Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-12-28
TIE WRONG ONE.


wonders never will cease I, crieC
Posy Poplar, flying into the cool dairy
where her sister Lefty was printing of
pats of fine fragrant butter.
Outside, July upheld her golden
shield in the blue zenith trees dropped
in the torrid sunshine, and cattle stood
painting under the trees. But in the
dairy, at Poplar Farm, a refreshing
GOODNESS reigned; the shadow Of green
vine leaves Quivered in the wind across
the deep, stone mUllioned easement
and the shining pans of milk, the stone
jars Of cream, and the little round balls
of cottage cheese, gave one an idea OF
homely plenty.
whats the matter?' said Lefty
Dear me! this print dosen't work hall
so nice rs the last one cant make
This look like a sheaf of wheat, do what
| will -
Aunt Lex has got beau
Nonsense said Lefty.
But she has cried Posy, her blue
eyes sparkling with mischieyous de
light, "a real, live, masculine beau y.
Lefty laid down her butter print,
wiped her plump, dimpled hands on a
towel, and looked with surprise at Posv.
They were passing fair to look upon,
these two farmers daughters, who had
grown up among the cedar forests Of
MSine, and who had never even looked
upon the walls of 4 city.
Posy was tall and slight, with braids
of blonde hair, and a complexion deli
cately tinted, like a sea shell. Lefty
was dark, with velvct-brown eyes, full
red lips, and hair that waved i'm natural
ripples across her forehead.
"Who Is it?' said Lefty.
Posy seated herself on the low win
dow-seat, and made an impromptu fan
of her hat.brim.
Don't you know that tall, round
shouldercd, red-haired, lantern-visaged
man from New Hampshire, she said,
who stops at the Red Lion Hotel, and
advertises Music taught thoroughly in
six lessonS'-the man who goes around
lecturing on the accordeon, and who
has opened a singing school, Of even
ings, in Squire Dennison's big red
barn p
Mr. Ezekial Grecngage - cried
Lefty with the goggle-glasscs and
fine nasal accent -
"The very one said Posy We'll,
it seems that the Red Lion Hotel was
almost too far away from Squire Den
nison's barn for the convenience Of this
musical prodigy, so he asked Aunt
Alexandria TO accommodate him with
his meals twice a week, on the red-barn
evenings and all the time we have
been camping out in the pine woods
Aunt Lex has been practising do-sol
-fa-mi, with Ny Greengage.
Are they cng0ged?' cried breath
less Lefty.
"Well, not quite that; but Aunt
Lexy has given me to understand that
an engagement is imminent. She has
made up her mind, she says, to consent
Mr.. Greengage is the only man she
declares, to whom she can safely con.
fide her future
"What a goose she is !" cried Lefty,
nearly dropping the skinner in her
energy. at her age, to think of
"Goose, indeed shrilly echoed a
high trebled voice, and Aunt Alexan-
dria herself bounced out from the pro-
tecting shadow of the doorway. "And
at my age I'd have you know Lctitia
Poplar, that ! amt forty yet, and
you're fve-and-twenty, if you're a day
yourself"
Dear me, Aunt Lex, said Lefty,
"I'm sure didn't intend to hurt your
feelings, but"
"And I've long had it on my mind,
added Miss Alexandria, with very visi-
bic venom, "to speak to your poor,
dear, unsuspecting pa about those two
young men that arc hanging around
here half the time.
Posy colored scarlet.
Aunt Lex" said she, with spirit
"my sister and ] are doing nothing SC.
cret or underhand. Papa knows very
well that"
"All the same said Aunt Lex, with
n toss Of her faded ilaxen ringlets, u
stand in the relation of mother-no
not exactly that, but of an elder sister
to you two girls, and ! plainly give
you to understand that I'll have none
Of this ridiculous philandering and
nonsense going OH while your pa is
away. So you may tell your two young
men TO make themselves scarce"
"But Aunt Lexy," pleaded Posy
who, amid all her discontinue, could
not but see the humor Of the thing
"this isn't fair. We don't forbid Mr.
Ezekial Greengage the premises be.
cause papa, who is as much your legal
guardian as you are ours, happens TO be
absent in Boston"
"That's quite a different affair" said
Miss Alexandria, with the severe dig
nifty of a Diana.