Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-02-03
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INTENSELY UTTER.--A few months /
ago the daughter of Rockland man, who
has grown comfortably well off in the
small grocery line, was sent away to a
''female college," and last week she arriv-
ed home for the holiday vacation. The
old man was in attendance at the depot
wien the train arrived, with the old horse
in the delivery wagon to convey his
daughter and her trunk to the house.
When the train had stopped a bewitching
array Of dry goods and a wide brimmed Lat
dashed from the car, and flung itself into
the elderly party IS arms.
''Why, you superlative pa - she ex-
claimed; ''I'm ever SO utterly glad to see
your
The old man was somewhat unnerved by
the greeting, but he recognized the seal
skin cloak in his grip as the Identical piece
of property he had paid for with the bay
mare, and he sort of squat it up in his
arms, and planted kiss where it would do
most good with report that sounded
above the noise of the depot. In brief
baggage were loaded into the wagon, which
was soon humping over the cobbles toward
home.
Spa, DEAR" said the young miss, sur
veying the team with critical eye, ''do
you consider this quite excessively be-
yond ?"
s'Hey ?'' returned the old man, with
puzzled air; ''qulte excessive beyond what?
Beyond Warren consider it somewhere
about ten miles beyond Warren, countin'
from the Bath way, If that's what you
mean"
''Oh, no, pa; you don't understand me-
the daughter explained: 81 mean this
wagon and horse. Do you think they
are soulful ?-do you think they could be
studied apart in the light of a symphony.
or even simple poem, and appear as in
tensely utter to one on returning home as
one could express ?'
The old man twisted uneasily in his
seat and muttered something about he be-
lieved it used to be used for an express be-
fore he bought it to deliver pork in. but
in such lonesome. direction that he
fetched the horse resounding crack on
the rotunda. and the severe jolting over
the frozen ground prevented further re-
marks.
sob, there is that lovely and consum-
mate NAL" screamed the returned collegi
ate, as they drew up at the door, and pres
emily she was lost IN the embrace of a
motherly woman in spectacles.
swell, Maria," said the old man at the
supper table, as he nipped piece of butter
off the lump with his own knife, ian how
d'you like your school?'
s.Well, there, pa, now you're shout
mean consider it far too beyond" re-
piled the daughter. cit is unquenchabiy
inefable. The girls are so sumptuOusly
stunning mean grand-so eXquisite-so
intense. And then the parties, the balls,
the rides-oh, the past weeks have been
one sublime harmony"
II s'pose SOL s'pose So" nervously as
sented the the old man as he reached for
his third cup, "half fulI-but how about
your books-readin', writin'. grammar,
rule o. three-how about them?''
spa! DON'T" exclaimed the daughter.
reproachfully, "the rule of three! cram
mar! It is French, and music, and paint
ing, and the divine in art that have made
nv school life the boss-I mean that | have
rendered it one unbroken flow of rymthmic
bliss-1ncomparably and exquisitely all
butt
The grocery man and his wife looked
helplessly at each other across the table.
After a lonesome pause the old lady said:
Chow do you like the biscuits Maria?"
ssThey are too utter for anything gush-
ed the accomplished young lady, land this
plum pudding preserves is poem in ITSELF
The old man rose abruptly from the ia
BILE, and went out Of the room, rubbing
his head in dazed and benumbed manner,
and the mass convention was dissolved
That night he and his wife sat alone by the
stove until a late hour, and at the break
fast table next morning, he rapt smartly
on his plate with the handle of his knife,
laad remarked:
ssMaria-me an your mother have been
talkin' the thing over. an we're come to
the conclusion that this boardin' school
business is too utterly all but too much
nonsense. Me an her consider that we
haven It lived sixty odd consummate years
for the purpose of raisin' curiosity, an
there's goin to be a stop put to this IN
uuenchable foolishness Now after you've
finished eatin' that poem of fried sausage
an that symphony of twisted doughnut,
you take an dust up stairs in less'n two
seconds. an peel off that fancy gown an
put on caliker, an then come down here
to- help your mother wash dishes 1 want
it distinctly understood that there ain'G
goin to be no more rhythmic foolishness
in this house. so longs your superlative
pa an your lovely an coDsummate mas
runnin' the rancho. You hear me, Maria?"
Maria was listening .-Rockla,ad Courier
A little four-year old girl did not obey
when her mother first called her. So her
mother spoke rather sharply. Then she
came in and said: ''Mamma I've been very
kind to you to-day, and don't want you