Connecticut western news., 1881-06-22

about her exquisitely neat, her white apron and pink calico dress setting out with their clear tints her bright dark hair and eyes and colorless but healthy complexion, through whose smooth sur- face emotion always sent the very blush of rosy dawn. She flushed beauti- fully now when she saw Mrs. Beers come smiling down the road. and ran to open the little gate for this first guest of her new home.
 Friendly greeting followed, and at last Mrs. Beers slid into the purpose of her visit. "You kinder took us all by surprise bout your weddin', Janey. l was beat to hear ont, I must say."
 "Well, Mis- Beers, we couldn't afford to have much of wedding. Sam's folks live over to Hartland, most of them, and Mis- Marsh hadn't really room to 'commodate them, and haven't got anybody but Aunt Nancy, and she didn't come she feels hard towards Sam" and here the bright eyes clouded.
 "Didn't send no answer to ye?" queried Mrs. Beers, automatically.
 "No; told Tommy Marsh to wait for it, so's to make sure and he said she said there wasn't any answer"
 "My land p calculated Mrs. Beers.
 "Now, Janey, Miss Nancy never got no note from ye at all, and didn't never have an idee that you was a-goin' to be mar ried she feels reel riled about it; she feels hurt an you can't no way blame her. She done well by ye jest so far forth as she knowed, while you stayed :; you know she he'd reason accordin' to the natur' of women-folks not to like the Phelpses; eff she had knowed your Sam, she'd hev liked him, she couldn't help it but you see she kep' mixin' him up with her Sam, the uncle, who want no more like him than chalk like cheese; and ye know Miss Nancy's real sot in her way, but she's good as gold when ye get down to it."
 Janey's eyes filled.
 My senses if I could get hold of Tommy Marsh !-and there he is, sure's you live!'
 "Set still set still !" purred Mrs. Beers :; "let me deal with the cretur :; he's fetchin' suthin' to ye; but he's slipprier n an eel eff he gifts an idee you know bout it, he'll cut n run.''
 Janey took up her apron and went on with the button-hole, and Tommy, a freckled, green-eyed, impudent urchin, bobbed his head at her and held out @ basket
 "Ma sent ye over suthin' for to put inter the pantry, he said, in the monot- onous tone of a repeated lesson.
 Janey uncovered the basket.
 "Why, just look here, Mis- Beers she has sent me four jars of jell; aint she good ?"
 "Surely!" calculated Mrs. Beers. "Tommy, don't you want a pepper mint P
 The unwary boy snapped at the offer.
 "Guess there's one in my pocket, !" smiled the old lady, and began to pull out one by one the contents of that goodly repository.
 "I guess, Tommy, you haven't got near so many things in you pocket as there be in mine," she said.
 'I bet have, answered Thomas, and quite forgetful of anything but emula- tion, he began to unload the stores of his own pouches. As he did so, eagerly and carelessly, dirty note fell on the steps just at Mrs. Beers's side; she reached out for it. Tommy saw the manpuvre, grabbed ineffe ,tually at the docume 1t and fled it was the lost note to Miss Nancy.
 "Seems as though there was Provi- dence in it, remarked Mrs. Beers, but Janey did not hear, for she was run. ming after Tommy with the emptied basket she had just brought out sud denly she stepped on stone, twisted her ankle and fell.
 It was hard for Mrs. Beers to get her into the house and on to her bed, but Janey was not the fainting sort of wo- man, and between her courage and her visitors patience, it was managed. Mrs. Beers stayed and got the supper for Sam, and then trotted home, sending Mrs. Marsh back to take her place as she passed the house. Early the next morning she went over to Miss Nancy Tryon's.
 "Good mornin'," she said, beaming on that stiff old lady with the sunny homely countenance of pumpkin in 8 cornfeld.
 "Say, Miss Nancy, I've ketched nice feller a-meddlin' betwixt you and Janey. I've got the note she writ to ye out O Tommy Ma'sh's pocket. guess he went fshin' or somethin' an forgot it an lied about it; anyway, here 'tis." Miss Nancy grimly opened it, and it ran thus:
 "DEAR AUNrY-I have finally made up my mind to marry Sam; I think great deal of him, and he does of me, I expect, and it seems as if there wasn't any real good reason why I shoulda't,, save and except that you don't like him, but know you will after 8 while, and he thinks ever so much of you; he just hates his uncle Sam.
 "Dear Aunty, you're all the people I have got, since father died, and you know how he set by you, and looked for you to be mother to his baby, and so you was.
 "Tm real sorry I vexed you about Sam, but couldn't help it ; please for give me, and come over to Mrs. Marsh's tomorrow night and see me married. Do, DO Sam says do, too.
 "Your loving JANEY."