The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-04-12
Fer Tfe .ifk-r5Gr Tyes'eisr. AN UELUCKY DAY.
hT ikE &ARNEP.

1 young ladies in novels grow pale and in- teres,lng oxer-oh no, indeed I'm igst a plantation girl, and have never yet seen any of he men who are worth loving. don't believe girls on a plantation ever do.
 No, itSsn': love that makes me so un- happy. wish |, were. for then l could sit Tn corner, cry in my apron, and I, would all be over with but fl 1 were to soak ali the aprons and dresses possess in tears, l, would not help me ou; of the trouble I'm n 10 day.
 There are only four of us Henry, Nettie, Tabbie and l. and we live m an old ui.apida:ed house on a plantation. Henry IS the oldes; and has almost raised my small. bad brother and my self. Ne,;ie $ grown and pretty; Tub be IS nve years old. and has the llile brothers propensity for always saying the wrong thing al the wrong time. am thirteen, and that's all there IS 10 tell aboa: me. Six weeks ago. neighbor of ours-a lady who lives several places be- low aere-;ook l long, low fever, one of the k.nd that fingers and fingers. and wears everybody ou, and her husband wrote and asked Henry If he would let his li,:le sister come and stay so she could sii with his wife in the day-hand her things, and give her medicine. while he and the nurse rested D little.
 sad l would go. but Ne.tle and Henry discussed ,he question. and de- ciared tha; I'd better stay q, home, for sorleho . my shoes always ereak, bump into chars and Gpse. things, and one day l gave Iaobie ammonia by n stake so Henry sad II would be far wiser for me To fensain where thc people and furniture were ,sed io ne, or I'd be sure to smash something, or ki.. somebody before my return.
 %e:;ie laughed. and said she was sure ( do ro sarh thug. but q. any fate she went. and was immensely relieved for. 10 tel he tra... the thought oi sitting a, Inc table, three times day. wi,h Mr Blank and his long son, caused me to shake in my shoes. Things have gone on very wei. here at home until to-day, with the exception ot fe. freaks of Aun; tiady or cook, who has given us hardly anything i, ;o eat and whenever wan: her 10 SCOUT IS taken with a pain Tn the " small of aeF back" Somehow it IS one of the many things an't under stand. "Fene.ef VIC have company 10 dinner. Or there IS anything extra to do. Aun; tindy is invariably taken with q pain m the small of her back And now, to-day. Henry has written ne from the gin that his commission merchants two sons; 'To.l New Orleans, are coming to dine with us.
 Henry writes Henry is as good as an .ngel, but sometimes l don, believe he las one grain of common senseE Have a rattling good dinner. for they have rid- den a long way. and will enjoy it."
 En'cy IL Why there isn't 'rattling gooi thing in the store room. I, is sieeting and pouring pi,ohforks out doors. and some pia es in: and as Aunt Cindy always suffers divers ills during damp weather, who can tell wha, dreadful dishes she will send Tn for the young men. who are, presume. not used as we are, to shutting ,helr eyes and swallowing any thing.
 Yes, I'm miserable to-day. and dus, the dining-room with heart as heavy as the bread Aun; indy gave us for break fast.
 Suddenly the door bursts open. ard a little girl, whom Neuie laughingly calls her ha"d-malden. tiys in. She Is small oaboon ot seven, and Aun, Cindy's yonnges, daughter. who. on her entrance into the world, had bestowed upon her unoi;ending black head. the name of May Laglin, and her mammy's pronuncia- ton of Mary Magdaiene.
 Where is the hearth-red ," ask. sent you for Ii two hours ago
 kr, May Laglin always brings out her words as If she had been running m high wind. Nanny. she say taint no mo. !"
 No more. Why Ne,,ie bough, a bushel last month I'd like 10 know whats become of i, -
 Il spec l ncle Dick s,ealed it." re- plies May Laglin. turning her brogans sideways IT the ashes, and huddling over the fire.
 In spite of her innocen, look. the most probable thing IS ,ha, May Laglln. al her mammys instiga,lon. stealed l" il her self. but learned in my early infancy that there is no use in crying over stolen goods and chauels. nor m accusing our hand-maiden of falsehood. for am con hden, she will be defending some big black iib. so merely say. Go pound some bricks" and begin 10 set the table. }. much york of the brain as the hands :: no, that we have divers sets oi china to choose from. on the contrary we haven, even halt a set. but just collection of odds and ends of other times. which even in these days of bric-a-brac IS distraetinc to the eye; and l, requires no little amount of thinking 10 place the plates so that after being helped, and handed about. the whole ones fall to the lot ot the guests, and the cracked ones to the family. So put one with broad. gold band. for one guest. plain white one for the other. lovely mass of rosebuds and gold for Henry-a thick ironstone piece for Hubble, and soup plate for myself
 My plan of movement Is this: The man with the gold band is to be helped first; this gives Henry the plain plate. Tubbie is 10 be served on h,s own little platter. and am not to be helped at all.
 When am ready for the knives. can