Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-29

an guess they've made her fanciful. She
thinks that it'd be grand fun to surprise our
folks along with ma an the other two
girls. BY Us two bein' married on the sly. the
night before Thanksgivin'-an' then comm,
home and tellin' 'en. don't see any fun in
taat-not a bitl I think it looks rather
foolish. But Anna-I declare don't know
what's got into herl-she viii hold to it'll Ths
long and short of it is that You've pro
missed to do it, says L
Yes he answers. Il suppose it'll make 3
STIR; but that can't be helped. I've promised.
None OF her folks nor ours must know any
thlng about our engagement vet. On
Ihanksgivin' evenin' I'm to call for Anna
with the sleigh. I want you to come along
TOO. Enen- Wen go straight down to Battle
Iii, TO Parson Latha1n's, an have the knot
ted Then Well come back an let it out to
the widow an Jenny and Ruth. After that
tie hull crowd of Us will pile down here, an.
have the pleasure Of SEEM father an mother
an everybody here open their eyes, That's
Annals idea. As said, don't specially nd
mire it. but, still, give in to it.
{" Thinks me, Master Frank, there's
some game here that clever girls up to!
Mebbe-an' mebbe not. But I told Juniper
I'd go with him on Thankggivin'
night. You two can sit in the back seat and
Pll drive said. June laughed. See here,
june l says 9 moment later jast ss we went
up the stairs, / hope that you'll never let
Anna know how IL was that you picked her
out from her sisters
'June blushed an stammered something
like 'Cert'inly motif would have come out
this way in any case'-an' went into his room.
Him. thought, I'm not SO sure Of that. I
must give you q good talk tomorrow
When l tried to talk, however, June
wouldn't hear to me. He knew what he was
doing'-so be persisted. Anna was the girl
who would make him just the wife he wanted;
an the Stone farm was all ready for 'em to
move in right away He had rather taken
a fancy, he remembered, to Ruth at one
time, but that hadn't amounted to anything
l said no more, but kept up quite a-thinkin'.
''The night before Thanksgivin' Of that
year was as clear as a bell. There WIS three
feet o snow all over the country. At o'clock
June an I drove to the Gaylers door. Almost
before I'd got the horses still, figure ell
tightly wrapped Up slipped out the gate.
Poor Anna! She seemed terrible nervous as
June helped her into the seat by him.
ooh, June, heard her say, I almost wish
I'd never thought O this silly plan
June did almost all the talkin' while we
spun down the street and out on the Battle
Hill turnpike. Anna sat with his arm half
round her, and seemin' for the first time to
realize that she was takin' an important step
in life.
u hardly looked at 'em after Anna YVES
in her seat by June. The horses was
in a complete gale I had to give
them my hull attention. It required whip an
reins an everything else to make 'em behave
The parsonage at Battle Hill is only two
miles-an' a-half from our village We fairly
flew over the road. Then, Just before we
passed the big gates that led to Squire
Loftus's place, Dollar gave a lunge. That
set Prince a-goin'. Before 1 could help it.
they wheeled sharp, overset the sleigh, an
ran themselves up to their shoulders in snow
bank. There they stood. We, meanwhile,
were pickin' ourselves up as best we could.
"Ln the name of goodness 1 heard
Juniper shout in voice that frightened me
half to death. I scrambled up and looked
at the other two 1t was bright moonlight.
There stood Brother Juniper. In front of Us
was the person who'd come with Us in the
sIeigh-Ruth Gayler
"Before either of US could say word she
burst right out a-cryin'. Then followed
the queeriest, The most mixed-up and
gnerally surprisin' explanation of
about, that ever [ expect to hear in all my
mortal life. Most of the time Juniper just
stood there, pale and bewildered. 1 put the
best part Of the bad questions there was to
ask, holding the horses heads 1t must have
looked curious picture.
''Our hired help and Lucretia Tabb who'd
haar lrin1 at ba for n oo,,,Io
o weeks, of an on, was great friends. That
night when Brother June had drawn that
lot-wed ought both to have been ashamed
of ourselves for such foolishness-our
Almirad overheard the hull affair. She told
Lucretia Tabb. And what does Lucrstia do
but tel Anna; an Anna told her sisters.
cat first, Anna was pretty well put out at
Brother June. Then when she an Jenny an
Ruth talked it over, they couldn't but laugh
and call it all a real joke on June.
Then they put their heads to.
gether directly, to find out a way to
punish June for coming to one of them with
an offer under such circumstances. That
was why Annad contrived the stolen we'd
ding.
'tW hen they first planned it out, Ruth fwho
had plenty Of mischief in herr was perfectly
~ OAAOCl N<if-O JIG IOr
her-she to meet brother June, instead of
Anna, in the dark. That'd be easy; the girls
had all much Of height, fgger and voice
When we'd reached Parson Latham's steps.
she was to pull off Ter wells and make low
bow to poor June an say, Mr.. Juniper Kit
terry, I've brought my sisters compliments
an she hopes that the next time you ask
girl to marry you, you'll know whether you
love her or whether any of her sisters
mightn't do just as well / especially,
she hopes that you won't toss up
for her Then she was to hold out the
identical piece of paper with Anna written
on it. (Almira bounced on it, While she was
sweeping, the day after twas written) An,
last of all, Ruth calculated to say, Come,
June; q jokes joke. We don't bear no
malice, not even sister Ann. You mustn't.
Just drive me back home
''But, you see, Master Frank, Ruth had
liked Brother June more than she thought,
an all week the idea of actin such part
even to oblige Anna and have some sport,
CALLED her the worse. She couldn't bear to
think OF it. She begged Anna and Jenny to
let her of an Jenny to play the part Of
Anna herself. But, no; they insisted on her
keepin' to her promise. So, between her be-