Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-06-25

woman crept up softly with light in
her hand, and looked sharply into the
kettle.
"'ls there not water enough 2 ask
ed.
"'Oh, yes. l was looking to see if
everything was perfectly clean some
girls are so careless; and I do like my
mush to be marvelously clean but there
is not speck in that kettle. Oh, [
know I'll like you. Miss Callie,' she
said, warmly; and then for the first
time l saw that she had beautiful brown
eyes of ripe nutty color.
"When supper was ready, | dallied
with my spoon, but I was SO sick for
my home that l could not swallow. I
resolved to stay until Saturday night,
anyhow, and then to get some girl to
take my place. Alpaca was too dear for
me to buy; blue calico was very good
substitute, and l began rather to like it.
"The brown-eyed woman said she
never ate such good mush, and the little
boys said, More, more yet 7 while the
father looked over to me patronizingly,
as much as to say, 1T takes me to find
the good hired girls
"The little boys went to bed early !;
the mother occupied bed in the far
thest end of the kitchen, and she lay
there cooling over the little baby; I sat
and read, and Mr.. Burns looked over
his account book.
81 was very sorrowful and uneasy. 1t
did seem that all the little arms at
home were reached out pleadingly for
my return. felt too badly to cry
crying wasn't half expressive or strong
enough.
81 looked out of the eastern window,
and the full moon was just rising over
the peaked tops of the eastern hills just
beyond nay home. The very face of the
moon looked over at me sadly, plying
ly, understandingly. couldn't endure
the torture any longer. went into the
other room and dropped my bundle and
things out of the window.
"Fiddlesticks Who cared for alpaca
1t would soon crease and grow dingy
and old, it wouldn't stand washing /; and
wasn't any intelligent girl clad in the
commonest blue calico richer and more
of queen than frivolous, silly, igno-
rant one rustling in silks? Wasn't a
contented mind wealth? Wasn't the
companionship of ones little brothers
and sisters at home better than all the
fading fnery in the world? If Fred
Stanley cared for girls clothes was he a
snob worth caring for? No. 1 didn't
want an ell of alpaca until I was well
educated, and could teach and earn it
without such art-breaking privations
as this
81 wrote little note, saying: 'I'll
die here / must run home; 7 am SO
sorry for all of you, and for the trouble
I've caused you; but I can't endure
this you must forgive me- And then
I signed Call and slipped it in my
pocket slyly, yawned and said it was
quite bedtime. Then | went to the door,
remarking, oh, what a glorious even.
ing!' and carelessly stepped out and
twisted the note about the doorlatch, and
tiptoed around to the window, and put
on nay hood and shawl and stole eau
tiously out to the road.
Il didn't know the way home, bu
knew the right direction after l had rur
half mile The night was cold, anc
deep snow lay on the ground; it wa'
between Christmas and New Years, anC
the moon was full. / ran with all my
might, occasionally looking back owe
my shoulder, fearing to see an angry
man in full pursuit on poky -headec
white horse.
"a few rods from home, and coult
not restrain the jubilant shout of 10,
that would come out. I stole in softl,
at the back door and crept into bed
laughing Historically, while the tear
ran down my cheeks. | was so happ,
1 couldn't sleep for crying, until nearl.
midnight. l had ran those three mile
without stopping. | was wakened il
the morning early by dazzling ligh
, in my eyes, and there stood all the chill
, dren, bent over, around my bed, laugh
, ing uproarously and feeling of me, an,
| questioning and congratulating me, JUS
, as glad as though l had returned afte
| du dUoCHOO VI JC3A'
: "My employer, surprised at my lon
? absence, went out to see if | had NO
) slipped and fallen he called me in vair
< butwhen he opened the door to go il
he found the note, and it explained a
3 to his own satisfaction and that of hi
: cooling wife.
at changed her coo to a moan Of
what will we do now for girl 2
"Mr. Burns laughed in spite of hin
e self, and was very sorry. and said b
r would have taken me home on Old Ora
u that very night had he known my anx
:, ETY. and homesickness.