Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-03-01
MIR. BRAssEY's CHANGE IOF BASE.

hKt bh1SSf1' - NhANuL lOI bhSE'
Judge Clark In New York Led.
Jenny and Lucy Baglcy were the
two prettiest girls in Balky Bottom.
Their mother was very proud of them;
and though a widow, in Strengthened
circumstances. she strained her narrow
means to put them at the new semin-
ary, for She was determined that her
GIRLS should hold their heads as high
as farmer Prindle's showy daughters,
ut whatever cost of pinching and say
ing.
The ambitious mother might have
found it difficult to carry through her
plans if an only brother, several years
her senior, who had run away when u
boy. and who had long ago been given
up for dead, hadn't come back one
day, as suddenly as he disappeared, with
no end of money in his pocket, and
still u bachelor.
Uncle Jacob RansOwcr, in spite Of
his grotesque dialect and old-fash-
ioncd manners, soon became great
ravorite with Jenny and Lucy. BY n
sort of tracit understanding he took up
his home in his sisters house; and from
that time the latter was relieved from
all anxiety on the score of her daugh-
ters' education, Uncle Jacob thence
forward chcerfully paying their bills,
including all the 'cXtras." ="
The girls came home finished at last,
and Uncle Jacob was leased into buy
ing a grand piano with half a cart load
of fashionable musi@.
The sisters would have had ilocks of
beauX, for they We're not only remark
ably pretty, but, as everybody knew,
they would one day come into Uncle
Jacobs money; but they held their
heads so very high that there wasn't Il
youth in Balky Bottom adventurous
enough TO spunk up to them. Even
Hiram Hoppick, who used to be rather
spry in his attentions to Jenny in the
ante-seminary days, and Reuben Ruck-
man. who used to baSkin an occasional
smile of Lucy's in the same blissful
period, hung back now like brace Of
baShful schoolboys with their fingers in
their mouths.
At last a star of the first magnitude
sci the ornament of Balky Bottom all
ablaze 1t was mo less luminary than
Mr.. Clcophas Brassey. Unless Jacob,
who had rought from his nieces A touch
of the seminarian idiom, pronounced
him 'mooch too quoitc." But the
younr ladies nonconcurred. Mr..
Brassey, in their eyes, was a perfect
Prince Charming; and when they came
to know him. and heard him sing,
..NIc hawht is fawh, fawh awayr'-a
statement with probably more truth
than poctrv in it-Jenny declared he
was nicer than at, and Lucy quite
agreed with her.
For the first time in their lives was
there ony iealously between the sis
ters.
For time Mr.. Brassey distributed
his attentions impartially between the
two. 1t would have puzzled him,
indeed, to give reason for prefer
encc. In point of looks, neither sister
had the advantage, and Uncle Jacobs
money, it was understood, was to 90 to
them in equal portions.
But Cleophas Brassey was of more
practical turn of mind than the
metaphysical donkey that starved to
death between two haystacks, for
want of n philosophic reason for
choosing the one rather than the other.
Irnc1n Jacob was comnlaininr n GOOD
deal lately of a 'puzzin' in his het," :"
and had put himself on double rations
of biackstrap as n remedy. Feeling
there was no time olose, Mr.. Brassey,
in the privacy of his chamber christen-
ed his meerschaum Jenny, and his
tobacco-stopper Lucy, and went over
the old juvenile riGmarole by which
schoolboys decide who's first to be
hare. The last word fell to Lucy-so
Lucy it was.
rrom thot timo forth If coosed to he
oncstion where Mr.. Brossev's pre,
dilnctions Law. II was nothing but
ImoV',Ui,I T'o,, with h;n, & now Poor Jnnpy feIt
hor:e,f " % ntIorIv ignored, and When
from ber obscire corner she listened
to V tho % cruei cbanting of tbe old story
of S his his irront S,bow7 y she felt there
was n melancholy reality in the words
She had never recognized before.
Mr., Brassey would have proposed to
Lucy without DELAY, but he was a lit
tie dubious on the score of Uncle
Jacob. 1t would be just like that OBJ
stinate old Dutchman, if he didn't like
the match, to express his disapproval
by Il disinheriting clause in his will.
But at last a circumstance occurred
that couldn't fail to give MI. Brassey
considerable lift in Uncle Jacobs