Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-03-23

loyalty neuceIorlh ana forever 10 tni
love between them. He declared tina
the name linked there upon the tre'
should never be separated while lifi
remained TO him, and with many
vow of fealty coined from the books b,
had devonred among the lumber il
the garnet, and simple plains of love
brought up from the depths of his lit
tie swelling heart, Will babe little
Sally good-by.
But alas for the memorable decree
of fate and fashion! Seven lon!
years have passed and gone sine,
that last trysting time, and although
the two names were still linked
together upon the old walnut-tree
the two little lovers had drifted ia
apart.
Young Master Randall went from
one place of instruction to another
till he reached the Summum bonum o
veritable college. Taking advan
tage of the absence of their sou anC
heir, the big folks at the hall wen
abroad the house was closed, ant
although many an apple aud buncf
of grapes from the old place reached
Sally, with the rest of the villagers
she never cared to taste these luxu
ries from stranger hands. Will spent
his holidays away, and Sally would
not even have heard the sound of hi.
name had it not been for the soiourr
of Angelica Crane at a boarding
school near the college. Perhaps
Sally would rather not have heard
his name than thus from the lips oil
Angelica, whose bump of reverence
was small, and who held the young
squire pretty much as she held every
body-important in the ratio that
they contribute to her own pleasure.
The acres Of Farmer Crane were
broad and wide, and outnumbered
by many score those that belonged
to the Randall family it was whis.
pered that even the goodliest proper
ty of the old squire was heavily mort
gagged to the shrewd and forehanded
countryman, and that a match be-
tween Miss Angelica and the young
squire would not be bad thing for
the latter. On the other hand, these
plain folks at the Crane homestead
had spent no pains to show their
willingness to further whatever plans
were made for the joining of these
two goodly estates.
Angelica herself had confided to
Sally that she had more strings to her
bow than one, but that she knew
which she preferred, and had often
tortured the poor little maiden, when
during Angelica's holidays they had
spent night or two together, by
reading her, among other love letters,
some productions from the eloquent
and ardent pen of Will Randall, poor
little Sal.y's perfdious lover. Long
after Angelica's curl papers had
ceased to rattle upon the pillow, the
soft silken rings of Sally's yellow
hair were wet with tears of envy and
girish DESPAIR
But as years went by, and old
Time softened the bitterness of those
holiday stabs by dealing others a
more vivid and startling character,
when cares and griefs close at hand
crowded about her and hemmed her
in, she became resigned TO this one
among the rest, and even talked with
Angelica of her loves and lovers with
GOODNESS that astonished herself
There became less and less griev-
Gus similarity in the description of a
young squire to that shy, sweet mem
DRY of Sally's long ago. He had
now, It appeared, an incipent mus.
tache, his hands were white, he was
more and more "perfectly splendid
with every fresh confidence ; and his
brilliant figure left the old simple,
tender likeness all to itself to Sally's
young heart, and it became dead and
buried like all the glad things OF life,
along with her father, the school
master, and the pale young mother
she could just remember and as she
turned the ice cream freezer that
night in the cellar Of Farmer Crane,
not one thought of jealous spite or
envy of the fair Angelica came into
her little head.
She did listen to the music, and
heard the noise above, and it was
"a sort of NICE" as Mrs. Crane had
said and as she turned and turned
one freezer after another, Sally be-
come interested enough in her work
to forget more important trials close
at hand.
1t made the soul of the farmers
wife glad within her, when she went
down to taste the cream, TO find it be-
ginning to be all that her fancy
painted.
Its prime, she said, smackng her
lips and holding the spoon to Saly's
pretty mouth. Jest taste it, and tel
me if that amt fur ahead of Towers
stuff in town. 1t stands to reason
Sally there's real cream in that ar
none o yer nasty skimmin's Now
keep reght on, dear; be jest as keer
full as you kin, cause now's the resky
time when the hall thing ken b,
spilled by mite o. keerlessness
Jes. turn and turn, dear, first one
then t'other, this away, aud tina
away. The idee of that pesky date
o mine tellin' me only mint ago sht
knowed it d be lumpy and soft and
Sally, she's the most unfeelin'-
Its only her fun said Sally.
Fun = echoed the vexed matron
'Wa'al, it's a mean kind O. fun, ant
it d serve her right if she came on
the little end O. the horn yet. Blu
we'll take keer o. the cream, won
we, Sally 2
tsrbo. ,x-a u,ili nasa,n said. Sally