Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-10-31
II will get it for you with pleasure" said

7 win get it for you with pleasure" sait
And as she turned to the dresser her sistel
answered the puzzled expression OF Mr., Alb
bolts face. :.
You are surprised to see George doing
that said she, with gesture toward the
plebeian tub. "And don't wonder. But it,
only FOR frolie-a wager. Girls will do sucl
in gs, you knoww -
But George had heard the last words, and
turned around with crimsoned cheeks and
sparkling eyes. IS
ct is not frolic," said she. sand it's nj
= ao wager; lts serious, sober earnest. am
DONG the washing because Katrina hat
spralned her ankle. and there's no one else
put grandmamma to do it,
Slndecdw said MIR. Abbott. "And can't
help you?"
Yes" Georgia promptly made answer
You can carry that basket of clothes out tc
the bleaching ground for me-"
"Georgie!" exclaimed her sister, as Mr.
Abbott cheerily shouldered the load and strobe
away In the direction indicated by Georges
pointing finger.
"He asked me-" said George. "1shouldn't
have asked him!"
Judge Abbott's son groaned Mary "The
richest man in Ballston"! He'll never ask you
to go out rowing on the lake with him again.
But the reappearence Of the gentleman in
1NSOHA pAV q SOOP w Guc ulSuSSlOu.
Miss George, "said he, Il would have hoist
ed them upon the riggings for you, but tht
That's because you needed the clothes
pins" said Georgia, handing them to him
with alacrity
Couldn't you come and help?" said Mr.. Alb
oott wlstfully. Two can manage SO mucl
better than one.
"Oh, I'll come and help?" said Geor
GLE; and be glad to get my clothes out dry
ing"
She tied on her small bingham SUM- bonnet
and ran out into the yellow September sun
shine, while Mary burst out crying with min
gled vexation and anger.
Il shall never get over the disgrace of it il
the World,' she said" never, never! Georgie
has no dignity-no proper pride! mo; dom
speak to me, grandma, or shall say some
thing dreadful! declare I've mind never tx
own her I. as sister again."
"Have you finished the washing?" said Mr.
"Yes, Pve finished it," said George Len
nox. But shouldn't like to earn my Lying
as laundress. It's very tiresome business
Georgia was cooling off," under the shad
ow OF the frost gravevines in the woods, will
| a book IN her ha. d, and the curly locks
| blown back from her pretty Spanish fore
! head.
Mr.. Abbott looked admiringly down OF
her. All his life long, his experience hat
lain among the smiling, artificial dolls o
conventional society. He had admire
| George Lennox the first time he had eve
seen her; but that days experience of he
frank, true nature had given depth and ear
nestness to the feeling.
miss Lennox," said he, "do you know
what have been thinking of since we huns
out those towels and table cloths together?
| "Haven't thu least idea," said unconsciou
Georgia, tanning herself with two grape
leaves, pinned together with thorn.
! II have been thinking" said he, that
should like my wife to be just such woman
as you are"
"a washerworhan ~ said Georgia, trying t,
laugh off he1 bushes.
II am quite in earnest, Georgia." he said
leaning over her. "Dear Georgia, will you b.
my wife?'
"But am only working GIRL" said ingen
uous George, beginning to tremble all owe
and half inclined to cry. I'VE are type-setters
Mary and I, and We are very poor"
My own love, you are rich in all that hear
could wish!' pleaded Abbott, taking both he
hands in his; land want you for my Own!"
| Raymond Abbott had fancied George Len
nox when he saw her playing croquet, n pal
pink muslin, with tea-rose in her hair; bu
the divine fame of love first stirred in hi
heart when she looked at him through tn
vaE'ory clouds of the wash tub-Guido's an
| gelfoldiug her wings in farm house kitchen
just so curiously are romance and realit
blended together in the world.