The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-03-25

| Be strong right. detest the wrong,
| And persevere! " -
Then, when life's twilight fades, s..
-. Tia thoaght uill give the ohssr -s-se-s
That thou In trials passed
- Did'st peraeyerel
1 THE 'sQUIRE's WOOING.
Squire Kimban the widower, wa.
in his strawberry bed pulling up weeds
when Lucy Keene came down the road
that beautiful June morning.; and he
was Just throwing an armful over the
| fence, when he caught sight of her, as
she turned the corner. The sun-bon
| net she wore.was exactly like the one
he remembered TO have seen her mother
wear fiye-and-twenty years ago; and he
remembered, too. as he looked at this
one, and the fresh, rosy face under it,
how that one made his heart futter,
the first time he saw it, and how he
was SO bewitched by it or the face un-
der 1.-THE hardly knew which, for sun
bonnet and wearers were equally be-
fwitching, it seemed to him-that he
had walked home with Hester Mason,
and had hard work to keep from pro.
posing to her. - -.
He wondered now, and he had won
dered many times in the five-and-twen-
| ty years gone by, why he had never
proposed to her. He had meant to
marry her, and he was sure she liked
him in the old days, but-and he al
ways thought OF it with q sigh-some-
thing had come between them. and she
had married Robert Keene, and he
had married his cousin Mary. Fate
must have had something to do with it
he concluded. As he looked at Hester s
daughter, the old fire stirred under the
dust and ashes of the dead years and
he felt little flame springing up in his
heart. ..-.-i ~ --e4ss-I
Woodworking. Lucy, he said. lean
ing across the fence.
"Or' exclaimed Lucy, with little
start 81 didn't think any one was
near, and you almost scared me. -Isn't t
it pleasant? / told mother it was so
nice out Of doors that 1 couldn't stay in
the houses HneE f
=. Yes, lit Is pleasant, ~ answered the
Squire, looking straight into her pret-
ty face. (" How is your mother, Lucyr'
-issO,T she's well" answered, Lucy.
What splendid strawberries you ana
going to hayei The meddlesome hens
got into our garden, and mother says
she don't think Wen have q pailful Of
berries" d -
oi"I want to knows exclaimed the
Squire. s'Now you just tell your
mother she's welcome to all she wants
out of my patch. She can hayei,em
just as well as not. There's goin' to be
d sight more'u we want, and / dont
Ike 70 have 'em wasted. .i'os :" ~ 10
:tPn tell her, EandfI know she'lf be
Ill IL ~
Lucy. 'sYou know she's suchs8 hnnd
to make strawberry preservesr' 9 -
"Yes, do" said the Squire, think
that she used 10 beat a3r the odd Shcuses
keepers, too. They used to say she had
knack Of making strawberry jam,
that they couldn't get hold Of - =
She hasn't lost It yet" laughed
Lucy. ss " She,1 be glad to hxve Tou
come to tea, sometime, and try some
she made last year" -r'5- ,,s-l
"lwill," said the Squire. "Le,mme
seel To-day's Wednesday. Tell her
I'll come over Saturday, if it's agree
able; and. Il guess the berries'n be
ripe, So can pick q psilful by that
time. ) II they arc. I'll bring over
some." -i--7r-s,s - -. -, !
"Thank you,n said Lucy ,"We'll
expect you to tea, Saturday, then.,'s -
.Yes,n answeredt the Squire. feeling
very much as he used to when her
mother smiled at him. 81 had letter
from Charley, yesterday. He's coming
home in q day or two, to stay"
"That'll be pleasant-for you." said
Lucy, STOPPING down to pick q daisy.
How could he see the Elnsh behind the
sun-bonnet? II he had, it might haye
= Yes, it Wi1S6 responded the Squire.
"Charley's good boy, and1 Z get
pretty lonesome without him. wish
he'd take it into his, head TO settle
down. ttsI iiislt Sfssi -
81 must be rgoing,'' said Lucy.
"Don't disappoint rs, now"
81 won't, !" answered the Squire, and
then she went on, and he went back to
pulling weeds. ..... yf.-.a-.s. .5r-ia.
81 suppose it's foolish to think of
such a thing" he said to himself, by
and Bly, = but folks do such foolish
things as that would be. . don't know
as it 8 any body business but ours. If
see fit to. marry Lucy, and she's will
lin, L m going to doit;;n and the Squire
| looked about defiantly, as II he half ex-
pected somebody to object to it.
Charley came home that afternoon
"I suppose I'll have to tell him what
I've been thinking about, y thought the
Squire. "I declare, / hate to! I'd
sooner take horse-whipping. but there
is no use of dreading il and putting il
off, as / know of. The sooner it's done
with, the better"
7 Accordingly when they were sitting
on the piazza. after tea, he began to
break the news: sf-t5s:
| "I-Pve been thinking some lately,
of getting housekeeper, he stammer-
ed, growing very red In the face. go =
asked Charley. unsuspectingly.
ell meant-ahem!-a 'h6usekeep-
er of-of another kind! !h explained the
Squire, explosively, ,wiping his face very
energetically. after the completion OF
1.-The difficult sentence. .<iisit-'za|S - exc =.
1 81 think begin to understand" said
Charley. in great surprise. May 1 ask
| "It's-irsEdown the roadr' answer.
ed the Squire, choking considerably
over the words, and jerking his thumbs
| over his shoulder in the direction of the
1 widow Keene's. ! H3fag - Ani.ipJt
/ "That's the. way the wind blows, il
| it?'' laughed Charley. I'm. glad tc
hear it.. You couldn'e do better If you
hunted the world oyer."t .i.s9 80 2
| "rm glad to hear you say 90" said
his father, much relieved. 81 felt SURF
\ you'd like to have Lucy. as las q mem,