Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-06-14

sauaned kpovs, how TO take care Of her
He shau be able to plow straight furrow
to drain field, to lay out farm" 81
but. father,' persisted the audaciou
4 VIII, syOu know yourself that it's O. hart
LIE. and there are other things just as goot
as farming; and If 80 be he cam rs-.
There, there, there ~ answered Mr.
Mayne. mot another word. There's a
end fit. Don't talk to me, either, Of wha
was done over to the Beach. Georg'
Rfves would done IL Il he hadn't I'm
sorry I ever let him come here, idling away
the summer in our best room, building
Golfer dams down In my brock, and max
Ing love to my girl; and tomorrow I'll
send him packing I'm going over to gel
George Rives to help me sspell, / guess
anyhow-snd maybe thatyl put this folly
out Of her head. i don't know why you
don't Ike George. do. And he has
more land than any two in the township
.rd rather she die an old maid J"
"Well, Ihadn't. And now about thai
wantp The hoop fixed on the bottom
Roll it out, then, and we'll see what ear
be done. It's. q strange thing that In all
these years none of you women that have
been churning your heads and shoulders
OF can find any better way to bring the
butter than this 70 - q - =, s.
"Oh yes. father, / have made enough
for Mr.. Monteith's breakfast many a
time, fresh, with q bowl and spoon. He
told me how to do It himselfIiust whip
the wind into ft.ssSS SEE15ssss
ssWhip the nonsense into 1T" said Mr..
Mayne. "Great he knows about butter.
makingl Get us the hammer, Mrs.
Mayne, and q ashingle-nail or two. Strange
2 woman can't drive nail without mash
ing her thumb - And perhaps good Mrs.
Mayne was not altogether displeased
when, . minute 0rtwo afterward, she saw
her iege lord sucking his index finger as
Il It were Q ,pieoe OF sugarscane.
They we're standing, as It was said, on
the veranda that ran along the shady side
Of the house; where Mrs. Mayne and
Rosy were wont to- do their churning. Il
was here that, one fine morning, when
the spring was opening and the lilacs
were In bud, four or five months ago. a
strong and pleasant face appeared through
the lattice, and stranger asked II Mrs.
Mayne would take Q summer boarder.
The farmer was away on jury; and Mrs.
Mayne, looking at the stranger. and think
ing Of her empty room androf the added
money, rolling her hands into her apron,
and rolling them out again, thinlin 2 she
liked his face, thinking there was that
halfmelancholy something In it that she
had noticed In the dumb creatures, as of q
soul struggling with Its expression, final
ly decided In the. Affirmative; and the
stranger had said his name was Rodney
Montefth, and the minister knew him; and
he had taken his knapsack and himself up
stairs and into the front room. s.a..-. -
The minister did know him; he had paid
bis board regularly; she had grown fond
Of his still, grave ways; and when Farmer
Mayne came home he found his wffe and
daughter watching the new conner build
some strange contrivance for the model Of
an improved lifting lock down at the falls
Of the brook; and he grumbled the rest of
the summer. -. 90
But Mrs. Mayne and Rosy had, no D,
thought Of grumbling. To Mrs. Mayne
her lodger was superior being, who
knew more than the minister; and to Rosy
--hewas q lover. The handsome, stately
girl. who knew how to behave Ike q witch
with all her stateliness, could have told
the exact moment In which she took her
place, with eogs end wheels and screws,
In the phantasmagoria of his dreams, and
she Dad at first mischievious delight In
making him feel her power. t-'las rr.
she was aware, certainly, that there
was charming quality In bis gentle and
deferential manner which assumed that
she knew everything OF which she was fg-
norant-was aware, too, thAt beside her
Ignorance he was learning's self; but he
seemed to her 80 dreamy and far away,
seemed to live in such Q remote region
from every, day, that she said to herself
she would as soon think of falling In love,
in return, with one Of the town psupers
as with Rodney Hontaith. and, indeed,
there would be no great difference between
the two il she did, she said, for he was no
more fit to take care Of himself than q
child and under that conviction she inn
nediately took Ms well-worn wardrobe
in his absence, till she had 1t in complete
as Rosy darned and patched IN M that snpe. ne.
rior manner OF which her father was SO
proud, and which had taken so many
prizes at 80 many fairs, She could not but
feel that she was at work on the garments
of gentleman, and there dawned upon
her Z. sense Of her supreme Stiffness IA
at the absentmind6d ways Of =
man who stood Is much shove her as the
hills that LIT their heads among the stars
of God are above the plains.
But foF I'll that she was woman, and
conld not help coquetting with him q
little. She had 10 put On hernew print,
and make herself rsyishing with, apple
blossoms; and then when she had com,
pleted the work Of enchantment, 20 to
walk with George Riveg along the banks
of the brook. where he lay studying out
the faulfa of hfa deai0u. and annssar r. for