Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-02-23
PROylY,EyTIAL PIGS.
A Pleasant Lcve story all OF the Pres
en-. Day.
!Trln BE- c Jntinen'.l

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"Oh, missus, missui Somefin's done
happened
Blank horror md dismny were depict
ed III on the face o my small African, as
she stood upon m threshold with up
raised hands and eyeballs that seemed
starting from their sockets. Her pause
was one of preparation, for with the IN
nate consideration OF her race, she sought
to break the news gently to me, but the
burden of it was too great for her, and
with the next breath she exclaimed:
Dem pigs done chawed up Miss Lyd-
dy's weddin' gown
"Glory," | exclaimed (she had been
piously christcncd Gloriana,) "Glory,
how did II happen
Dunno" said Glory. Pears to me
dem pigs has got Satan in EN-. Guess
deys scended from de old lot what run
down steep place inter the sea. I'll go
an fetch We Il piece.
She sped out and instantly returned
with tattered shred of India null that
had once been white, and still bore some
resemblance TO Il gown. Poor Miss Lyd-
dy There was all that remained of her
dream Of wedding splendor. 1t was too
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good noighborhood had been irretrieva-
bly, broken, and that Major Hawthorne
must be made aware OF this last and
worst depreciation OF his unseeming pigs.
But who would break the news to Miss
Lyddy.
"Glory." said |, ''where is she @
"Gone over to de buryin' place oh lleI
ancestors, answered Glory.
De-, vn;.l,Fnl aor1 avian in tboso 10 OF
days OF her maidenhood, with the vague
terrors of matrimony and tho still more
appalling responsibilities Of unsaved
heather souls hanging over her, she did
not forget the ancestors. Long lines OF
Ludkinscs lay buried in little sunken
hillocks in the family burying- place,
which lay just i'll sight OF her sitting
room window. She herself was the last
OF her lace, and until within three weeks
it had so,med that the only fate which
awaited her was to live ont her little
space under the ancestral roof-tree, and
then take her place i'll the silent ranks Of
those who had gone before. But n change
had come. 1t came i'll the person of O
returned missionary from the Micron.
esiau Islands, who had buried the first
and second partners Of his Joys and sor
rows somewhere under the palm trees d
those tropicol lands and had come bach
to the scenes Of his youth to recruit hi'
health serve the cause and look up part
ner No. 3. He met Miss Lyddv at a wo
mans missionary meeting lie called
the next afternoon and was invited t,
stay to tea. He accented the invitation
and next morning Miss Lvddy came int,
nv room-for |, too, domiciled under tn,
Lndl,ins roof-trce, for a consideration
anil with much hesitation and MANY fain
and delicate bushes. informed me tina
she promised 10 share the future lot o
Tho Rev Nehemiah Applebloom. to tax,
core of L;s six children and to suppor
him in his orduous lniors among tn,
heotlcns Of thr Mlcroueslan Islands.
was struck dumb with amazsment
"NJiss Lvddy" snii Mt length. ebay
Won duly considered this project o.
Her thin figure auiyered. and her whit
ncc. fiat had vet delicate remembrance
of youth in it. grew tender with feeling.
"Yes." she said II think / have,
have ALWAYS had prcsentimcnt that
ehould marry munster or a missionary.
Admirable and prophetic faith "An
Mfr. Applebloom saws he knew the me
ment he set ewes lu,on me that was OIL
daincd to be his wife; 50 you see it is nc
the surprise to either of us that it is like