Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-10-19
i on an eAsel naar his wifs's sofa wonla
help g vile away the weary hours. and she, & d

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R.ther than herr him cay tha. shs Was the
the p cturs for him. His suifadid NOT care In
picture. why did he borrow tharn for herr
cne CID rot care for DO ks either She was
entire en- aeiucatsd, and though possibly !
Wilmot OF Taunton, she certainly was not &
iAay. she wished 70 DO pleasant, though, and
Was very foad Of hsympathiz,ng With me when
ever she happened TO observe certain sn1all
green insects which shs called nasty afri.e."
on my roses Had she been reading The Par
sian and turkish Tales? I wished an i'll dis
posed sfrlte would carry her off-but nothing
aver IN. Mh oarry her away from my side bnt
k,tchengardsn. Then she said in = monent
Dear MI. Paveril, Edward and are 60 fond
OF fresh vegetatlon--may I 90 and ask that
msn to cut some little trifle for the Gotta ger"
ana J. rejoicing at this m 'mentarv good fort
went aad oommsn1sl him q bear to her abods
csutlnowers and peas. 1ettuces. aoricors, or
wnasseevsr else ssas agreeable to The Dalate of
q creasure OF inn ,re.siOn. For nv part. I
should not have cared Whist went to the cot
tage 3, iosg a. nothing eam, from ito sit by
my side. mean. But my wife said too much
went They had naw-laid eggs. milk. cream
aud more butter than we G 'uId we'll spare an
sney dli not pay "a they got it, but let the ao-
''Be rat,ent" said I; ssdon't complain, and
DON'T offend them. We should havs b ZEN very
hard up without these Shutes. for have spent
more than I ought on the house and garden
ana ~ Is an ,mmensA co,nfurt to have such
ron tenants. They must be rich, for tn ,se
pictures on their walls are worth thous and-.
Don't let US think of the shutes Let US enjoy
our happinessw
Our dear daughter hal got lover--not de-
o'ared one, but one who WAS evidently in earn
EST. he was thoroughly CONSCIENTIOUS. up-
r'ghs man, AID had & small estate which had
oesn IN his family for 9 couple Of centuries
Oar JOY of this made us tol"ra It of the Shutes.
me young folks met constantly, and the more
we saw or Mr.. Duc.s the more we liked him.
perha,s 1t vas lucky thing that Mrs Shute
liked sitting on my lawu better than driving
with my wife, for If she ia used our pony
carriage my daughter would have had to stay
at home AID M. Ducie would have had fewer
Opportunities Of seeing her.
One dav, after Irritating me by calling nv
pm lemons altirrhiuums, when I should hava
dlsllked to hear her tow such an aop 'lla-
tloI on my snap-dra IONS, sle who knew moth
ing OF our secret hopes, suddenly excIaim d:
Mr. P.veril, don't you think that Mr.. Ducie
who comes to your house, is very charming
youig man! We have asked him to the ut
taga and he is coming. There are great
a1y nice Young mon in this neighborhood
am going to inv ia nv sister to come an stay
with me-she is such nice girl and 50 beau
tifuL"
! could see the connection of ideas She was
going to invire her sister 20 the cottage in the
hlpe Of her fascinating some one--most prob
ably our Mr.. Ducis. This was fatal, for II
Mira Shuta tnads up her mini to deprive US Of
anything which seemed good in her ewes, moth
ing remained to US but to resign ourselves to
letting her hay. it.
Ny poor Dorothea! sighed heavily That
marriage on which we had set our ne arts
was not to be. Mrs. Shute's sister, Wimot
OF Taunton, and probably also a crea ure
n i'm nr1
Mr. Ducle's fscti rs from nay daughter,
and my wife and l would be such fools that
even we would allow curse yes to be drawn into
dong our part towards producing that re-
suit was silant for some time; I was afrai |
she would notice it.; I did not want her 10
~ suppose your husband is hard at work this
fine N ,rning!"
Eyes. he is busy copying-painting, mean, u
said she, in SOM confusion.
Go wing nature, I suppose" said I: but
1t occurred to me that considering he was d
landscape paluter. MIR. Shute stayed grea
deal indoors.
Miss Wi.mot came. She was as bright and
rosy as Mrs. Shute was pale, aud hardly had
she arrived than the Shutes began to borrow
our pony-carriaze freely, and asked US tc
lend them our lawn for a tenuis-party they
wished to give, to introduce her
claimed, when nv VITO told me this: 'sIt is
too much! IT, like seething q kid in lti
mothers milk!"
Aud We shall have to supply the strawber:
ries and the cream, and lend the ,eacup. and
teasp IONS and 8 couple of servants! And she
wants to borrow our long dining table to place
under tire, on the lawn, aud has no, got a
table cloth long enough t, cover it, but is sure
that We have and woa't mind lending IT.
and"---
''say no more" said I, decidedly. ssWe
mu i draw the line somewhere, and draw i
at giving up Mr.. Ducie to them"
De Was there even while. We were speaking;
he told us of his visit afterwards, aud said he
thought Miss Wiimot vary charming girl,
though 1t was easy to see that. like tue fat b y
10 P.ckwck, me knaw nlcsrer;'' but how
10 ig would he continue to put my Doroshea IN
tue first place If those Shutes gan to angle
', for him ia earnests Oar experience was t al
they ways managed to get what they wanted
no oeesn to go to the outage a great dsal
cause from the Shutes' window he could some
! times see Dorothea walking in our garden
did not know Why did no not come to us?
He did come to US, and sometimes asked
Dorothea to stroll with him in the garden, but
no 80 ,ner did thsy go out than Mrs. Shuts and
Miss Wllmot joined them. 1 called tbs Ia tte1
ele Abomlnable that uninvited came" but
how Could the mind revert to poetry in the
midst Of such vexatiou as this?
While every hing was in this wretchedly un-
eou.IoA '@oie S'a'o Iec9i'eu 10 ter from my
uucle--lh the uncle did not Ant to offend It
was rather cold, and it ended thus: II think,
John, you must now see that had every rsa-
son 20 warn you against taking that fool shly
expenslve house OF yours, but you need not
hays sold your Turner ana you ought to
SIDES, would infinitely rather have lent You
some m 'ney myself than have that exquisite
drawing go out Of the family"
1t had not gone out OF the famiy-I had not
sold it and never meant to do SO! II had been an
act OF great self sacrifice TO let 1t go to the Cot
and would keepis My uncIe's le tor made M
'eel inclined 10 go and look at the dra wing. I
TO- * it down to emf it thoroughly. II had
oeeu takeu out of its frame. Why had that
been done? | at once went to the cottage to
ask the question. The ladies were out They
had hired ca riage and gone to spend the day
with Mr. Ducie's moth=r. They were evidently
III terrible earnest about that affair, and it was
most Significant feature that they had hired
carriage, Instead Of iuslsting on having ours
mt. shute is in the studio, sir; will You walk
up stairs?" said the servant
walked no g airs, but he was not there On
the tables and eassls saw q number Of water
color drawings IN various stages Of progress,
all of which he was copying from others. Mr.:
Shute copied Turner drawings and sold them
a. originals! I saw il in moment Aud he
had copied mine! Or had he perhaps sold the
original and sent me back the oopy? Then the
drawings on his walls were copies too, and
had not such 8 well-so-do tenant after sill, for
thoss Turner'S on the wallis had been nv sheet
anchor Of safety. Perhaps the refit Of this
outage, for which had sacrificed SO much,
would nsver be paid, and my cream ana new
laid eggs, my fruit, my vegetables, my peace Of
mlnd.-even nay h0pes for the future, were all
to be az nothing. Letters with foreign stamps
lay on tho table, doubtless orders from the an-
tipoies for valuable drawings, which my clever
tenant had 40 difficulty in supplying, and even
now his wife and he- sister were twiniug their
m.shes round
I looked up suddenly, and saw from the
Shu.es' window my Dorothea and Mr. Ducie
Joy toop possession Of my heart He had He'd
from tue two Wilmot sirens in search of my