The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-12-17

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man, with voice like the growl of a
bear, and an arm like sledge-h e-hammer er.
| How he ever come tew have sich a sweet.
pretty girl as Jenny, passes me. She
didn't look a mill like him, nor his wife,
nuther. Folks said that she looked like
Toms grandmother, who was an edi-
Gated lady, an who ran away to marry
his grand'ther. But / never see her.
She lived at Barberry Centre, an died
when Jenny was baby.
tom had five other children, all girls,
and Jenny was an odd sheep in the flock.
| looking like n moss-rosebud among
hollyhocks, OF n violet underneath a
hedge.
"They are all nice girls, enough, full
of fun, an bound tew have good time
but Jenny was the flower of the family.
There couldn't nobody help loving her
that knowed her. 1t was as nat'ral for
her tew be gentle an sweet an ladylike
as tew breathe.
An she was just as pretty as a pic
tur, with big black eyes, an hair Jest
the same color, as soft an shiny as silk.
| used tew like tew watch the color in
her cheeks comm an goin'-now Jest
a delicate pink, an the next minute as
red as the heart of June rose.
An there was more than me that
used tew love tew watch tis. But
hain't come tew that yit.
Squire Tracy was the richest man in
Barberry Green, an lived in the biggest
an grandest house, an he felt his oats,
you may depend. Not that he was
above speakin' tow common folks-he
alters spoke tew the poorest on'em-but
it was in grand, paternizin' sorter way
that didn't exactly suit some people. :.
1.-The old squire want none tew
pleasant tew live with, nuthsr, not if
half the stories told bout him was true
He had terrible temper, an was as sot
in his way as a mule. Everybody said
if Mis- Tracy hadn't been one of the
peaceabest creturs alive she never could
have got along with him. But as twas,
she didn't have no trouble, or, if she
did, nobody heard ont.
9Th ay had one son. Norman Tracy
was liked by everybody in the village,
great AZ small. He was so brave an
generous, an had sich pleasant an win
nin' ways! Both the squire an Mis-
Tracy sot their life by him, though they
had different ways of showin' it, an
twa'n't no wonder, nuther.
Mis- Tracy hadn't no girls of her
own, an she tuck a fancy tew Jenny
when she was leetle bit of thing.
She used tew often have her up tew her
house tew spend the day or AFTERNOON,
an was alters takin' notice on her when
ever they met, though she was so modest
an' retirin' that it didn't seem to set her
up none. as it would. most girls.
Jenny was alters handy with her
needle, an tuck naturally to all kinds of
fancy work; an when she was growed
up, Mis- Tracy used tew have her tew
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Sometimes she would go home nights
and sometimes she wouldn't, jest as it
happened.
"Arter while Norman came home.
He had been tew college. He had growed
an altered wonderful, but he had the
same handsome face an merry, winnin'
ways.
Norman was alters great mothers
boy, an, as Jenny was sewin' fur Mis-
Tracy all the time Jest then, him an her
was naturally throwed a good deal tew-
gether.
81 had married an settled down in a
home of my own. But John an me was
ambitious tew git ahead. We hadn
paid fur our place, ans so l used tew dew
odd jobs at the house fur Mis- Tracy,
ironin' an clear-starchin' her muslins.
She was pertic'ler bout sich, an alters
said l suited her tew T. So was in
an out the house considerable.
Mis- Tracy used the room Openin'
out of her'n, an which used tew be the
nursery, tur sewin'-room. Tew my
mind twas the pleasantest one in the
house; the winders was low, lookin'
out upon the garden, that was full of
flowers an shrubbery.
1T was warm weather, an the door
was open intew the hall, an / used tew
often see Norman in there mornin's,
either talkin', in his pleasant way, or
readin' aloud tew his mother, out of
some book of po'try. He had beauti
iul voice, an l liked the sound of it,
tho couldn't make no sense ont.
Jenny alters sot by the winder.
sewin', an remember, as if twas only
yesterday, how pretty she looked, the
color a-comin' an goip' in her cheeks,
an her dowucast eyes shinin' through
the long lashes. An remember how
he looked at her. an how gentle his
voice was when he spoke tew her. An
minded that they used tew often be in
the garden an down by the river tew-
gether.
"I've often wondered sence what his
mother could be thinkin' on. But she
seemed tew think that Norman was the
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play tewgether, an then Jenny was so
still an quiet, that she didn't have no
suspicious as to what was comm.
Il was sorter Uneasy myself some-
! times, when l see how Norman con-
| tinued tew be alters where Jenny was
an she seemed no ways averse to it
fur | knOwed that the squire would
never consent tew his marryin' Tom
Locke's darter, an Mis- Tracy, fond as
she was of Jenny, would never think
her fit wife fur him.
:" don't know how it came out, but
the squire seed or heard suthin' which
reused his suspicious. / want there
and ] WANT sorry, nuther. Them that
was, said that he ript an raved fit tew
take the roof off. I'll e upshot ont was,
! that Norman went off tew furrin parts,
an Jenny was sent home mighty sud-
| ding.
Sammy was only a few weeks old,
! then, an kept me tew home pooty close,
/ an / didn't 600 notbipi of Taonv 1oapt