The news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1882-1891, 1882-02-23
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slough, as the steady eyes of his sis
ter settled on his face.
off you say honesty, Charlie" she
said, calmly, tying her sun bonnet
strings under her chin, "you shall not
have a bsrry-no, nor cake either.
Minister'S sister or not, cons 4er |
have the right to those berries, when
| gathered them years and years and
years before he ever knew anything
about them"
And she walked resolutely to the
door,
swell, ifhe runs across your bow, I"
advised Charlie from the gate, watch
ing her resolute face with satisfaction,
"just put up your boarding-nets and
give him broad-side."
Charlie had naval aspirations for
the next year, and was cleaning
knowledge from a course of Marry
ats novels as useful preliminary.
| Paul trudged away IN silence, pom
dering upon two subjects-the squire's
return from his rowing lite, and the
indignity he had put upon the vii
lage by his notices and barred gates
81 will look out for my rights" she
concluded, illOgically, as. she climed
the fence into the strawberry patch,"
and the people can take care of theirs"
No thought of the 'squirs's rights
entered her mutinous little head as
she filed her basket with the luc-
ious fruit.
David always brings home COM
pany on Friday evening"" she solo,
quized, as she picked indutriously,
"and whoever it is will enjoy these
berries I know"
She filed her basket evenly to the
brin, and arose with flushed cheeks,
disheveled hair, sun bonnet hanging
down by the strings tied under her
chin, to find herself face to face with
a stranger.
Paul stood motionless. He must
be a tramp, in that old brown coat,
SLOUGH hat, and dusty :op boots.
"If you please" he said, very po-
litely for tramp, sis this trespass-
ingH"
"It isl she said, calmly, "and you
had better leave at once, for there is
no knowing what the owner might do
if he caught you,"
And she lifted her basket msies-
tically'
SIS he so very hard, then" asked
the tramp, with humble Difference to
her manner.
~ fancy he is a--tyrant," replied
Paul, superbly, "and means to insti.
tute reform in ell its severest and
most disagreeabls phases at Deep
Dell. So, my good man, you had
better take yourself off,"
With which advice the minister's
sister went her way ACROSS the fence,
down into the lane, aud home 10 Char.
lie, waiting at the gate, and braoing
main yard, according to his idea Of
the thing.
SWELL" be cried out eagerly, 'did
your enemy show himself"
Paul lifted the lid Of her basket,
~ saw 90 one but tramp-a very
genslemanly tramp, I must say; and I
advised the poor fellow to keep ont
Of HARM
Charlie whistled bar of "a Life
en- the Ocean Wave"
"Here comes David with q gentle
man., he said, with sudden gravity.
~ wonder who his Friday night com.
panion Is this timer Say, Paul, Fit
should be the Squire"
But the girl had fed within to her
tsa-tsble, and to see if the little maid.
of.all-work had watched the cake
carefully.
Everything, was right, and dsin-
tier or better served table was never
presented to hungry mortals than that
to which the minister invited his
guest within an incredibly short time
after Paul disappeared from the gate.
Charlie was right was the
Squire.
The young girl bowed calmly to the
grave, corteous man her brother pre-
sented, her eyes resting the while
upon the dish of ripe, red berries,
with an indignant thought of his
barred gates and notices.
A puzzled look came into her face
as the stranger talked on, and she
glanced furitively at him, only to
meet his grave eyes fall upon her,
and to feel the floor rock beneath her
feet.
So they protest against my claim
ing my own" he was saying in ans
wer to the minister's report of the