The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-10-21
AN lMPUDENT PUPPY.

"Where is Sue?" inquired Mrs. Mel
lington, entering the room where her
two eldest daughters were employed, the
one in reading, the other with q bit of
fancy work.
81 really don't know, mamma, an
swered Ada, looking up from her work.
81 have had scarcely a glimpse of Sue
since we came to the country. She APP
pears to have taken to an outdoor life,
and is never in the house except at
night"
III saw her about two hours ago on
her way to the orchard, remarked Rose.
"She said she was going to feed the
pigs, and would afterward take lesson
in milking"
81 wish | could find her." resumed
Mrs. Wellington. 81 am sure that Col.
Hanley or his son will call this afternoon,
and it is proper that Sue should be pres
ent She did not appear on their former
visit.
"She will shock the Colonel by her
hoydenish manners, and, as to his son, |
hardly think he will particularly admire
her. He doesn't fancy female society,
I've heard and prefers his dogs and
horses. And wasn't he little wild at
college. mammal"
"A little too fond of what is called fun
nothing more that | have ever heard
He is clever young man, will he
wealthy, and is, next to his father, the
best match in the neighborhood, though,
as you say, he don't appear to care par
ticularly for ladies' society. | fancy he
looked rather bored while talking to that
stately Miss Radstock, clever and hand
some rs she is. And then he must know
that ali the girls are trying to secure
him, which naturally makes him shy of
them"
These remarks were clearly intended
as hints to her daughters, for Mrs. Mil
lington was genuine matchmaker, and
had already married off two daughters
advantagcOusly.
Finding that the remaining eldest
daughter had failed to make the desired
impression on either Col Hanley or his
son, she had bethought herself of pro-
ducing Sue, hitherto, as the youngest
and prettiest, carefully kept in the back
ground.
But. meanwhile, where was Sue?
She had filed basket with apples for
the pigs, strolled around the orchard, adj
mired the trees and the fruit, and climbed
a low plum tree, in order to gather an
especially fine one for her father. In
this position her eye was caught by a
low line of green willows, bordering the
sloping meadows beyond the orchard.
"It looks as though stream were
there she thought, land ! do so love
water. dare say it is SO lovely under
those willows. Come Rolla,' calling
to little half grown terrier, "you aud [
will go on an exploring expedition
together"
Rolla, after coaxing, rather sulkily
obeyed. He was an ugly little, crooked
legged, hairy-mu2zled pup, which Sue
had, on her arrival at the farm, begged
of the farmer for a pct Yet Rolla,
despite all the petting, did not take to
this pretty young mistress, but persisted
in evincing decided preference for the
barn and kitchen, and low life i'll general.
She was not disappointed in her expecta-
ton. She found clear, shallow stream,
which ran ripping and mlumurlng
pleasantly beneath the willows, between
thcket of wild rose and blossoming elder.
She seated herself on the grassy bank,
took off first her hat and then her shoes
and stockings, and allowed the cool rip
pies to dance about her white feet. Then
She became interested i'll watching some
insect life on the surface of the water,
and when satisfied with this, resumed her
shoes and stockings and lay back on the
cool turf, dreamily reciting snatches OF
poetry.
A stray sunbeam glinted on her rip
ping brown hair, and the eyes that
looked up through the waving foliage
were as deeply blue and clear as the
summer sky overhead. Pity that there
was no stray artist to gaze upon the
picture.
Suddenly Sue awoke to the fact that
folla had disappeared. He had been
smelling about the bushes, and had now
stolen off on the track of some scent, per
ceptlble only to his own keen olfactories
She lifted up her voice, and called il
hef sweet, clear, girlish tones:
Rolla Rolla!"
In answer there was presently rust
ing amid the elder bushes, and fort
stepped not the culprit Rolla, but yer.
handsome young man, equipped with
gun and game-bag.
que sprang up. Each stared for nj
instant at the other; then the gentleman
gracefully lifting his hat, said
-, May inquire, Miss, what you wan
with me?"