The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-27
OUR STORY TELLER.
JANE ROSS'S LOVER.

JANE ROSES LOVER.
Oh, If | only had carriage like that,
and a dress like that, and house like
she has-and, and all the rest of it
how happy | should be-" said Jane Ross,
as she leaned over the old stone fence
at the west end of Uncle Caleb's farm,
and looked after Mrs. M'Mahonev
Middlebury's carriage, as it rolled
away along the dusty midsummer road.
Don't believe you be bithappier,"
said Peleg, her lover, looking into the
tin can in which his dinner had been
brought to him, as he sat upon the
grass.
oh, Peleg" said Jane "But you
are just that way; you don't seem to
MISUNDERSTANDING above the common"
know its all fne," said Peleg,
very fine; but this is what | mean.
1t amt worth much. You are as happy
IN dads wagon goin' to town of holiday,
and as healthy and a lot prettier, |
think, than if you had your hair
scratched about, and bob-tail down
your back, and thingumyjig tucked up
on your skirt, and great long train
uragging Denlnd you.
Much yoa know about it, Peleg,"
said Jane, scornfully. A body must
feel SO splendid, and-and cantemptu-
Gus dressed so"
ContemptuousT asked Peleg.
Yes-I-mean," said Jane, as if
you were better than common folks
| should call that contemplate,
said Peleg. "If | knew more, or aoas
better than most folks, I might feel
tlckled; and | shouldn't calkerlate to
plan out to be poor, unless / lost my
health or my senses; but just because |
had money enough to buy all the finery
l shouldn't get sot up. The wickedest
and the ignorantest can do that, and do,
Jennie Ross, | can tell you. For nv
part, | look at the man or woman, and /
respect them, and not their coats or
their purses. As for happy, why Jennie.
a farmer is the happiest man in crea-
ton" ~
But | don't think farmers wife is
the happiest woman," said Jane. odd
you ever read Maud Muller, Peleg?"
Peleg.
It's touching" said Jane.
Ahr' said Peleg
Mrs. MMahoney Middlebury gave it
to me- said Jane, beginning to look
very solemn. "She said that it would
teach me lesson, and it has,"
Ali" said Peleg.
know it by heart" said Jane.
a. Maud Muller, on summers day,
a BAKED the meadow sweet with hay;
Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth
VI simple beauty and rustic health.
Singing, she wrought, and her merry gee
The meck-brd echoed from tree to tree"
:" That's jest the picture of you, Jane"
said Peleg, innocently.
So Mrs. Middlebury said" sobbed
Jane; and you know while she was
in the bayfield, the judge came riding
BY" a'
Well now!" said Peleg, interested.
And he asked for drink"
"Of cider?" asked Peleg.
az From the spring that flowed
Through the meadow across the road,'n
said Jane.
!" Aha!" said Peleg, eating cabbage
with his knife.
And she was ashamed of her old
clothes" said Jane, "but he talked
away jest as sweet as could be-
And he courted her, and she ac-
cepted of him ?" asked Peleg. cts
the way in songs, mostly"
No." said Jane.
{" Al last like one who, for delay,
Seeks vain excuse. he rode away
oh, dearl oh, dearl-
=" He welded wife of richest dover.
Who lived for fashion as he for power
and she
:" Welded man unlearned and poor
and-and all sorts ofawful things hap
pened;" and Jane began to cry bitterly.
Peleg had dropped his tin kettle.
'sOut with it, Jane" he said. "Do
you mean it, or is it mysteries?
II mean, we shan't be happy with
each other. can't be farmers wife i''
said Jane. 81 feel just like Maud
Muller. | have longings for something
better than 1 have ever known And
Mrs. MMahoney Middlebury wants me
to 50 and live with her as pet and com.
panion, she says. And / am going
Peteg; and you'll find somebody more
contented to work, and all that, than |. y
feieg turned on her fercely. "No,'
said he, Eve done with women-donf
for good. amt a fool, Jane, and I AIM
learned and I've got coarse red paws. and
1 earn my bread by the sweat of nv
brow, but I've got feelings fine enough t.
see that when all you value man for i.
what he gives you, there amt bit Of
love in your heart for him. The way
Loved you, Jane-oh the way / loved
You. I'd have given you all / could
God knows. 10 have you comfortable
would have been my but-but /
didn't think you jest-jest-- Oh, what
4 fool am to feel SO about such wo
MIN" and Peleg dropped down on the
grass and hid bis face in his hands, ano
raid no more to Jane.
Atnight he was missing from the sup
portable; and in the morning when
true to her promise. Mr.. MMahnne,