Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-12-04
WILLIS WILL, AND HIS TWO
TnANKSGlvlNnS.
CONCLUDED

| YOU "ds DoN, aHu you u ma peer
spared lots, Dear me 7
Il shouldn't be worth cent. mother
il | hadn't will OF my own; and a.
long as ! don't set myself to do any
thing worse than make good home
for you and marry Annie, dom
think you had ought to complain.
haven forgot about tn 1t Thanksgiv
ing-day. And Will laughed out il
such a CHEEKY brave way, his mothe,
almost smiled; but she shook hej
head withal, for her common sens,
stood in the way of her ympath,es
Bat Will was not TO be daunted
To slept precious little that night
nis BRAN was busy with plans for thu
future He recognized il as the frs
necessity that Annie should not be-
allowed To forget him. For the pres
ent he must keep his situation Nexl
winter series OF evening schools ior
adults was to begin IN Darttord, and
bis tram brought him there for the
night. He must attend these, and
work hard To lay the foundation OF
an education, for the fruit of the tree
Of knowledge is the hereditary long
ing OF man, and the end Of bis repose.
even unto this day. These two things
he was set upon; and ascertainiDg
that Annie was still at home, he rose
long before dawn Oh Monday morn
ing, walked over to Squam Pond,
aud coming back by early daylight,
hung on the side door OF Squire Hall 5
basket of dripping water lily buds
and leaves, fragrant aud pure as the
/ ideal he carried in his heart, and di-
rected on rude label OF bark to An
ME. This was the beginning of his
siege. Scarcely week passed but
some token of a watchfui affection
reached the girl, if it was only an ex
quislte flower from hot house, or a
bunch of speckless and translucent
grapes, for even these small gifts bore
heavily on Wills small means, though
be erudged nothing to attain his OBJ
ject.
Still, all his G if ts might have been
useless but for an ally in the enemy's
camp he knew nothing of. There is
certain impartiaity 10 gossip that
sometimes does duty as a virtue !;
talk is like air, it goes everywhere,
often where 1t would willingly be
kept from going; and in all the buzz
aud hustle there was in Crampton
about Armies stfed love affair, it
was impossible but that something
should reach her ears and fire her
| imagination. To be the heroine of
real romance, with a devoted lover
and cruel father, seemed to her the
height Of bliss. She did not know
how much easier it is to read three
volume novel than To live one; aud
It was nightly pleasant TO receive
these anonymous gifts, knowing per
tectly well whom they came from,
aud brood over them with all the 70
mantle tancies and visions of sweet
seventeen
1t was not qnite so agreeable when
the Judge, gong out one morning
unusually early, discovered a bou
quet with her name attached hang
Inc to the door knob, and hurled it,
with an ignominious txpIetive, into
the pig pen across the road--a place
OF deposit from which she could not
rescue even fragment TO weep over.
but the angry father 'bullied better
than he knew that spark of opposi
'lon klndled the under ready for con-
Migration in her Q IRISH heart, and
the destroyed bouquet was the first
gun bred in a long nternecne war
In vain did the Judge lie in wait for
tokens OF communication between
the lovers: quicker wit than his
torestailed him Aud when, in fit
OF desperation, he did at last send
Annie away TO school, he could not
forbic the express company or the
inal to carry the constant tokens
which kept up her interest in ana
recollections of the handsome, spir
tied young fellow who evidently
adored her, though altar off
In the mean time VIII improved
his opportunities at hartford he
studied with unfagging zeal; and
his naturally quick mind, stimulated
oy the ardor OF passion and the force
OF that will his mother so lamented,
seemed to defy obstacles and literally
devonr the way. 10 year from the
tune he was made conductor on the
freight train he gave up his situation,
and went into a physicians office,
where what work he did was taken
as an equ valent for his board, and
ne was allowed time t. recite in GER
tan classes at the hartford High
School the lessons he learned while
he mounted guard IN DR.. Hyde's of
lce. Some writing he got to help
him along-for the only thing his
mother ever had tune to teach him
was her own fair and even handwrit.
ing-and some occasional bits of
bracket saving fell IN his way, so
that with bis small savings from the
wages he bad received he kept de
Gently clothed; aud when ANNE
Hall met one day in the streets OF
hartford, as she was on her way
home from school, tall, handsome,
well set up youth, in a silt OF light
summer clothes, who lifted his hat 10
her with the grace Of a polished gen
tleman and the devotion Of lover
IN all his aspect, she blushed up to
her eyes. and smiled like an anilable
rose bud, Will had studied manners
as well a. bis school books, and I'M
proved outwardly as well as inward,
thereby, for manners imply a man
behind them, though the implication
sometimes fails.
But however strong a will may be,
Of however eager a loysr's wishes,
time does not speed the faster or de
lay the longer for wish or viii
pence is for the heart that can steady
rs own beats to the great pendulum
aot for that which throbs fast with
fever or Tags heavily with pain The
slow years went on, aud at isst VIII
rad studied and shaved enough .
get into the Dartford Medical Col
iege az student, paying his way
partly by cerlain services in aud
about the building He loved the
1 profession na ha1 chnxan all han,