Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-09-01
+" May, will add q P,S.n
MAYS P.s.

"DEAREsT AUNTY, If you were only
with us-though, to be sure, I don't
know where we could put you, unless
you could go to sleep under my painting
table, now transformed into an ironing
table, or curl up in the baby's bath-tub.
"The idea of Halls pretending to keep
the great secret mystery to you That
was only his sweet.way of leaving me the
pleasure Of telling it.
"You know, Perth, where the Woods
went that summer? Well, there is q
little house of four rooms not ten min
utes' walk from the depot of the Long
Branch railroad, which goes near that
little old village. The little house is not
very pretty now, but it con be made SO,
and, oh, Joy! it is dirt cheap. (This is
Halls cultured remark, and of course
good enough for Halls wife , s-
"Aunty, think of it l am nearly
wild: a hone; q little house to be the
mistress of, and for Hal to come to
"Well, we have saved one hundred
and seventy dollars, and only need three
hundred and thirty more, which Mr.
Chace is going TO advance to Hal.
" There is brave old oak, and plenty
of greenery all around us, and the great
wide bay in sight, where Hal says the
biggest ships that
Sail the seas over
can come right in, and there are walks to
lovely places. So you see we are going
to healthy neighborhood for my pre-
cious lamb of love.
"I am so well, and life is so sweet I
often have little weeps all to myself for
sheer happiness. Happiness is good for
people, Aunt Dodo. Away with the false
theory of the uses of adversely I am
not half so selfish and thoughtless as |
was. I may be tride vain, but Hal
keeps telling me that my temper is only
little lower than the angels, and that I
am his itty b5tty 1oa'idge. Qsn't that too
frantically imbecile ?? It is lucky that
baby cannot understand Halls nonsense
Hal must learn to speak English in the
bosom of his family before Miss Bender's
talking days come.
"You had better read my end of the
letter first, and call his the postscript.
meant to tell you all about baby, but ]
have no time now. You are coming to
see us as soon as we get settled. Babs
sends honey-kiss. Good-by.
"Your beatitudinous MAY BENDER"
Five years passed. May and Aunt
Dodo sat together in the cottage which
was to have. been an earthly paradise,
Nothing had gone wrong that anybody
could have helped, apparently, but some
how the glory had rubbed off. May sell
| DOM 1a,,oha1 All o1, 4na l. II
hold the baby nowadays. Her arms were
oftener inclined to feel heavy from fa
tigue; but then this was the third baby
and much more exacting one thai
"Miss Bender had been.
1t was delicious June. The white
sails went up the bay, and took Venetian
colors from the sunset.
"You look tired, May; give me the
baby"
"No, Aunt Dolo; it would only saw
a drop in the bucket of my tiredness
1t is quite chronic" said May, with 1
laugh, which I am glad Harry did no
hear. Laughter without a heart in i
has bad effect on man in his owl
home.
"Do you always have that pain il
your back Doesn't it ever stop ?"
Never" answered May. "That is
it never does when l am awake, and
often dream that I am being sawed il
two at the spine, SO it is to be supposed
it goes on when am asleep"
"I wishy you would see DOCTOR" sait
Aunt Dodo, peeling apples.
" Harry thought as you do" May re
marked, when she came back from put
ting the baby to sleep in its cradle il
the next room.
"Thought what ~ asked the old lady
wonderingly.
"Oh, nothing. About the DOCTOR"
"What was that? / forget. Oh yes
about your pain"
&C. | wish / could forget it one lninut
in my life. One minutes utter rest |
said May. Harry did go to one," sh
continued, "though I begged him nc
: to waste the money, for, as you know
: we shall lose the house if that mortgag
is foreclosed, and every dollar tells bu
he would. Poor Hal p said the wife
, wiping her eyes. "He said my tempe
needed curing, if my back didn't. It
very hard on him, my being so nervous
What do you suppose the doctor tol
him ?"
"I'm sure don't know"
! May laughed again.
) "He advised him to take me t
} Europe" eu
+ "Did you ever ?",a
He told Hal that five women out {
ten had more or less of the same thing
+ and that rest was the only cure-rest {
i body and mind. ,"
"Did he know how you were sitl
> ated ?" asked Mrs. Pinkham.
81 don't imagine he could have take