The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-04-27

ludTbdDle CiU OI Unre6 CUlUTS, Is uOuDlS-
paved and has great yellow, moon
like eyes. But it is no reason because
there are four corners in the room that
| want Dolly Vance set up in the
fourth. 1 don't want her, but 1 sup
pose she will have to come. It's my
misfortune to have relations.
She came. Now if don't tell you
how she looks you will be wondering
what she is like, and think her eyes are
like sunshine and her hair like spun
silk. They aren't neither one nor the
other She has brown eyes that have
such queer way of shutting together
whenever | say anything, and then she
puts her handkerchief over her mouth.
| suppose she shuts her eyes to take in
better what have to say, and puts her
handkerchief to her mouth to keep the
idea in; as if people heard with their
mouths And then che has brown bair
just the color of her eyes, which she
wears braided down her back with the
end curled; and the time she wastes
twisting that one curl would knit pair
of shell stockings. But Dolly don't
like to knit nor scour tin pans. nor to
learn any accomplishments. However,
she does well enough, and we get along
nicely; anybody could get along with
as auniable person as L.
One day Dolly says:
Cousin !"
Then she makes a long pause and
says L.
Dolly, if you have got anything to
say, say it, and don't wait till that dish
water gets cold and the grease settles
around the edges of them boilers"
"Well, cousin, | was going to say
that il you had no objections, I have a
friend from Sweetwater, MIR. Howard,
that ! would like to have come here
once in while; it is so very lonely"
Lonesome for them that's got moth
ing to do" says I. "Now, Dolly Vance,
after all the good advice I've given you'll
Why, I've talked TO you hours and
hours about the frailties and disap-
pointments of this world, and I've just
wasted my breath. AS if we didn't
have work enough to do now There's
more than forty chips about that chop
ping block to be picked up, and there's
that rising sun bedquilt to be SGT to-
gether, and squash pies to make, and
that old speckled hens come off with
sixteen chicks; of course she'd hatch
every one if she stole her nest. 1
shouldn't think you'd have thought OF
such thing as beau. Wait until you
get little older-say my age, now"
| think she will remember that, for
She clapped her hands right over her
mouth 80 az not 70 forget il.
"But knew it would come to this
[ told you SO. If it was a deacon or a
or some kind of a religious
man, l wouldn't have minded SO
much"
But MIR. Howard, is just as good
as"
Don't tell me! I know he is Just
good for nothing, or he would want
some girl that knew something
about work, and not one that burns her
lands every time she turns pie round
in the oven"
After this there was q cain in our
Of an existence-I have read
Of LIES being like river, and why not
like mill.pond, which is much
smoother and more poeticai ?-aud
nothing occurred to disturb my awvet,
serene disposition, until I saw Tommy
Green coming over again with letter
declare it set me III a perspiration ell
'yer j hoped no more cousins had
Lied and left their orphans as legacies
o me.
DEAR Miss NETTLEToN II am min
ster in somewhat poor health; have a
disease of the heart; and the doctor
ays l must have quiet and rest for q
while. Hearing OF your little Eden of
| place, hope and trust it may be my
good fortune to engage board there for
few weeks. Will pay seven dollars
Der week. GEO. RUSHING"
OF course I would take him II
would be flying in the face OF Provi.
ience and fortune not to. Poor, lear
I an! he had the heart disease, but Id
,ure him Of that that is if he would
AXE the catnip tea and thor ughwort.
seven dollars week, too If he stayed
our weeks that would be twenty eight
iollars; twenty-five to lay up in the old
ca pot, and three left to spend. 1 de.
,ided to buy me a red feather for my
)onnet with dollar and half, and
With the rest get Tower new brass
'rass collar, with little paddock and
Key on it
Dolly" says /, as she camo in with
Ter cheeks as red as one of them red
I don't like red cheeks
myself" I've got letter from Parson
and he wants to come here to
,oard few weeks at 81 a week."
"Of course you won't take him." says
he.
"Of course l shall I" says l.
The next week the same one-horse
haise that brought Dolly fetched the
,arson, and now he's quite at home.
lie is real nice looking; his hair and
is gray, but his eyes are
black and bright, and he is not the
east bit OF trouble, and think after a
while he will get over the dyspepsia
md that hacking cough of his. 1t is
ONE better nov. He takes long walks
Il the morning for his health and also
n the pursuit OF science (he is very
earned), and brings home lots of bugs
md beetles-ugh! the nasty things
Not that exactly, either, for Parson
says some of them are very
'urious and quite rare, so of course they
re.
After the sun has gone down they
axe row on the river; yes, they, for
Dolly doesn't steady herself down to
Inything, and so she is always ready to
et out when the parson is, while 1
lever, or scarce ever, go with them, as
have the dishes to wash in the morn
ng and the pans to scour and the floor
% scrub; Parson Rushing does SO like
% GEE q uhita Hnnr Az ninht tho.o :.