Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1874-09-17


minutes, aud then sudden sleam OF
humor lighted up her face, rs ir some
stray. belated sunbeam had tipped the
cloud with pink.
a trine light a air, She said. "I'll
write it for her." and seizing pen Miss
Phrygia wrote.
MORTALITY PUFFs,
NEVER KNOWN To FAIL.
Eggs (cockatrice). |.
Mix (humau kindncss), Just ready to
sour. drop.
Cream Of Tartar caught, , large spoons,
heapins.
Flower (of an hour. ! full cup.
Salt lof the Earth, rsry small pinch,
mere dustins.
Raised with iermentations brcwed a.
follows:
Hop (e)s realized. /.
disappointed. %.
Swecien with faith and submission.
Spice with variety.
Bake in earthern vessels under slow
fire. til the vessels crack"
FART II.
\ week later Mis-, rhrysi. Fut on pair
Of black gloves. black bonnet and
black lace veil To let down in case she
should cry. and went to church to see a
plain gold ring take precedence of the dia-
mond She had pressed. and to hear the hy-
meneal blessing pronounced over the mist
OF golden hair.
She had TO drop her veil once or twice a.
rho Sansi at the cloud vr lace anu orange
blossoms before the altar. and when she
couldn't heip seeing the new broadcloth
suit that stood beside il. ,he kept herself
down by repeating a fast as she could
Charity hopeth all things, cndureth all
thinss. i, not easily provoked" Then she
went home, put on the brightest dress >he
had, and went to nurse 4 sick ncighbor
who could obtain np assistance for money
and therefore must have it for love.
The bfigh dress had almost time to fade
before Ms, Phrygia saw the way clear to
20 home again. 1t was long pull. and
neither she nor the invalid knew how they
would have got through had it not been
for the strength and comfort OF the doe
tors daily visits. Six feet in height two
hundred pounds, in weight, strong as a
tower firm as a rock. cool as hygrodeik
and yet when pain or dscouragement
called for it, quick with q broodng tend
erness, more beautiful, Miss Phrygia
thought than womans.
Twilight in the sick room seemed lonely
to Miss Phrygia, and she fell into the way
of watching for light to CLEAN through
the elms that shaded the Doctors house
just opposite, but no light ever appeared,
aud she had just made up her mind that
he was never at home in the evening, when
she had TO send for him two or three times
after the stars were out, and there he was.
..Oh dear" she said, Il hope he doesn't
sit there without so much a. candle
lighted thinking about those children OF
his that were drowned, and the wife in the
insane asylum that only died year and
half ago. He can't or he never could come
over here on a moments call, all ready TO
cheer us up and be such comfort" This
cheering them up and being a comfort
continued until Miss Phrygia began to
wonder what days at home would seem
without il, when her season Of duty should
be ended. What the doctor thought about
losing his nurse he did not say, but he in
sisted upon seeing her home, when the
time came, although the moon was as
large as a cart-wheel. and shining clear.
As they came out, they both Involuntary
glanced up at the house under the shadow
the elms.
Dark said Miss PhIygia; lit always is
Yes, said the Doctor, it has been for
good many years now, very dark
i know it, said Miss Phrygia, softly,
feeling as if she ought to have on her
black gloves again.
Don't you think said the Doctor, adj
| justing her hand trfle more closely to
his arm, don't you think | might bring in
bright, warm light, before long, if l
could find itF
| Immediately p said Miss Phrygia.
Overland the Doctor stopped to come
as near as he could to q look under Miss
| Phrygia's hat-'even if l should leave
yOnr house empty and dark to do it?'
What Mis- Phrygia said, or what either
or both of them said after that. will never
be revealed; but certain it is that when
Miss Phrygia ought to have been going
to sleep that night, she wasn't going to
sleep at all but saying over and over to
herself; oh, what haze l done? What
haze done? How could l erer do il?
What am going to dor
The perplexity thickened and darkened,
to the peril of Miss Phrygia's night, when
suddenly ray of light flashed forth upon
it.
why, of cOurse;' she said. He ISM:
ezactiy a man after all he's a doctor; and
that's Just how came to do it!' and with
this satisfactory conclusion in her soul.
aud wonderful whirl Of new sensations
in her heart, Miss Phrygia turned on her
pillow, and went to sleep like a kitten.
The village was SO astir with the news
the next week, that Miss Phrygia was
thankful her first walk-leaning on an arm
that wasn't hers, and yet claimed to be-