The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-24

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manner of a stage parent-the infatu-
ated midgets at their base duplicity,
gave them my blessing, kissed them
both and as soon as they, beaming
with joy, had departed, /, also,
beaming with joy, and not quite in
the manner of stage parent, except,
perhaps, a Pinafore one, executed a
pirouette lin honor Of my newly
acquired freedom. Mamma was
awfully angry, but they are awfully
happy, and they've named the baby
after me. My chains (they were
never very heavy must confess)
broken beyond repair, fiirted more
than ever, all the time growing as
weary as could be of hearing the same
compliments and making the same
replies, and doing this thing in the
morning and that thing in the after
noon, and the other in the evening,
and at last fled from the old familiar
throng preclpitately one rainy day,
leaving my maid to pack my ward
robe and follow. And / determined
that this summer would try pastures
entirely new. Auntie had often told
me of the pleasant, old-fashioned
farm house which she discovered
years ago, and l coaxed mamma
promising to take Charley, our young
est, who is the sworrit of her life,
with me-to spend three of my four
out-of-the city months here. And,
Lottie, I have never been as happy
before. and I am firmly convinced
that here I have found the kind of
life that would suit me best. I was
born to love COWS and chickens, to
make butter, to build pyramids of
cabbages. -
"You!" laughed her friend. Il
think see you in the dairy, in a neat
cambria dress, with sleeves rolled up
to the elbows, stamping the pats Of
butter with your monogram, for that's
as near as you'd ever come to churn-
ing; and in the hennery,, scattering
corn to the chickens from a dainty
white apron, a curiously-shaped rustic
hat meanwhile shading your rose and
cream complexion fom the sun. You
born to love cows and chickens !-you,
who have reigned city belle for four
long years!''
And for three been most ready to
abdicate. By the by with assumed
'carelessness-" have you seen the
young farmer, the only child of our
host and hostess?''
"Certainly not" and Miss Mayell
chances at her watch, &c I only arrived
two hours ago, and have seen no one
but you and your aunt. But can see
him in my minds eye,-tall, ungainly,
and speaks through his nose, eats with
| his knife, says 'How?' and stares at
you as though you were being
from another sphere
"Your minds eye needs an eye
glass, Miss Mayell. Its vision is
weak. Tall, broad-shouldered, and
calmly, if I may use the word as I
mean it. saw him tossing hay to-
day, and he looked like an Apollo
who had exchanged his Tyre for a
| pitchfork and profted by the change.
And his table manners are as ex-
quisite as your own. Miss Mayell, and
he has a deep, full voice, and does
not say How % and has scarcely
looked, let alone stared at me. 1
have an idea that he regards girls of
ilk with quite scorn. and thinks of us
all, as hot house flowers not to be
compared with the daisies growing
wild in the meadows
elbow long have you been here,
Isabel
"Six weeks
"Quite long enough, I think. You'd
better go away. You're regarding this
young farmer, who never looks at you
II don't believe that, however--too
sentimentally. You might come to
| believe he has fallen in love with me.
| He is so different from the soft-voiced,
perfumed' darlings by whom I have
been surrounded all my life that, to
use your own words, with a different
application, I stare at him as though
he were being from an other sphere.
The young farmer reads, Lottie, and
reads books which, though printed in
our native language would be Greek
to you and me; and he numbers the
poets among his friends. I peeped
into his room one day, and saw them
all, in blue and gold, on his bookshelf
He is an honest, manly fellow, with
no false pride about him. I was idiot
enough to fancy that he might be the
least bit confused when I first saw
him at work in his red shirt, and coarse
very broad-rimmed straw hat, but hi
saluted me as calmly as though he hat
been arrayed in the finest garments
And his name is Northumberland a!
pretty as Claude, but it means tn
gift of Cod The gift Of God, indeed
his old mother says he has been to her
and so will he be to the woman h
marries. And that woman must be
bee, not butterfly. 'sLottie," witt
sudden ferceness, eff ever you tell
I'll kill YOU
my dear, when I do, you may. lisa
bel, begin to suspect that you ar
really in love with Nathaniel anothe
of your odd passions---and that be
meath y our butterfly wings turks tn
spirit of the bee. And I may live t,
see you helping the pitchfork Apoll
toss the hay, building obelisks an
pyramids of cabbages, copy celebrate
sculptures in beets, and heap turnips i
imitation of classic old ruins.
81 fear me not, Miss Mayell. Fo
though would be proud to share i
each and every one of those occl
pations, as soon would I expect tina
compact mass of greens to suddenl
trnmhln Tn ire hacn and then t0nn1