The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-02-07
BUYING A VASE.

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Pretty little Cassie Clcwes sat in her kitch.
en- Meultallhg. six months before you would
nave been introduced to her as Cassie Mills !.
but she was wearing new dignities now, and
II must be confessed, most worthily. Ii was
not common kitchen, either. There was a
respectable air about it, as if it wore its best
CLONES every day, that only belonged TO
KiIchehs IN the beginning Of housekceping
mere were no detacing nail marks, either. or
circles like pale, yellow moons, where The
good mans hat had adorned it many a wear
III was so fresh and clean with the sIantinc
rays OF the September sun cheering its newly
painted lloor, or playing in fantastic groups
surface P''''''
And, mcditating rs we before remarked
amid the brightness and shadows. snt thc lii
tIe mistress. When Harry Clcws first asked
hcr TO share his fortunes, Cassie was aware
lha' that article was mostly to be found in
me broad hands that then tremblcd in impa
uence waiting for the answer. But when She
looked into the lovers brown eyes, and read
there the promise Of peace, she did not hest.
tate. what would the world full of bank
stock be TO her if Harry had no share? And
she had never regretted her answer.
But all the morning, as her voice kcpttimr
70 the c!attcr of ilkpans, or with slower cu.
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hcr loving heart devised some pleasant sur.
prise for it, liege lord. Sometimes il was an
apple pudding; again, pair of slippers
maze by her cunning fingers, and even sOlcd
by the same workman. The same fingers
too, were always finding ways of beautifyinr,
until their little home blosSomed much more
IN the character of rose than did the rich
Mrs. Broad's sumptuOus parlors
1t was this last named apartment in Classics |
home that was the strain Of her mcditations
Just at present; and rs if to assist herself IN
clear view OF the case she rose now and
opened the door leading into that statc.room.
IL was bright, like the other, but lacking the
nome AR, OF course. There was a green and
oakcn carpet, the six cane bottomed cbairs
and green lounge, the round table with lis al
bum and few books upon it, and the horse
hair rocking chair that every country dame
counts among the essentials "But il looks
bare, some way" unused Cassie at the door
tnlhklhg, meanwhile, how easy and cheerful
MIS-. Means looked last evening, when they !
look Ten tHefe, forgetting that Mrs NJ. had ,
been putting home air into hcrs for several I
years. ut needs "A picture, and curtains. and t
mirror, that mantcl wants u few fancy artj. c
clcs, different from those straw frames. AMI n c
grass Ooquet. II had Mrs. Broad's money
! AMY "puld snow better taste; but there /
Is no nSe' IL isn't likely we shall ever have |
anything except what we earn: Harry isn', t
the kind TO get rich" ''' $
Dear generous fellow, indeed he wasn't a
Ana earning it, Cassie had got TO learn I
was WIlat lhhuc their little so sweet a
II must nave been the shadow of the INNS 7
ed plr!or mat the little woman carried IN nor a
seat IN thc low rockingham. Certainly thc
Kitchen ana not look as bright as 4, had half
ah IVua pc'oIc. "hat she might have come {
10 II iei. !" AcrsciI' we cannot tell for at That
iholiiehI 'I'G S"'e-'a'c" clicked, and burden. +
bearer made his way through il Now Il
among the few antipathles of hone, Nv Nv n
Cassie knew that against peddlers 10 Inc n,So "
Of the strongest. Her first thought was 3IIn,v v
shall ] get rid Of him? But a second ,ianno f
showed the board balanced on his head and G
the pretty toys and vases glislcninr in The
sun, and she waycred. In
HAS the fine lady any old clothes for me
today asked "a voice belonging TO the
dark jewish face that now made its appear.
ance in the doorway II
"Old Clothes" thought Cassie. "docs hell
think / look like that?"
And, indeed, the sharp, black eyes were
scanning, rather quizzically, every corner, as
ii in pursuit of the age Cassie deprecated.
No" she sand aloud, and with touch of
hesitation, the quick ear of the vender of
wares detected.
Please, lady, look at the pretty things,v
he urged, sui,ing the action to words by low
ering the load and AS he did So the shining
sun rays caught in pair of crimson vases,
and Cassie's heart was lost at once
Just the thing for any parlor man,el," she
exclaimed, Mrs Broad herself
has not anything moro beautiful Are they
dear 90 she continued
Pure Bohemian, lady. Shust yot says"
assented he Of the mahogany visage, without
4 twinge in the place his conscience used TO
occupy years agone. I
"Oh, what will you take for them? How I
much are they worth in money!
They wash not at all for money, lady--old ,
clothes"
"Bui haven't any" Ii