Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-07
THE HEIREss' LOVERS.

THE HEIRESS' LOVERS.
"WEnE going to take some city board
ers," said Farmer Parsons, rs he put his
packages of sugar and tea into The big
! basket he had brought to the store in his
wagon "Wife and I will be down to
fetch 'em tomorrow. There is lady and
some children, and a young lady, great
| heiress. She Is in mourning for the uncle
| that left the property; so she can't go to a
| lively place. Quite young gal and very
| pretty. Two pounds of raisins, Mr.. Jones,
and some currants; reckon u pound ii
| do"
| News is news in the country. The
| farmers audience listened intently. The
| doctor-young DR.. Purl-who had stepped
in for letters-the store was also the Post
ofiice-took note of every word, and Mar
-cus Moreland, who had come to post a
letter also, remembered what the old man
had said. As he walked away, -" Pretty
young girl he said to himself. " An
heiress gets the reputation of being pretty
probably she is not half so e.looking
as Farmer Parsons own daughters. Heir
esses are apt to think too much of them
| selves"
An heiress. Well / shall go over to
!
the country for a courtship, and fellow
who marries an heiress needn't wait year
in and year out to build up his practice.
| wonder how much she is really worth
A great heiress That oughtn't to mean
less than a hundred thousand dollars.
should like wife with nice little bank
account of that size. Young and pretty
too, is rare chance" said the doctor, as
he jumped into his gig.
The city boarders came next day. The
loungers at the store saw them get into
the wagon-a fat young matran and three
little girls, nurse, a baby d-d young
lady dressed in mourning. The store
keepers wife noticed the elegant cut OF
the overskirt which the latter wore and
more than one saw the diamond ring
flash on her finger; but il was just dark,
and the beauty was not a settled point
for no one could see her face.
Marcus Moreland, who was the poor
clergyman's son, and had just fought his
way through college with a prospect oi
teaching the male department of the dis
trict school that winter as his best one,
while working in his fathers garden the
next morning, was placed in position to
Judge on this matter.
He heard a little scream, and looking
up saw a very pretty young lady and
very pretty little boy flying in terror from
a perfectly harmless, broad-taced, white
mich COW, who, in the excess OF her con
tent, as she stood deep in the water of q
pond, chewing the cud, had elevated hel
nostrils, and turning her slow, brown eyes
in the direction of the pedestrians uttered
a long moo-Oo.
"Ohr' screamed the young lady
. ! fni i,t1y fostn Tommy
l think she's coming after u.s."
II beg your pardon, ma'am, but moody
won't touch you. She wouldn't hurt any
one. She is perfectly harmless. See?
cried Marcus, as he approached the ponC
side and patted the white head. See
we have had her ten years, and she is Tho
gentlest creature" "
"I'm quite ashamed of myself, but I'm
not used TO COWS. ! thought I'd make
her angry, and when you have other peo
ple's children with you it's such re
sponsibility. Tom, don't touch the gen
tleman's flowers. I'm ashamed of you,
said the young lady.
For city Tom, with general idea tina
the country belonged to everybody, wa
helping himself to roses.
OF course, after that, Marcus plucket
flowers for Tom and a bouquet for tn
young lady; and as she walked bewltch
, ingly up the road, with the flowers agains
her pretty chin, decided that the heires
certainly was the loveliest thing that hi
eyes had ever rested upon.
That afternoon DIR. Purl rode over 3
Mrs. Parsons, made IA call, and was intro
duced; decided that the heiress was
beauty, conyersed with her in manne
; calculated to prove that he at least was NJ
country pumpkin, made point OF lookin
at his beautiful watch before he left, an
had the satisfaction of feeling that he ha'
made an impression.
Meanwhile Marcus MOreland had bee
thinking about her more than she guessed
and that evening there was another intro
duction.
Marcus did not make big eyes at heI
nor try to show his superiority TO hi
: neighbors, neither had he any gold watc
To consult He was younger than the doc
tor by ten years, and very much OF bo
, still, and the rising moon found May, an
her little cousin Tom, and Marcus, al
sitting together on the lower step of tn
porch, talking Of blackberrying, as thre
children might.
The heress wore linen dress and
knot of blue ribbon in her hair. March,
forgot that she was an heiress. 1t wa
only dear little girl, just the incest Great
ure he ever met, who looked at hin
frankly with her blue eyes-real blu
ewes, not blue gray. He went home in tn
first stages of love, and sat at the windoV
looking al the moon, and thinking OF he
: nearly all the night.
May Dimple was very inexperienced
p and very willing to think the best o
= everybody AT eighteen she was mistres
of fine fortune, and, being an orphan
her own mistress altogether. Her heal
was yet a white, unwritten sheet, and tn
first that made love TO her was likely +
win it. Vague longings for that peculia
tenderness which only lover can otfe
already possessed her soul, and she wa
: Just the sort of little woman to forge
her own advantages and feel very CRATE
Q full for love and admiration. The docto
was tall and fine looking, and she caugh
herself blushing as she locked into tn
glass after his departure, and though
what a soft look had come into his eye
! as he "hoped they should soon meet Il
; gether again"
= May had never had anything like
!. beau in her life, Shut up with an inyali
y uncle in great city home that was lik
n prisOn-seeing no one but the doctG
and nurse, and now and then some oil
gentleman whom her uncle was persuaC
ed to admit on the score OF old frienC
d ship-she had no idea that she might |
e a belle. Life was all new 10 her. Eve
I. her cousin was a new-found relative VIII
| had taken TO her when the friends gatl
i cred at the old mans funeral.
IS People who had never remembered u
tie MAY until the news Of her heiresshi