The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-05

was dressed up dret1uI sIhaiU an.
swelled round considerable, and let on
that he had a sight of money, only IL
was where he couldn't get at 1t JesU
then, and the old folks they was terri
BILE proud on him.
"Garafely? Well, she seemed 10
take it kinder Gurus. She didn't seem
to chirk up mite, and folks was all u
talkin' and sayin' she want glad to see
him, and there must be somebody eise
that she was q thinkin' on; but ia!
they'd ought to "a knowed better
that, for she never set her foot off the
Island, and there want Teller here
that she ever had nothin' to say TO-
Mis- Aminidab, she thwarted her con-
slant, cause she wouldn't act different
to him, and she did go round with
him, courtin' fashion, and there was
talk of the weddin'; but she looked
more peaked and sorrowful than ever,
and one day when she come into the
store arter somethin' | up and spoke TO
her about it. 1t want none o. my
business, as you might say, but L ailus
felt q nearness to her, bein' as her
mother and me we courted consider
able spell, when we was young, and L
set terrible sight by her; but one thing
and another seemed to come between
us, and / was kinder cranky ! expect,
and she was high sperited, and bimeby
she fiared up and merried Ulysses
Jerdun-Useless Jerdun, they used to
call him, and it want far out o. the
way, nuther. So you see It was material
1 should feel a kind o. nearness to
Garafely, and 1 up and asked her
why she didn't seem to feel no livelier.
"She bust right out cryln'-though
she never seemed to be one that cried
so terrible easy as some, Garafely
didn't. She said she couldn't seem to
feel no nearness to Bart; that he didn't
seem mite like Bart, and she shouldn't
b'lieve he was eff he didn't know so
many things that had happened when
they was children that nobody but Bart
could know. She didn't feel no affection
for him, and she didn't want to merry
him. | kinder thought l could see
through it. Bart had been gone long
time, and she had been CROWN older,
and her idees changin'; and she'd had
her mind sot on him all the time, and
had been kinder alterin' on him over,
and fixin' on him up to suit herself, till
her idee on him didn't bear no more re-
semblance to the real Bart than one o.
them fancy yatchits does to a fishin'
smack. That's what thought, and |
told her she'd better merry him, and
settle down stiddy and sensible, and
she'd like him well enough arter spell.
But women is Gurus creturs, and eff
there's one thing more'n another that
they amt apt to be it's stiddy and sensi-
bic. They must hev jest about so much
highfalutin.
"Garafely said she s'posed I was
right, but she felt terrible sot agin hev-
in on him. felt sorry that couldn't
give her no more comfort, but [ gin
her the best advice l knew how. But
arter she'd gone [ didn't feel what you
might call easy in mind. For l amt
jest found out what an old fool l be,
and | ginerally know better'n to advise
women folks, bein' as no man can't fol-
low the workin's o. their minds.
Garafely, she begun the winter
school, as eff she hadn't no notion o.
gittin' merried. Mis- Aminidab, she
was used to fetchin' things to pass about
as she wanted 'em, and | knew that be-
tween him and her Garafely was bein'
thwarted q terrible sight, and won
dered that she didn't give in. He stayed
round here most all winter. Sometimes
he'd 60 off and stay a week or two, and
then he'd come back agin. He courted
her up good and spry, there's no mis-
take, and when it come spring she
kinder seemed to give in, and Mis-
Aminidab was hurryin' up the fixin's
for the weddin'.
:" 1t was one Sunday along in April.
Elder Lyford, from hill, he
preached for us, and there was a great
turn out, for we hadn't had no gospel
privileges for six months before. But
I'm afraid what the Elder said that dav
was kinder upset in folks minds by
what happened afterwards. We was
comm out of meetin'. Mrs. Aminidab
was leanin' on her sons arm, and Gar
afely was walkin' aside of her. was
jest behind 'em, and see, before they
did, that there was a stranger, about as
rough lookin' chap as you often see, a
leanin' agin the fence. We don't hey
many tramps on Barberry Island, but L
knew the minute | sot my eyes on him
that this ere teller was one on 'em. He
had slouchin' hat drawed down over
his eyes, his close was ragged and dirty,
and his shoes was about as well worn
out as any pair o. shoes 1 ever see.
Folks stared at him, of course,
but his hat was drawed so far
over his face that they couldn't
see much of it, but when the old
Cap'n's folks come out he pushed it
back little and looked straight up at
'em. Mis- Aminidab she was leanin'
on her sons arm, lookin' proud and
pleased, as she allus did when she was
with him, and he was a talkin' to her
and Garafely as clipper as could be.
But when he ketched the tramp's eye
he kinder wilted down. He turned as
white as piece of chalk | happened
to be lookin' straight at him, and
see it, though it want but for a minute.
But Garafely! I'll never forgit the look
OF her face, nor the cry she give.
"'Bart! o Bart, this amt a dream!'
she says, and she throwed her arms
around his neck-the tramp's neck, all
dirty and ragged as he was-and tainted
clear away with her head on his
shoulder.
He took his hat off, and he stood