The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-11-05
Kitty Ross.
BY MARIETTA HoLLE.

cred young minister like a triumpha
banner.
"She thought at first she wouli
have it an album quilt but finally
she decided on a blazing star, q
Malyiny says TO me, 'it looks so kin'
O'heavenlyJ You know stars are |
bright yellow, and the sky is q blu
groundwork Just like this. Sh
thought it gave it kind of a sacreC
look. She is dreadful religious, Nal
viny is. have said to her father
many time, IF is ever snatcheC
away from us, Pa, hope he will be /;
religious man that snatches.'
good many told me, when she was 6
little girl, that the was just cut out TO
nomical and industrious. She is al
awful worker; there is seven hun
dred pieces in this bed-quilt tina
shows some industry, don't it Mr.
Thurston ?'i
81 beg your pardon, madam
am afraid didn't quite understand
you :" His rather dreamy, gray eyes
were looking out of the open window
down the emerald, daisy-empearleC
meadow, stretching away to the greer
woods.
81 was saying there is seven hun
dred pieces of calico in this bed quilt
1 didn't begrech layin' out the calicC
for her-nOt bit she cut 'em al
out in one day."
'fKitty helped her cut 'em out, for
seen her n want piece of pie, ol
bread n'butter." Sammy, the fearless
had entered the room, and stood be-
fore the authoress OF his life, with
pleading in bis tone, and utter indi
ference in his demeanor toward the
visitor.
"Yes Kitty helped her a sight
said Mrs. Ross, commencing to fold
up the bed quilt, and she added, sew
erely, 'iLittIe boys should be seen
and not heard"
'I am tired Of bein' seen 1 wan
to be heard a spell meant have tht
pie or bread n'Dutter l want some
Strawberries on it. Haint Kitty got
back yet seen her start for 'sm
mOre'n 'nour ago."
"When Kitty gets a book in he
hand, or gets out doors, there is M
knoWini when she will be seen again.
She is so different from Malviny
Why, If you will believe it, Mr.
Thurston, il that girl should tel
you the truth to-day, / belieue
she would say that she thought lit
tie bit of moss out OF the woods was
prettier than this blazing star bed.
quilt"
As she gave utterance to this as
founding atrocity on the part of Kit
! - h. 4 Al hlo fnfhirnr fhc
article in question and her tzsb-Dorr
standing opposite her, gazing at hel
keenly from beneath his torn straw
hat, said,
"Malviny's cIosser'n bear, an(
Kitty haint. She don't order felle
round. What are you steppin' on my
foot for, mother ?"
samuel Ross, do you go right on
into the kitchen, and wash your face
1 should be ashamed to come into th'
room where there is company witt
such looking face" he did no
move, and she continued, with
threatening glance at him, "Do yol
want me to have a reckoning will
you ?n Evidently ne did not, for thii
question was potent; he left the room
/ Immediately. Mrs. Ross laid the bed
quilt in the bedroom, saying, as sh
came back into the room:
/ "Malyiny will be in, in a few min
utes."
Again the youSg minister's eye
wandered out of the open window.
"Isn't that your youngest daughte
coming up through the meadow ~
"La, mol She haint my daughter
that is Kitty Ross, my husband
brothers. girl. l took her though whel
she was an infant babe; brought he
I'D on q bottle, and done for her as
she was my own"
81 have noticed her face in church,
said he.
He did not say that her face in tn
family-pew reminded him of q noun
tain daisy, in bed of hollyhocks
Neither did he find It necessary to tel
what an inspiration she had been t
him; that when some noble trut
came warm from his own heart, tn
sudden light that would spring up i
those shy, brown eyes, had show
him, that, though strangers, they wer
near kindred. And, if the whole tw
hundred of his congregation had bee
absent, and those appreciatiye eye
present, he would think ne had fu
house. These thoughts, which he dt
not speak, were still in his mind, whe
two doors opened simultaneously an
Malviny and Kitty entered. Malvin
had, in her virgin bower, attired hel
r self in her best, to do honor to tn
young minister, and she sailed ii
through the hall dOoI, just as Kilt
entered through the kitchen door, IN
to the sitting-room, with her baskt
of berries. She had on q print dres
, and sundown but she had found
great bunch of wild-fowers and gras!
es, and her cheeks were as rosy as be
: Strawberries, and her eyes fell shyl
as they met the earnest look Of adm
ration the young minister bent upo
her, as be took the hand that was frt
in his own. @
"Malviny, you go right into the pa
lor with Mr.. Tburston. L have bee
waiting for you to come down an
Kitty, you go out into the kitchen
porch, and look after your strawbe
ries. 'sAnd Malviny," the moths
called after them, as they passe
through the hall, ''you show the mil
ister your feather-fiowers, and th
hair.wreath yon have just done"
The young minister, as in dut
: bound, respectfully examined II
flowers, in which the hair OF the II,
ing and the dead of the Ross famil
blOssomed again. The feathers, hal
ly fallen from .defunet ganders, We
also faithfully commented upon, an
then his attention seemed to be wal
dering.
/, 81 noticed you had some beautifI
flowers in your kitchen garden, as
passed this afternoon ~ At-A
"Oh! they are some of Kitty
Father gave her o little piece {
e ground in the garden; he don't NAL
2 any difference between her and "a
though she is only girl WetoOk, an
and is dependent on US for a home,
The color flushed up into Mr.. Thu
stonis face, but any remark he migl
have wished to make was e1tshort
: the entrance of Sammy, the terrfbl
He came in with an air of boldnes
I befitting Robert Kidd, ''as he sale
1 as he sailed.n But q close observ
! could see that he was inwardly i'll
ease, as If he expected his sojourn
tu6I l.AuQ VI PLO44oG WO1LA OC oAO@
His presentiment was doomed 2
quick fulfillment, for scarcely had b
little tow-breeches touched the ehai
h bottom, when Malviny asked hir
with much sweetness
nSammy, won't you go out, and 6
me q drink of water ?"
Sammy had no fear Of man befo
his eyes, and be arose in his wrath.
: "Yes gim'me 3 drink of wate
= That is always the wsyl Gimme
drink of water; an then, when 1
: outafter 1t, mother won't lem me cor
in again. When a feller is here,
makes you awful dry to have me j
j step into the ROOM"
81 shalltell mother Of you, Samuel
= said Mslviny, with q red face. -
1 "Yes f! there it is again gimme
E to more trouble ~ IfRq M I'D
"She will have /. reckoning vi
e you, SamueI."1 I9[ l30tA 9