The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1885-02-12


u asksd me II didn', got butter enough %
~ bread. =
j "Dui suppose you iAil'" qnsrrieh Ange.
lima. returning 70 The subject
Then shall tnow tried. " said Nan
ME briefly.
But shall not Ihavsn't very large
eyes. Ansis; expect great many draw
baeks-at first but have counted costs
many sieht ss ! lay thinking Il over,
ssd Am very surs We could live jean,
and Bess and !, with economy and not too
much plum pudding, o. sloo . year; and
DR.. 0venlsn tells me he received more
than twice that SUM frsm the sale Of the
swsrms and honey hst year"
III vssnt good ysar for bees, eithsr9'
cried the irrepfcssibic Gertrude
"And more" went on Mamie, ''thcre
viii be homo here - there always has
beer"
'.Rasss ron, NAunis. said Miss Abigail,
wipiss hsr syes isvsitsiy; but shs found
great deal 10 say agsinst the project be-
iors she finally consented 70 : trial of IL
There we're draw backs, Mamie found,
II was no slight task ---tbst which she had
taken upon herself and sometimes che
almost lost courage. The house was very
lonely when Abigail had gone to her
school, Gertrude and Bertha 10 Scoville;
snd Asgelins had assumed charge Of Mr..
Briggs and his houss hold-an event
which shortly happened. But she found
plenty Of employment for herself, and the
neighbors we're very kind and took much
interest in having her little venture prove
. succsss; and great deal'of plain sew
ing found its way to the cottage, which
might perhaps have been done as we'll and
expsditiously At home. Dea. Parmalee,
too, who kept the corner store, and whose
eyes were failing him unaccountably, |
sent her good many odd bits Of copying
to do--for Mamie wrote large, round
hand quite unlike the slim, angular Chi
rography now 80 fashionable. "'ris plain
a. print" said the deacon; ''and won't
be bothered reading my own pot hooks
when can get such other;' .and he paid
her we'll.
So they lived the summer, these three,
the little no-colored house; and Bessie
did not give up her lessons nor practice.
The bees were sssiduously looked after,
and Mamie soon became very expert In
the care of these tiny, intelligent creatures
II must have been, as Gertrude would
have expressed 1t, q good year for bees;
for when autumn camo Mamie stock had
more than doubled, and the whole number
OF swarms had made large amount OF
honey. The autumn brought Miss Abi-
gail home to spend vacation: Gertrude
and Bertha came too for little season OF
rest from their work, and Nannie's face
beemed with pleasure and gratified pride,
a. she went over to them all the accounts
OF her summers work.
bave sold 10 swarms at $40 apiece,
said she; ''and Dea. Parmalee will take
300 pounds OF honey at 20 cents pound.
And tho strawberries Squire Bartlett
gave me all the cuttings | had mind to
take, since he would throw them away,
and Bessie and put them ont with scarce
ly any cost except Of time. Jeanette
we'll shall no. tell you what Jeanette is
doing. 0, girls O, Abbie! ! am SO hap
py, and proud, and everythingl II can
do half rs we'll next year shall be-al-
most satisfied; though I'm afraid | shall 1
run ahead of my 500 limit And don't ,
think forget to be glad that Bertha has
got story accepted; and that Abbie's
scholars love her dearly, and that Gsrtie
can ply the goose even more dexterously /
than the tailor himself. am glad for MS
all, net excepting Angie, for do think i
'he enjoys marshaling her eight little
Brigsses at home and abroad"
IL was four years after this, aud not !,
long ago, when Uncle Ephraim Comstock !
lspositing two brimmiag pals Of milk !,
upon the dairy table as lie spoke, sail:
1T does beat all nater to see that little
Mamie Pettibons goin' around amongst
ler bees; she's got risin hundred hives,
,el'nies she calls em now, an it takes
bout all her time 10 tend to EN- was
by there this afternoon an declare fort
l / hadn't seen the place for year, !
wouldn't ha knowed it. She's bought the a
wo-acre lot jinin hers. Miss Mamie has, s
md sowed IL TO alsIne ior bee pastur an
ts just o hummin with em. She says u
he lost considerable many swarms last d
winter, but she don't mean to do 1t again.
tell ye, Betsey, It's wonderful; an she d
10 more afraid o their needle pints than u
lothin' at all. Seems ns ii they know her b
IA never think O. stingin. She says tis (
because she amt no ways afsard ON 'em, j.
In her strawberry patch is good for sore x
yes. now / tell yer e
Them gals pear 10 slide along easy
Ike, too, observed Mrs. Comstosk, caro-. 81
ully Lifting her milk pans into the screen. q
There's Gertrpds. she married considers p
ls well down to Scovills, an Bertha lives
ong q her she's dabbliu in ink, mostly,
70 besrd say. Ar AbigaiI's hum nov
Yes answered Ephraim, "as she's 50
DIN " stop 10 hum from this out beiBs "
hey We sent Iizabeth to Boston to some IN
ew tangled kind o. music college. An y
bat lame one more'n earns her keepin' IL
slntin' posiss an birds an fans an sich
aings; Lord bless ye, she'll paint punch III
bachelor buttsns 10 ut ye'd amos think
. cd pick sm up. Des- ParmAlee says OF
q wonderful talent He's Is proud o.
nem gals a. il they we're his'o. in