The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-07-06

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germ a wash-tub! Bless her
heart! don't it jest make a feller
feel like goin' to church? ? What
q cake Amt 1t a screamer =
etc., until Mrs. Baker requested
him to shut his mouth and not
make a fool of himself.
Miss Prue felt that she had an
ample reward in the happiness
she. had the means of bestowing
upon these poor creatures, into
whose lives 30 few such CLEANS as
this had fallen.
If people would only seek hap
piness in this manner they would
find it oftener, she thought.
Meg, who was helping her aunt
set the table, found the affair
rather an interesting experiment; !;
and even Mrs. Potter conceded
that lending to the Lord was not
q bad investment.
Miss Merriweather asjusr fin
ishing off her table arrangements
with a great glass dish of oranges,
wRn Daddy Skiskins came skip
ping out, in much excitement.
Miss Prue,' be exclaimed,
there's q feller outside says KANT
he come in, cause it's a.snowin'
powerful? An Mrs. Baker an
Granny Larkins says he shain't
come in; but seems kinder rough
on a feller to not ,hev no place to
90, an / reckon be amt an
OF course be can come in said
Miss Prue, settling the last
| orange. 'Wait-I'll let him in
! myself
As she opened the door, a tail
form, in a rough, gray overcoat,
all dapp!ed with snow. walked in.
'Pruer exclaimed q deep voice,
Just a little tremulous. ...y ..s..,.
. And, without further notice, the
tall and ssucy stranger gave Miss
Prue a very SNOWY hug.
.'Jim-Ji,n Griggs-is it really
your cried Miss Prue, returning
the hug, in the face of all the
guests, who had trooped into the
ball, with MRS. Potter aud Meg
close behind.
Its Jim Griggs and nobody
else = returned the stranger cheer.
lily. And every year hr the past
ten it's been my intenaon to come
home on this very day of this
very month, because it's the an
niversary of that day | promised
to come, when got all but killed
in a smash-up, and robbed after
ward and when l got into a
travelling condition, come back
I wouldn't, with never cent,
when | had made fortune !; and
IL vowed VOW not to come till !
had it back-which I've done st
last-and to come this night
when l did. Letters We poor
wretches couldn't send oftener
than once in six months, and they
mostly went astray-all the mail
agent didn't putin his pocket for
sate.keeping-so I wouldn't risk it.
not being any hand to write, any
way, and I always said next year
III go sure. I knew you'd wait
for me, Prue, my darling, and
here you are, with everything and
everybody, to welcome back the
prodigal!'
Mr.. Griggs finished his explana'
ton before the bounteous fire,
with Daddy Skifkins revolving
around him in perfect ecstasy,
and everybody talking at once.
Miss Prue took the opportunity
to indulge in thankful little cry
behind the dining-room door. But
it somehow happened that while
the guests were enjoying their
banopet-for which Mrs. Bakers
appetite was not found to be
seriously. impaired by Daddy
skifkins' preseuce-Mr. Griggs
persuaded Miss Prue to take 8
little walk with him IS far as the
minister's residence.
| Pears like it Was be, weddln'
dinner she WAS 4, cookin, after all,
said MISS Jonquil, when she heare
the news. But, law sakes 7 she ad
ded, with a litter, WEREN'T
very stylish affair. I wouldn'
have no sich q weddin'p
Which remark did not trouble
the late Miss Msrriweather in tb'