The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1885-10-22
LOUISA LAWRENCE OCTOBER %, 1885.

ing, and was to drive his own team;
the colts now fully grown and hardened
10 work.
He had decided upon this after con-
ferring by letter with Lucy and her par
ents-
Mr.. and Mrs. Parsons desired TO give
o. much as possible Of the furniture
necessary 10 start the young folks in
housekeeping, and they could do this
70 some extent out OF what still re-
manned Of that brought from the old
home in the foothills. and IL was just
as cheap and good deal nicer. these
lovers thought, TO make the journey this
| way, In their own conveyance, with
their household goods packed in the
wagon. than 10 first transport them fif-
teen miles TO Phippsburg, ship them
| by boat aud cars, and then 90 a long
distance after them at the other end OF
| the route.
| Besides. in thus going across the
country they would have q whole week
to spend in each others company; in
which TO talk Of their love and lay plans
| for the futHrc.
IL spOald- be almost as good as real
| WcuulHR -tQuLt. bucl pociuou'
And-S6 one affefnoon the dwellers on
the mountain side saw wagon drawn
by pair OF bay horses. whose driver
was dust young man with q
sun-tanned face and sandy mustache,
wearing wide-brimmed straw hat,
coming up the by-road which ended at
their gate. and knew that the bride.
groom had come 70 claim his bride
The place had changed considerably
since Erastus had seen II two years be-
fore.
The addition 10 the shanty had been
erected, and with the little porch in
front fairly raised it to the dignity Of .
cottage.
The rose bushes which Lucy and her
mother had planted had grown as all
things do grow In that climate and soil;
had clambered all over the porch and
were in full bloom, having been wa
tered aud tended by loving hands.
Back OF the cottage and on either
side great hollyhock bushes. with pur-
pie and white aud yellow blossoms,
stood "thick rs people In street. " and
over the low windows, and reaching
clear up TO the caves, Madeira vines
mingled their soft, green leaves with
those Of the morning glorles, that In the
early hours Of the day were sprinkled
thick with beautiful. bell-shaped flowers.
In front were long beds Of pinks, and
verbenas, and lark-spurs. and great Grim
son-hearted dahlias. that lifted up their
faces and bloomed and nodded in the
breeze; bent low rs II TO inhale the fra
GRANGE Of the mignonette that looked
up from the borders OF the beds in which
they all grew
The grape-vines upon the sloplng
ground above the house had added two
years Of growth to thcir stems; and.
although yet unable to stand erect with
out the supports to which they were
tied. their symmetrical arrangement
In rows, together with the richness OF
their foliage. formed a background that
brought out the coloring Of as pretty a
picture OF simple home life az one may
hope to see In long drive in the mount
aims or footbills and IL is in the mount
aims and the foothills that beautiful
pictures are to be sought for.
Outside OF the inclosure, and little
further up the mountain, the cows
which Lucy had driven home on that
blissful evening two years before, when
Erastus had told her Of his love, were
chewing their cuds beneath scraggy,
low-branchcd oak.
Below, brown In the October sun, lay
the stubble field from which the grain
had been harvested. and which now
stood In rick near the shed where the
horses were munching at their feed.
Beyond the cottage was the young
orchard of peach. aud pear. and apple
! trees, and over all the cloudless blue
/ sky Of California
+ More than hundred turkeys wan
dered at will through the orchard,
| down into the stubble-feld, and far uI
on the mountain side. Or they clus,
, tered about the shed and rick of grain
! or came with the chickens at feeding
time to the bare bit of earth near the
/ kitchen door to receive their portion o
!. the food thrown to them by some mem
Der Of the family dwelling within the
vine-wreathed cottage.
And here, one morning a week aftel
i Erastus' coming, little party, com
4 posed OF neighbors and their families
gathered 10 witness the marriage Of th'
, young couple who had plighted thei
\ faith two years before, standing in tn,
: road while the COWS went lazily hom'
4 without them.
4 II was not an assembly such as woult
4 have graced fashionable church in
4 great city. Not one among them all
o perhaps, but would have felt i'll at cas-,
4 In richly furnished parlor of brown
stone front in New York or Chicago.
Q They were common country people
b husbands and wives who gained thei
h living as John and Martha Parson
K gained theirs-by the tillage of the sol
= and the raising Of fruits, and grain
il and poultry. Young men and maidens
Q the sons and daughters Of these peopl
in the common walks Of life, dressed
o the girls in cheap, light-colored lawns
/ with may be bit Of bright ribbon at th,
throat or about the waist; the youni
A men in suits Of linen OF some othe
!. light and not costly fabric. and all o
!. them with hands and faces tanned b.
4 the sun, but with hearts that throbbe'
K as quickly at whisperings of love, o
4 capable Of feeling as keenly the sting
! Of unjust criticism. as II they were robe
i. IN velvet, with diamonds sparkling upo
: soft, white hands.