, 1882-01-27

..r children To break or
..... All VA, the same a,
#.. Lass. and SAN Ms, Carney
f.. ..iII. # the hoor with
...... I.r.n curl, about her
....U.u, ribbon around her
H... N.a Iy Iuokei at her, and
...... ami -'..t hut somehow she
..r.. r.n.sIyel,r but Priscy Car.
..
Sill .s. H.r. looking from the furni-
...f f. Boo. face. and interpreted his
.....r
.T. .l. ,rii. almost angriy, rs
r -. .rr.r..s IIprrhrr the bits of wood
.... ...r.. .u.' 4, ,hry used 10 be. There
r....a trees. ouly finer and greener.
d.. r.fs rrt,- and Huwrr, might he the
..... ami hear am ]. old, faded and
..r..r and NV handsome, AMI bright
.,.-I f.tber dead. and all | care for gone.
ash va, gone also. | think people
sta have not seen each other for forty
t,sr. need not seek each other again. |
ash they would not come to me after
being tie same As dead for forty years.
n B. precisely like seeing ghosts"
~b. looked As though she wanted to
cry
Poor old ghost" said ne, "whom no.
l..iy usnt, 10 ,ee-not even those who
r.raI,i.ed Ia remember him forever"
.Furty wear, is much worse than for
ever said she: and fifty.six is terri
bIy unromantica age"
Yes. il is. said he; "but it is q good
aca epourh for ghosts. BY the way, do
Won like ghost stories? Let me tell you
one. Once there was a ghost-now |
think Of it. lie wasn't always a ghost; he
VA. "A boy once, the son of amiller; He
worked in the mill and was floury and
white rs a ghost should be most of the
time: but he was happy and gay, and
many things happened as he liked. One
uf them was when a certain rich farmer
ip the ncighborhood came to the mill.
The grain his servants brought IN tho
great wagons. but he, the farmer, used
10 drive TO the mill with his little daugh-
ter in the gig beside him.
"She was pretty child, with long
cnris, and her eyes were big and brown.
She made pretty picture in her white
dress and bright ribbons, and she came
when she was so young that she used to
hold out her hands to this boy and cry,
Come here, little boy. Show me where
the flour sl(ts from" For that was what
she liked to see best-the flour sitting
through the fine muslin. Every week
she used TO come, until the miller sent
his boy away to school. When he came
home again she was a girl of sixteen,
prettier than ever, and she rememb bered
asking him TO let her see the flour sift,
and she talked to him while her father
was attending to his business; and the
days when she did not come the boy
cared nothing for, and the days that
brought her were marked and picked out
as blessed days"
After awhile he got over the shyness
that kept him from going to see her, and
vent; and she was not displeased. She
was the mistress OF the house, for her
mother died young. She used to make tea
Tor HIM on Sunday afternoon, and after
tea her father would puta handkerchief
over bis head fall into nap. Then they
used 10 whisper together. Long after
the poor boy came to be ghost he re-
mem bered those evenings. when he was
bright-cheeked young fellow, the son OF
rich miller, and had the hope OF marry.
ing the girl lac loved before old eyes.
He thought the girl loved him as
well as he loved her, and he had no fears
Of the future, no thought that trouble
would come TO him in any way, until
misfortune overlook his father. The
good old man failed; the mill was sold.
there was nothing but anxiety at home;
At last worse came, his father died soon
after his mother. He was very sad; but
he had hope, for he was beloved by the
one he loved.
"One dav ba want N ber for comfort
He remembered the day ever after. The
low-built. old fashioned house. the great
oaks. the flower garden. the girl in her
white dress and blne ribbons who came to
greet him. He wasfull of life still. but that
night when he turned awayfrom the house
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