The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-11-05
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IDENTIFY learned, from past experience
that the loss was sure to be upon hi
side of the account, and at thI
mention of it he departed, pausjng
however at the door to make up {
; face at his sister.
81 am so ashamed of him, Mr.
Thurston but we all sbumor hin
most TO death, and it makes him act
; awful bad"
''Oh don't mention it." said the
young minister, biting his lip. "But
we were just speaking of your flow.
ers, Miss Ross think noticed s
kind of rose that was exceedingly
beautiful and rare, suppose we go ou
and see them"
Miss Ross was delighted, of course
to walk even so short distance with
the handsome young minister anC
as she told her mother afterward, "as
they walked through the front yard
| the faces of the three Talmadge girls
were 30 fattened against the window
lpanes opposite that their noses looked
like the pictures of the Hottentots In
: her old Geography" Aud Malviny
} further remaIked TO her mother thal
, ''It was shameful the way those
Talmadge girls was after the minister
: aud they Methodist girls, too, and ht
an Episcopal" ~
"Yes,D cried MRS. Ross, 'I don't see
how folks can make up their faces tC
act so bold but it does seem as il
some folks haint got no pride"
Excepting a kitten, delivered, in it,
weakness, into the hands of children.
for them to use at pleasure, / think
there are few objects more truly de-
serving of sympathy, thSn a young
unmarried minister. Then, IL ever,
must he be very circumspect he
must look neither 70 the right hand
nor the left. His persecution Is not
like the old martyrs. but he will be
stoned in the synagogue by soft
glances, and honeyed smiles, and en-.
dearing words. He will be sawn
asunder in the market-place and the
seclusion OF his own study, by Curious
old ladies, who will gather bis past
history and settle his future. He will
not wander In sheep-skin and goat
skin, but in slippers manifold, em-
broidered with every known device.
II the young minister be cowardly,
he Is often constrained to grid up his
loins and flee so the mountains. But
1 lnC 4sENs 4 was AAOb
cOwardly. From his earliest youth
he was noted for bis quiet sslf-posses-
sion. He always knew just what he
wanted, and he usually obtained it ia
q straightforward manner. Like Sir
Galahad, - -
'His strength was as the strength OF ten.
Because HIS heart was pure."
To do nirn justice, ne was very
purs-minded young man, earnestly
devoted to his sacred calling and al
though hs was talented, rich, and
handsome he was NOT vain; conse-
quently, he passed u1noticed many
Things that would have affected q
vainer man. think MaiYiny bad for
gotten that the old kitchen-porch
opened directly upon the garden, and
was not very remote from 1t. But /
think the young minister had not, for
4 his first glance was in that direction,
and there sat Kitty huiling her straw
berries-and Kitty was laughing.
Down in the meadow that after
noon, Kitty had not been very gay,
| though she loved every flower and
bird, and every little white wanderer
of cloud as well. When her cousin
| W do 6ud l4CA aA1k ClOcof
and she felt herself to be, more than
ever an alien and an intruder, as
their words often made her feel, she
loved to get away from it all out into
the woods, into the fields: and dear
Nature, gentlest of all CONSIDERS, how
tenderly did she comfort this sweet
little soul 1t seemed as If it were
such large world after ell, and the
good God had place in it for every
thing. Even the little mite OF 3 grass
hopper looked up hopeful, and seemed
to feel at ease; and the great, calm
heavens overhead never twitted 1t of
being so small and worthless after it
had done so much for it, in the way Of
dew and sunshine. -rt--
Sometimes, am afraid, little Kitty
was wicked enough to wish in her
heart that the 'tbottle she had been
brought up on, ard which her aunt
so often set before her, had been nro-
ken, ana her infant life With it. But
this afternoon she was too busy TO give
way to sorrowful memories or forebo-
dings, for her aunt had ordered her
to pick five quarts. .
She was willing to work faithfully
for her aunt. The neighbors said
"she worked like g slave, and it
was shamer1 But ] don't think
Kitty cherished any revengeful
thoughts she wanted to do her duty
and If it was a loveless duty, it was
only the harder for her. She worked
diligently, and had gotten her basket
nearly full, when down in corner OF
the raiI-fence, in a elump Of alders,
she found 8 bird's-nest, full Of little
ones almost ready to fly away.
"Oh, you darlingsm ~ she murmured,
looking down into it with. her soft
wistful eyes. "You happy darlings
that have got some one to love you
Old bird, you needn't stand up there
so anxious. Do you think I would
harm feather on their heads ?'i
Then she wondered II any one
would ever care for her as that ole
constant bird did for her little ones
She meant really to care for her as
Give Newcome did for Ethel. She had
lust been reading HThe Newcomes.n y
She would ask for nothing else upon
earth, she thought, II she could only
be loved like that. She didn't care i
it never amounted to anything. Lit
tie Kitty did not think of a settlement
and an establishment, but all her lift
, her poor heart, her hungry, loving lit
tie heart, had been asking for bread
, and got only G stone. How beautiful
it would be, altogether too blessed fol
her, she thought, as she went up tC
!. the house through the blossomy clov'
, er, to have a pair Of dark-gray eye:
look upon her With loving tenderness
) Somehow, lately, all her air-castles-
and she was great builder OF them
had raised themselves up in Gothic
! form, with a(stained window for {
background and all her heroes hRC
! looked down upon her with gray
earnest eyes they had all handsome
dreamy faces, and their hands weri
spread abroad in beuediction. Strangl
, attitude for bold crusaders and knight
in armor-but 80 it was.
t When her aunt had dismissed hel
) so summaIiIy from the room, LITTLE
. Kitty was not unhappy on the con
: trary, think sue was never so happy
I in all her life-for had she not me-
! Just such q look as she dreamed o
: down in the meadow? The memory
j of that was enough to make her bliss
> and the berries she was hulling 81
busily, might have re-ripened beneath
: the tender sunlight in the brown eyes
l But when the yoang minister lookeC
! at her, we said Kitty was laughing
= and it chanced in this wise: Sammy
rudely driven from the parIor, had
as he always did, taken his woundeC
spirit to Kitty, and such solace did b.
: find in her society, that he had for
3 gotten his grief. Yet, still smartinI
under the sense of the injury his sic
? ter had done him, he was in the cor
3 ner of the porch, giving q theatrics
: representation OF q scene 10 come of
: when he was wealthy householder
: and Malviny beggar At his gate
e Kitty knew she ought not to laugh
/ but her sense of the humorous wa
: VERY keen, and Sammy was 8 azealous
if not a finished performer. His heat
was Just stretched out, waving Nal
l viny scornfully from his palace-dOoT
when suddenly he dropped his tragi
|. air, and exclaimed, "By Hokeys ther'
f they be now pi and, by one OF tn
81 master strokes for which he was IA
. nous, he tripped over the basket o
j berries, and, entsngling his foot In th
> trailing elOthesline that depende.
| f-ov,, 80 oovoar ~ tha r1orei1 he fpi