Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-05-02

He'd have to fetch his wife here, and then
i don't believe she'll be worth q pin to
do daily work. The silly, silly boy What
can he be thinking aboutm
Ola was looking very SOBER /" didn't
say he was going TO marry, mother; only
that he was in love-"
"And what's he in love for if he don't
mean to marry, should like to knowP"
~ don't know what he means to do,
mother, but do know he'll never marry
Joe Hyatt"
"Why notP Father maynt like the
notion at first, but | doubt if he holds out
for long; you know he never does where
Jamie is concerned"
"Tll tell you why not" said Ola; Miss
Hyatt is too proud to marry jamie"
Mrs. Eastman's never pale cheeks flush
ed fiery red ut that, and an angry flash
shot from her eyes How dared OLA
lis sister-utter such a thought rs that!
As though any one could feel above her
10y! And yet the very next instant she
felt that it might be so.
"Who is she, | should like to know, Ia
hold her head above our Jamie? Isn't he
as good as she? Where'll you find bet
ter boy to his parents, or a more saving,
or IL better workerP His wife will never
starye while he has hands to work for
| her."
but don't you see, mother, she's not
like us? | can't tell you the difference,
nor what it is we lack; but we do lack
something. and Jamie most of all. May
be its books or pleasant rooms to sit down
in, or cultivated people to talk with, or
pictures or music, or travel, that have
made her what she is Whatever it is,
she isn't of Jamie's sort, and l hope he'll
tell her what in his heart | should hate
her if she made fun of him, and most
| likely that's what she'll do"
Books and music and travelling round
the country! That's what comes of your
being 50 much at the Budlongs-sensible
people in the main, but too much given TO
letting the youngsters have their own way.
Supposing now we should be fools enough
/ to 90 TO work and furnish up our house
like theirs, get boughten carpets 10 spoil
and waste, and pictures and sucn like to
bang and dangle Tound-when things
have much more pul-away look without
! them-and magazines and music, where'd
, be the little sum in the bank that's to serve
you when we're done with itP Oh. the way
folks do 90 on nowadays! In my mother's
{ time, when was Il happy and conlenteo
/ girl at home, things were different"
While the men were at the dinner, Mrs
Eastman, eyeing Jamie sharply, asked
What in the world has come over you
jamie? If the spell that's on ye hadn'
lasted so long, Id say ye was likely tC
come down with the fever at any hour o.
the day"
There's nothing the matter wi Jamie
ma'am, nor never will be as long us he!
lots to do and has got the arm to do it,
said the hired man laughing.
4 The farmer looked ut his son as though
new idea had entered his head.
Aren't you well, mieP"
"Wcll? Of course l am What in tht
world are you driving at? | can't see.
/ but what makes your mother afrai'
of the tever?n
Il don't know. There's no danger o
me, though"
1t was drawing towards night when ia
mie, in striking out new land to plow
discovered Il beautiful cluster of cardina
flowers growing by the brook which skirt
ed the field.
1.-The very thing Joe wanted to find!
he exclaimed, stopping the team. "Iv
ploughed an uncommon lot to-day, ant
I've u notion to run over to Budlongs' witt
the posies. She'd be tickled TO get 'em,
know
1t was but little way across the lots t.
his neighbours house, and it would do tn
horses no harm to rest during the time
would take him to 90; so he was off, car
rying the flowers, which he had CAREFUL,
tied with II blade of grass, in his hand.
On the Budlong farm, near the foot of
hill. by which he must pass, stood larg
clump of elder bushes. Now it SO hap
pened that Mrs. Budlong was that da,
deep in the mysteries Of elderberry wine
and the girls were gathering the ripe Der
ries. He saw their heads among tn
bushes Us he came over the hill, and mad
for the spot at once, glad that he shoul
not have to go TO the house, but hoping
too, that the other girls would not see hin
till he had given the flowers TO Joe
He was close upon them, had reache
the edge of the clump, in fact, when hi
name. falling from Joe Ilyalts lips mad
him stop. 1t was the first time he had eve
heard her speak it; but it was not that S
much us what came after it that made hin
stand there so white and still, so crushed
yet looking SO defiant and angry, never
lheless.
jennie Eastman Why, Alice, do yo
know | should be angry with you if
didn't think you loved the great smpletol
Yourself, though what there is in him I
like | can never imagine. There, don
get angry. dare say the fellow is goo
in his way"
"Yes, he is good. Too good for som
folks | know" Alice wanted to add, lat
did not saying instead: You can't kno,
him, rs we do, of course. Mother say
that he may yet make man whom an
woman might feel proud to win"
Joe's siIvery laugh rang out mockingly
"When the time comes, whoever want
him will be quite rs welcome to him the
as now, for all me-"
But haven't you encouraged hin
Joe?
Well, no. And if did very lttl
it was only 10 see how such II wild be;
of manor rather bOy-would NAL
, love. But he's too big n Ounce to be G,
durcd any longer, and | mean to tell hi
, So the first chance have | believe
should die under IL declaration from Il
: stupid fellow"
= "lIc has always been kept at home
said Alice in II low tone. l" He has new
had the chances some have ~
!, lie can read," returned Joe; "but n
', it costs money-and besides doubt if
cares TO. lie thinks of nothing but Il
=, work he can do, or has done, or is goir
, to do, and knows no more of what is goir
9 on in the world around him than the ca
a lie in the pasture there"
81 cannot think it is altogether h
n fault" said Alice, still in low voice.
"If he hasn't books or papers 10 rca
n maybe not,n Joe replied " but you kno
i as well as l do that he is as ignorant
!, everything right here about him that hasr
i II value in dollars and cents rs Gree
lander He didn't even know what IL ca
=, dnal flower was the other day, but CALI
- it u weed at first, and then pos,
~ Only think of it and the scarlet beanti
a right under his eyes wherever he tur
"a them"
II Certain specimens of the "scarlet bca
? ties were under his heel now, where
n ground them into the sand, and bit
neither lip, and shut his fingers tight in