Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1874-01-12
Miss Dolly COrnered,

said Mr.. Blount, roguishly, gathering up III,
| reins.
"Nonsense, brother, anything the matte,
with his own hitchng post?" retored Mis-
Dolly, turning in the doorway.
Mr. Bount laughed. Everybody f,lt b,urd
to laugh at Miss Dolly's crisp savings. sh,
had kept her friends In hum Or these foriv lone
years. '0's
"And when David does call on you.n pursp,d
MIR. Blount, more seriously, ~ do hone. Dolly
youil give him chance to do his errand. -
That'll be no more'n fair; and the man won i
be easy till he has freed his mind.''
"What mischief are you tho fororunnor of
now, James Blount?" cri.l Miss D,ly. FAC.
Ing about like soldier on drill. "Wbat unon
earth have to do with Davd's errands2n
wen, ms wires been dead year or so. >,
sald MIR. Blount suggestiyely, shutting one eve.
and squinting with the other down the length
OF MS whipstoek, .and lately he has been ask.
gether to suit YOURSELF"
"Fiddlesticks /" SAID Miss Dolly. eper,a,,-
cally. s"e'se''
Vi shant say have him, or don't have him
though there isn't likelier man living thar
David-but l do say, Dolly, you ought 10 give
him hearing" e"s
Having convinced himself beyond reasona.
Die doubt that the whip was all right, Mr.
Blount tickled his sleepy horse and drove
away. 0'e
"Oh, my surrows!" calculated Miss Dollv
closing the door with an afflicted countenance'
ana sitting down so quietly for once that a
there N" anu
Not that he could have done her Justice. for
Eer expression was too quick and varied to be
caught by any trick of chemicals, and without
it, Miss Dollys physiognomy would have heen
rather cllaracterless, but for the prominent Ro-
man nose.
Every two years during her chilIhooI sh,
has beea tip-toed into the east ,.,room tn sa,.
new baby, till at her mothers death. five IL.
tie brothers fell 10 her charge to be coaxed and
scoldcd into manhood.
~ Oh cant bring up them boys croaked n
dolorous aunt "They'il run SQUARE over yo,,
Dorothy Almeda."
Dorothy Almeda was Miss DolIy's baptis-
NAL name, but IL was manifestly 100 biz for
her, that most Of her friends would as soon
have ihouSl orlabclling a tiny HOMEOPATHIC viii
with quack medicine advertisement as ofcal. |
Ing her by it,
"Let 'em run over me as long as il doesp,t |
hurt 'em'" laughed Miss Dolly, skewerinr her |
laxen hair with goosequl, and tying a TOW |
apron over her calico long short, preparatory IN |
bringing up said youths.
From that day forward she went cbeerilv IN |
making the best of everything thoigh il must |
be confessed she often had odds and ends 10 !
WORK with, as peopls usually do VIII, are born |
with a faculty.
Sometime she found time for all her du,ics
excepting matrimuny. If that were a duty,
IL was one that Sue shouldn't and
wouldn't attend to while her father and chIlJ-
en needed her. Divers young men Thought
MS great pity and among them was David
Niggin. N'''
"Don't be silly, Davidr' said Don,. when
10 hinled a, much 10 her; whereupon David
MI a,,f,, ~
'lalnest girl in the parish.
ms happened thirty years agc, and now
Cavid was witeless, aud again the ctlrreAt of
lis thoughts turned toward Miss Dolly, who
till lived at the old homestead near the foot of
5ryant's falls. '' "
Her father lad died some month, b fore. OF
lie boys, James ami Ezekiel had settled on
leishoorlng farms, and the remaining three
Tere in the West. David's kind heart warm
d win compassion as he remembered Dolly
onely condition, and he felt that it woull Ina
XeeedlnSly kind in him tu offer her a bome.
specially as he Owned as good a place as you'j
nd OH The riyer,while the BlounL cottage was
alling 10 decay.
He wouldn't let her former refusal of him
ell against her; for, now lie looked back. hs
eal y didn't see how she could have married
nypody then. She ought to be rewarded for
he de, otion she had shown 10 the family. and.
or his pait,he felt maSnanimous enough TO give
er IA second chance to accept him. Such was
he worthy widowers state of mind when lie
sked James Blount, with mock humility,
1hethcr it should be ofany use for him to trv !
o make bargain with Dolly.
"That's MORN can tell" Mr.. Blount an
wered: Dolly's puzzle. You will have 10 |
nd out for yourself"
MIR. Wiggin smiled in complacent ant,cipa-
Ion OF acceptance. Indeed, if il might not
eem lihe a feproach to the memory Of lost Oh
re, should say that the Kind hearted man re- ,
1iced in this opp irtunity of making Ms, Dol
rs happiness. ,
Benevolence was in his fIce, hsneynlcncc in |
lis spirit, as he sailed forth at an early day To
'cquaint her with her good fortune {
The harrow which he had strapped into the
wagon, to give the ncighoors plausible reason
or his trip TO the Falls,was by no means typical
u mental acerDatlon 10 Its owner. His feelings :
IS he approached Miss Dolly's moss-prown ;
ottage, was purely one of thankfulness that Il
vas In his power to provide her better home.
Not that he vas grateful to his dead wife for
eaving vacancy there. Mr.. Wiggm had ,
nourned faithfully for Olive day and one !
ear. ,
Miss Dolly was out in the garden gathering
atnip She never used 1t herself, but there /
we're nervous old ladies' In the village. who look
d upon this herb as the substance pleasant
reams were made Of and Miss Dolly dried it {
very year, and often left little bundles of IL ,
vhen she made visits of consolation. She had
'nilt chip fl under the tea kettle, and then
Ghisked offto pick an apron full of the pungeut
caves While the water was boiling. There
he was STOPPING beneath the caves Of log
abin sun bonnet, ind hunniirg lively tune, .
When David drew up.
.Come my beloved, haste away"
iped Miss Dolly, cheerily, swapping briskly at i
be stalks,
"Cut short the hours Of delay;
Fly like youthful {
''Fly like youthful" struck in a wneezy