The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-16
AUNT JEMIA

aunt Jem1ma drew long breath, aI
shook her head and forefnger with greA
gravity at her demurely pretty niece and
then went on:
You're not content to let things 20
smooth and easy, though goodness kno>uo
that Edward Marshall is as nice youpg
gentleman as / ever knew, and you ought
to be thankful-since you are a woman
y can Rick and choose for yourself,
butSRusts~ait till some young man asks
you-that You are lucky enough to be
his choice, without picking flaws in him
and trying to spoil the happiness that so
few have the good fortune to enjoy"
I am got picking flaws in Edward
Marshall. aunt Nina" protested Emma
Matilda, her niece. "Pm only saving
how sorry am that he isn't poetical and
more like story-book lover. Why, he 1
never goes into raptures, or tantrums. or /
anything nice, but just keeps kind and /
good natured all the time. | wish /
lived in the days when men were knights
and wore swords and fs-.--I4 - -
a. the ohiects of their devotion. But Ed-&
word Marshall seems to think 1t Is really S
nice tohave me taken off his hands once IN
a while; and when L go out walking
with a gentleman friend, hoping to make
him wretched, he only smiles, ana says
he hopes I've been enjoying myself.
(Which is clear proof that ne has
GOOD sense. and knows enough not 10
make a fool of himselfw exclaimed aunt
.Iemima, with conviction. Now Just
listen to me for moment, Emma Matli-
da. and I'll tell you something that ought
~ make YOU serious: fit had not been
for jealousy should not have been your
old maid aunt Jemima Yes, my dear,
;.6A Ake to be an old maid: you
90 welf6ecome solemn when you think
of it. and new I'll tell you how 1t hap
pened." :,
There had suddenly appeared a gush
of tears in aunt Jemima's sPectacieo
ewes. and her nose had become alarming
ly red while she spoke.
at is natural emotion" she observed
in excuse. "and very likely you may i, I1,s
dulge in the same forty years froT
. if Edward Ma Z So
your mind, al
, getting rid of =
sensical freak Of
, "My dear,
e when I was your
q. / oIIod mo haudSf
n cheeks were red a
Y bright as the commofa
/, 81 had a sweethearc ~
as Young man SIS / would 10
d Cuthbert Jones by name, ahd it yous
3. told me in those days that Jemim
er Rogers would have been on my gray
8, stone | shouldn't have believed it.
le "Cuthbert was warm-hearted; agree
N hle and polite, but he was awful
Jealous.
clined little to the sandy; or it |
be have been his eyes-they had ki
ne oreenish tinge. But Cuthbert
he mighty sharp if any one looked at m
We and we used to quarrel every time
sh saw me smile at another young ma
off even if it was his own brother.
tes i" After we had made up-and at fl
ca it was 50 nice to make up our quar-
Ups that they didn't seem sSsdzvhe !
ian to say it was because ~
'er. by me that he was,
nip ne saw me with am
My to feel sort of plea
her forgot his bla02
in cions. But,
ews and ] vowel
ans, tvranny-thaS
and Bluebeard, an
sea off if 1 did
One .scptbbef,j Ill
!; g;es = though, 1 must say it was rat6l
able reddish, which may have accounted
isci- his being fussy in his disposition.
WIN ssThe girls in our village got 70 teas
me good deal about his temper. "
Es- we were out on picnics, they'd find
old hat and hang it on bush near
aoes and then call for him:
'ubt- MI Jones! Mr: JonesI Miss N's's
r is in lengerl,
5 to Ndsed to mortliy him awflb
nate was easily illustrated but it di,ys
the him Nothing could do that, it =
: at One evening, cousin SaraEs n.
1867. Brown came over in a sleigh freeAo
itary tonyille. and brought her vo,s-s -
Oh OF a. nG.h hnr
i in a ~, - Wv" nei'
,ular lhey were gong 70 stay all nigi
ny of our house, and then start next day ov
York Norwood, to spend week with /
grandparents there. Now Abe, he