The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1882-03-01

well-nigh q century, Mrs. Symington
had serious doubts whether the one
horse sleigh in which she was ierked
and iolted up the incline would not be
blown sheer away by the rush Of the
tempest before they could reach their
| destination.
However, it wasn't. And once in
Aunt Grizzy's cottage things were very
comfortable. There was no wide
throated chimney, filed with moss
fringed logs, such as the fancy of city
dwellers is apt to depict in the solitary
farmhouse. People in Maine know
better than that. But there was an i'm
mense cook stove, which heated the
room to an atmosphere of eighty odd
degrees; the cracks in the window
sashes were pasted over with brown
paper, and sand bags we're laid on the
top lodges, while a double rag carpet
covered the floor, and q wood-box,
heaped to the very top, stood in the
angle Of the chimney piece. Aunt
Grizzy's dress was of blue homespun
flannel, and she wore worsted hood
pulled over her ears, and little plaid
shawl folded over her breast, and she
was addicted to the use of snuff, and
said "Hey" whenever any one ad-
dressed her.
"My cheeny ?" said Aunt Grizzly.
"Well, Pm free to own that I think a
deal of that cheeny. But don't know,
Niece Arabella, how you came to hear of
it."
"It is an heirloom in our family,
Aunt Grizzel" said Mrs. Symington,
exerting herself to speak loudly.
Hey ?" said Aunt Grizzy, with her
hand placed sounding board fashion
behind her ear.
Every one must have heard of it, "
said Mrs. Symington, at the risk OF
breaking a blood-vessel in her throat.
Aunt Grizzy's wrinkled face fairly
beamed. Well, calculate it amt
absolutely ugly" said she. "But still,
If you've really set your heart on it,
Niece Arabella- But it amt unpacked.
always put it away this time O. year when
there amt no tea parties given"
"Oh, never mind that" said Mrs
Synington, her heart leaping within hel
at this easy conquest of the fort. E" II
to carry it. People always keep such
treasures put away in secret places"
+" Hey p said Aunt Grizzly, and Mrs
Symington repeated her words.
So Oh, there amt no secret about it +
said Aunt Grizzy, ,as she turned the hiss
ing sausages in the pan. Only hain't
: had time to overhaul it since you've
, been here"
"Naturallyp" interrupted Mrs. SYM.
ington. "But 1 suppose. it is all il
good conditionT'
"Sartinly, sartinly," said Aunt
t Grizzy. "You can look at it yourself
+ if you like, Niece Arabella."
: "Oh, that is not at all necessary,
said Mrs Symington, "But now as Il
a the price, Aunt Grizzy?"
"I amt one to haggle with my rela
: tions," said Aunt Grizzly, giving the fry
q ing pan a shake over the blazing sticks
3 "Set your own price, Arabella, and if
8 don't like it I'll make bold to say 30.
d 'Do you think, Aunt Grizzly" hesi
J tated the city lady, '.that twenty-five
dollars would be reasonable compen
Q sation for it ?"
a "Well, yes," said Aunt Grizzly. 81
II never cost me that, because"
Q "No, of course not" huriedly inter
L posed Mrs. Symington, and she pre-
u duced the twenty-five dollars, all i
II gold half eagles. with the exultant feel
g ing of one who has picked a preciou
&c diamond out OF the dust. But
should wish you to feel that I had deal
l. fairly with you in matter like this"
3; swell, I hain't no reason to CON
a plain" said Aunt Grizzy. "Some folk
% fancies cheeny. 1 don't. A plates
plate to me, and cups cup, an
y you're kindly welcome to my set
II you've took q notion to it."
Mrs. Symington went home the nez
r, day, through whirlwind of snow, ha,
.. ing been fed upon pork and sausagei
a sausages and pork, at every meal sine
n her arrival, and retaining o very viVi
70 recollection of the Maine winds an
10 tempests.
2, ct don't think I'd go back thel
or again, even for SCI of old china" sal
d Mrs. Symington, as she seated herse
on the velvet cushions of the palace-ca
"a and shrank shiveringly inside of he
81 seal dolman and heece-lined fur gloves
"a "Aunt Grizzel will never die a naturl
r death; she'll be blown away, lik
y Mother Hubbard"
re But all these petty tribulations wel
N forgotten as thing out OF mind on til
10 brilliant January morning on which, j
IN front of the sea-coal fire in her ow
O. cozy drawing-room, she unpacked th
J. coarse wooden box wherein were cor
IN cealed the priceless treasures of AuI
ID Grizzy Grumpton's china.
OF "Don't touch them, Stanhope," sal
she, with small shrek of disma,
ID "Men are so dreadful careless. oil
al here they are on the top, all wrappe
i'd in separate pieces of paper"
lg EhY said Mr.. Symington, stant
p ing by with hammer and screw-driv,
or brandished in either hand "Are thei
-antiquesT
On nGood aracions me z, oasnad ME-