The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1882-05-17

in mis- juvenile days, dancing in and out,
and / shall have the doors to shut after
her, and my kitchen will have to be
washed twice day, and she'll want to
sit in the front room and have the cur
tains up, and my rag carpet will be all
faded ont; and shall never know
where to find nothing. Now if l lay a
thing down it stays there till l pick it
up again. Why, l could darn my stock
| ings in the dark, and lay my hands on
| the right number of cotton to darn them
with. Number sixteen is in the right
hand corner, number eight is wrapped
in paper, number twelve is in rag.
Things will be mixed in the family
circle. Now have my corner, Tower
has his and Nepenthe hers. Did l tell
you about Nepenthe2 Well, she's re-
markable cat of three colors, is double
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. don't want her, but l sup
pose she will have to come. It's my
misfortune to have relations.
She came. Now if l 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 a queer way of shutting together
whenever l say anything, and then she
puts her handkerchief over her mouth.
| suppose she shu 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 she has brown bair
just the color of her eyes, which she
wears braided down her ba,k 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 we'll enough, and we get along
nicely; anybody could get along with
as amiable person as L.
One day Dolly says:
"Oousin u
Then she makes long pause and
says !:
dolly, if you have got anything to
say, say il, 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 if you had no objections, have
friend from Sweetwater, Mr.. Howard,
that would like to have come here
once in while; it is so very lonely"
Lonesome for them that's got moth
inn 10 do - II 90 lU
after ell 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 set 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 l
shouldn't think you'd have thought of
such thing as beau. Wait until you
get little older-say my age, now"
l think she will remember that, for
she clapped her hands right over her
mouth so as not to forget it.
"But / knew it would come to this
told you so. If it was deacon or a
minister, or some kind of religious
man, 1 wouldn't have minded so
much"
"But Mr.. HowardI 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
hands every time she turns pie round
in the oven."
After this there was calm in our
mill-pond of an existence-I have read
of life's being like river, and why not
like q mill-pond, which is much
smoother and more poetical P-and
nothing occurred to disturb my sweet,
serene disposition, until saw Tommy
Green coming over again with letter.
declare 1t set me in perSpiration all
over hoped no more cousins had
died and left their orphans as legacies
to me.
| DEAR Miss NETTLEToN Il am a min
lister in somewhat poor health; have q
disease of the heart; and the doctor
says 1 must have quiet and rest for a
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
per week. GEO. RUSHING"
OF course 1 would take him 1t
would be flying in the face of Provi-
ience and fortune not to. Poor, lear
man he had the heart disease, but I'd
cure him of that-that is if he would
take the catnip tea and thor~ughwort.
Seven dollars week, too If he stayed
four weeks that would be twenty eight
dollars; twenty-five to lay up in the old
teapot. and three left to spend. de-
cided to buy me a red feather for my
bonnet with a dollar and half, and
with the rest get Tower a new brass
brass collar, with little paddock and
key on it