The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-05-11
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Gurus Ferriston and his mother were
nllthat remainedo OF the family. They
lived together in snug farm house in
q diatrict so rural that IL hadn't 30 much
as q name; it had only o number
Township Number One. The nearest
neighbor was five miles away, the only
religious exercises wero held in Deacon
Grocket's Kitchen, three miles further
pf, while there was ten miles between
them and the doctor. Cyrus was an en-
ergetic fellow, who farmed in summer
and logged in the wintor, that Is, he
usually took q contract to bring the
drive Of logs down from the woods (;
therefore he had been in the habit Of
borrowing Farmer Hutton's daughter
Jane TO keep his mother company and
help her about the house, for o small
consideration. Sometimes, too, jane
Btaid on through the summer, or re-
turned for the harvesting when IL was
heavy; md ntsuch times Cyrus always
observed that his butter and cheese
found q more ready market that the
house was more cheerful and better
kept-ior old Mrs. Ferriston was one Of
the slacll kind +; that provisions went
further and relished better. But for all
this he felt no inclination TO marry
Jane, as folks at wheatheld had pre-.
dicted when she frst went up 10 The
Numbers. Jane was called plain and
Cyrus had prepossession that his wife
should be rosy and dark.eyed, with the
smile that cotlquers men. Jane halted
in her gait the least bit in the world.
hiswifa should have the step OF pan
ther. She always dressed sobetly, like
q brown leaf, as il she would like TO
melt into the landscape-his wife
should carry her fascination into the
knot Of ribbon at her throat, or the slip
per on her foot. Therefore it was ut
terly out Of the question, II We put any
faith in logic, that Jane should become
the wife Of Cyrus. I, !. M 4
But, alas as II often happens, she
had not wintered and snmmered at The
Numbers for naught. When the neigh.
bors had hectored her as she was about
TO leave home for the frat season, and
prophesied, "Well, Jane, I dare say IL
won't be long before you'll be changing
yonr name 10 FerriStonH Jane had
laughed at the notion, and had reekoned
that Cyrus hadn't enough schooling TO
please her, and had thought that she
could never be reconciled to spending
her days in The Numbers.
"Folks as held their headB as high
as you, miss, hey he'd ter come ter u"
they answered her. But when she be.
came acquainted with Cyrus in his
everyday life and thought, she found
Tint he knew more than she had
dreamed. Hehad o little library Of
books on q swinging hhelf that he had
made with his own hands, and had
carved with deers' heads and oak leaves;
he could talk with her about the heroes
OF Plutarch mud the empires Of the Old
Werld, about election and free.will,
and aeemedto enjoy II. Jane had o
taste for those things; aud 90 IL hap
pened that as Bho saw Cyrus in his
daily cominRB and goinRs. stripped Of
disguises, ia his genial iircsido humor,
he grow IN her favor unawafes; IN
abort, his manly attributes, his kind.
linesaand good itomper, and his hand.
gomo face won her heart without M
effort on either side. He had 80 grown
into her affections that one day when
she overheard Deacon Smiley Joking
him about Agnes Pfice, her prophetic
soul stirred in her with o mighty thfoo.
Everything seemed to royolve before
her eyea-the churn.daaher, the tins on
the kitchen wall. and the andircns on