The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1881-08-19
MISS DOLLY'S DESTINY.

Il shouldn't be surprised any day,
Dolly, TO see David Wiggin tying his
horse at your gate, said Mr.. BlOunt
rOguishly, gathering up the reins.
| Nonsense, brother! Anything the
matter with his own hitching post ?
retorted Miss Dolly turning in the door
way.
Mr.. Blount laughed. Everybody
felt bound to laugh at Miss Dollys
crisp sayings that had kept her friends
in good humOr these forty years.
And when David does call on you,
pursued Mr.. Blount more seriously; Il
do hope Dolly you'll give him chance
to do his ierrand. That'll be no more
than fair, and the man won't be easy
till he has freed hisSmind.' ~ 6A
What mischief are you the fOrerun.
ner of now, James Blount?' cried Miss
Dolly, facing about like u soldier on
drill. What upon earth have to dc
with David's errandsY
We'll, his wife has been dead a year
or more, said Mr.. Blount, suggestively,
shutting one eye, and squinting with
the other down the length of his whip
stalk, 'and lately he has been asking
about you. You can put that and that
together to suit yourself. 49, ~
'Fiddledsticksv said Miss Dolly ener-
getically.
Il shan't say have him or don't have
him though there isn't likelier man
living than Davis-but / do say Dolly
you ought to give him hearing and
having convinced himself beyond a
reasonable doubt that the whip was all
right, Mr.. Blount licked his sleepy
horse with it and drove away.
%, my sOrrOwsv calculated Mi
Dolly, closing the door with an affiicl
ed countenance, and sitting down SO
quie tly Tor once that o photographer
might have copied her then and there.
Not that he could have done her JUS
tice, for her expression was too quick
and varied to be caught by any trick of
chemicals, and without it Miss Dolly's
physiognSny would have been rather
characteI ass but for her prominent
Roman noSt This organ gave tone to
her face. BY which i would not be IN
derstoOd literally as saying that She
talked through a nasal whine. j mean
simply in a metaphorical sense, this
bold feature spoke loudly of energy
And Miss Dolly had abundant need of
energy-else why the nose? Every
two years during her childhood she had
been tiptOed into the east bedroom tC
see new baby, till at her mothers
death, five little brothers fell to heI
charge to be cOaxed and scolded into
manhood.
You can't bring up those boys,
groaned q adolOrous aunt. They'll run
square over you, Dorothy Almeda. >.
Let them run over me so long as ii
does not hurt 'em !" laughed Miss Dolly
skewing. her faxen hair with a goose.
quill and tying a calico apron over
her calico longshOrt, preparatory tC
"briAging up said youths.
From that day forward she went
cheerily. on, making the best of every
thing. though 1t must be confessed she
often had odds and ends to'work with
as people usually do have who are borr
with faculty. Somehow she foui
time for all her duties except matri
mony. If that were duty, it was one
she wouldn'v and couldn't attend tc
while ller father and the children need
ed her. Divers young men thought
this great pity. among them Davit
Wiggin. Don't be silly, David !" sale
Dolly, when he limited as much to her
whereupon David went Off and married
Olive Searle, the plaincst girl in TIM
parish.
This happened thirty years ago, ant
David was again wifeless, and agar
the current Of his thoughts t,Irnet
towards Dolly, who still lived at th'
old homestead at the foot,of Bryant!
| Falls. Her father had died SOM
| months before. OF the boys, Jane.
and Ezekiel had settled on neighborint
farms and the remaining three hat
gone west. David's benevolent hear
warmed with compassion as he remem
bered Dolly's lonely condition, and III
felt that it would be exceedingly kint
in him to offer her o home, especial.
, as he owned as good place as you''
find OH the river. while the Bloun
cottage was falling into decay. III