Daily globe., 1881-02-06

90 daown sullar n work over my butter.
Ets cot tew be done afore dark, yeou
kneow."
strange embarrassment, and was sur
prised at himself. "What IS there about
this pesky girl that makes such fool OF
me ?'' he thought, angrily.
The distress on Phebe's face deepened
to actual despair as she gasped hardly
Phebe appeared with look of dire
distress on her lovely countenance
and did as she was hidden, but she did
not once lift her eyes during the whole
time she remained in the room.
"This bread is first-rate, full as good
as my mother makes, if not better. l
shouldn't wonder if you made it your
self, now" said he, attempting to speak
with his usual jaunty, self-important air.
But, for some reason or other, ne felt
audible Eyes" She wished with all her
heart that the bread was as heavy as it
it had been yesterday, then, perhaps, he
might have kept silence. "You're a
going to be one of my scholars, lhope,"
he proceeded, with a glance of open ad-
miration, though given with rather
shame-faced air. He did it to assure
himself that he dared to do it, feeling
unhappily like the old woman who
did not know whether she was herself or
no.
Phebe stammered something, which
sounded like CT don't know" and
moved as far away from the table as pos
sible.
"Bashful as partridge" he thought.
| "Well, so much the better; I don't like
forward women. She amt used to see
ing anybody but lumbermen, and river
drivers, and that kind of clodhoppers, I
s'pose, and is kinder frustrated at seein'
me. But what do care about her, any
how; I've got such start in the world
that I ought to marry rich woman.
Rich widows are plenty every now and
| then. I don't imagine her mother has
got much of any property"
As soon as he had finished his meal,
Phebe hastily removed the dishes from
the table and escaped into the kitchen,
and he saw nothing more of her until
the next morning. She appeared then
in celestial blue, which harmonized Won
derfully with the rich sunburn on her
blonde cheeks, and one of the other
boarders, handsome, stalwart young
lumberman, who sat beside her at the
table, regarded her with devotion and
| talked to her in low tone-so low that
| no one else was able to hear what he was
saying.
Phebe seemed filed with confusion,
and, beyond blushing yes or no, made
no reply, but the schoolmaster became
instantly fired with jealousy, and COM
menced to draw all attention to himself
by his boastful and pompous talk. He
talked both of commerce and learning
until the two young lumbermen looked
properly subdued and became silent.
"Speakin' of books said the land
lady, 81 bought one of peddler last
summer. It has got an orful pOoty COW
e., but there's poetry inside; p'ra'ps
| you'd like to read that. I can't say as
how I enjoy sech readin' myself, but
Phebe she's all kerried away with it.
81 generally make my own poetry" :"
said the schoolmaster, grandly.
An awed hush succeeded this an
nouncement, and for the first time Phebe
lifted her eyes and looked the conse-
quentlal gentleman full ir the face. It
was shy, brief glance, but filed with
half-awed, haf-admiring interest. The
schoolmaster started when he met their
gaze as If he had received blow, and
from that moment he was changed
man, so bound by the chains of love
that his mind took no more ambitious
! flights SO anxious with its doubts and
fears that he lost his fippant manners,
and became subdued and silent; so
humbled by its insight that he no Ion
ger held his head above his fellows; so
softened and changed by its influence
that his mercenary projects all went to
naught.
At the end Of the week it was voted
| by the other boarders that the school
! master was 'tgood feller, awfully diff
! frant from what he seemed at first. %
| At the end of the month he was called
"kinder grumpy" at the end of two
months it was surmised that he was in
| love. Never was lover so tormented.
| The shyness of his lady love was remark
able; she was never visible except at
| meal times and in the school room. He
spent all his leisure time in planning
how he could meet her, but his plans
always failed. If he found her alone in
the kitchen at work, she would drop
| whatever she had in her hands and slip
away In flash. If he attempted to
walk to school with her she would man
age to elude him with truly wonderful
adroitness. Once he hid behind a tree
to waylay her on her way to school, but
| she seemed to guess his intentions by
intuition and walked half-mile out of
her way to reach her destination by an
other road. Spelling school evenings,
when all the young fellows in the region
round about congregated in the old
school-house, each one waiting on the
door-steps, when the exercises were
over, to whisper, "May I see you
home?" IN rosy maidens' ears, Phebe
clung to the skirts of some sober mar
ried female for protection, and insisted
on going home in her shadow. In
| school-hours there was no opportunity
for love-making. Phebe was model
! scholar. She never missed in her les
sons-she neither whispered dnor laughed.
ALI the other girls were continually ask
ing questions of the master. They
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