The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-10-22
Ill.

Zone autumn morning, with pickax OF
shoulder, wearing Il shabby black coat, the
sole remaining wardrobe at Moscow, he
was passing through grove of fir trees on
his way to the fields. lie
NET YOUNG GIRL
who was gathering mushrooms. She wore
white ind blue striped pe;ticoat, cloak
# dark cloth, and an embroidered apron
Ter blonde tres.es escaped from Under Il
broad. brimmed straw Lat. Enc llghtne.s
Of Der movements, the graceful curve OF
ner young fyrm attracted him She wa,
not peasant girl. He paused in his walk
blushed, and saluted Yer She also blu-hed
and returned his salute, and then they
stood for little while gazing at eli
other like two children. The young CIR
Reaching the verge Ct the woods she disap
peared in Il hemp field.
Sersius at the same place. At distance
he recognized the young girls straw lat
Hanging to her arm was the lit,le basket
which lie had seen on the morning before.
She was STOPPING and was gathering, oil
pretending to gather, mushrooms. lie
walked towards her, lifted his hat, and
passed quickly by without turning arousd
This man9uvcring lasted eight days. Then
he said to himself that there would soon
be no mushrooms lett, and that some
morning &c would find himself alone in
the woods. On the following day, as il
actuited by despairing resolve. he spoke
to the young girl. lie learned from her
that she was
ArooR ORPHAN
who had teen adopted by childless widow
residing in the ueishbo,huod. Reared IN
convent, she had just lett it to live
,heuccturtn sItu nrr ueueinc rcs>.
"TaItaIna, wItnout bsIus beautiful, pos
tne case with Russian women, thu ANNA
ion of her features contra>ted with IN
ixty and depth of her gaze. Endi->'
dreams passed across her face. Her eye-
we're green, WIKI shade ot gold IN them
nrr shape uLdularlns, her Ixtt"mllleS deli
cate.
"Sergius soon maize the acquaintanc,
Thece Murtlnoyua, tue mosher, 10y
adoption, OF the you'g al. From tha
tine orth he passed his days not 10 th'
ie.ds but with them.
la tue morning. tie would go 10 Ihecl'
Martinovua's house, and would find Ia
,aina in a grove Of willows on the borde
of a pond Mar tie house, whence She VI"
watching Tor his coming. From Their
they would go into the woods, hreaihin;
the rosIr's licious aud penetrating odor
listening to the drumming of the gree'
wooJpeckcrs, and gathering mu iberrie
and hazeinuts. Sometimes they would 81
ia the cIearlngs between two birch trees
and, while Tatains would make neck lace
! of wild berries, when resembled grains o
coral n the moist YER lure, Srrgius wuui'
cut raraina's name with ! enkpile in IN
! silver bark of the trees.
| "Then they would return across tn
/ ields, developed in the luminous autumna
I sun. ut every step soaring up immune, abb
/ criekets. Reaching the house they woult
I fuiiaw Thecie Msrtinovpa into the barns
among the chickens, in the enc,"sur
where ere ranged tie bee hives, irou
W ich they would take delicious eumbs q
pert Iu,ed and tran, parent hunry.
a. In the evening Tatalna would sery
the rcpast in ciuml CT raspberry bushe.
The bowls of creaia were surroAuded ~,
branches Of holly; the cheese and butte
were spread out on vine leaves; there wer
golden cakes, amber culurci honey, drie
hss. They would eat heartily, aud lang
without the shadow of care upon them.
"Sersius permitted himself to lie
OVERCOME IN ALL his BEING
hy the sweetness of his impression La,
: at night, and when be thought his fath'
!, VA, a,lecr. he would return home,