The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-06-21
knOwed it then. Now you take him

!, knoWeu IL then- NOW you taAc hiu
y father"
Two such long speeches oyerpow
e cred Mr. Hartman He took
r Horatio.
e Then Mrs Hartman remembered
0 that her chickens had not vet had
e their dinner, add Horatio was left
alone with Gazena and his doing new
papa. Gazens had not said a word
r all this time, and had tried to look as
: If she were somewhere else, very far
away. How she felt, was what
Horatio wanted to know, for he did
Lot much admire this Dutch way OF
courting. So he turned to the young
lady. and said: "Gazena, will you
come out on the porch with me?"-
Gazena get up obediently and went
to the porch, but she looked down at
some tin pans that were drying in
/, the sun, as if they were novel OBJ
jeets, and both new and interesting
Horatio took courage, and said
what be had to say as well as be
could say it; then he waited for Gaze
mas answer.
} II will do as my father and moth.
er say" she answered; "but there's
J one thing: / have never been engaged
before, and don't want to be en-
gagged now. So, if you don't mind,
III be a nun, as said / would, till
till"-
| Horatio dld not mind, and was
quite willing to let her be nun one
year longer 1t was decided that he
would come every Sunday to see bis
little nun, and that it was all to be a
secret in the family.
Because" said Gazena, Il don't
want people to talk about it, and look
at me as if they had never seen me
before"
/ Horatio was very happy and work
ed harder than ever He cut down
his trees, and burned the timber to
make "black salts" which be sold at
a good price in the city With that
money he bought forty more acres of
woodland, and, early in the spring,
be sowed wheat on his cleared land
Then be hired from Farmer Maynard
small cottage, with orchard and gar
den to match. 1t WAS quite a pretty
little place.
at will do very well to begin
with" said Horatio, "and in two or
three years we will build house just
as we want it."
"Yes, indeed said Mrs. Hartman,
"you begin small and you grow big,
but you begin big and you grow
small; except you be very rich, and
it is not everybody who can"
But now something was the mat
ter with Gazena. She did not look
as happy as might have been ex-
pected. No, she did not object to
the cottage; it was large enough for
her. Yes she was willing to give up
being a nun, and June was a very
pretty month to be married in. But
al will tell you what it is" she
said, one evening. to Horatio. 81 was
saucy to your father once, and am
sorry for it, though it was the truth !
told him. | dou't want to live with
proud folks to look down on me; but
/ don't like to marry man that
hasn't any father, when his father Is
living"
''You mean that you want me to
make it up with my father?"
Eyes, | mean just that. Now
please go and tell him, and make
peace-that will bring US happiness.
1t will be so right and nice!"
Horatio promised that be would
go, and he went tie next afternoon
1t was more than three years since
be bad left bis home. He had some
times seen bis father riding past the
West Farm, but they had never met
face to face, or spoken to each other.
Let him alone" Farmer Brown
had said to Aunt Ermy, when she
had proposed to go and see Horaiio.
LET him alone, and don't bother"
But when the wedding was talked
about, Aunt Ermv could restrain her,
self no longer. Marcus, / suppose
YOU have beard that your brother is
going to be married." she said, one
day after dinner, addressing her
nephew, but intending her speech
really for ber brother-in law
"Well," said Mr. Brown, "whst of
it? 1t don't hurt US sny, does it2"
"No. but-you see be has taken
that Gazena.n
"Of course be has Why shouldn't
be? She is the pluckiest little girl
ever sawl" aud Farmer Brown be-
gan to laugh.
Suddenly, while he was laughing.
the kitchen door opened. and Horatio
walked in. They stared at him for
moment; then be said:
"Well, father, how about the fifty
cents?"
"All rigbtr' answered his father
IL never got so much out of fifty !
cents 10 all nv life!r
II declarel' said Aunt Ermy, ad-
vancing upon Horatio with open
arms Thus peace was made and
sealed
The Brown-Hartmsn wedding was
the event of that summer Every
BODY in Tusculum remembers it to
this day, and says there never was
hands1mer bridegroom nor a pref
tier bride
Gazena really looked very pretty
autiful"-Haratio said And Mr..
Hartman gave her away as il be knew
that it is not every father who has
such daughter TO give away.
After substantial dinner at the
house Of the bridegroom's father, the
newly married pair took short we'd
ding trip as far as their little cottage,
which Farmer Brown had bought
and presented to bis daughter Gaze
na.
Da,roit lady nurchaeed a Jacket