San hail queen of love All hail!n
d As she could not think Of anything
rhyme with hail but pail, jail, nail and ia
,e neither Of which was appropriate, she
ry sisted from her stupendous intellectu
re efforts.
In five weeks Sarah Jane discovered l
or beneiactress standing before the lookir
ny glass, with one hand extended as if to gra
eft another persons and the other laid on |
is heart, saying, with Grm-set lips and an
En Of perfect resignation, the ominous word
rs. "I will"
BIS. That night she privately asked her prott
nd if she did not think subdued mouse co
in nice shade for bridal dress for la