News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-25

things no longer, Miss haywood, cause
she does a cash business, and there amt
nothing been paid on your account since
last June. $
Honora felt herself turning scarlet.
Il am very sorry, Sally. Tell your
mother [ will settle my bill as soon as L
possibly can"
Sally fonced out of the room red and
indignant. like an Overcharged thunder
cloud, and poor little Honora, dropping
her head into her hands, burst into
tears.
"Pretty girl, that-very pretty" said
Mr.. Broderick, the old bachelor, to his
Iandlady.
DO You mean
Il mean the young lady boarder of
yours that I see on the stairs now and
then" said Mr.. Brodcrick. - Nice
figrue-big, soft eyes, like a gazelIe.
Didn't some one tell me she was Il music
teacher p
"That's her profession, " Mrs. Penny
packer. But there amt many pupils
as wants tuition, and, poor little dear,
she has but a hard time Of it. 50
"Humph! :" grrmted Mr.. Broderick.
"What fools women are to have a regular
profession. If 1 had daughter I'd
bring her up self-supporting institu-
ton"
And Mr.. Broderick disappeared into
his room, in the midst whereof stood a
girl with Tapping slippers, portentous
shawl and bonnet, which had originally
been manufactured for a woman twice
her size.
"Who are you ?" demanded Mr.. Brod-
erick.
please, sir, Tn Sally-the washer
woman's Sally = was the response.
"And what do you want here ?'said
Mr. BrOderick.
"Plcase. sir, I've come to bring your
things" said Sally, chottering off her
lesson Ike a parrot. "And, please, sir,
her tumble duty, and she 'opes they'll
suit, it was that damp and muggy Mon
day and Tuesday, as starch wouldn't
stick; and she 'opes you'll excuse all
mistakes, as they shall be done better
next time, sir-please, sir.
"Who mended am ?" demanded Mr..
Broderick, whose hawk eye had already
caught sight of the dainty needlework
upon his garments.
Nobody mended EN-" said Sally.
'.And mother says its easy to see as the
new gent is a bachelor, on account of the
holes in his heels and toes, and strings
off his dickeys.''
Il can tell you who mended EN-, "
said Mrs. Pennypacker, ''for l see her at
it, the pritty Miss Haywood And says
she, I don't know whose they are, Mrs.
Pennypacker; but, says she, they need
and a kind action never comes
amiss.' No more it does, sir, Lord bless
her p
"Humph p saidOIr Broderick. "She's
right-no more it does. And she's
regular scientist at the needle, is Mss
haywood. just look at that patch, Mrs.
'Euclid's geometry
couldn't produce a straighter line OF
huer angles. See the toe OF that stock
ing It's like piece of Gobelin tapestry.
That's the way Hike to see things done -
And Mr. Broderick never rested until
he had been formally introduced to
Honora haywood, and he thanked
her with equal formality for the good
Office she had unwittingly rendered him.
It was a golden October evening that
Honora came down into the kitchen,
where Mrs. Pennypacker was baIingpies
for her eccentric boarder, with the crusts
made Of the best Attorney butter instead
of lard.
cob, deary oh, dear p said Mrs. Pen
nypacker, "what thing it is to be an
old bachelor"
''Hewon't be a bachelor much longer, "
said Honora, laughing and coloring as
she laid her cheek on the good Iady's
shoulder.
''What do you mean ." said Mr.. Pen
''He has asked me to marry him, " said
CATER only two weeks acquaint-
ance. He says that girl who can mend
as I do needs no other test.
And he says he loves me; and-and
"Well o.
Il almost think [ love him p wills
pcred Miss Haywood.
And so the problem Of Honora's soil
tary life WIS solved aiI through the magic
influence Of Needle and Thread"