Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-08-01
Gales ano Sketftes.
CaRIsfIAsA's WEDDING DRESS.
BY MRS. SCHUYLER B. HORTON.

LIE iuIbu luii VI thOuSutos iu0NS 5uOob0
say thought, that had been blindly grow
ing there ever since he had first read in
his newspaper about the Michigan fires.
but which-he being a slow man-had not
fairly struggled to the birth until that
night when Mr.. Owen. the minister, had
made an appeal from the pulpit in behalf
Of the sufferers.
Deacon Joel kept up his thinking and
Suke kept up sort Of sham trot, which
amounted to little more than walk. IN
til she had passed the North Road that
led around the pond and up by the par
sonage: then suddenly, she stopped. 1t
was a way she had.
Whoa" said the Deacon, promptly,
rousing from his abstraction. When she
stopped the Deacon always said whoa"
They understood each other perfectly, still
they always kept this pleasant little farce
between them. When the Deacon said
whoa" he always looked around. partly
to see If any one was looking and partly
to discover Suke's reasons tor stopping,
which were, of course, his reasons for
stopping her.
He never would allow that Suke baked !;
he~said she always had reasons. He was
wont to tell with great zest how once he
went into the village and forgot TO stop at
the store and get some red flannel that
Mis- Eben," his housekeeper. wanted
for her winter shirts.
II hadn't got 40 rods by the store" he
used to say, with sly twinkle in his eye.
before Suke stopped, and she wouldn't
bulge an inch, all | could do, till | re-
membered Mis- Eben's flannel. The cree
tur knew if hadn't ha' found it out till
I got home I'd ha' druv way back again
before I'd ha' faced Mis- Eben without
itp'
Probably no one will appreciate this
story as Deacon Joel's townspeople did,
for they knew Mis- Eben," and they
knew that nobody in Middleport but Dea
con Joel could live in the same house
with her.
The Deacon won't stand Mis'E ben
more'n week" Middleport had said,
when she went to keep house for him
after his widowed sister, who had lived
with him since the death Of her husband.
which had left her alone. But eight years
had gone and there she was still.
mis- Eben now" he was wont to say
reflectively. "well, now, Mis- Eben amt
so hard to get along with as some folks
seem to think, if you only know how.
When she gets a-steppin' purity high all
you've got to do is to let her have the
house to herself and 90 it rs hard as she's
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us iegs as SOON Us ne can'e III, :,
Iears W me MI, owe" a,gro""
an,omn'on iehg'ay' sald MIS- Eoeh.
hoiulng twisted paper IN the oiaze OF the
lamp ought osone 70 oed an hoor
oso, We got 10 sur around carry Ia the
mo,nln 70 &c. ,ne wasnln ana lr9nln
oo.n ou' .ne way o-morroT. so ca"
sc. 9,nner 10, 'nc inrasners Iuesuay
auhh1' salo 'he deacon, mlidiy.
Meooe 'ne service was ieeue oit
iehs'hy' but Suke TOOK her time comm
nome; you can hurry her any You
know.
MIS- Eoeh gave gruht rs she Ill ner
candle.