Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-10-04
WINNY.

Creek. Take a chair on the piazza
tll dinners ready we dine early in
those ncw-world parts.
Fine farm? Well. yes; Indian Creek
is Il nice place, if | do own it. All as
far as You can grassland, corn
fields, woods and crccks-all belong
to it. Stock, too-thcv call it the best
stocked farm in Ontario. | believe, and
! dare say they re right. All mine:
and yet ! came TO Canada twelve wears
ago. without even the traditional half
crown in my trousers pocket. You
look surprised. Would YOU like to
boar .ho storyP There's good half
hour to dinner time yet, and it's II
story | never tire OF telling, somehow.
began life as the son OF village
carpenter in the south of England
You know that class pretty we'll
dare say, and what gulf was fixed
between me and the vicar of the par
ish. Aud yct--and yct-from the
time she was years old and II, and
she fell down in the dusty road out
side the carpenters shop, and cried.
aud picked her up, and smoothed the
little crumplcd pInafore. and kissed
the dust out of her golden curls. iov-
ed but one girl in the world, and that
was the Wears daughter, Winny
BransCOmc.
Madness, you'll say. Well, perhaps
SO. and yet a man iS but a man, and a
woman a woman; and love comes,
whatever one may do. There's no
class distinction recognized by child
hood. and we were playmatcs and
frl,pfs tiII Sln IN hnur,lin,r -,,hn,l
If Miss Winny had had mother no
doubl things would have been very dit
icrcnt; but we are alike in never hav-
ing known a woman's care, and the
Old vicar was blind to everything but
his theological treatiSes.
But when she came back from her
London boarding school, beautiful
young lady, all smiles and laces and
lttlc lovely ways-then ! knew had
tried my best to study and work. and
make myself more like the men she
would meet; but what can a lad in an
English village do? | had just enough
education to make every otuer lad in
the village hate me; and beside the
men OF hcr world suppose cut rath.
er an astonishing figure. Yet the love
Of her was so beyond all else in me,
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OF t.I' ne "o"'" ''y ." h"u "ou'co
ms k!h"heSS 10 YOU ne "o"iu never
forgive YOU Forget your madhess.
Ana Shc ran from me.
let her 90 hhn seen the bluSh
ana thc 'rcmor' ana ! guessed that
had bceh ME- Lotus. the young
squire instead OF DICK lia"trE' lhe
carpenter son. her answer iilSht nave
bc"n hIiierent' a great resolve sprahc
up IN my souI. ana TOOK a solemn
vow III those June woods. That very
hight sofa the oId shop (mS father
was dead ana had taken to the blSi-
ncsS), and with the money ! bought an
Quilt, and started straight for Canada.
1t was pretty tough work at ilrst' but
worked like galley-slaye->tarYed
III" P'nchco an' s"''u' anu hcEct SPvn'
penny on iiyseli except ior t''e DOORS;
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s'uuy. ven, !" 'h'a coun.ry 'nu man
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