Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-11-20
LANCASTER. WISCONSIN. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 20. 1879.

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, life; the open unsatlsfisd nav OF
something to grind and something to
j be ground.
} Miss Mansfield astonished Mrs
I Finch beyond measure by coming to
the kitchen to ask when dinner
J would be served, and gave her a
turn from which she did not recov-
! er all night, when she desired that
they, for this once, enjoy the tease
together.
you know she never eats nothing
Christmases,' she remarked to the
gardener 'thems her fast DAYS !;
and it was to be choked to death
with this turkey bone, couldn't tell
It 1t was her eggcentricitles, or
whether 1t was that apple
/ Apple, | reckon, if you was speak
lug OF choking ana OF yourself; APP
pies has choKed folks afore now;
said John.
Yes, l know-men women swal
low easier, aud Mrs Finch seeing
she had unwittingly turned the joke
upon herself, founced out of the
room.
| Before the year which was so
nearly at an end finally closed, the
good housekeeper ran hastily in one
day, to her lady, saying:
| oh Miss couldn't you do some
thing? Miss Sunburn, she's dead /;
been weakly good while, aud not
q cent to bury her with, and little
Mary a crying her lonesome heart
out.
The something, which Miss Mans
field had undertaken to do, proved
to be much. Hers was no halt
hearted generosity when once
aroused. ALI the expenses attending
the last sad rite of her lowly neigh
Dor had been assumed by her, the
arrears OF rent paid up, and the small
effects gathered into one room of her
own spacious house, and little Mary
thoroughly domesticated at Rad.
Cliff
Careful questioning brought out
the fact that the orphaned girl had
neither brother or sister, that her
grandparents had died, aud 'every
body was gone
Among Mrs. Sanburn's few papers,
which Miss Mansfield felt it her duty
to look over, there was one letter
without date, though evidently writ
ten some years before, signed Your
sorrowing mother 1t held some
loving messages, but much repro sch
There seemed to have been disobe.
dience aud wiltulness in marriage on
the part of the daughter. The letter
went on to say-'And now your
brother has wandered off. think
he has quarreled with his Mary, or
she has proven unworthy-he does
not say; you never saw her, bat she
was TO be his wife,
Miss Mansfield read no more her
own name was Mary,s she words had
a new sacredness; she must not I'M
veil the secrets OF other hearts-sad
hearts-two of them had laid down
the burden of life, and one had sought
to flee from it.
AS the months went on, the new
inmate of the house began to throw
off her depression.
| Whether time was softeping her
grief, or the opening spring viviied
her heart, or whether she felt that
now she must live chiefly for her new
TREND, does not matter; she was
growing to be her own natural buoy
ant self.
Il cannot call you Mary Miss
Mansfield said, sit is my own name
! find / cannot hear 1t lightly spoken;
and it is also your home name to
your mother-so I will call you Ma
zie. Shall you like it !? / am not sure
but | was little bewitched and be
wlldered the first time / saw yoa
'Mazie- Mazie-yes, shall like it;
thank you very much.
1t was new atmosphere in which
Miss Mansfield found herself-this
care, and culture, and companionshp
of young soul. She had never a
prediction for pets She did not
fancy frolicsome kittens about her
feet; or imprisoned birds Tapping
their bright wings against gilded
cages or pretty fish swimming aim.
lessly round and round in crystal
globes. Not even fountain lent It's
cool drip to the lawn. She would
not have the merry waters entrap-
, ped the fish should run free in the
free running river, and the robin and
thrush hop about at their own wilful
will. She took not into account, per
haps, that her reticent royal self was
, to her fixed habitudes half slave, or
} that Gruff chung TO her with sullen
J attachment that none could break -
He was her self constituted guardian;
. his vigilant eye kept her under strict
t surveillance. and she sometimes i'm
patiently resented, and sometimes
gladly recognized. The old fellow
!: looked askance at the new conner,
and the changed order of things that
/. seemed ito have settled themselves
inc comfortable rout ne. He liked
rules and regulations. did Gruff, and
t dignified ease; but Maize laughed at
, his whims, and rode on his back,
; stuck burs on his shaggy coat, and
LED him each day some wild race.
. There we're merry times at Radcliffe
all to itself-just youthful spirits bub
& bling over, till all the household
Z caught the infection.
9 You are just like sody bottle
when the cork's took out, said Mrs
Finch, talking to Maize, and there'i
no getting you back where you start
!, ed FROM
q 1t has been said that an unmarried
woman may be told by her tight
!. expression it is perhaps the residu
' um of long self centering be this a
!. it may, under the incentives, AMI
! cares of her new position, Mis-
o Mansfeld's naughty face was some
what matronizing. A more liberal
! mellow look, 40 to speak, sat dali.
: on her features. Her thought wa
e e no longer confined to one groove, ik
: the embarked canal, with its s!oy
) boat and plodding horse but ez
tended to avenues ocean-wide, an
: but horizontal-bound.