The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-06-18

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two, five and six years old, that ever
needed to be taken care off, So, as you
may well imagine, / was not only de-
| lighted, but extremely delighted, to get
| tlB5 chance of assisting Mr.. Erickson
/ with the Reader And l cOnfded as
/ much to Matt Brewster when we were
coming home from church together the .
| next Sunday evening because, you .
see, Matt, ~ said l. "if I succeed with .
| this, may be I can go on writing until |
and l caught my breath at the bold |
/ ness of the idea-''I am found worthy |
of a place in the juvenile magazines, |.
| and, as a successful writer, 1 could help /.
/ the family much more than I can now,
for literary work is for an seasons, and
millinery only for two or three months
out of the whole year.
"You forget, said Matt "your rich
uncle who is coming here from Austria
liza soon, and who will, no doubt so ar
range things that the family will need
no help at all from your hands
80 dear" said /, so Ibid. But he
has forgotten us for so many years
ever since / was FIVE, and / was nine
teen on my last birthday that now he
has coudescended to remember our ex-
istence, and promise us n visit, it's no
wonder that / can't keep him in mind.
And we are not sure that his coming
will benefit us any. He may be a
cranky old man, and very hard to
please 1t is more than likely he is,
for iather with whom he could never
agree, though he is his only brother)
teHs me he was an unusually cranky
young one
20, YOU must make him pleased with
d I'd rNsn.E E.rs-
have one advantage, and a great one,
over the others. You are his god
daughter, you know
Il know it to my sorrow ~ 1 assented.
"Samuollal What a name to give an
unfortunate girl baby II it hadn't
been for that saving Ella, what would
l have done? Fancy woman's being
called Sam all her lifo!n
"But you will do your best to get
into the old chaps good graces, won't
you?n said Matt, cOaXingly.
"Well, yes, I will, since your heart
seems to be set upon it, ] promised,
though 1 wondered at the time why he
was so anxious that I should become q
favOrite of Uncle Sans. "Tu do
everything but give up the Reader"
. Matt Brewster was chief proprietor
of the store where my brother George
. was clerk, and he was also my ackowl-
2 edged lover. The latter fact made
me the envy of half the girls in Wild
2 wood, for Matt was considered the
4 handsomest and most fascinating yOnng
/ bachelor in the place. He was tall and
e slender, with very fair hair, light blue
f eyes, straight nose, and a small
mouth.
, Mrs Leroy, the young wife of old
T. Captain Leroy-lOoked up to with great
y respect by three-fourths of the popula-
= tion of Wildwood. because she had her
t bonnet and gloves straight from Paris
gave it as her opinion that his brow
l was too narrow, and his chin too re-
i treating. "Give me, she said, calmly
! and cOOlly, 'the school-master, any
q day, in preference. He is not quite as
l tall, but his shoulders are broader, so
1 is his forehead, and he has a certain
J manly look and way about him that is
e utterly lacking in Mr.. Mathew Brews-
-, ter"
, Strange as it may appear, I did not
y feel as indignant at this adverse criti-
j. cism of my betrothed (by the way, 1
s had stipulated at the time of my en-
j. gagement, now two months old, that
o marriage should not be thought of for
It at least two years. as some of the other
girls did Nettie Haley, for instance
d daughter of Haley, the builder, with a
d snug little fortune in her own right, in
L herited from her mOther-was particu-
:, larly wrOth.
u "She only talks that way" she said,
~ referring to Mrs. Leroy, "because she
y wants to seem different from everybody
else, Just as she sends to Paris from this
d Out-Of-the-way village for her bOnnets
= and gloves. Why, there's no com.
ID parison between the two men. Matt
'I dances beautifully; Mr. Erickson don't
y dance a step. Matt sings lovely; Mr..
10 Erickson can only Join in bass. Matt
2; has a complexion like a girls S; and Mr..
"a Erickson has one ike-like-"
le "A mans" 1 suggested, mischiev,
y OuslY, as she paused for comparison
~ go, pshaw, Ella, what a tease you
n are! And about yOur own beau, too
10 But don't really believe you know -
~ and here she heaved a deep sigh
N ''what a lucky girl you are. "
n "Well, 1 began the Reader and soor
ar became so absorbed in my work thai
n. everything l cast eyes upon instantly
a resolved itself into a First Lesson. Die
re the butcher stop at the door, 81 see s
Mt man; he is a butcher; q butcher sell,
meat, -" Immediately flashed through
nn my brain. Did one of my intimate
friends call, 1 greeted her in my minC
- with, 81 see girl; her name is May
ne Cor Lib, or Molly whichever it NIGH
U be; "she comes to tell some news .
le My very dreams were haunted by likt
H. examples. / saw the queerest things
ne Their names were gibberish They
II. played strange and ridiculous pranks
sr But for all that-perchance in conse
quence Of all that-the book progressed
v. rapidly, and the first hundred lesson
= we're almost completed, when mothe
q received a letter from cousin of hers
no dated from the same place in Australi;
en- from which Uncle Sam had come.
s- read as follows:
We "DEAR SARAH: Your brother-in-law start
for wildwood in few days. I trust that h.
will arrive safely, and bring you permanen
ae relief from your pecuniary troubles. HOi
~ pearunCe-the result of several hard fights u
which he has been engaged-siHce you las
o. saw him. Never handsome, he iB nOw-pe
~ ! Cular-lOOklng. / write this especially q
VI ] warn you, and to have you warn the others
lu not 70 allude In the slightest way to the phys
aI iCal blemishes it will be impossible for you no
Ito observe, as any such allusion would hav
.s' the effect OF rOusing him to Furious anger
no With love to Samuellu upon whom he seem
.S inclined to look with favor, and kind remeu
% brances to the rest, am yours faithfully,