Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-22
.HALA DOOLITTLE'S DAUGHTER.

no" said our quaint, garrulous,
beerv old visitor, Aunt Dorcas Mason,
no came once a month to spend the
kv with us, and was ever welcome.
No, she want Mahaly Doolittle's
I'm daughter; she Want even blood
t@nnexion O. any kind; but ev'rybody
He'd Cicely Mahaly Doolittle's girl.
D; law bless you! Mahaly want
en- married.
sit did seem kind O. GURUS to folks at
|st when little Cicely commenced to
dile round, an lisp out mamma to
Old mad Ike Mahaly. But US FL
rville folks got used to it, so that arr
awhile it sounded as material as if
/, child had been Mahaly's own flesh
d blood.
''Nlahaly's not marryin', cheated
me MAJ out of an amazin' good wife;
she was sharper n tacks, an gritty
ever they make EN-. An there
INT airy woman round Elderville
Et could beat her Housekeeping.
| You, Mahaly d KEEP up her end O.
b row long with airy man that ever
awcd the breath O. life. They was
eny q young Teller that d liked well
Pugh to shine up to Mahaly; but it
mt no use; she'd turn up her nose
he best of 'em. Not that she was
ty an giddy like, for it didn't run in
Doolittles to be that way.
'lou see, she'd give her heart away
zee, an with her they was no tak1n' it
tx, not fer the best man that went
Fparkin'.
"Mallaly was only twenty when her
Dave Bascom promised themselves
each other. Dave hadn't nothin' to
FAX OF, an was only turned Of twenty
E., an they was sensible 'nough to
nix that they could wait till they'd
a little start. Tho Mahaly's folks
Is willin' fer 'em to marry, an live
lh them, Mahaly bein' the only child,
the apple O old Simon and Susan
Politics eyes.
Dave he was too high-sperr'ted to
g otf'n the old folks, an Mahaly
cked him up in it. They was proud
peacocks, an that's where they was
np%letonS, 'cordin' to my thinkin', fer
we could O more'n earned his board
y day on the big Doolittle farm, an
Pula 0 done more'n two hired hands.
Linen, | reckon, he an Mahaly
ought folks d talk an CAB as folks
IL that amt nothin' else to do but to
p down their betters; so Dave, std O.
Prryln' 'Haly Off hand, packs up the
Y traps, he had, an puts off to Gala
ny. An there he stayed, an stayed,
stayed, an only one or two letters
ne from him, an them right after he
t there.
! hen there comes news O. some aw-
mum massakers in the neighbour
pc Where Dave was, an a man who
arl,y. got his own skelp took writ to
ne IN Elderville that there hide
mar left O. airy man in the camp
We was in.
no more letters come; an poor
NY had to think, bye n bye, that the
US was true; ant it went hard with
> know. But she Want the kind
70 blattin' round, calm herself "a
q thout a mate like Hammer jim
5 ald when her DO, Zimie Jackson,
kicked to pieces by his mule. But,
me! Hammer wrote poetry, an
or was counted right smart. She
always 9 shin bout somethin'.
ell, fore Dave'd been gone a year,
SIMON Doolittle fell dead with apo
NJ an poor old Susan didn't five
zen days afterwards; SO there was
naly' only twenty-one, alone in the
Fio, an owner O. the best farm an
FIX round Elderville.
but, bless your soul! that snip of a
mao a head on her like a bank pres
II: She was sharper'n a steel trap,
lalrly set back some O. the Elder
lawyers when it come to bizness.
aidn't have no brassy or mannish
5 bout her either, but was modest
nice as a Quaker.
l gu can guess that there was plenty
ouhg t%ellers, an old ones, too, fer
matter O. that, that'd liked right
70 O. managed Mahaly's affairs tor
out none o them got the chance.
oome O. old Simon's help had been
! nm for years, an they was faith
as people could be to Mahaly. Then
eas aunt O. hers, Hitty Plumm, lost
man, an didn't have no home nor
inildren, SO Mahaly took herr in; but,
month, poor old Aunt Kitty was
On her hoaly NIL, H. .1..