The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-05-22
7 lilly.

"Aslled Tilly?'
g Yes, actually. I heard him myself
Did you cvcr!"
Miss Rosie Green, for an answer.
looked unuttcrable things. Miss Posic
Green took off her srmdown and famed
herself vigorously with it. She looked
warm her face was flushed with feeling
no less than with the weather. She and
her sister were no longer as youthful as
their names suggested. Moreover. irri-
tation brings out the lines and wrinkles
of II face, and it is unquestionably irri-
tating to be passed over for slip of Il
own flesh and blood at that.
Its all pas fault" Miss Rosie pur-
sued, presently. "He does spoil that
girl so abomnably. There will be no
enduring her presently"
Il shouldn't be one bit surprised if Mr..
Leonard makes so much of her just to
please pa. Men are such time-scrvers.
Of course it's to his interest to keep. in
pas good books"
"Thcre they go now" cried Miss
Rosie in an excited whisper, flying to the
window, and peeping through crack in
the shutter.
For goodness sake, don't give her
the satisfaction of seeing you look at
her.
- don't care whether she sees me or
not-not rush. That old pink calico
on! | do think she might have had the
deccncv to make herself look respecta-
bic, riding out with pas young man."
"Pa's young man! What Il way to
"Well, isn't he, for the present? He's
reading medicine in pas Office, I'm sure,
and he takes the messages that are left.
and tells pa afterward. For my part, |
think he is bound to be civil to pas
daughters"
We'll, he is being civil to one ofthem." :"
Yes. That's the worst of the way
pa treats I'illy. It's real unjust to us.
Hateful little piece!'
A case of cruel stcp-sisters, you are
thinking. However, there was no tie
either of blood OF of marriage in this in
stance, DR.. Green had adopted Tilly.
brought her with him when he moved
to Woodbridge fifteen years ago. She
was Il mere baby then, and his wife was
still living, and cared for the child like
her own. She was a motherly soul, and
loved babies. Her own girls had left
infancy half score of years behind
Them Since her death life had not been
so smooth for lilly. Perhaps the Green
girls would have been kind to another
person in the same situation, but they
certainly made life Il burden to their lit
tie adopted sister. There is no account
ing for likes and dislikes. 1t did not
prove Tilly morally deficient because
she aroused the worst feelings in Rosie's
and Posie's natures. 1t is an unpleasant
mystery why certain antagonistic ma
lures should be subjected to certain ex-
aspelating frictions. There are those
Il, l. III To fnn1 ~.
peach. Others bite through the skin
with unalloyed enjoyment.
Mr.. Leonard-he hoped to be DR..
Leonard this time next year-drove a
fast horse before shining new buggy.
1t was bright day, and he had pretty
girl beside him. His spirits rose to the
level of the occasion. Tilly and he
laughed and talked in way that would
have driven Miss Posie frantic. Ispecify
Miss Posie, because her sister had ac-
quired two or three years additional
resignation in which to bear the ills of
spinsterhood; wall-flowering had be-
come almosta second nature. But Tilly
laughed on regardless. She was happy
John Leonard was the handsomest, best
hammered, the best-dressed young man
she had ever Known, and he had singled
her out for his especial favor. She was
willing to believe. anything Of an auspi-
cious fate. -.-.-
John Leonard compared her mean
while to wild rose, her boon was so
exquisite, her whole effect so dainty.
Her large dark eyes were wonderfully
bright and shining. | am afraid she
was quite unaware how much they
avowed as she raised them to Johns
. face now and again. Prudence should
q havekept them averted. - NS"
g. IL burned. my finger to-day,p she
said, Displaying it, taking the baked