The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-11-05

The acquaintance, thus begun, Mr.
Thurstoa cid not allow to cease hi:
visits to the farm house were fire.
ouent and lengthy. Mrs. Ross openly
and friendly, Malyiny, demurely, &C
eepted them IS tributes TO her charms,
both as a rich mans daughter, and as
a maiden who was alike Industrious
and economical. So time ran along,
till one evening Mr.. Thurston walked
home with Kitty from an evening
meeting. That night, in the sacred
retiTacy Of their bed room, while on
the huge feather-bed, good uncle PLY
slept the sleep of the just. Mrs. Ross
lay awake In deep thought. Finally,
she hunched her husband in the side
changing an incipient snore into,
whats wanted, mother ,"
s'I have been thinking, Ps," was
the answer, "that Kitty would like TO
90 away somewhere this summer, and
mebby We had ought to let her 60"
Kitty was beloved by her uncle, as
well IS by Sammy, tue terrible, and
the mother felt that she must be
wary.
"YOu know she has worked pretty
hard" she continued, Gall the spring,
and spose folks will talk il we don't
do well BY her. And her aunt Huldy
she is hsr own aunt, il we never did
any of US see her-she has been writ
ing to her time and again for her to
come and visit her; and she is well
off, and getting pretty well along in
years; and she might leave Kitty
something. / don't know as we had
ought 70 stand in her light"
az thought you couldn't spare her,
last sumper, when her aunt wrote
for her. go -. ---- '-'-----------
i,PhiIander, you little know the
feelings q woman has for a child she
bAs brought up on q bottle / am will
ling to spare Kitty, this summer"
"Well, well you women folks must
have it your own way; you will, any
way; only she hadn't better stay
long.n
In this philosophical frame Of mind.
uncle Ply turned himself to the wall,
and resumed his. nocturnal music,
seemingly taking up the broken note
just where it was rudely interrupted
by his wife's elbow.
So it CHANGED that, the next Sab
bath, the young minister missed the
shy, brown eyes that had been such
help and delight to him. That day
he preached to empty seats, and the
next afternoon he found 1t convenient
to call at the farmhouse. Malviny
met him at the door, radiant and
blooming her mother also was in
fine spirits; but they both seemed
afflicted with a sudden loss of memo
". They couldn't, either OF them,
for their life, recollect the name OF the
place where Kitty had gone. But it
was good ways of, and they didn't
know but she had gone for good. She
wasn't much help to them. and they
thought mebby they shouldn't have
her come back at all. Mrs. Ross ad-
ded, however, with some show OF sem
timent, that "though Kitty was so
hard to manage, and so different from
Malviny, still, when q woman had
brought child up on bottle, and
doue for 'em like her own, she
eouldn't help missing EN-"
Mr.. Thurston was not very soclable,
Malviny thought, when her mother,
as in duty bound, left them alone.
He could not possibly stay to tea, and
be was just drawing on his gloves,
preparatory to leaving, when Mrs.
Ross, who had in her loneliness wan.
dered up stairs, rushed into the room
with frightened eyes, and waving cap
strings. She held a paper in her hand,
which she had found in Sammy's
room, and then they both remembered
that he had been missing since the
early dinner. The paper, which the
young minister took out Of the moth
er's trembling hand, and read, was as
follows It was written seemingly
with much effort, and each line CON-
meneed with capital letter, like
poetry.
HI am q going to run away
Where Kitty is love her oh
= Is sweet Kitty Is l will
Not stay where foaks are
Kross and will not give
Feller 2 peaces Of py
When he Are Starvin Hungry
80 so no moar at preasant
u need not look for me for
- Deer parints 1 will not be took
II Eafs=r So no mOar from yure sun
l Sammuil
ps L Hoap Malviny wont
Be dry now when she has a Bo."
As they read, the grief-stricken pa
rent recollected that he had been re.
fused two pieces of pie at dinner. The
premises were searched unsuccessful
ly, and as uncle Ply was absent, Mr.