Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-08-28
The One That Ran Away.
EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER.

EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER.
There We're three of the Peters children.
and if there had been one more or less this
story would never have been told, for it
was the odd one who ran away.
The odd one was Marcia. Joe and Jen
ny were twins; they were rocked in one
cradle. and from the day they were born
they always wanted the same things.
They looked so precisely alike that it was
great relief to the neigbborhood when
joe had his first trowsers. because you
could never be positively sure which one
you were scolding so long as they both
wore pink calico dresses and white sun
bonnets. Joe and Jenny had round, rosy
faces. round blue eyes, tangles of yellow
curls, and were, as Grandma Ellis declar-
I'd, "clear Peterses, every inch of EN- y
But Marcia, with her dark skin, straight
black hair. solemn eyes. and quaint old
fashioned ways. nobody could even guess
whom she was like, until one day grand
ma was looking over lot of very old pic
lures. and suddenly came upon one which
made her exclaim:
"WelI. do declare! if there isn't the
baby to the very life; eyes and chin and
mouth"
" Let me see." said Mrs. Peters; " why,
that is Mr. Peters stepmother; she's no
more relation than Adam.
The baby's her livin' image, relation
or no relation persisted grandma. and
from that day she called her Marcia, after
her grandmother, if there be any such
rtia'ionsh'p' Inc old ,lashioned name
suited her precisely; you wonid no more
nave thought OF caI!InS her NIFTY or Dot
or Nellie tnan OF oeing familiar with Mrs
Martina washington or queen Victoria.
one seldom laughed or cried' and never
was astohlshed AT anything so you must
Know she was rather trying to Joe and
Jenny, who took lille In the most natural
way, and were always in ecstasies or ago.
nies. She couldn 1T make believe > VOL tn
il straw, Jenny said, and always looked
and acted precisely the same, whether
they were pretending to hide under the
currant bushes from Ia scalping party of
wild Indians or going in their best clothes
to grand wedding in the barn chamber.
So it happened that Marcia WAS left out of
the play and out of the fun, and more and
more as she grew older took to going off
by herself and taking long walks in the
woods and over the hills. Even grandma
sald Marcia was queer, and her mother
declared she did not know what to make
OF her. When Joe and Jenny had their
bed time froiics with their father, and
went away All nushed WIN laughter and
rumpltd up with Kissing and hugying,
Marcia only locked grtVely on, without
attempting To JOIN IN the iun. III her ia
ther SAID, Come, Htlle daughter, cant
you give me KISS before you go" she
would come very oneulently ana Kiss him,
out she never put ner arms about him, but
TODD stih and straight 6y his knee.
Snch a strange cnilu, her father
wou.d sign sne ei'her nas 100 nuch ieel'
'hS tor hei co'iiipl' - VI none "t ai'
que ish lAe I'iliu ~ ALL her
Lho'ller "ou'u say a. tiere uVesn seem
W pe d PH'''c'e VI "necl'oe III her nature
IhiesS II oe lor t'a' ureauiul oid doll mat
Jenny t!'te" away. one aGtu',ly dragged
IL ou1 Vi lle ash p'rle' anu ma IL IN her
heu' p anu sue VIII ;'"ve , lne u'i'y 'ulnS IN
het al us every hlSht' ,..,
", IeIhaPs II you u PEI iier .l'tie more:
hr. feters once iii''aly suggested but his
"lie iauSlieu 1T Tue very iue7'
We no t,'ne 70 pet hhyo"iy' she de-
G'ireu, anu us lot Pe'sins Marcia why
s,'u'u ~ soon 'li'nN oi cosSelinS you
Mr. refers was Dig ourIy giant OF
illh' anu lie ouIy loohe" uoWh at MS little
'horSei oi "Ile' ana smiled anu sighed,
ahn gave the matter up
ohe any IL was On rrluay, Tue lfn oil
august ABOUT CLOCK IN the morning
Joe anu Jenny saC uhuer the sugar
sweeling Tree, ea.lns wormy littie wind
l"lis ana 'alk'hg between tue pites' lhe
sugar sweetlnS tree grew IN the rye field,
ana the rye sIuoole was particularly hard
on Dare ieel' anu thouSn Marcia couId see
tneih very pia,niy where sue $1,000 holiing
Amaran'h \ ana looklns thropsh the bars
she coulu htruiE 'li'ho up her mlhd to
venture any nearer out II WAS easy 10 see
they were Pi'hhluS some sort OF lnn' by
ana ny they ctlno o'ch; Jenny picking
her way careiully' a"u Joe tramping
steaul,y a'onS WIN n's hothy niue leet
'lat Always n"u one Vi t"o lhVaiiu toes.
mousse III cav" Is oe'ter tent,
sald Jenny an" we can make reg lar
ire anu cooA tli'hS'' shi'i t"He all my
ools,
we Si'il wan. tIie nttcne' anu the old
oui 10 rooe' anu TN pall ana i hsh pole,
anu you set .ahuuia u give you lots OF
S'ngetc' eau g,
APPS we can nhu some huckIeoer-
RES Itere lo's over III Tue nortn pasture
I'm my SUI now nere Marcia i
zoe anu Jenny stoPpeu snort anu looked
AZ Marcia ana Marcia srasped poor Old
Amaranta llttle tiShter ana looked at
'neh,; .,,.,u Il
NO" sue Il c'"'e tuSs'hg aohg' SAID
oe' IL
a." No. she shant; won't have her"
salu Jenny, II she does III II give
her away 10 the gypsles. shouldn
wonder % 1 aIi II I tnere , was gypsies In those