The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-02-15

PiNRSNt AittAb MiOs iiNNO 1Out
fit for king, ifyou wish, and will
invite the guests. Is there any one
you wish particularly to inyitcT
"None but Auntie and Fannie Gray.
Fannie will help me entertain the
children. fou must invite the chill
drcn, You know, for | could not endure
party of grown-np people solely"
Yes, this was all that had been said
upon the subject. She was just cross
ing the hall towards the study to ask
Ernest whom she might expect, when
the door-bell rang.
Opening the door she confronted an
ols lady III calico dress and faded
shawl, whom all the town called
AUNT Patty"
thinking Aunt Patty had come to
tell her pastor some fresh trouble, she
ieu hcf at once to The study. But
Aunt Patty began removing her wrap
pings as soon as she crossed the thresh-
hoid OF the study and handed them 10
INC astonlshed May, saying:
"licrc, take um! Thought I'd be on
hand III good season. How good them
posies smcll!"
Aunt fatty seated herself very com
posedly and took her blue knitting
work us II she intended to spend the
day. Before the hostess could recover
nerself the bell pealed again long and
loud: Opening the door quickly. she
was just i'll time to see pair of shiny
ooots describing semlcircle III the air
and the body OF very little boy as
sumo perpendicular attitude. Ills
eyes were bright and roguish, and his
lace somewhat streaked with clcanli-
ness. ruling Oil his cap, thereby
revealing most iudlcrous attempt at
toilet making, he said:
"1low dy do, mann Is tho parson
at hllmE
Inc sound OF crutches now arrested
hcr attention, and the onc.leggcd sol,
der, who mended old umbrellas and
sung camp-songs to the children, was
seen coming up the steps. The streets
seemed to be full of the lame, the halt
and the blind, and the people across the
way were crowding their windows to
see inc procession pass,
On they came, straight up the steps
ana INTO the door OF the parsonage:
May stood back, too much astonished
to speak, and let them pass. There
was the biind man who sold shoe
strings and iead-pencils on the corner
OF Fair street. There was the man in
the big army over-coat that she had
many time seen peddling oranges and
peanuts on the next corner. Here was
little hunchback Jenny Wren, who
made dolls clothing for store in Bos-
ton. Now came half dozen children
who worked in the mill, their jackets
even now bearing traces OF cotton that
they had In vain tried to remove.
straight on to the study they went,
scarcely needing her. In the doorway
stood Ernest with a smiling counte-
nance and warm grasp OF the hand,
oHaonoi's .h oo'oi"i R'ee'ing I" eacl oi
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oaa v7a ~, w., w t1', ne what til'
,n,% nn,,i,i mihnspeaeo May ~ @"o'' "7 S'ie
'ou,m s,T, s',', MS eur. , -.
NJ, ncao "'o our guests, ii.'ic WIG.
D Don you remember thc command,
,aSs anus'li.ieii ny & as ~ 90 1t Uil.9 one oi the
oo'st loast VI ',,ts1, e',. tpuiu we pe!ter
Sononi".o CO., h;H nis o'''Nu's 'n"'' pl carlig
'ol MS poor
-; ,,;s,,S ;Away ran May 10 her room, ana Inc
omoass ,,uis.oi M"s ici. a.oiio Win ms strange
Ss,i ~ ..il minutes snc caliie pack,
from bar countaponoo AMI $40 49,
ro would % haro 0oi,,h,'1, thnumht co anu ~ one
hora %vti ,hat t1Iu ,ho ,nousn. iro'h any ac. oi
hor hors oa ,na' ;n; .uc guests "cre not eaci OF
"01 Thou Um onraa a,a n'thS' ~ a;.,o. A.,
foast on ;a,ro "a @ '1e .n ulllncr. anu silch
dosm; Ia,, a. az ~ ".s dh; ~ .;,osc poor fcop'e:
i;,i p"i. ~, u i'I uesIaip"s II. No. 50 Il.'le
% .ro SVi',Ih. ~ a',Ii nc hever 'lreu Oh
,"iM,g u'n, ~ ano ,suoJeI', anu every gentie-
m," m"xt tHroo mo'o % oIo's IT. oio oiachca lor 'ne
oooo. n"Av MY mechs M"s r9sa!uu WIN Ill
81 hear that Won were At tbe minis
ter's partv vesterdsv. lin hid ~on
have a good iimc ?" said ocntlcmon to
himthe next day. ''''''' "
lyon bet we did,o rcn,icl lin, with
n wise look ~"
"Do tell me ,hout II rool,y ,vor,
TO know. What did Won have ior "Tm' d;m'
nerY, ouericd tbo geni,emam n"'' ''' "''-
"Oh lots and In3s nr u;ca ,,;nns, wo
had SOM with l;ttle wh;to hit '1h th;6"s H. mo
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