The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-01-15

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ing the stupid, red-headed children
here"
"My lawyer may happen along"
said Sara, blithely. "Ishan't borrow.
| trouble aad you nesdn't esosk, youy.
self hoarss, Bertha, fer il voA's do
any good
The sisters had crossed the mead
! ov by this time and reached the door
Of the comfortable farmhouse they
called home. Sara went iRto The
kitchen 10 -put the kettle on for tea,
aud Bertha Maybin went to her bed
room.
1--WE had . nice walk over the
fields, mother" said Sara, kissing the
old lady who hat by the window.
knitting.
"pm glad of it DEAR" was the 10
ply,
Mrs Brady was too old and TOO
much crippled with rheumatism to
help in the work of the farm house
at all, and all devolved on Sara, who
was fond Of housekeeping and dairy
work, and sold the best butter and
cheese, and the finest honey of any
one of her neighbors. The farm was
situated two miles from the small
town of Stockwell, and was to revert
to Seth Chambers at the death OF
Mrs. Brady, to whom it had been lett
by. the young mans uncle, who bad
been Mrs. Brady's lover in her young
days. and dying, had remembered her
in her poverty with her two children
to support. 1t was generous and a
timely bequest, for Mrs. Brady had
just lost her second husband, and
after his funeral expenses had been
paid, found herself without 81 dollar
IN the world, and with two children
looking to her for support. She took
in sewing and eked out a scanty liv;
ing for them all, and then three
months later, Mr.. Chambers had died
and she found herself mistress Of
Blossom Farm, and the owner Of
dozen COWS and several horses
There was also q couple of hundred
dollars III the bank i'll her name.
Mrs Brady was Possessed OF great
executive ability, and She made the
..., .:l1sii = ,isa,liuila veI. y ,aale more
children. Be4fha hid been Ten years
old and Sara only.one year W hen they
moved to Blossom Farm. Berthy
was the child of her first husband,
and Sara other second. Bertha had
grown up and married and gone to
the city to live, but the first of every
June saw her installed at the Bios
som Farm as a boarder and she now
had two children to bring with her,
Sara Brady's happy pleasant dispo-
sition made her general favorite in
the neighborhood, but in spite of
much attention from the sterner sex,
she was still unmarried much to Ber-
tha's discontinue who seemed to think
that her halfsister was disgracing
the family by remaining in state Of
single bl essednesA
The month of June was passing
| sw ittly away, and Sara had had two
chances to change her condition. Seth
Chambers had been the first 70 bring
matters to a focus, and had made Sa-
ra very bashful proposal, to which
| she had said no. very decidedly.
Bertha had been angry, very an
cry and had, as she expressed it,
"spoken her mind" to Sara. To
throw away such chance Of keep
ing Blossom Farm in the family, was
in her opinion, absolutely criminal.
Perhaps Bertha looked forward to
the time when she would have to
take board elsewhere for the Sum-
mer, and didn't fancy the idea at all
of having no Blossom Farm to go to
where she could make herself thor
oughly at home.
"You are crazy to refuse him, Sa-
IA. Haven't 1 warned you how you
will be left an old maid, penniless,
homeless, and-good heavens. What
do you expect"
81 expect my lawyer" coolly inter
rupted Sara, kneadTg up the bread,
with arms barred to the elbow, and
listening with smile to her halt,sis-
ter's lecture.
"That is the craziest notion, Sara.
1 do wish we had never taken that
walk, and you had never found that
horrid little daisy. 1t does seem too
ridiculous to talk about"
'Then don't talk about it, said
Sara. H
"But you can't really mean, Sara,
that you will throw away good
chances just for the sake of such a