The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-08-01

now it. they passed th-t day the turn
ing-point Of their lives; for lyddy, in
her excited state, was just impossible
enough. and enough reused by her de-
Tense ~ Captain Tart in his favor, 20
make this meeting the decisive one.
But she did not forget herself.
Won't you come In, Cap'n TAylorp"
she said, cordially, and with apparent
calmness.
"No, thankee," said Captain Tart,
cycling the old lady uneasily; ~ come
70 see you mint about suthin. S'posc
you walk down the border with me. an
look 1t them posies you was tellin' Of
down to Jerushy Willits'sP"
So Lyddy got her sun-bonnet, and
they strollsd down the border"
where some datfodils and wonderful hy-
acynths, the only ones in town, and sent
10 Lyddy from Boston. were just then
the horticultural wonder Of the neigh
borhood.
"By-the-way," said Lyddy. gradual
" recovering her composure, :" have
you seen Jerushy Willitts since dona-
tionr"
"No, l haint," said Captain Tart;
"nut see Adonijah Brewer this morn
in, an he said Loisy Pettingill was
a-goin' to hev quiltin' next Wednes-
day, and o. course you'll be a-goin'. l
come to see ef you'd ride home on my
pillion, come night"
Lyddy hesitated. Captain Tart had
never made SO bold an advance as
this, and Lyddy thought Of her mother.
"Jotham Hunter hain't asked you,
has he, Lyddy ?" said Captain Tart, his
forehead gathering in scowl.
"No, no." said Lyddy, hastily. ~
hain't had no invite myself yet, Jon
know; but, law!" recklessly deciding
to follow her own wishes despite her
mother, 90 course shall have, an ]
might as well come home with you a.
any body, s'pose. Here's the flow
ers."
"Purty, amt theya" said Captain
Tart, Frightening up.
"Mebbe you'd like one for your but
ton -hole," said Lyddy, the something
within which had been reused by her
MOI hers words getting the better Of her
prudence. t" Here's pretty one;" and
she broke of little stalk which bore
two twinkling blue stars, and twisting
them with q sprig of southernwood
which grew beside Il, began to pin it on
the lapel OF Captain Tart's homespun
coat. That ended the whole matter for
the young man. Her bright hair was
close to his shoulder. her pink face al
most against his breast His breath
fioated down in her face, and made her
bosom heave faster, and she made two
or three efforts to fasten the refractory
flowers, and the young mans eyes glis-
tened with new tenderness. His
heart was all aflame. He thought Of the
" quiltin'," and the ride home after
ward, and could scarcely wait Is he
thought. He decided that he must ask
her then the final question, and with
her flowers breathing up perfume into
his face, and the remembrance Of her
tell-tale bushes in his mind, be felt that
her answer could not be " No." Then,
after lingering moment at the door,
he walked away, his heart full of love,
Lyddy, and anticipation
Wednesday came, and as the ''invite"
had decorOusly preceded 1t, Lyddy
Washburn, with party of merry girls,
walked, as was the custom, the two
miles to Loisy Pettingill's, to the quilt
ing, arriving there at two In the after
noon, and setting bravely to work at
once upon the gorgeous quilt, which
was to be the chief adornment Of Loisy's
" outfttin'- 1t her approaching nup-
tials.
The great quiltin' bars folded to-
gether fast As skillful fingers deity sew
ed along the lines Of the intricate pat
tern, and by 5 O'Clock, when supper
was announced, the quilt was reduced
70 50 small . compass that " Miss Pet
tingill'' insisted that every thing should
be put away before the young men
came. "Loisy and the rest can finish
il in no time tomorrow" said the hos
pitable old lady, /" and I'm afraid that
ef you 60 ahead as you've been a-goin'.
you won't have no appetite for them
sugar doughnuts I've been a-makin'."
The evening came. The girls had
previously gone up into the big front
chamber, with its lofty puffy bed and
high stiff bureau. to don such extra rib
hons and trinkets a. they had reserved
for the edification OF the young men Who
were expected shortly. OF course they
all had gold beads, and most Of them
big brooches containing small painted
likeness Of some ancestor. Then there
were several pairs Of gold earrings;
and the combs--the shell combs that
lowered half foot above the smooth
luxuriance Of our grandmother's colt
fures-who can describe themp
One BY one the young men were ad-
mitted It the clang Of the great brass
knockcr-Jotham Hunter and Adonijah
Brewer and Timothy Bassett and doz-
en- other brown-faced, re-shoulder-
ed young fellows, who had never had .
days illness in their lives and who,