Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1878-04-11

been faithful and kind TO nm all ms
| davs; and he could do no less than
| care for them now. Beside they owned
half the farm; and though one was
/ .ifty-six and the other tifty-eight, there
was much hard work left in them yet.
Aunt Iuldah was a skillful tailoress,
in demand for miles about, and Aunt
/ Hannah was the best sick-nurse IN the
/ county. They would not suffer. and,
truth to tell, they rather 'enjoved the
| Independence of their own house, for
Freedom and Aunt Iuldah were chips
of the same block and only Aunt Han
nah's constant quiet restraint and
/ peace-maklng kept the family tolera.
blv harmonious. And in the farm
house a new reign began,-the reign
Of Queen Log.
Lowlv Mallory was fragile, slcn-
der. delicate girl. with gray eyes and
plenty of brown hair pale as spring
anemone, with Just such faint pinkncss
in her lips and on her high cheek bones
rs tints that pensiye. egg-shaped bud
when it
'Small flower layeth
It. fairy gem beneath some giant tree
on the first warm DAYS of May. She
had already the life of care that
marks New England women across the
forehead like 4 mark of Cain, the sig
nal of a life in which work has
murdered health and JOY and freedom
for Lowlv was the oldest Of ten chill
II. L,r I,.lrt.t
den. Iovina was eighteen, now, and
could take her place, and Lowly loved
Freedom with the reticent, undcmon-
strative affection Of her race and land
moreover, she was glad of change, Of
rest. Rest much Of that awaited
her. Freedoms first step after the de-
corous wedding and homecoming was
Ia buy ten cows-hc had two ready
and two dozen new milk-pans.
Il calkcrlatc we can sell good lot
Of butter n cheese down to Dartford,
Lowly," he said, on introducing her to
the new dairy he had fitted up at one
end Of the wood-shed and il the gen
tie creatures heart sank within her at
the prospect, she did not say so, and
Freedom never asked now she liked it.
He was "masterful' indeed, and hay-
ing picked out Lowlv from all the 9TH
or Dorset girls because she was still
and hard-working maiden, and would
neither rebel against or criticisc his
edicts. he took it for granted things
would 90 on az he wished.
Poor little Lowry! Her simple,
tender heart went out TO her husband
like a vine feeling after a trelis, and
even when she found it was only
bowldcr that chilled and repelled her
slight ar,iors and timid caresses. she
did still what the vine does, flung her
self across and along the granite faces
"f ihn rock. AMI flIned her trembling
blossoms, sunward, where life and
light were free and sure.
Aunt IIallah and Aunt Hannah
soon grew To- he her ministeting angels
anl If they differed from the gold
haired, pink-cuamelcd, straight-nosei
creations OF Fra AnLelico. and would
have figured i'll. in their short gowns
and mob.caps bowing before an ideal
Madonna. Lowly wanted no better
tendance and providing :han they gave
her when in due season there appeared
III the farmhouse 4 red and roaring
baby. evidently patterned after his
father. morally as we'll as physically;
the white down on his raw pink head
twisting iato tight kinks, and his stub
hv fists set in as firm a grasp as ever
Freedoms big brown paws were.
Lowly was happy little woman she
hal loved children always, and here
was one all her own. Two weeks
we're dreamed away in rest ard rapture,
then Freedom began to hustle and fret
and erowl about the neglected dairy,
and the rusty pork, and the hens that
wanted care.
Don't We s'pose she'll git 'raounl
next week. Aunt Hubby? Things is
gittin dredful bchindhand !" Freedom
had left the bedroom door open on
purpose. Aunt Huldah got up and
shut il with a slam, while he went on:
Them hens had oughter be set, n
never git time TO be halfa day prowl-
in araound after EN-; they've stole
their nests, expect, the hull tribe +;
nd Hepsv don't make butter 10 com
pare alongside o Lowly's then there's
that ere pork a-gitting rusty, N Aunt
Hammer. she's over TO Mallory's nussin
Loyiun. sos't can't call on YOU. n it
does seem though two weeks was a
plenty for well folks to lie in bed !"
Here Aunt Huldah exploded
Freedom Wheeler, YOU haint got a
mite o compassion into ye Lowly
amt over'n ABOVE powerful any way
smell break clear done ef che amt real
keerful ;4..bOe / amt"
The shutting of the back door stop.
ped her TRADE while she hunted in a
table drawer for her thimble. Freedom
had coolv walked of; he did not
choose to argue the subject. but next
day Lowly got up and was dressed
there were two lines across the sad,
low forehead now, but she went about
her work in silence there is "a type
of feminine character that can endure
TO the edge of death and en- lure silent
hers
Good little feller, so he was. as
ever was; ; there. there, there should
be cuduled up good'n' warm; so he
should?" Aunt Hannah purred to the
small boy month after, seeing him
for the first time, as she had been tax
ing care OF Lovina Mallory through
low fever when he was born.
What be We agein' to call him,
Freedom:"
Il calkerlate he'll be baptized Shear
jashub. There's allus been Shear
jashub nd Freedom amongst our
folks; I've heered Grandsir Wheeler
tell ont MORN forty times. how the
was them two names away back as fur
as there's grave stones to tell ont
down to Litchfield meetin' house. nd
back o that in the old graveyard TO
Hartford I nxnect thie here feltah III