News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10

"Uan't Aunt Lefty buy everything
and anything in Nev York, ready-made 7
Come. you have ben at school there,
and you ought to k low. Tell her p
"Oh, yes, indeed began the willing
Young oracle, yivacously. "Why, you
can buy"
"You go away, James, and leave us
to do our talking ,t9ether alonel !" said
Miss Lefty rather sharply, for her. 81
want time to thin and, perhaps, I
ouebt to consult on minister before de-
ciding."
"A good idea. III go and invite him
over ~ said her ilpetuous admirer,
taking himself off BIT in hand.
owe take the fst train out, you
know" he came bck to say, as if to
clinch things. He di ask the minister to
some purpose, Lett! found, when that
functionary arrived; for, amid his
rather fiustered cogratulations, she
discovered that ballad come evsr to
marry them.
"It's all right said James nodding
to the minister cd1fdently, as the little
woman's handkerchief sought eyes her
for very confusion "Go ahead"
"Iicense ready . said the minister in
a business-like mnner.
"Here it is" sad her sister, prompt
". 81 looked OFT for that this morn
ing"
ooh, James" vas all the blushing
bride could say, 'aon't I"
probably not said he, rather ir-
relevantly, nevertlelessl drawing up be-
side him as the aoly man opened his
book and began t, say the words that
made them man and wife.
So, before she new it, Miss Lefty
was being marriei; in her old black
alpaca dress, with Ter thimble still upon
her finger, in th.t very little parlor
where she had struggled SO long, alone
for a scanty and hardly earned liveli
hood.
"Kiss your new aunt, Lettie," said
the newly-made hUband, almost before
he had kissed he himself. "Now,
where's your trunk little wife ?"
"I haven't any, said Lefty family,
for she had rever been away on Jour-
ney before in her LIFETIME.
"All right; I'll send you over mine,'
said he, in a very matter-of-faot way
" Can you be ready for the three o'clock
train9 Well go vest first to see Let
ties mother p
"But, just think of the things have
to dol First there's unfinished sewing
to be sent home with my apologies !;
then there are all my things here to
look over and pack before the house
can be closed. Impossible, James It
will take two or three days at least to
get everything in order for such a
trip /"
''Neger mind, then. We will take a
week in New York first, and then come
back here and arrange to your hearts
content before we start on our travels.
Hoy how will that d @''
sNow you are talking sensible" said
Miss Lefty, bestirring herself; as if
nere was an idea at last that she could
grasp and meet heroically.
The minister, with an unprecedented
large fee in his pocket, hastened home
to share his surprise and delight with
his wife, who was utterly unable to con-
tain the news without flying over to
impart it to a neighbor. So the news,
once started fairly, few from door to
door, until the whole village seemed
bubbling with excitement.
But not before Mrs. Lefty now was
fairly off; already miles away toward
the great city.
In the fall folks say they are coming
back to occupy the Hedges homestead,
which has already wakened to new life
with busy sounds of noisy hammers and
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