Barbour County index., 1884-02-15

paper. she said she'd have me- 1t s
done; an I'm glad. : -. -
".Well,' said + t3'1 give You JOY,
June; though must saE yOur WA. ~
clearin up your doubts rain't TO my
taste Tor common usage Anna's n fine
girl. =. ------'--------------.
9.hoBut that amt all, Brother Ebsn.'
be went on Annals got an amazin'
gneer nOtionO' gettin' married.. fTseehIs
she's been n readiu'k some novels or
+. stories and so forthSahr I.rIiess they've
made her fsnciful. Size 0finEs that it'd
he grand fun 70 surpfise our folks along
with ma an ths-Other Two girls, by sas
two bein' married on tfe sfy. the richt
before TbsbkseiviB, B,4-6nN then comm
home an, telliRlr en-. Il don't see any
fun in that-not-a bit.-s1 think " looks
rather foolish But Anna-I declare 1
don know whnt' got into Anna!-she
will hold - Il! The long. and short Of
il Is that You Te promised TO do
IT, says ]. -.
Il - fes, he answers. II suppose It'Il
make s'stir; bat that can't De helped.
live promised. None of her folks nor
ours mus. know anything about our en-
gagemoBt YET On Thanksgiyin' even-
n in' I'm 10 cau for Annaswith n sleigh.
want YOU TO come aloBg too, Eben.
We II 90 straight down 10 Battle HilE
TO Par on Batham's, :, An have the knot
tied. Then We'll come back and let II
out 10 the widow an Jenny an' Ruth.
After that the whole crowd of us will pile
down here, an have. che pleasure, of
seein' father an mother an everybody
here open their eyes. That's Anna's
idea. Is ! said, | don't specially all
miro il. but. all. give in to it. ~ .i
Thinks me. Master Frank, there $
some game here that clover girls up to-!
Mcbbr an not. Biit I told Juniper
4 20 With him on 1hanksgivin' night.
You two can III III the back seat aud
| III drive ] sad. June laughed. See
here. june / says n moment later lust
rs we went up the stairs, L hone That
fyOu II never Let Anna know how IL n as
tbat You picked her out from her SIS
ters.i s@
June blushed an stammcred some-
hing ike Cert inly not--it would have
come on. this way i'm any case an
went into his rooms HIN. 4 thought.
I'Im not so sure II that. 7 must 1--WE
you q good talk tomorrow
When tried 20 talk, however,
june wOalda,t hear TO me. He knew
what lac was doing so he persisted.
Anna was tho girl who would make
him Just The wife he wanted: an the
stone farm w.s all ready for 'en to
move in right away. lie had rather
taken fancy, he remembered. to Ruth
at one time, but that hadn't amounted
to anyt ing. 4 said no more, but
Kept up quIte a-thinkin'. %.
"Ihe nisht before Thanksgivin' oil
that year was as clear as "a bell. There
was three feet o. snow oil over the
country. At seven o'clock June an (
drove to the. Gayler's door. Almost
before IA got the horses stiIl figure
all tightly wrapped up slipped out the
gate. Poor Annal She seemed terrible
nervous as June helped her into the
seat ~ him. .. -- .-..-.-
"'O Oh, Jun', I heard her say. II az
mo-t wish sldsneyer thought o this
silly plan
lime did almost all the talkin' while
we spun down the street and out on.the
ita.uc. I'LL tugnpikc.- Anna sat With
h'sarm hall round her. and seamin' for
the first time 90 realize that-she- was
takin' I'm important step I'm life.
81 hardly looked ~ 'cm after Anna
was in her scat 10y dune. The horses
was in complete Gale. / had 10 give
them my hull attention. IL REQUIRED
whip an rcius an everything el,e 10
make en- behave. The parsonage at
Battle llll is only two miles an n half
lrOTt our "illagc. We fairly flew over
the road. Tnen. Just before we passed
the biz gates that led to Squire Lotus
place. Dollar gave u lungc. That sci
Prince n guin'. liefOre could help n.
they wheeled cha ID. overset the slel.h.
an' ran thems ltcsup totheir shoulder
in snow-bank. Tnerc they stood. We.
imeanwhilc, were pickin onr-elyes up as
best we could. F
NJ "'lu the name of 600 Inessi-'
hoard Juniper shout in n voice that
frightened mc half tO death. I scram-
bird M and looked ~ the Other two. II
was bright moonlight. There stood
Brother .IUni or. In front OF Us was
the person ~ hO Il come with us in the
slciGh--Euth Gavler.
Ve!ur, either of Us could say word
/ ,h' burst right o1t cryin'. Then fol-
lowed tur Qucgrcsl, most mixed .up and
IgincrtIly urprisin' exlianation of what
had topS place an how il had como
about. THAT ever Tcxprct To- hear i'm all
) ms mortal life. Most Of the time .Juni-
pcr iust st'od there pale and bewillcred.
| put TIE best part o. the bad questions
fhCrC was tO ask, holding the horses
heads IL must have looked n curious
Epiclurc
'iOav hrr, i help and Lueretia Tabb.
who'd been dressmakin', at the Gnylers'
tOr a eOupis-s1 -vsssiSs. oil an GA. lpas
great fricu'l.. That night when Broth
crJUna had drawn shat lOt--wc' a ought
bdfh ia have betn hShsAned of our
scyCs for such fOolishness our Al
mTt'd doV-r.aeard tho huh AFFAIR. .~.She
told Luchtia Tabb. And what doe;
Lupfctin do busiellAnna an Anna told
hegA,sprs II
I. tSA Hrst Anna WAS pretty we'll put out
q I Brother june Then when she an,
Jenny an Ruth talked IL over. they
ch,ldh't lat laugh an coll Il all a resa
\ oke an June. Then they put .tIleir
,tads togc-her directly to find out a
u WY typunish June for coming To <one
ot them with an offer under such cir
clinstanees That WAS why Anna d
confrIvcd the stolen wedding. X "
! ."Wbsnthey'iirstpIahned n ON. Ruth
who MISUNDERSTANDING in herJ
wdSpeffcetly-wilin' to undertakes II @
i part arranged for her-sho to meet
Brother Jnn0 instead of Anna, in the
dark. ThAFd BE- easy; the girls had
alsunicbrof q l,eighE Hcgerraud voiceg
Wien We reached . I'afsorf Laihafn's =
steps shswas TO pull on her veils and
make low bow 90 poor june an say:
Mr.. ganipcr krtaIy, Pve brought nv
sisters compliments an she hopes. that
the ncSt time you ask n girl. 10 marry
you. you'll Know whether YOU love her
or whcthcr any Of her sisters mightn' {
do Just as wcll-especially, she hopes
you won toss up Tor her. Then She
Wa tohold out the identical piece of
\ paper with Anna written on Il. = Al
mira pAfbtsidi On it, while- she was
swocTEus thss d:ty aftev twas writtcn. }
An last Of ALL .gRnth rcAleilated to saw:
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