The Penn's Grove record., 1882-07-08

him the very next morning. Well, 8
last the st of May came, just ~ May
day always does come, whether W
watch for it or not. The sun shon
forth with unwonted splendor from
the cloudless blue that bent to toucl
the purple hills, shone so brightly tba
it peeped beneath the russell leaves o
the arbutus, where the pink and whit
blossoms had thought themselves SO
cureiy hidden, shone so brightly that
to their surprise, it even stared tn,
cowslips almost out of countenancea
OF course, every scholar in the acad
envy was at the May-day feast the
girls pretty and graceful in their best
attire, the boys constrained and awk-
ward in their Sunday suits. Each one
had brought a bouquet Of flowers to
present before the queen, who, throned
in state, received their homage with
blushing humility. AS the last of her
schoolmates kneIt be ore her, Squire
Williams advanced from a clump OF
sheltering trees and laid a large bou-
quet at her feet.
"May / ask" he said that you will
keep this until it is withered, in mem
DRY of one who will find his highest
pleasure to day in witnessing your en-
joyment? hope you all, t" he contin-
ued, turning toward the rest, twill
feel to day that everything here is
your own and, perhaps, / too shall be
able to catch some of your happiness"
But, as he walked away, they no
ticed that his lips quivered, and the
happy little queen could scarcely in
terpret he earnest look with which
l-he regarded her. All else, however,
was soon forgotten in the excitement
of the games and boating. Squire
Simpson gave Bell Bristol and jamie
Morris a sail in the white-winged
shallop, and, after such a display of
magnanimity, felt himself exceed
ingly %virtuous. os,as
The time passed SO rapidly. they
could scarcely credit the call to lunch,
which was spread for them in the wide
! piazzas. And such bountiful tables as
met their astonished vision /! 1t makes
me hungry just to think about them.
There was lobster and chicken salad,
scalloped oysters, boned turkey,
French rolls, all sorts of %jellies, and
cakes and comfits innumerable three
kinds of ice cream, ana oranges and
nuts and bananas, besides bonbons
and imported candies. Everybody
ate anti they were quite ashamed of
themselves; but there was so much lett
that Mrs. Williams spent a consider
able part of the afternoon in wrapping
the cake and candies in white paper
for them to carry home. aaI
Such a day had never been known
before at Barrels; but that is quite a
superHuous remark, for you will all
imagine its pleasures better, perhaps,
than Lean 3 des cribe. them. They
thought the sun went down unusually
early thatnight-a at east an hour before
its regular time for setting but, upon
investigation, 1t was found that the
clock In the almanac did not vary a
minute. Consolation, however, came
in the form of an invitation 20 return
to the house and finish the chicken
salad, oysters and ice a They
exhausted most of the adjectives to be
worcester" ON their way home, and
then grumbled because some did
not publish a new dictionary but
truth compels me TO add that the next
morning they were as tired and cross a
set of youths and maidens as ever trod
the streets of Barret's Crossing. But
all this is but a preamble to the main
incidents of my story.
Little Rosa La Plant kept the bou-
quet of flowers that had been gathered
for her at ~Clovernook, putting them
into fresh W ter every day and care
fully picking off the dead leaves. One
morning she caught a CLEAN of some
strange substance deity inserted In
he very heart of the flow ers. Hastily
separating them, there appeared to
her bewildered eyes six golden halt
eagles, with q request delics tely word
ed that she would use them in enab-
ling her to finish her term at school.
Quickly donning her hat and shawl,
she walked, with a beating heart, W
the winding path to the open door al
C~lovernook. A sudden breeze closed
the door behind her, and what passed
in that interview was never known,
II am going up every Saturday after
noon to read aloud to Mrs. Williams
for an hour" was all she told hel
schoolmates in regard to 1t; but the
housekeeper said in the d~ressmaker',
shop that the Squire took more notie'
of her than he had of any other young
girl since his daughter died, and, thii
remark being reported throughout thu
town, people were not u~nprepared TO
the news that came later, that she hat
been adopted as his child and was hei
presumptive of Clovernoob. When
some years later, she returned from
continental tour, n would scsrcel,
have recognized in the beautiful an
popular miss Rosa Williams the littl
brown-eyed sweeper of the academ.
buildings.
"And to think that I presided at tn
i meeting when she was chosen Ma
queen 7" exulted jamie Morris, VIII
looked upon that election as the four
e dalton stone of Rosa's good fortune.
2 YES" said Bell Bristol shut If
had not objected to the boys voting
o Molly Simpson would have been cleo
ed and perhaps Rosa might not hsN
e been at the picnic that day."