Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-12-20

With one glance at the bonnet, which
ne thought nodded slightly, he hurried
away.
"Ef she wants to stay mad now. she
kin stay mad" he declared. I've dld
all l kim
''You amt got nary grain of sperrit,
howena Davis ~ asserted Mrs. Lew
Davis, a stumpy little woman with q
freekled race and shrill voice. "Why
don't you take Captain Skagss and be
done with 1t, ley 2"
"Well, " said Miss Rowena. deliberate.
", 81 don't for sever'l reasons, one
BEN that he amt asked me-"
''Shucks i'' said Mrs. Levi. vigorously
plunging her darning-needle INTO a graz
yarn sock belonging 10 her hege.' "You
know hits only a queshun of time
might as well make up your mind; you
knoS you like him..
"Yes, admitted Rowena, with litr:e
sigh, 81 like him well enough, but
Il believe you're a-pinin' for that
owdacious Larkspur," observed her
sister-ln-iaw. sharply. 81 knowed II
i sayed you hedn't no sperrit Won't
dc you no good noway. He won't never
come round. FL he wanted TO make
up, why didn't he make up when he
he'd chance 2"
Miss Rowena turned to the window
with scarlet checks. Why did he not.
indeed?
HE Jest showed, Sunday, he didn't
keer cent whether he seen you or not
The color deeEened in Rowena' 5
checks. Notwithstanding her sister-in-
laws assertion. she did have spirit-too
much when it got the better of her
principle and heart as it would now
and then; and Mrs. Levi was purposely
taking the surest course to excite 1t to
high pitch.
You're jest fixin' TO he an old maid
all your life" continued the little wo-
man. The captain AMT agoin 10 stick
to you always, neither, OF you don't let
him think ,ou'il hev him. He'll msrry
jimmy Tucket yet, ef you amt keerful
Shes wlllIn' enough. L reckon Lark
spur must be goin' TO see that gal that S
a-stayin' at Deacon Cottonwood's s; that's
why he went home with Mrs. Cotton
wood from church. Anyhow, he couldn't
help seem how you waited for him, an
rs longs he didn't try to make it up
then, when do you reckon he will (?
Never That's whit say, an you'll be
left. Captain Skaggs, he thinks a heap
of you now, but ef-'
oh" cried Rowena, desperately.
''do stop, Sophy Ii Captain Skaggs
should ask me to marry him before Nh
F.aT-l-.,,Y1- S,,aoEs tn
Would you hev him r. asked Mrs.
Davis, eagerly.
II almost believe would. 'faLter-
ed R)wena.
"Goose If you didn - said Mrs. Levi,
tersely.
Mr.. Larkspur stood beside his meadow
bars, sentImentally out Of temper. Mss
RoEena's snnbs OF the day before had
filed him with anger and sorrow. He
frowned and sighed alternately. Raising
his eyes to the chocolate-drop cottage
beyond the lane, he saw Miss Rowena
among the noilybocks III the back yard,
feeding her chickens. with a blue veil
tied over her head and he knew Just
how the little fax-brown waves of her
hair rippled up under Its rim IL their
own sweet, odd fashion. until her face
seemed set in blue-and-gold frame.
The rext moment he scowled. The
swinging form Of Captain Skaggs was
coming rapidly up the lane. He did
not appear to see Miss ROwena his
ewes were fixed on the blackberry patch,
and he was making directly toward It,
Mr.. Larkspur's eyes inyoluntarily fol-
lowed, and then he gave sudden jump,
and rubbed them. and then he climbed
upon bar to scrutiniZs the berry patch
more closely.
There was Miss Rowena' S pink bonnet
still, the cape futtering in the morning
air; there WAS her linen sarque, and De
side her the TIN bucket rejecting the
sun in Il cleaning white ring from It's
edge-all Just as it had been yesterday.
He looked across at the figure among
the hollyhocks. That was Miss Row
ena. beyond doubt. A sudden i'm
pulse, and an equally sudden spring,
sent Mr.. LarkspUr over the bars, AID
across the lane, and up the 4 O'Clock
bordered walk through Miss Rowena's
yard.
1t was Rowena among the hollyAocks;
her gentle, wondering brown eyes were
turned directly toward him, while the
rose-color crept into the face in the blue
and-gold frame.
"Ena,' cried Mr.. Larkspur, 'itwasn't
you in tue blAckberries yesterday that
spubbed and sulked at me, was 1t 2
Rowena turned her eyes toward the
pink bonnet, for whose benefit Captain
Skaggs appeared TO be indulglng IN
much eloquence of speech and gesture,
while the provoking thing nodded and
drooped as it had when Mr.. Larkspur
talked to 1t, turned them back toward
Mr.. Larkspur, and ripple of laughter
startled the bees III fhe hollyhocks.
''It's only my bonnet and sacque J
she said. ''Sophy fixed them up there
Yesterday, to look like NE, so the boys
wouldn't get all tine berries while we
were away, and L suppose she forgot TO
take them away this morning. She set
the bucket OF berries alongside as an
extra bit of strategy. That's all. +"
Captain Skaggs soon discovered his
mistake. and started to the house, but
perceiving a pair of radiant, unmlstaka-
bIe lovers among the heilyhocks, he
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