The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-07-04
THAT LITTLE PLACE OF BROWNS

The place was mine, and we lived a
c zly there, my wi @ aud little daughie
and |, as birds in n neat, until the Blgckr
some old friends Of ours rom the city
came to live in u NJ ithbJfhuOd,
We were at supper one night when m,
wife told me.
"Thcy're going to take the French
rooted hOue around the corner" sale
Sally, "with the big extension and tn
conservatory. and ~ | happened to b
walking out just AZ the trucks came dowI
| cOnldn't help seeing that the psrlO
furniture is Of crimson satin damask ant
ebony thinks it'seboDy, but | won
be sure continued my vie; "but Il
any rate it's inIaid.
swell, that's a comfort, any way
sliu |. AT you're pc tive it's inlald
Sally, you can, perhaps, go on with you
upper"
"Ye-," she said, 20 preoccupied witt
her theme that she hadn't eaten a nor
sci, can there's the abandonment bed
room sst for Jane that ! most ever laiC
my eyes on it's one Of these dressiD.
D'tIiuNi JDtj WIN u hlhEhIIiNIb I'LNC
glass that reaches down to the floor"
CHATS good " said | "YOu can run
around there, when you have your mex
gown fitted, and zee the hang OF it"
81 don't expect to run around there, u
taid Sally, c~rauing her neck up II fl :
turning up the endof her nose ard draw~
ing her lips down
Why, what's the matter" said !.
"Wasi II Jane friendly? We done many
n good turn for Back in my day, and |
hope they're not going to turn the cold
shoulder how
'Ol she was friendly enough" said
Sally " but we cant expect, Joe, that
people living in that kind OF style can be
upon terms OF intimacy with people that
live IN we do. There are c certain ~reslric.
tions In society"
Restrictions be hang"dp' | cried.
I'm ~ u lod a man ~ Black any day In
the week"
You're a. good a. the president, for
that mater" sad Sally but it's all
ike "A pair of scales, Joe, when one go,f
up, another goes down, and, ir m the
way things look, it ii take a pretty
heavy weight on the Blacks side IT,
bril Z them down To our position"
| must own this kind OF logic vexed
me II little | knew pretty well how
Black stood commercially, and | told
Sally there wssIt II feathers weight ON
His side, so far ~ the iavOrs of fortune
were concerned. {" If he has a mind to
live above his Means said ], " he can
do it. snd take the Consequences"
lie has just ~ good n right to live
above his means" said Sally, "as you
have to bv" beneath yours"
THIS was her Parthlan arrow as | went
out the door, and 1t ranKltd II hltle all
the way down III the train, the more that
| found Black the center of an admirlng
bevy Mt The depot He had quite an i'm.
posing makeup aud glib tongue, which
he used in invelghlng against our syst. IN
paving. He complained Of the conditi n
OF a good many things ia our young
township, and memed 10 gain popularity
with every fault that he found Atlast
he sped M, and was exceedingly loud
aud eifusivr in his salvation
'lIallo. Blown + he said, shaking my
band again and again, and declaring tn
the people about him | was All old friend
whom he was glad to unearth. "Tve
Jun you down, you sly lox. That's a
very saug little place around the corner
very snug indeed !"
wouldn't have believed it possible.
| could have been SUCH an ass as to 'eel
flattered by this familiarity of Blacks,
but iound myself Sinking and nod.
ding with great complac 'ncy. Hert
were NJ least half a dozen of the gentry
absut me who lived in big houses in my
neighborhOOd, that | had been going ~
and down to the city with for years, yeI
scarcely knew them well enough for al
exchange of civiIi,ies, and here WA
Black already hand in glove with tn,
finest OF them. 1t make, me sick nov
when | remember that / turnsC
my back On poor old White, and wen
toadying on with this aristOcricy
Waite lived in even Il smaller nous,
than mine, and had hard worl
enough TO pay tor that. He hat
failed in business some years before, anc
] don't know what they would have dont
without their boy, Bob. He was with
me in the city, and | knew that a goodly
portion Of the lads earnings were giver
to the support of the house 1t wa,
rather hard for Bob, but he bore his lot
with great resignation. He cane over
pretty o tel tn have a game of cribbage
aud Ia k over business matters with me,
and found him sharp enough at both.
Then he had a pleasant way with women.
Our little Ro,alie wa, a little more than
achid, but Sally used to brighten wnen
~" am ,n, ill size got into that kink
about the Blacks.
inu II stay here with Ro,alie, won't
you Bob, till we come back ?" said to
young White and as I spoke I felt Sally
give = savage pinch to my arm. No
sooher were we outside the door than ans
began about poor Bob.
" you have no regard for nv dau,b
Ter future and choose to throw no
away on q poor miserable bevyar III,
Bob White" began Sally.
why my dear" broke in. "Ro.s,;s,
a mere child. Don't begin In n,.n sho,,
her inture, ! bego OF you. She's scsrceI,
ie't on her pinaiore., and il there wa.
maiden meditation, fancy-lree,' ar
where, II lies in the brewn eyes OF OF
ROsal e."
By this time we had reached the II
posing portal of Blacks hou g, and we
o ushered into the presence of II
satin damask and ebony. Blacks CHI
dren were none OF them grown, but weI