Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-04-04
4 sflert story.
HOLD Mr.. BINNEY F."

face, and had than ful spirit within
her, striving always to remember hel
blessings, aud how much they out
nnmbe 9 / any evils she was called
yupon to bear.
Indeed, to listen to Miss Bright'>
showing, YOU would have counted hel
is one of the luckiest persons eyel
born. She had had the kindest ol
} friends, the most comfortable OF situa
tlOus, and the girls she had taught
were endowed with an amiabiity oi
disposition which made It positive
pleasure 10 be with them. The only
accusation she could bring ugainsi
them was that they were all in such a
terrible hurry to grow up and get mar,
ried, and then Miss Bright's occupa.
ton was gone, AMI she had to step out
into the world and find fresh field
for her labors.
As Years rolled on, each one adding
to the score Of Miss Bright's age, these
hunting grounds of instruction be-
came more and more narrowed. Chill
dren Of eight began Row where girls
of eighteen used to leave eff, and his
tory and geography. to say nothing OF
the parts Of speech and grammar,
were all so altered, that poor little
Miss Bright. had TO acknow ledge that
at tin rs she really did feel quite con,
fused. Very soon | shan't be left
with anything TO teach, she would say
pathetically. and then Mr.. Binney' 5
uepehw Joe, or some other good fel.
low who heard her, would declare she
should set up school Tor wives, for
there never were such wives as the
girls whom Miss Bright had brought
ur. She had taught Joe's wife Sally
and her sister. aud though since then
she had bad other situations, at holl-
day time, or whenever she was seeking
employment. she always returned to
the h use of pr BFendon, their father.
Wheu Mr.. Biuney dropped in, as he
frequently did to inquire after his old
friends the Brcndons. he from time to
time found Miss Bright there, and
happening on the occasion Of one OF
- . ..--' '--1.- The f..-Ms th2i u =
Bluucv was i'll. with no one whose
business II seemed 20 be TO look after
her. nothing Was more natural than
tha, Miss Bright should volunteer,
and great comfort they found her.
80 sprIghtlv vet uuobtrnslye was
the CHEEKY little woman that Mrs.
Blun,y herself Vas Influenced in her
favor. uutirwith an eve 10 their mutu
al comfort. Mr.. BInury proposed Miss
Bright staying with them altogether.
Why not :: he said. We could we'll
afford TO pay her salary. But this
word salary, acting like magic on
Mrs. Binucy. seemed 10 bring her to
her senses immediately. She would
bs very glad to have Miss Bright as Il
visitor as long AZ she liked 10 stay, but
As to living with them altogether,
No" she would not give her consent
to that; she bad always objected To
having third party in her house Ii
was then that Miss Brlght's friends
pulled Very long faces ii deed. What
would she do : they asked her.
%, something is sure 10 turn up,
she would say hopefully. Whenever
| have come to my last ebb an opening
has been made for ne, So am not go.
ing To despair now.
And she said this all the NOR, en-
phatlcally, tecause in cpIte If her con
tidlnc" she could not help feeling that
voice which she could hot down still
kept repeating; What will YOU dc
when You grow older? Teaching will
get harder than ever That was true
enough, but what else was there for
her TO do:
When Mrs. Binney died, which hap,
pened quite suddenl, about year e,
fore, there had been some talk as to
Miss Bright going to Mr.. Binney as
housekeeper, but this proposition had
been made without the knowledge OF
consent of the pril cipal person con
CerDed, who, rs soon as the hint was
given, negatived it.
Mr.. Blnney thoroughly appreciated
Miss Bright, but he had lost his taste
for matrmony; he remembered that
he had spent forty excellent years with
his wife, and, Notwithstanding that
he was now widower, he could not
conscientiouly say that he felt his
state to be so very unhappy.
Susan, the cook, respectable and
staid. would, he felt sure, manage hi,
household properly, and if it proved
that she should give way to extrava
garce, as people seemed to say, Mr.
Binney fancied he could better put ~
with that evil than with too much o
the economy from which he had suf
fered already.
SO all the hopes that, on the deatl
Of Mrs. Binney, Joe and Sally and The
Brendons had cherished for Mis-
Bright were ruthlessly dashed to th'
ground. Evidently Aunt B. was no
to have successor.
If we could but have got her there
as housekeeper,' said two of thos'
archconspirators, 'the rest would have
been easy But though they returned
to the attack several times, no goot
came Of it. Now Mr.. Binney share,
in their regret at the loss of Mis-
Bright's pupils, wondered as they die
what would become of her, and, hi
visitors gone, to make his sympath,
, apparent, he sat down and wrote
kind little note with check for 81,
folded within it.
,, He's an old stupid, said Sally, 'an'
now she is going AWAY altnoether eve