The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-02-22
VOLUME Y.

whole hit and haullc ot 'cm, and stuck
to Hugh NJ Lean. lt WAS "A dreadful
spite o. the Nstchuvrs, tor ihe NJ Leans
want thought much ui hrryahuuts f..
they'd alters hYSd way up ON the top @
the mountain, anal Hugh grew up as
Wild as Young Welt He raised black
colt up there, That, atWrru Nuu and me,
Mrs, Smith. was a spawn o. Satan: fire
used 70 tly ont a. its ewes and shake of
It's hoofs, and not iivln' soul could get
on Its back hat Hugh MLeau. As for
harness a hike % see the harness that
could hold Bhck Dan 10 seemed as if
Hugh and that colt was one Viece o.
stuff, for they W.ls past and parcel % one
another. ana l guess wherever one is
t'Othrr is now; lga~tvays Il seems % me
only material Bat as much as he thought
o that colt, he used "a cun and kick Il II
hls tautrums; ami one dav, when | WAS
down 70 HitcAncr's a-Quiltiu' that star
pattern patchwork for Daisy, | was look
ia uut the wiudtr, when Hugh rode up,
ana he got mad at sUthu, and drew his
whip clean across that critters face tit 10
take out his ewes. and told Mrs. Hitch
uer then that If i was me, ia sooner see
Hugh MI.a-n. But, you see, he WIS as
gentle rs q lamb % Daisy, anal alters had
been since she was "a Lttle mite o. thing
and he used To huari down IN the village
70 g,t his winter schooln-fur You
might as Well be ont o. the world rs up
ON the mountain IN winter: there's fresh
cts there too In spring thar shut 'em off,
anJ Hugh was down here a good part Of
his time. And Le usel 20 just own little
DAISY Hl,chUer. twas apretty sight tpsee
him skating along. DRAWN that little ap-
PIE blossom after h,m ON the white birch
slSl he made for her. He WAS handsome
rnuugh-tGere Wglru't no fault % befuund
with his looks. only q my mind hand
some is as handsome does, Mrs Smith
Na'El. he put in a claim Ia Hammer then,
and no boy durst stand in mis- way.
There was my poor Zekrl. he came home
with black eve only for sharpeuln her
slate pencil, and Hugh hadn't n knife
handy 90 do it with; but lt was alters a
wurd and blow with Hugh NJ Lean,
and he held to Daisy night along through
thicS and thin.
why. lie SAYS right mp 20 David
Hitchner, do vou pose Ia stand around
here ii ID hadn't been for Daisy? Don't I
vou know ia a been Oh 10 the north or
the south pole afore this It's rs hard
for me AS Il Is for you, Tor hate % settle
down here worse than poison: bat I hate
worse - leave little Daisy. Icau't DO il,
and l won't
d" 81 they let 'em get married, for what
else could they do? And for quite Il
spell there il did seem as if everything
was r1in % turn ont right Ola Mr.
Htchuer lie made him promise not %
take Daisy fur away, and give him the
old place by the mill, and furnished Il
from top T. b0tt Ym There must IA
been nigh on to 8 hundred yards o. car
pet in that house. ] helped Mrs. Hitch
ner sew and color mauya poUni o them
rags myself And the dimjtv curtains
was tha prett.est things, ana that waller
.aliker GOVERN for the sofy and cheers
made everything look CHEEKY Ike Then
old MLean. not to be hehinGha9d, he
s1t 'em MP with no Jess than thirty COWS:
good mixers all Of 'em and / viii say
FOR Hugh that he could get through with
more work In a day than any two men /
ever saw. Everything went along as
slick rs could be. and Dzisy went sing
IN about the house like me,iIer-lark
"Bnt the second simmer after she was
married poor Daisy took 10 into her head
she'd hey some b1arless from town
she was naturally thrifty. and had plenty
% help, and she felt somehow as il that
big house was ruuniu' 10 waste. Hugh
he le, her hev her own way in every
thing then. and was as humursome a If
she was q baby; and | shall never for
get. If / live 70 be q hundred, the first
day | laid ewes ON Major Jacques, when
he come down with 1T of other board
ers from town. / WAS sittiu' at Mrs.
HItchuer's front window. and the stage
stopped az DBisy's door. and out got that
man and If it had been IN. good Lord's
viii that he'd been tUmLle1 out some
whore else and broken his leg. SOS he
couldn't get away. deal o trouble
might have been saved.
For Hugh MLeau kind o. scorned
most city folks that come our way. and
had a fashion o smilin' at 'em in q sort
o. contempt But tins jacques was half
a Freuchman, and had a deal % fire IN
him he'd been all over the world, or
pretended he hal, and, if you could be
heye him, had as many lives as cat to
lose And Hugh Il sit there and drink
all that nonsense in by the hour together:
and. for that matter, So would poor little
Daisy. The major could talk n bird of
bush, and Hugh got to comm in and
fndin' his little medier-lark listenin' 10
some tale o the majors, her ewes per-
haps fuu o silly tears and her cheeks all
pale with excitement
Soon after that, my Mirandy was
teachiu' school and buarhn' round the
village, and she went 10 MLcau's to
stay, and she told me that Daisy had
stopped goin' in the room when the ma
ior Was there. and got out o. his way all she
could, bus Hugh wus as black ms a thunder
cloud, and Miranjy said that Daisy and
she would both be glad when the board
ers all went away and never came back
again.
" But this was only midsummer, and
things got from bad 10 worse. and one
night the men were out late in the hay
field, and Daisy went out in the barn to
help milk the cows. 1t was only play to
her. she'd bin used 10 ii at home, and /
dare say the poor chilJ was SO sick and
sad she was glad 10 be busy. But what
must that jackanapes do but follow her
out there and take the pals from her
hands to bring them IN She couldn't get
courage, you see, to tell him 10 go about
his business, but II he'd had an eye in
his head, he could see how things was
a-gOin'. HowsOmevcr, Hugh came in at
the big gate, and saw Daisy empty
fingered, walkin' along by the majors
side, while he had a pail in either hand
and as he set 'em down on the stone floor
Of the wide room, and turned with some
pleasant word to Hugh, the pals went
fiyin' out in the stubble, the milk stream.
ed at his feet, and Mirandy said-for she
was standin' by-she never saw such q
surprised look in a face before as IL
Major Jacques. Than he famed NJ
and got mad, and Hugh got madder, and
IL it hadn't been for Daisy there might a
been a murder there.
That night poor Daisy had her wish,
for the city boarders were all scuttled
away, and not light was burnin in the
house at nine o'clock but my Mrandy
she couldn't sleep, and no wonder, con
siderin' what she'd been through, ano
about midnight she heard the clatter 0
hoofs, and just got mp III time to see
Black Dan fly out the gate with Hugh OF
his back. Soon after that she heard &
low sobbin' sound, and lookin' down
there she saw Daisy in her white gown
dppin' water out o the peu-stock ano