The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-06-17
Mays Sutton.

"Has May come! Yes Bertha; l
have slowed her away safe and sound in
the carriage" And Mr. Webb, of Fran
ington Hall, busted himself in lifting
various parcels, bags, ETC., from the old
family carriage.
While so engaged he did not perceive
the antics of his irrepressible son, who
was capering about the road in the vain
endeavor to catch glimpse of his Cousin
Nays face.
At last Mr.. Webb assisted his niece
to alight, in response to her impatient
remark shat he was going to keep her
there all day." She was slender, deli
cate girl of about eighteen Summers,
with soft pearly complexion, and great
laughing brown eyes; her hair fell in
ringlets about her shoulders, and looked
like shower of gold as the setting sun
lit up the darker shadows of her nut
brown hair. She was the orphan neice
of Mr.. Webb, and had been brought up
entirely at fashionable boarding school;
on the completion of her education she
came to her unce's home, situated in the
quiet county of s., in accordance
with the wish of her mother, who de
sired her to live with her uncle after
leaving school. Now our heroine did
not like the idea of living in a "Jull,
stupid country place, as she described
it, and longed passionately for the gay
life of the city.
She was speedily made welcome by
her aunt and cousins, who had collected
around the garden gate, all Impotence
to see the new cousin.
Mrs. Webb was a gentle, placid lady,
with a kind motherly manner very COM
fort'ng to the stranger Her Cousin
Bertha was a very pretty girl, with
dreamy gray eyes and sweet smile
her hair was fastened into careless
knot behind that became her wonder
fully. Edwin came next, and it did not
take May many minutes to learn that
he was the most incorri ,ible tease she
had ever met; he was a good looking
fellow, with tall, well-knit figure a
world of fun lurked in his large blue
eyes, and a mischieyeus smile lowered
over his lips.
They led her across the smooth lawn
to the piazza, which surrounded the
house on all sides. From the south a
view of the blue sea could be seen, as it
dashed furiously against the rocks; and
from the west the green meadows
stretched as far as the eye could reach,
while few lazy cows were dotted here
and there over the landscape. 1t was
such a lovely, peaceful scene that Mays
face frightened involuntarily as she
thought, 81 cannot help enjoying myself
here with such tempting scene before
me-"
swell, May, l suppose your mind is
filed with rapture at the thought of
spending your future days in this coun-
try place, SAID Edwin, looking with a
very teasing smile at his cousin, who
was leaning against one of the columns
covered with ivy that supported the pi-
azza.
A shadow fell over her bright face as
she replied, warmly:
81 should think not, indeed !"
Edwin laughed slightly, and then
went on TO say, in the same light vein
II know you would like to be farm
er's wife; you would make capital one,
With those dainty white hands"
May said, emphatically, with pout
THAT / never will be To have a
great, clumsy fellow treading ON your
train constantly could not bear it y
"What are you talking about" ex-
claimed another voice and Bertha came
slowly toward them, swinging her broad
hat in her hands, for it was an intensely
warm day in July
"May was expressing her delight at
the prospect of settling down as q farm
er's WIFE"
Bertha looked at them both and then
said
"Oh, / know you have been teasing
her already. Really, it is too bad 4; but
it is no use to quarrel with him, for he
is incorrigible"
May found that the time passed very
quickly even in the country, and did not
regret her city home. What with her