The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1884-10-02
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raised sbcvs the level OF the street On 90
.abankmsn. srparsted into tvc terraces
steep s.oss stsps led up the terraces
They we're covered With green sliny moss.
s,d little ferns snd weeds sprusg ont OF
every crack. Avslk OF fla. slate stones
led from them 10 the front door, which
vas painted green. sagssd on i.s hinges
and hsd brass knocksr on II.
The whole yard and the double banks
ware covered wilL a tall waving crop Of
red timothy and herds grass and red and
whi,s clover. l, was in the height OF bay
ing tina
A grassy wheel track led round the side
Of the house 10 sbsrn dashed With streaks
Of red paint
on 10 the left stretched some waving
pasture land. . garden patch marked by
| bean polss and glancing corr blades, and
: loss rev Of bee hives showing In the
midst Of II.
A rusty open buggy and lop cared
vhits bsrse stood in the drive opposite
the side door in the house.
| An elderly woman ~itha green cotton
umbrella over her head sat in the buggy
plaoidly waiting. She had on fla.tish
black bonnet with purple strings, aud
we're a dull green silk shawl spriskled
with little bright palm leaves over her
shoulders.
She had large smiling face, crinkly
gray hair, aud quite thick white beard
cropped close to her chin.
The side door stood open, and young
woman kept coming out, bringing pals
and round wooden boxes which she stew
ed away in the buggy in back and under
I'm. seat. She was little round shoulder
ed. her face with its thick, dull colorsd
complexion was like her mothers, just as
pleasant and smiling only with sug'
oestion of shrewd sense about it which the
older womans did not have.
When the pals and boxes we're all IN
the buggy, she locked the door, got III
herself, and drove carefully ont OF the
yard.
The road along which they proceedeS
Law between waving grain fields. The all
Sas full Of the rattle Of moving machines
n this morning; nearly every field had it
broad swaths where they had passed.
The old white horse logged slowl.
sleng; the two women sat behind him II
silence, the older one gazing about he
with interest. the younger one apparentl.
absorbed in her swn thoughts She We
calculating how much her butter and egg
and berries would bring in Bolton, tn
! largest market town toward which the
, were travelling.
Every weak Inez Morse and her mothe
y drsve there u sell the produce Of their iii
tie farm. Her father had died three year
before; ever siaes the daughter had cal
riod on the farm, hiring very little hell
/. There was $500 mortgage ON it whic
Is she was trying to pay up. 1t was slo
work, though they saved every penny the
could. aud denied themselves even I'll
fruits Of their own hands.
Inez had mild q joke about the hone
which the bees made. She and her mott
or scarcely tasted it; it all went to IL
"a Bolton market.
.Ill tell ysu what It's, mother" ln'
used to say, "the day the mortgage
II .aid off we'll have warm biscuit and no
o. ey for supper.
Wheneyer her msther looked wistful
At the delicscies which they could n
m keep for their own enjoyment, lnsz won
/ tell her TO never mind-by and by tn
: veuld eat their own honey. The rema
y grew into q sort OF household word
them.
The mother felt her privations mu
more keenly than the daughter. She v
J ana Of those wsmen for whom these sil
ple animal pleasures fern great part
q life She Mad not much resource in \
~ mind. The payment OF the mortgage d
~, not afford her the keen delight in anticiT
- tiou that it did Jnsz; she was hardly car
BILE OF it, though she would be pleas
enough when the time came. New
. thought more about eating the hsn'
However, she had never grumbled at
of her daughters management. In
opinion, Ipez always did about right
- When they reached Bolton 1nsz drc
about the village from house to hou
Of selling her wares at the doors, while
mother sat in the buggy and held
horse. She had good many regular c
tsmers: her goods were always excslls
J to and gave satisfaction, though she had
~ name Of being trias exactisg 10 her b
gains, and asking As much as she psssi'
20 could.
Today one OF her customers in max
MS change did net give her enough W o &c
Iuez. xhea she discovered il, drove b
49, . quarter Of mile 70 have the error re-
fed. The woman look amused and tr
contemptuous when she asked icr ins
,,- sing penny. Inez saw it.
"You think j, is queer that came D
- for one eost," she said with slow dign
.but cents are my dollars"
~ yes, i suppose so, assented the 10
~ hastily. changing her expression.
Insz, driving through Bolton sire
looked at the girls Of her ows age VII
She mel in their pretty street suits IN 81
ews admiration; She had never had anyth
O. bat the very bsress necesssriss IN the
OF clothes herself Lately vsis Dc
os had crspt into her heart for bright
- bon bov 10 wear at her threat, as som
ihose girls did. She never drsanes
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