Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1877-05-03

a lady in the par,or to see you. ma am;
will tell her ven be after coming down
prisenlly or tell her We are sick. and
TO come again:
DO YOU think ,he wishes to see me par
tlcularly, Bridget, or 4, it only call:'
she didn't say, maam; she Is dressed
In black aud il ,oft-spoken- and list
axed II she could see the lady OF the
house,
Well. tell her | will s,e her a. soon as |
can ssid the lady, rising slowly from her re-
cumbent position. and proceeding painful
ly to blind up her dsordered hair. 'Oh.
dear, feel 80 sick. do not feel able TO
stand. TO down. Bridget, and ask her to
please send up her name
'>Ee'- after the place, ma'am, said
Bridget. returning hri>kly. she saw your
advertisement, aEt thought She mi ght suit.
for ,he knows all about housework. and
ye'd better take her. una am. added. Bridg
ct, confidently, for she, nice and nate
spoken. aud ye know must lave ye thi,
evening aud yer not liz 10 be leit'
Poor Mrs. Wilber felt the force Of this
reasoning; She had been suffering all day
with sick headache, and at this particular
moment felt a. if her head were a wheel
performing it, revolutions so swiftly that
It gave her 10 chance TO think; but in
the whirl she caught the words nice and
nate, spoken and they sounded pleasant
and soothing 10 her ear.
Her good-hearted. but inefficient half
grown hand-maid and answered the call
OF her widowed mother. 10 come home
and nurse the sick chiider,' and when the
early tea was over Bridget was TO shake
the dust frotn her feet and depart.
Mrs. WILDER had held a levee every al
In har Litnhera fnr a
ing to get some Que to suit, for you see it
was somewhat difficult for one placee lust
as she was. To fill that important niche in
the household economy-the kitchen. She
had asked questions and answered them
until she ielt Ike a walking catechism ;she
never knew before that she was so exacting
and hard 10 please; but out al the ava
lanche OF applicants the post was as yet
unprovided for. and this was the last day
in the afternoon, and she had resolved,
not an hour back, that, let next applicant
be a representative of the frigid Northor
torrid South, Ethiopian, Chinee. Crete, or
Arabian, she would take her and make the
bes: of her. and here was the chance.
She could not offer high wages. tor her
husband was a clerk in a store ola limit
ed salary-a very limited one, by the way.
out of which everything had to come and
until the year before her marriage. and in
that year she had gained no knowledge of
housework, her mother foolishly arguing
Il at her troubles would come soon enough
then. in the six months siege OF house
keeping. she enormously Imagined that
poor help was the cheapest, aud so never
had any one from whom she could learn
anything. and. to help her out of her diff
culties. she had brought receipt book.
determined to learn to cook, and not
knowing of our good Marion Harland.'
and many others, whose books any child
could prost by, purchased one where the
Quantities were on so large scale. and
the qualities so gorgeous, that she derived
but little aid and comfort. And oh dear,
she felt sometimes that her husband was
to be pitied for marrying such useless
piece of creation as herself. and, kind and
patient as he was, and dearly as she loved
him and her little home, she almost wished
she was not married at all. but was back
with her mother again, and he coming to
see her. as in the old happy days of court
ship.
But in the mean time, here was Bridget
standing in the middle of the close and
darkened room and there was Mrs. Whats
her name waiting the verdict in the par
lor below. and somebody must come to a
her TO stay, Bridget, and | will come down
as soon as l can And nothing loath.
Bridget departed and in the shortest pos
sble time had the lady in black switched
of to her room in the attic to take of her
bonnet.
And what may one be after calling ye.
ma'ap !? said Bridget, respectfully, as they
at length reached the bare cOmfortless
room which in the Wilber house, was oc-
cupied by the help
You may call rue Mrs. Grey. replied the
newcomer. quietly. as she laid her bonnet
on a chair. the only article the room con-
tanned, except the fiat and dreary looking
bed and Bridget's little old trunk.
Sure, and must go down now, for
the mistress is after wanting a cup of
tav she axed me for il before We coined
at all; and because | went out bit this
afternoon. the plaguey fire must 20 out.
too; and | was just hating some water 10
tin cup over some shavings as you ringed.'
Mrs. Grey excused her. and. with sink
ing heart, took a view of her surround
ings. and, being few it was not difficult
thing TO do. And while she stands there
we will lake glance at her, hoping We
will see more TO interest us than the apart
meDt afforded her.
We see a slight but well developed fig
ure. a little below the average height, but
well built and wholesome looking. and ap-
parently about twenty EIGHT years Of age.
Her abundant and lustrous hair, SO well
matching her clear and soft brown eyes,