The Grant County herald. (Big Stone City, Grant County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1883, 1879-08-30
CATHERINE.

| girl, with sweet eyes and q tall. hand
! some fellow saying soft things 10 her.
| you are greatly mistaken.
! We had been at summer hotels, at the
seaside, and among the mountains, where
i pert Irish girls, and sometimes perter
/ Yankee ones, tauntel round the table
| IN parti-colored costumes, and with hair
| frizzled and pulled over their eyes, II
poodle.
We were tired ot people, and wanted
| to rest; so we induced farmers wife to
count us among her family, and let Us
share their sweet cream and fresh butter.
These and the strawberries, and the
chickens were all very nice, but the most
refreshing sight there was a real genuine
/ servant.
She was middle-aged woman, with
horny hands, hair touched with gray,
/ and patient, sad expression in her eyes
Her voice was low and pleasant, and her
smile very winning, although she was
uncommonly plain, and bore marks Of an
encounter with that destroyer Of beauty
the smallpox.
Catherine-she answered to no such pet
nsme as katy" or "Kitty"- always
wore q clean, well-staTched print, with a
frill of The same at the neck; checked
apron, tied with tape around her waist,
and her halr was always combed smooth
" over her forehead. She was one of
those rare women who can get up dim
ner, and then, as If nv magic, put her
i self In perfect order to serve the table.
Catherine was doing double duty at
this time. The boy, whose duty It was
to milk seven cows and feed two hundred
hens, had gone home, i'll, and as the men
were all busy II the harvest-felds, his
work came on Ter The farmer had gone
q to New York II get another man, an
4 was expected home the next day
Tlat evening, we went out 10 see Ca.
Uterine milk. and, as we stood beside hei
ana the delicate butf-eolored Jersey con
she was milking, We fell into converse.
/ ton with hcr.
. She told is She was well acquainted
with her work, having been q farm-ser
want in ,'Henglandn She thought WORK
lighter and wages aetter here than there
and remarked:
: ''If servants were willing II be lik.
servants here. and not be always strug
Cling to look like ladies, they might la,
by good bit t;or sick aay, or for ole
age.
| said it was cheering to meet one wht
! was contented with her lot; upon whici
: she heavea deep sigh, aud | saw tha
/ it was the same old story-"an aching
/ Void If no deeper sorrow.
q She did not look up, nor court sym
9 pathy but | could not help saying:
4 suppose you left your parents he
i hind, and your brothers and sisters"
No: my parents died when was a bi
f Of child. Nv brother died ten years
: ago
| well, one signs for the very greer
8 earth Of his native land" | said.
! "oh, we'll. don't know about that
: ma am; never think Of that It's JUS
/ as green and sweet here. Gods earth /.
about the SAME all over and agar
! there was deep, deep sigh.
: We followed Catherine rs she bore tn
! shining pals into the dairy, and there
. we met the lady Of the farm.
b Yes, we mean lust that, for She wa
j q lady as well Is d farmers wife. Sht
met Catherine with 4 smile. and said
j BE patient one more milking, Gather
: inc. The masters coming tomorrow
1t Will a IllaI WHO III IT lWlIs IIe Ilefl
70 you Toe was.
Catherine smiled and replied. I'm
Il rot a-weaIg, and neither am | impatient
L ma am =
Z We lett The brick-tiooled dairy, and a
0 we passed into the sittlng-room, said i
i the lady. that woman has some grea
k SORROW.
i '.0h, no. only perhaps little 'omesici
v for hold Hen9land;' was the reply
4 She has been with me two years, AM
never spoke OF any trouble.
II have had my suspicious however
! she added, ..that she might have hus
# band somewhere, although she passes 70
It an Old maid. The worthy man in ou
d cottage, who has nice home and SOM
D money, wanted to marry her, last winter
!. to secure COOL mother for his boys
Q But she said, No, she 'ad no cart TO
4 marrying
!. When the open wagon came up from
]. the depot, about sunset next day, we al
k went to the kitchen door to welcome 9Th
! master" and to take a peep at the ney
| man.
q Catherine stood in the doorway the pic
l. ture OF neatness. She was dressed in on
k ! Of her .Henglish gowns in whlcl