The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1876-09-21
WILL asp WAY


lation. aud about conveniionAliiy and 81
that sort of thing D9cs not nature sl-
ways work oontrasi.f II there i 81
excess 10 one place, is there not sure g
be want 10 anotheff Extremes meet
and 80 they did when Bob Gray, the
easiest man 10 town, paid bis addresses
10 Kitty Logan, The Young school ma'amt
who bad sgreed 70 take The village school
II he township u Niles; where the big
bo, alwsyes turned the master out e
doors on Christmas Or made him treat
/ Bob GRAY hsd rich father, a hsrd
working mother aud one proud sister
and could sif ,rd TO be lazy. Mr. Grey
the elder, came west 10 very early times,
located near the town Of Niles, lived IN
log cabin years, shook himself out q
joint With the ague, wore il out aud
never had 1t Afterwards But poor
neigbbor who bad large farm miie
I from Mr Gray could not wesr II oul
hIs wife died, bis children suffered. lie
offered his farm very cheap aud Gray
/ bought him out, promising 0 pay some
I time.
I A year or 80 afterwards, discouraged
With bic crops and the inability to pay
/ for the new farm, be tried TO persuade
TIE former owner TO take it back, which
I be refused TO do. A lawsuit ensued, aud
the matter ended by poor Gray being
obliged TO keep the farm aud pay tie
costs. Terrible was the blow, but be
lived through h; and five years alter
wards, when the Ohio & Mississippi
Railroad passed through the same farm
aud set up station house exactly in the
center, be found himself rich man. He
sold town lots at high figures, sent biz
son 10 Jacksonville 10 be educated, aud
daughter Susan 10 Monticello. lie dress
ed himself 10 broadcloth, wore kid
gloves accepted the nomination for The
legislature, aud Unexpectedly found him
self elected aud making laws for his
country men at the capital of the Prairie
State. SO much in explanation,
Bob came home from Jacksonville with
bis sheepskin properly tied with blue
ribbon, dressed superby, had the best
turn, out in town, wore tremendous
pair of whiskers; aud, Of course, kiuy
| Logan felt hattered when he offered 10
see her home from church or called ter
school to take her out riding Miss Susan
Gray took little pains TO find out that
kuuy WAS distsntly related TO the sum
ners aud Lincolns, Of Massachusetts, but
somehow, she did not learn the import
ant fact that Kitty had worked at straw
braiding in the town Of Foxboro until
she bad earned money enough TO educate
herself.
Where there's will there's a way,
said Kitty; aud know | can paddle my
own canoe out west, where they say
nothing Is wanting but the power to
do and the will to put the power in mo.
lion.
So, bidding her fr ends good bye, for
she was an orphan, she donned the pret-
tiest little straw hat which her own
pretty fingers bad plated, sewed and
pressed, and trimmed with neat drab
ribbon with bue edge, which cores
pouded exactly with her drab travelling
dress and cape, and matched her blue
eyes to I. Thus she started for Iii
Dois, to friend of hers wko had written
that she thought the school could be pro-
cured.
she was a little homesck when she
arrived at Niles, and would have given
one OF the gold pieces hid away in that
pocket of hers for look once more at
the rough rocks aud swsmpy hollows,
oyershadowed by thin evergreens, that
surrounded her native home. She
would have bounded with Joy al the
sound OF the Old factory bell that used o
call the merry girls together for thcir
long evenings toll. Still she did not Say
80, but put on cheerful face, sought out
The directors and made her appiicati ion
Mr.. Smith, the main man, looked as if
the blue-eyed mink, with her rosy lips,
had insulted bis dignity 10 come offering
/ nerseli TO teach a school Ia that neigbbor-
hood. But as she offered TO teach for So
month cheaper than the last incumbent,
and wrote such q pretty hand, which
they could read like print, aud besides
nsd such winning way, they agreed to
/ nite her.
| To the astonishment Of evers body
Christmas aud New Year too went by /,
aud the mistress. instead OF being shut
iut or having to treat, was surprised TO
! dnd herself treated, her desk loaded with
| presents, and even jim stokes, who had
always been the worst boy ia town,
bad headed a surprise party in the even
ing aud almost filed Miss Logau's little
room al Parson Browns with pied Is Of
good will.
| Where there's will there's way,
sAid Kitty | knew Mr, Smith, | should
not have any trouble with the big boys I;
hey are just as 500 a. need be
OF course thy BE-, answered the blunt
I'D farmer, who, by the revolution OF
railroads, had been brought almost into
town. can almost wish ! was big
boy myself, just to show you how good
I snld be.
Mr.. smith laughed aud Kitty trippe
along to her task, carrying her little
bssket Of dinner along with her.
kiuy's school house was 10 the county
where the elder Mr.. Gray sdll lived, bav.
ing huilt himself q hne house, with al
modern improvements, although ne did