Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-06-16
THAT HOMEMADE ICE CREAM.

sGood gracious, mar !" said Angelica
Crane to her overworked parent. at night
fall of memorable day-a day that mark
ed the beginning of the young squire's
Christmas holidays at home, and every
minute of it crammed and crowded with
labor for the entertainment in his honor
at the Crane homestead good gracious !!
you amt going to have some homemade
cream, surely ?" The young lady's nose,
which was exceedingly retrousse already,
was perched high in the air with disdain.
eff there's anything I can't abide," she
said, "it's frozen corn starch and that's
all, YOU can make of homemade cream,
any way you fix it ~
"Hold your tongue, Angy," said her
mother; ''youre the most onfeelin' cree
tur ever see. You'd have me harness up
the team and drive away to town and pay
out mint of money, when I kin jest as
well hev it for nothin'. Hain't we got a
prime new freezer, and cream and eggs and
ice, without it's costin' a cent? What more
do you want 20
GA prime new freezer ~ scornfully ech-
oed Angy. "You'll want half dozen of
! 'em!
"Well. can't I borry 'em % said her
prudent parent.
'And who's going to hang over 'em ?"
said the young lady, whose stay at board
] ing school had not obliterated the home
dialect. ''They need to be turned and
turned, and everybody's worn out. It's
nearly time to dress now, and you want a
little coolin' off yourself. You're as red
as beet"
'FI'll stay if can be Of any SERVICE"
said voice in the doorway.
s'Why, Sallie," said Mrs. Crane, "you'll
want to run home and dress, won't you p
"Oh, I'd rather not," said the voice,
this time trembling a little. II don't feel
fit tor any fun, Mrs. Crane. 1t don't seem
to me I ever will again."
81 s'pose not, deary," said the farmers
wife. with an expression of pity mingled
with relief. '1t'll be dreadful convenient
: to hev you stay, Sallie, if you kin. There
is power to do yet, and only one pair O.
hands to do it. / s'pose you wouldn't keer
to 60 up in the parlor; but the freezers'n
be in the cellar, and the heater keeps it
nice and warm down there; and while
you're maxim the cream, you kin listen
to the music, and hear the noise and ALL
It'll come kind o. nice to you that way,
won't it, Sallie .?''
'Good life, mari" laughed the vivacious
| sic{ hat Jhat 0a1 y,io
reminds me Of the little hungry boy who
went to smell the steam at the pastry
cooks"
s'You don't know nothin' about the way
Sallie feels,'' said Mrs. Crane, NOR don't
think you could if you tried. 1 believe
you'd dance and whistle about before the
grass took root over your pappy's grave
but sally loved hern, poor child, and she
can't help thinkin' of the poor school.
master lynn out there in the snow, when
here he was. only bit ago, as slick and
smart as anybody. It's no knowin' whose
turn it'll be next.o
Whether the good woman had any rea-
son Of her own for thus dwelling upon g
melancholy subject, it decided poor little
Sallie's aversion for the merry making, and
) put to flight the gay Angelica. who was il
no h1imor for red eyes and noses, whe1
the young squire would shortly come, an6
If behooyed these features to be at thei
r best.
. But sallie fell to sobbing outright, no
: giving a thought to the deleterious effec
of tears upon her beauty, although ono
upon a time it was bright and benal
o enough toensnare the young squire himself
Long ago, when he dreW her to school o.