Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-06-26
PEGS PUG.

and the baby was undecided, but all the
rest of the family with the exception
of Peg), consisting of the mother and
three elder daughters, were aquiline.
Peg, brown haired, gray-eyed cherry
mouthed Peg was Enthusiastically Pug.
Her nose, mean, of course. Somebody
says that lovely eyes are as plentiful as
blackberries, but handsome nose is
rarely met with. And somebody adds
s-whiehris also my own exper1ence-
! that w7sen met with it usually belongs
to an intensely stupid person. 1tseems
as though brains never did go hand in
hand-no, that won't do-never did
lodge above-that's better-a faultless
nose. @
Pegs pug was not the puggiest kind
of pug, but with the sauciest little tilt
to it, enough that way to be unable to
deny its relations. A third or fourth
cousin, as itsweEe, of the old original
pug; g;aze1zssa4ssszzsr .s;ae..s
= Follow YOUR nose, "1said her oldest
sister Aurelia to her one day, when the
child was asking directions to-some
place whittier she was bound on an er-
rand.
9 If Lido, y said Peg, with a mischiev
Gus twinkle in her pretty gray eyes,
9 you will get no answer TO your note.
T shall 90 Straight to heaven.
Mrs. Thrush, Pegs mother-a tail
woman, with fair, lusterless hair, rather
prominent light blue eyes, rosy COM
plexion, wide mouth, and cleaning
white teeth, in all of which particulars
/: her daughters Aureia, Amanda and
Arabellae CLOSELY resembledE her-had
never ceased to bemoan and bewal the
Z fact of Pegs pug. Sc That nose," she
was won't to say, looking imam aggrieved
manner at her husband, : ss never be-
longed to any of may family, Captain
Thrush Some of yoasr ancestors must
have owned it, and ] think. they. might
have much better kept it to themselves
instead of bequeathing it to an un-
/ fortunate child of mine.o During which
remarks, and others of like nature. the
old Captain would retire a moment or
/ two behind his newspaper or book, and
then emerge with smiling face to be-
3 stow caress upon the brown-haiFed
little girl at his side. =
Poor Peg Q needn't say poor Peg,
however, for she had the happiest. sum
niest disposition and the sweetest ma
tnre and brightest face in all LAUREL
town., on account of her nose-I can
see no other reason-became the Gin
derella of the Thrush family. Not that
she sat totally neglected among the
ashes, like the Cinderella of the old fairy
tale for she was the darling of her
father and baby sister-but she fulfilled
the duties of waiting maid and seam
stress to her elder sisters, thankfully
accepting their cast-of clothing in re-
turn for her services -(the Captain had
but small income for SO large a fami-
ly) and she took almost entire charge
of the Youngest, who had made her ap-
pearance in the most unexpected man.
ner when Miss Aurelia was twenty and
she assisted Lucy, the servant-maid, at
odd moments and read to her father
whenever she got a chance.
But Peg was happier than either of
her high-nosed sisters. after all with
her father to bless and the baby to kiss
her; and though she sometimes looked
at her small red hands with sigh, and
mentally compared them with the deli
cate white hands of the other Thrush
girls, she never thought with anger Of
the hard work she did in order that
those other hands might be delicate and
white. ssssssz7z sial saee
Well, things went on this way-Peg's
sisters reading, dressing, walking and
playing the piano and croquet and Peg
baking, sewing, sweeping, dusting and
taking care of baby Elfifie and her father
until Peg was eighteen and then arose
"a great commotion in the Auiet country
plaee n which the Thrusnss lived
There had always been dearth, q
great dearth, of men in Laureltown.
The fact is, all the boys born in that
beautiful but very secluded place
rushed away as soon as they became
old enough to seek their fortunes In
neighboring cities and with the excep.
ton OF Tamisin Brook, the vest-maker
who married Jeremiah Toothaker, the
blacksmith, there had been no one mar
ried In Laureltown for the last eight
years. Mo, there had not even been ar
engagement, let alone wedding
Bella Thrush came very near one with
DR.. Pellet, the homeopathic physician
of the place, who having little money
had settled there in hopes of finding {
practice a tall, thin. grave. honest MAI
of thirty OF thereabouts, who, being
passionately fond of music, a luxury ex
tremely rare in Iaureltown, had beer
caught by BelIa's passabie rendition o
his faxorite songs Il
How glad am told him I'd thinl
II overn said Bella-he had proposed
bfl0 Of1T 0Sk9I6 -btlt 1i6WS dIIlFCu---1 10
now may be able to do much better
: why, you wouldn't jilt DIR. Pellet
after trying so hard to get him, woult
you. Bellap'' asked Peg, with wide
. opened eyes.
g. .Jilt,, indeedrs answered Miss Ara
bella, with, sharpness. Don't tall
about things you don't understand.
But the welcome news? Three mos
eligible men, according to the Laurel
town standard, were coming to spen'
the summer among the hills and valley
of their native place-Captain Spark
man, son of Mrs Sparkman, of the bi
house; Arthur Thorne, artist, brothe
of the two old maids of Honeysuckl
Cottage, and David Onion, Esq, tn
wealthy bachelor merchant (woollel
goods, ] think proprietor of Lila
Villa. OF these gentlemen, Mr.. OHIO
had been Ia Europe for three years
and before they had never sper
more than a week or two at
time in Laureltown. Captain Spark
man had only paid flying visits t
his mother and sister for the last te
years and Arthur Thorne had lived in
Southern State ever since his nurse cal
ried him away from the old-fashione
cottage where his sisters still dwell
Imagine the excitement when all thre
proposed returning together and stay
ing three months!
The aquiline sisters for once disgrace
their noses. They became tiurried an
restless and am afraid, on examinin
their somewhat seanty wardrobes, sal
some naughty, certainly undignifiet
words. And Peg was immediatel
commanded to leave father. baby, pa
lor and kitchen and devote herself Ell
tirely to their service. Old silks wei
turned. new morning dresses mad
half-worn muslins altered and retrin
med, hats bought and decorated, an
for week the old Captain never sa
Peg unless he peeped in at the sittins
room door, where she sat smothered
II dry-goods, and wee Effie cried by tt
hour and would not be comforted, a
most breaking the heart of the lit
seamstress. but until her tasks WEI