The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-01-21
It was the first time she had ever spok-

dishes stood untouched upon the table
and little Lefty was seated on the steps
a basket of red peaches beside her, which
the boarder had brought down from hi.
room.
He was young man, teacher in &
Virginia country school, who had come
up to these hills geologizlng IN his sum
mer vacation. s..
II brought them from the McBnd,
farm, Mrs. Taney,' he said. "They are
very common kind in the Shenandoah
valley" handing them to her.
Mrs. Taneys thin features grew warm
81 rem ember tree Just like these al
home," she said, "by the old mill. NV
old nurse used to hold me up to pull
them tor myself
"Your little girl tells me you came
from Fauquier County. It is fine
county,"
''It is the most b eautiful in the world =
said Mrs. fancy. Up. .'
She stopped, and wen: IN hastily. She
felt the tears choking her. She could
hear Mr.. Burke tell the child that his
school was in Fauquler, and that he had
often passed her grandfather's house. II
| is for sale now, with dozen acres about
it; would sell very cheaply, no doubt
Land had deprecated since the war. "a
| quiet, comfortable little homestead, too. .
he said, "As any in the state"
Mrs. fancy paused in her work.
go, If 1 could only show 1t to Lefty !''
she said to herself 'The dear old farm
The sunny porches and the Bourbon ros-
az "a o1yc ,%,,p; 4
She never had spoken of her old home to
her other children; but to Lefty she had
talked Of it often, when they vera alone.
Lefty was like herself---the others were
all Taneys. @ 1...' FL ""s
She came to the door. ~'- H.. "' -. -..'..A'
800 you know, Mr.. Burke. If there is
an old negro on the place-a gardenerg''
"Uncle Tods O, everybody knows the
old man And his stories about the Cleve
Landslide fambly,' as he called them.''
1--WE we're the. Clevelands. And old
Tod is really living yet?" She laughed
for the first time in year. E@s
When Lefty had gone in, Mr.. Burke
paced up and down the porch, He was
a manly, large-natured young fellow, and
his heart achcd with pity for the poor,
pinched lives of this child and her moth
er. All he could do to show them kind
ness was to lend books to Lefty, which
she devoured eagerly, for she was fond
of reading; in fact, che had obstinately
persisted IN staying at the free school I'M
til she had educated herself. ok .h5.&.
William fancy waited till the young
man had gone, ard then he went into the
pantry, where his mother was straining
the last crock of milk Something in
his manner made her set it down, trem-
bling. ..@. "|-aa a." ,-.,:...
"You have lad news to tell9" she said.
mo- with an uneasy, strident laugh.
"Most folks count it good. Fact is,
mother, I've made up my mind to mar
80, William!' her pale cheeks color
ing.
II made up my mind three months
ago. And the girls courted, and the
weddings to be tomorrow. There, now
No need for you to look in that way. I'm
generally pretty close mouthed about
my own business; you might know that
Aud I didn't chose to have the mat .er
cackled over at home. The girls Miss
OOQny CraW1OrQ.
His mother came toward HIM. He was
her son, after all, and this was the Turn
ing point Of his life. She put her arms
about HIM and kissed him. "God bless
you, my boy" she said. n.aa
He stood immovable as log.
"Don't let's have any FUSS" he said.
You'd better sit down. You're shaking
all over. Well, that's all. There'll be
wedding hubbub here. l don't hold to
spending money in feeding lot of guz.
zling fools. The Crawfords have regu.
lar blew out in the morning. But you
don't want to go, [ reckon3'' uneasily
II should like to see you married.
timidly. . ..... .....'. .~.sf.& -
80, nonsense! There's no sickly senti.
ment about mo. I'll have Sophy home by
supper time. You'll have. to see to things
here.' ..., ..a.o .a.a.4 If
He lighted his candle and turned tt
60. 'By the way, she was here month
ago. .a ..a ...a. . j. tstae
"fes.' Mrs. fancy remembered dis
tinctly the gross featured, black-eyed
| young woman who had staggered
through the farmhouse in her cheap silk
| "AAN 8 IN JOVOAJ.
| "She came just to look at her new
| home, and-well---she rather took a fan
cy to the south chamber. You'd better
fix it up for her, ssu ..-.4 aaE 49,
my room Wllliam7' as.....1 -#!ra
eyes. It's all the same to YOU. OF
course you can 60 up to Lefty" .aaa
| Lefty, who had been at work inside
came out and threw her arms sobbina
about her mother. She knew thai
this had been her mothers room fol
thirty years. All Mrs. Taneys children
were born in it: The baby died there
William stopped and came back, say
ing, Nov just look here It's Just al
we'll to speak plainly at once. III have
no opposition to my wife from you, Let
ty, nor from-from any other woman
I'm the head of this house. Ny wife {. al
be mistress in it. She brings me snug
bit of money, and I'll not have her mo-
her family insulted in it," ta.. s,.ss f.
"My son!'' l.......as ....-a 45a...
But he stalked off to bed. s.a-tf g.
There was no time next day tor Mrs
fancy or Lefty to ever think of the com
ing trouble. They were up as usual, two
or three hours before day, klndling fires
milking, and cooking breakfast tor The
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