Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-02-04

and what the three pairs Of white eyes
meant. She laughed and said, swell, la
dies, you needn't make calculations about
what you will do, or you may End that you
have reckoned very unwisely. Now my
man would let me climb a fence without
taking a hand out Of his pocket to assist
me over, and VOC know he's called a gen.
tleman. When l was a bashful girl, l
used TO wish he'd not offer TO help me, but
he was distressipgly polite then, and would
hold both my hands in trying to assist me,
while my clothes would get under my feet
and tanglc there most provokingly. Oh,
you'll got your eye teeth cut If you marry
any Of these smiling fellows who is always
showing his white teeth, and touching his
hat, and bowing TO the right and left 50 law
ishly. l used TO think as you do, but Ihave
gotten bravely over these sentimental, ro-
mantle notions. l believe my husband loves
me after a clever, selfish sort Of fashion, If it
don't Interfere with his ease and comfort in
any way" Aud here my ~neighbor laughed
most heartily at something which came to
her remembrance. "I'vo half . mind to tell
you an incident, girls" said she. IL believe
l will, If Rosy won't 60 aud stick il 10 the
papers. just want you to see how like a
glittering soap bubble one of my pretty little
romantic whims broke, one time, and made
me see q good deal clearer, and helped me
to become a moro practical wopan.
ut was a few years after we were mar
ried we we're poor and lived in the village
then. l took in washing and cooked for q
boarding club, and sewed for the neighbors,
and turned out to help women whitewash,
and paper, and cook for parties, and indeed,
| did all l could to help make a living. My
husband wasn't very forehandsd, and as Jack
Runnels used to say, he had been 'tenderly
reared
81 was a novel reader, and my head was
full Of things about heroic wives, aud once
| thought Of a plan that was just like n
story, 50 | put it In practice.
"My husband had bought a COW aud
couldn't pay for it; he gave his note for
forty dollars and managed to keep the inter-
est paid on it. That was a common way Of
his, to buy things, make a payment or two,
and then in the end forfeit the property.
Well, l went to work to pay for the COW
and not let him know it. In less than a
year, by dint of hard scratching, and saving
a little at a time, | was enabled to lift the
note. Then came the hour Of sweet surprise.
| knew when l laid the note in his hands,
aud he looked at the back Of il and saw that
l had paid the face of it in four payments,
he would clasp me in his arms, aud stammer
out through tears of emotion, my darling
wife my jewel! my OWE beloved one
thank God for the gift Of such a brave little
wife, That was the way they did in novels,
and | thought it would be 30 charming to be
a little heroine myself.
"My husband sat by the lamp cutting his
nails, when, with beating heart and height.
ened color, l softly laid my hsnl on his
shoulder, put my face down beside his, aud
held the open note before his eyes, saying
see here, love!
HE looked at it, shifted a little snort
through his nose, and slowly said, "Well-
Observation-Disclosures -as-l-cau-
see ; and went on trimming his horny, black
nails. l stood still a little bit, almost pet.
ri6sd, but there was no need of waiting fol
any of the beautiful demonstrations | had SC
kindly imagined; ! slid my poor brown hand
off his shoulder, and went off 10 the bedroom
buried my face in the pillow, and cried away
the last cobwsby romance that was left
There was never a thank for all my self-de
NAL and close managing and hard work
Since then he's Tom, aud I'm Toms wife auC
maid-servant, aud l eschew romance ant
patch breeehes, and take things coolly and
practically. That's how it is, girls