South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-05-01


but the pain put into words would have
/ been:
( ID res this woman truly love me 2
/ JonN owned good span of horses, and
a light wagon before be was married, he
bought yoke of oxen early in the spring
to do the heavy work of his farm during
the summer, proposing to f.ttsn them the
coming winter, and considered himself well
/ equipped for his summers work. CELIA
waited until he bad completed all his ar.
rapgemeuts, aud then petitioned for horse
aud carriage for her own use
III is impossible, my dear, for me 20 buy
/ them this year oply be pa;ieut and help
me along, and in few years we will be a.
BILE to have almost anything we please. 1t
! will be impossible not to make money from
off this farm with good management he
/ continued.
q know il, and so l think we might have
things as we 90 along; it will all come right
! in the end, CELIA answered.
/ For the sake of your opinion of JOINS
manhood, | am sorry TO say that the horse
aud carriage were bought, with a new bar
| cess, not silver mounted
! Two years had passed. At the end of
the FIRST, john came to his uncle to pay
the interest; he could pay but part of the
instalIment. Il am ashamed, uncle be
said, frankly, but can't raise another cent
well, no matter, you may be able to
pay it with your next years payment.
But Uncle JOHN could not help thinking
that the amount paid for tho furnished
chamber (Which they seldom used) and the
horse and carriage would have more than
paid the other half
! There was a fine Durham cow belonging
to bis uncle that john was anxious to pos
sess, her price was hundred dollars. If
be could have made bis payment be would
have asked his uncle to take his note for
her until fall but he had not the face to
do il now. .r9
The next winter Mrs. JOHN must have
velvet cloak, and expensive furs--and she
got them; (she was a peculiar woman-a
quiet, cat-like woman in justice to wo-
mankind, | will say there are but few like
HERO
The second year JOHN could pay nothing
but the interest, and the hslf-payment due
the year before. II was a week after, that
Uncle JOHN, leaning over the fence where
young JoHN was beginning the spring
| blowing, said Your farm needs more
stock
know it, but canuot buy it this year;
another year 1 must have some change or
sell out
very we'll, JouH ); if you cannot, l adj
wise you to sell by all means, said Uncle
JoHN, quietly, as he walked away
And young JOHN said ho had a headache
when his wife noticed at dinner how grave
be was.
The summer had passed. CELIA had
had so many Of her friends staying with
her, that she told JOHN she must have help
in the house 50 help was obtained. -JoHN
was hos pitable.
One dull November day, JOHN said, Il
believe | must put the farm in the mar
kct; can make no Roadway. What do
you say to going West 2
CELIA turned pale. 'Aro you in earnest?
she asked.
Il am for once in earnest
And CELIA knew by bis firmly set mouth
that be was. II bad been iodulgent TO
the last degree, and this was the end of it :;
she had pushed him too far.
But l don't want to 60 West she fal-
tered.
we shall he obliged to go there or some
where. lie rose, took down his cap, and
went over to Uncle JoHN's.
Uncle JoHN wus reading before a bright
wood fire IN his pleasant library by the
way be had furnished ,JoHN and his wife
With all their reading matter ever since
their housekeeping began several sericul.
iural journals ard two Or three Of ;ho bes n
literary monthiies found their way into the
siuing-room before their wrappers were re-
moved, aud UGole JOHN's library was oren
a. all times to bis nephew, who sppreciat-
ed the advantages and pro6ted accordingly
Seating himself before the Ere, joins
said please don't talk TO me-, uncle. /
am discouraged. want 70 sell nv farm
thought perhaps you might want o take
it back.
'Certuinly nobody but JONI WEST
must own that farm while I live. That
was 10Y model farm, JoHN'
Il know il, uuele, and will disgrace
It no longer. d. you want any Of the
stock 2
d will toko everything just IS it is. /
shall feel obliged to End some tenant for
the place. Where do you think Of going p
4 think Of going West this Fall 10 look
about.
The sooner the better, then, at this sea-
son. ] will see to your stock my men
are rusty. CELIA can stay here while you
are gone 60 and Cad home iu the West
It you can. will tako your farm of your
hands 10 The Spring but after a pause
IT CELIA ever iinds her senses, come bel
to the home you should never leave, it will
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