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hired him for another year, and paid
him good wages, all of which was true.
During the first and even the second
year Horatio was not once seen in Tus-
culum. But one bright day, when Mr..
Hartman was senjoying.his after. dinner
pipe, surrounded by his women folks,
there was a knock at the door that
startled Gazena.
"Coom in," said Mr.. Hartman. And
Horatio came in.
Gazena blushed rosy red. Mrs. Hart
man stared, aud her husband took the
pipe out of his mouth. But before he
had time to speak, Horatio said:
g" MIR. Hartman, I have come to see
you on business. I, have worked hard
for two years, and am now a pretty good
farmer. I have saved all my wages, and
bought forty acres of woodland and a
woke of oxen. Now I have plan for
making money out ofmy %trees, and by
next year Iintend to buy forty acres
more and make e,nores money" 'If I sHe
ceed, will you give me your daughter
if she is willing" =.
"Now look what good boy /" said
Mrs. Hartman. He works hard two
years, and no mother, nor no home, and
he says nothing, but is good and true
all by himself. Now I like that; that's
very good. take him, and you take
him, father, and our 'Zena, she take
him, too. She. tooked him two years
past when he go'away, and she cry 80 TO
break her heart, I knowed it then. Now
you take him, father"
Two such long speeches overpowered
Mr.. Hartman. He "took" Horatio1
Then Mrs. Hartman remembered that
her chickens had not yet had their din
ner, and Horatio was left alone with Ga
zena and his doing new papa. Gazena
had not said q. word all this time, and
had tried to look as if she was some
where else, very far away. How she
felt, was what Horatio wanted to know,
for he did not 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 2"
Gazena got 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 objects, and
both new and interesting. = .-..,.
Horatio took courage, and said what
he had to say as we'll as he could say it;
then he waited for Gazena's answer.
"I will do as father and mother say, "
she answered; "but there's one thing
have never been Engaged before, and l
don't want 70. be engaged now. So, if
you don't mind, I'll bea nun, as I said
I would, till-till - -.
Horatio did net mind, and was quite
willing to let her be nun one year
longer. It was decided that he would
come every other Sunday to see his lit
tlenun, and that, it was al TO be 9 secret
ii The family. % - N"'A~.~' ,,- =, - . .
Because" said Gazena, "I don't
want people to talk about it, and look
at me as if they had never seen me be-
FORE" 80
Horatio was very happy, and worked
harder than ever. He cut down his
trees, and burned the timber to make
"black salts which he. sold ct Q good
price in the city. With that money he
bought forty more acres .of woo odland !,
and, early in the spring, he sowed
wheat on his cleared land. Then he
hired from Farmer Maynard q small
cottage, with orchard and garden to
match. 1t was quite a pretty little
place.
cit will do very well to begin with, "
said Horatio, sand in two or three
years we will build house just as we
want it," ...-....: ...
eyes, indeed" said Mrs. Hartman,
"you begin small and you grow big, but
you begin big and you grow small; ex.
cept you be very rich, and it is not
everybody who can."
But now something was the matter
with Gazena. She did not look as happy
as might have been expected. No. she
did not object to the, cottage; it was
large enough for her. Yes, she was will
ing to give up being nun, and Jnne
was a very pretty month to be married
in. But
ct will tell you what it is" she said,
one evening, to Horatio. I j" 1 was saucy
to your father once, and am sorry fol
it, though it was the truth I told him.
don't want to live with proud folks tc
look down on me; but I don't like tc
marry man that hasn't any father.
when his father is living"
g." You mean that you want me tc
make it up with my fathers"'
"Yes, mean just that. Now please
go and tell him, and make peace-that
will bring us happiness: 1t will be se
; right and nice p -.......
, Horatio promised that he would 60
and he went the next afternoon.
It was more than three years since ht
, had left his home. He had sometimes
seen his father riding past the Wes
2 Farm, but they had never met face tx
, face, or spoken to each other.
"Let him alone," Farmer Brown hat
said to Aunt Ermy, when she had pro
3 posed to 60 and see Horatio. LIE
aim alone, and don't bother"
: But when the wedding was talke'
r about, Aunt Ermy could restrain her
} self no longer. MARCUS, suppos
you have heard that your brother is &c
3 ing to be married2" she said, one da
after dinner, addressing her nephew
but intending her speech really for he
8 brother-in-law.
, "Well," said Mr.. Brown, "what G
it2 It don't hurt us any, does its"
A "No, but-you see he has taken th'
+ Gazena."
, "Of course he has. Why shouldn
he2 She is the. pluckiest little girl
t ever saw |" and Farmer Brown begun
} laugh.
Suddenly, while he was laughing, th
|. kitchen door opened, and Horatio WALL
| ed in. They stared at him for me
ment; then he said:
, "Wel, father, how about that fit
; cents2" .... ..-.....
call rightl" answered his father.
never got SO much out of fifty cents /
} all my life |"
} 81 declared" said Aunt Ermy, advant
, ing upon Horatio with open arms. Thu
? peace was made and sealed.
: The Brown. Hartman wedding was tn
r event of that summer. Everybody i
4 Tusculum remembers it to this day, an
I says there never was handsomer bride
groom nor prettier bride.
Gazena really looked very pretty
0 "beautiful "-Horatio said. And MI
0 Hartman gave her away as If he kne'
t that it is not every father who has sue
daughter to give away. ., ;
: After a substantial dinner at th
T house. Of the bridegroom's' father, th
= newly married pair tooka short weddin
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