Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-11-29

looking IN Tie wafer, auu Was CuilouS
to know what she was looking at. Sc
be got off his horse and came softly
and looked in the spring beside her
There he saw only her face, but it was
SO pretty that he fell in love with hel
and afterwards married her. And
Rath says that ever since, if two young
people look in that spring together
they will surely marry each other
Stuff and nonsense! exclaimed
Mrs. Marshall. 4 should like to know
Ret, if hearing such silly stories as
that is worth tearing your new dress
for?
But Thomas Marshall laughed.
I'll risk the girl, Sarah he said,
while Ret went out the door. I'LL
risk her while she'll tell her father the
love stories that she hears. She d
better tear her dress than break our
hearts with secret ways. Brother
Johns girl, you know
The mother bent her head in silence
an said no moro.
Ret stood in the porch watching
her brother Rathburn come down the
hill. There was some one with him,
and while she was trying hard to max e
ont who it was, some one was as earn
estIy observing her. He saw in the
porch Of an old brown, vine shaded
house on Hill, a little figure in pink
lawn dress, very badly torn, and with
straw hat shading face that was
evidently fair, while a mass Of fine
curls, swept to one side, fell over a
bare, white shoulder.
What little fairy is that, Rath ? he
said.
My sister, said Rathburn Marshall
proudly. 'You shall have her, Max,
he added, conGdenti,lly.
They had been collegians together
Rath Marshall and Max Kingsley -
Max was just from Europe. The
frierds had met for the first time for
four years.
is that the little Ret you used tc
tell about p asked Max. for they had
been great conGdents in oil times.
Yes she was twelve then, she is
sixteen now. She's darling, Max
4 think it likely. And | may have
her.
Yes, if you can get her
Thank you, old boy
The next moment they passed in al
the door from which Ret had disap
peared, and to his parents Rath an
nounced
Ny old collage friend, Max X ings
ley; come to rusticate among us for ;
week or two
1t was a frank, good face which th'
old people looked at--a face they
were willing to admit to their freside
Ret came down from her room in :
more presentable dress, and was in
troduccd. That evening Rath repeat
ed again, for Max's amusement, tn
legend of the meadow spring.
The next morning June snnris
hushe! the sky at 4 o'clock. MAJ
Kingsley awoke, and, aroused by tn
novelty Of arising at that time in th
morning, got up, dressed, and wen
out of doors. Early as 1t was, bo.
was driving a drove Of cattle to mar
ket down the long brown road, Will
the birds were chorusing in the wood
and the flowers Of the fields were al
wide awake. He crossed the roa'
and went slowly over the meadows.
The g,ass was drenched in dew.
The fragrant air blew through
The honeysuckle branches
That waved about the porch.
Half.knee high in the wet clover b
looked back at the house half bid ii
boneysuckIes and morning s'ories, t
see if there were any signs Of Rath o
Ret. Was Ratb's pretty sister al
early riser? He wished she was an
would share bis walk with him.
He came to brook, slipping softl.
through the meadows, and, turning
commenced following it 10 its source
walking through the marsh mallow
and fragrant white clover around
kaoll, where he found rare golden vi
olets, and Oh to birch wood.
Suddenly be heard the shouting an
Ia lighter Of young ringing voices. &c
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