The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1873-05-21
MISS DOLLY CORNERED.

HOtse Nv youE HhtoB Sdtu hlIs OlOuhtJ
roguishly, gathering in the reins.
Nonsense, brother anything the
matter with his own hitching-post1"
retorted Miss Dolly, turning in the
doorway.
Mr.. Blount laughed. Everybody
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 Mr.. Blount, mere seriously,
Il do hope, Dolly, you'll give him q
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 forerun-
ner Of now, James Blount ?" cried
Miss Dolly, facing about like a sold
ier on drill. "What upon earth have
l to do with David's errands 2"
"Well, his wife's beel, dead a year
or so,' said Mr.. Blount, suggestively
shutting one eye and squirting with
the other down the length of his whip
stock, "and lately he's been asking
about you. You can put that to-
! geather to suit yourself"
Fiddle sticks - said Miss Dolly,
energetically,
Il shan't say have him, or dent
have him--though there isn't liklier
man living than David-but do say,
Dolly, you ought to give him hear
ing" And having convinced himself
beyond a reasonable doubt that the
whip was all right, Mr.. Blount tick
led his sleepy horse with it, and drove
away.
"Oh, my sorrows calculated Miss
Dolly, closing the door with an af-
flicted countenance, and sitting down
SO quietly for once that photographer
might have copied her then and there.
Not that he could have done her
Justice for her expression was too quick
and varied to be caught by any trick
! of chemicals, and without it Miss Dol
live shysiognomy would have been
rather charac..crless but for her rather
Roman nose. This organ gave tone
to her face by which | would not be
understood literally, as saying that
she talked through it in nasal whine.
! mean simply that, in a metaphori-
cal sense. tlis bold feature spoke loud
ly of energy. And Miss Dolly had
always had an abundant need of ener-
gy-else why the nose ? Every two
years during her childhood she had
been tip-toed into the east bedroom to
see new baby till, at her mothers
death, five little brothers fell to heI
charged to be coxed and scolded into
manhood.
"You cant bring up them boys.
a, croaked a dolorous aunt. They'll rur
square over you, Dorothy Almeda.
Dorothy Almeda was Miss Dolly
baptismal name, but it was SO mani
testify too big for her that most of hel
J, friends would as soon have thought o
labelling a tiny homeopathic vial witt
: quack medicine advertisement as o
: calling her by it.
;. "Let 'em run over me, as long as j
doesn't hurt 'em2" laughs Miss Dolly
skewering her haxen hair witha goose
J, quill, and tying bow aporn over he
calico long-short preparatory to "bring
}, ing up" said youths.
From that day forward she wen
cheerily on, making the best of every
= thing though it mus. be confessed sh
: had often had odds and ends to wor
with, as people usually do have VIII
are born with faculty. Someho'
- she found time for all her duties ex
cepting matrimony. If that were
duty, it was one she couldn't an
IS wouldn't attend to while her fathe
and the children needed her. Diver
young men thought this pity, amen
them David Wiggin.
Don't be silly, David" said Dolly
when limited as much to her, Wherein
on David went off straightway an
u married Olive Searle, the PLANES
girl in the parish. This happene
thirty years ago, aud new David Wa
tc again wifeless, and again the currer
of his thoughts turned toward Nil
- Dolly, who still lived at the old home
stead near the foot Of Bryant's fall
Her father had died some months b
y FORE OF the boys, james and Ezeki
= had settled on the neighboring farm
az and the remaining three were in Il
West. David's benevolent hea
1. warmed with compassion as he +
membered Dolly's lonely conditio
s. and he felt that it would be excee'
ry ingly kind in him to offer her HON
especially as he owned as good pla,
= as you'd find on the river, while q
! Blount cottage was fast falling to d
cay. He wouldn't let her former r
fusal tell against her, for, now
looked back. he really didn't see he