The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-03-21

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Maud Mailer.
Maud Muller, Is Whittier drew her,
was . comely young woman in . briar-
torn dress and ragged hat, innocent
as to shoes and stockings. who helped
her father during the busy haying-
time, hired help being scarce and high.
This was certainly c0mmendable in
Maud; though IS she paused in her
work, and, leaning ON the rake-han-
die, glanced to the far-of town.. she
couldn't help wishing that Fate had
cast her lot different from meadow
lot, and that she was clerk in nine
ty-nine cent store, or something like
that She asked herself whether the
life of q female boOk-canvasser was so
very hard, and wondered if any lady
clerks were wanted in the Postoffice.
While she is thus rejecting, the
Judge comes riding slowly down the
lane. Whittier doesn't tell us what he
is Judge of, though we conclude he is
q tolerable good Judge of rustic beau
ty, for he drew his bride lat some
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bring him draught of water from a
convenient spring, although it was far
into the summer at the time. This
she did, and blushing deeply as she
recollected that her shoes and stock
ings were " up 10 the house." handed
the cup to the Judge, who CALAMITY re-
marked that
"A sveeter draupht.
From fairer hand was never quaffed-"
Maud courtesied and said that her
father considered her pretty fair
hand in the bayfield,"
The Judge fingered as long as he
could, talking about the weather, the
Silver bill, the Eastern question, chances
of his reelection to the bench, etc.,
ETC., to all of which she simply replied.
"Yes, SIR te-he," or something like
that, and when he couldn't make anv
more excuses for lingering, he rode
away. Maud looked after him and
sighed as she thought, " The Judge is
Just the kind of man I'd like to tie
to. Dress? 1 reckon not! I'd have
a new gown every day, andtwo on Sun
day. And dad should wear store
clothes; and Brother Sam should have a
helmet hat.n
How about the Judge, as he rode
away? Was he filed with "vague
unrest?' Certainly he was. He wanted
to adjourn court sine die, and although
little past the hay-day of his youth,
go a-haying with Maud from that time
out. But his feelings Mauderated when
he thought of his sisters, who were so
ciety ladies', and what they and the
fashionable world generally would have
to say about it. So he kept on his way,
and he opened court that afternoon,
same as usual. only the lawyers smiled
as they caught him humming an old
love-song, Swinging in the Lane"
The Judge got elected to the bench
again, and then he was elected for life
in another wayne married wealthy
but cold-hearted lady who moved every
spring. in the first circles, and who only
accepted him because she thought i
would sound well to be spoken of in the
society-column of the newspapers as
MRS. Judge So-and-So." And some.
times when the Judge was taking q
drink of old rye, all by himself in
his study, he wished that Maud could
step in with a little of that meadow.
spring water to mix with it.
Maud got married, too. She married
the hired man in a check shirt whom
the Judge saw moving in another part
of the field. True, she loved the Judge
more than she could any mower she
ever saw. and would continue to until
time should be no mower, but as she
couldn't have him and was fearful that
there would be no mower offers, why
she clinched on to tie hired man.
But Maud wasn't happy, either, fol-
she couldn't help thinking how differ.
ent her life would have been as Mrs.
Judge. She thought SO much on the
subject that she came finally to believe
that the Judge had really proposed to
her and che had refused him. And
when she got into a row with her hus-
band she would throw it up to him, say
ing:
" If hadn't married you and got stuck in this
I'd been much better off, for might a had
Which was the Judges front name.
-Cincinssati Saturday Night.