Connecticut western news., 1878-03-28
done for him, the cheerful endurance of helpless and weary daysAall these. bent

done for him, the cheerful endurance O helpless and weary dnys-all these ben Mira more and more toward her unde clared lover for Sam had never yet saic the first word of love to her, yet by some wonderful perception this acute young person was as we'll aware of his passiol as if it had been blazoned in a thousanc l words. 2.A'-'4a a..' s...'' e' '7"A4't'0' f'1
 Sam did himself good service unawareI on that Sunday, for Henry took heartth same night to declare himself on tn, way home from singing school, predicting his offer with full, true and particulal account of Sam's threats and hard words to him on more than one occasion, whe1 they had talked things over. Of course | Mira was quick enough to understand at once why Sam had rnisled Henry o1 that eventful night when he broke hil own leg, and she could scarce helr smiling at the piteous tone of her pres
 ent adorer as he recounted Sam's fierce menaces. '"
 ."Well, I want skeert none, Miry now tell ye but thinks I. I'll be ever with him, sure as shootin', for I'll tel
 Mny ont next timeiI git a chance, an e1 that don't show her what sort O fellel he is, dono nothin'. D 7''. -'@l ..''' 1"And I suppose" retorted Mira
 s'you never thought you was a-showin what kind of feller you was, now die | yep Look adhere, Henery Pine ] always did despise "a telHtaiel from the time was .knee-high to a hop-toad
 and grown-np tell-tale is the worst of all l"F sg s1ilrfsH a'i 5'r s'n ...
 ," Oh, Lordy td Almira Calkins, what dew you meana Why, want ye tc marry me! Hain't said it out plain P E djYou needn't never say it no more, , < put in Alnaira, with noble disregard oi grammar in behalf of impressiveness F 1T wouldn't marry you eff you was the King O Siam" '' Ha'' 21aF' a''+f B "Weli! we'll we'll 1" blubbered Henry. "I never'd ha' thought you'd ha' gin me the mitin, seein' what farm our folks has got, an money in the bank, an stock an crops. I don't know how to b'lieve 1t. 55'.'A1-'' H'f'. ~
 "Don't make me give ye pair O mittens," said his enraged goddess. "I ain't no Isr'elite, to worship golden calf, Mister. Pine 50 I wish ye good night and better manners ''-for here } they were at the door; and Almira slipped up stairs to bed, filled with loath- ing and rage, and thinking in her secret soul that Sam never, never could have made such 8 fool of himself. No, in- deed ! Sam was no fool. He became aware that Henry was in drear and sore frame of mind the next day !; and seeing that Mira was more than usually snappy and alert, and went about with color in her cheeks, our bed-rid philosopher drew his own conclusions, and when Miry came in after tea to '.svisit with him." he contrived to coax the story out of her. It was abominabie in Mira to tell her discarded lovef's secret ; but let us for glve her, for she had her own reasons. Sam's face grew bright as she recounted with unaffected scorn Henry's surprise at her contempt of his money. aaa.-.-z
 "He's brute, !" said Sam, curtly, and then his voice softened. s" Oh, Miry, if should ask you, with no sort O tempta- ton, only jest that I'd like to kiss the tip of your shoe, I love ye so, should, I get a mitten, too? P 2,. .} a.-.sf sE 5a..4-
 Miry} looked down in her lap very hard, and turning her face toward the door, as if she heard somebody coming, saids slowly: "I dono as twould hurt ye to try" sfaE ...-t Ha s.asss'
 There was a nightly expressive si- lence for 8 minute, and Miry's pretty head bent so low that Sam could lift himself to meet itbefore he spoke again, to say, with queer half laugh, "Mothe1 said my broken leg was a; jedgment, but somehow it seems anything but that jest now. I dono's sas I ever should hal got courage, Miry, without I'd laid here an seen ye so dreadful good an kind to me-" j'a= Ha1.G T < lo..
 a"Mebbe you'll find its judgment yet" wickedly retorted Mira. F'.a
 z" We'll, eff 'tis," answered satisfied Sam, it's nightly tempered with mercy, as mother used to say."" -"
 And to this day Squire Peters always says nothing ever did him so much good as' his first acknowledged judgment though it took the form of broken leg