Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1874-10-21

The next day / had my trunk move,
to my new boarding place, and perman
emily established myself there.
Before leaving my former boarding
house, a letter was handed me BY tn,
postman, but didn't find time to ex.
anime it until l was ensconed in tho
parlor of Mrs. Kingsley's coy house
Opening the letter. | discovered it tc
be from a wealthy uncle of mine resid-
ing in Vermont, who regularly sent me
a letter once a year, but whom | had
never seen. His epistles were ALWAYS
short and to the point, generally consist
ing of an account of the weather in hi.
locality. and some good advice to me tc
s-----. ''s's.s 90 my ni@4..,S o.. -.
o"rdened with some of IL before i ~
much older.
was always glad to get this adyic,
from him, as / regarded il as an intima.
tion that | was to inherit his wealth on
his decease.
One day, however, about year pre-
vious, | received letter from him which
contained another topic besides those I
have mentioned. Ny uncle had made
some pressing inquiries respecting my
matrimonial prospects, and stated that if
was not already married | should i'm
mediately enter into the welded state
and let him know of it or he would
never be an uncle of mine.
Now as my uncle lived in Vermont
and | in Philadelphia, and | never an
tlcipated the old gentleman would nav
me visit and discover the f;ilsehood SO
| wrote and informed him that | was not
only married, but the father off bounc-
that he sent gold goblet and silver pap
spoon, to be presented to my child.
Straightway sat down and wrote a
very romantic letter to my uncle, thank
ing for the present, and then visited a
jewelrv store and turned both the goblet
and spoon into money, which pockcted
| had received no further letters from
my uncle until the one which | read in
Mrs. Kingsley's parior The postscript
to this not only astonished me, but abb
solutely frightened me. thread as follows:
"P. ST. have never visited Philadelphia so
have decided TO do so at once, and get look
pect me on the 10th of the month";
Good graciousl my uncle coming to
visit me" | exclaimed land it's past
the 10th now. | don't know what mo-
ment he may pop in"
Just as | finished this ejaculation there
was vigorous pull at the door-bell, as
if the man who pulled it imagined he
owned the. house and could make as
much noise as he pleased. A sickening
sensation took possession of me. for |
had missiving that it was my uncle
As good fortune would have it, Mrs.
Kingsley had gone out to a neighboring
store for a few moments, and had re-
quested me to have an eye on her child
while she was gone, so it would not fall
out of the cradle and hurt itselS As |
glanced at the cradle and thought of my
uncle at the door, bright idea entered
my mind--I determind, in case the visitor
was my uncle, to claim the babe as my own.
The visitor proved to be my uncle |
knew him by the pictures | had seen Of
him, and he like me by my photograph.
After mutual recognition and hand
shaking, ushercd my honored relative
into the parlor and introduced him to my
newly claimed offspring.
There, uncle" said |, sis the first
pledge of our married life. l assure you
| take pleasure in presenting to yon my
child"
ut is fat little youngster," said my
uncle. by the way, is it boy or a
girl p
There was a lSnotty question for me
to answer, he being Just as much ac-
quainted with its gender as l; but it
would not do to show Ignorance on the
subject, so answered hap-hazard that
it was boy.
i am sorry that it is boy" said my
uncle: "there are too many boys in the
family Now if you had only produc-
ed blue-eyed girl, it would have been
very sensible" !"
assured him was very sorry the
gender did not suit him, but hoped in
the future his wishes would be gratified