The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-10-28
THE AUNT FROM INDIA.

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can aunt of ours from India is COM
ing to stay with u.s."
"From Indial Oh Rose, how perfect
ly delightfulH and the girls iocked
around their pretty schoolfellow, all eX-
citement and curiosity.
"What lovely things she will bring
youl wish ! were in your place"
'Is she young and pretty, RoseP Or
is she a kind, jolly, rich old aunty, who
will doat ON her nephews and nieces,
and perhaps carry one Of them back to
India with herp'
"a am not quite sure about her age, "
/ replied the young girl you see
| grandpa been married three times
| and there are three families of children
! 1t mixes things up so! ] asked papa
last night, and he said she WASH Uery
! old
ooh we'll that means she isn't very
| young, forty perhaps. Rose, you'll be
in clover! Girls, Just think of the India
! muslins, and the beads and the dear
curious old boxes and things!''
"And the stories, the wonderful
stories she'll have to tell her" broke
in Gerty Cartwright Il should care
most for that
Rose, you'll ask us in to see herP
OF course we don't mean all at once. "
''Yes indeed, | want YOU all to know
her and as she is to be with us a year,
! there Il be plenty of time for her to get
acquainted with everybody. She's had
fever and it left her very delicate
/ The doctor said she must have an en-
/ fire chauup of oliDlatn and tboFs tho
1 reason she's coming to us.
" Does she travel aloneP"
NO, her aunt IS coming with her,
one who has lived with them several
years, and then they have friends on the
steamer Grandma couldn't leave on
account Of grandpa, who's not very
well himself lust now
lie lived IN India, long time,
hasn he?'
On, yes. He's nearly sixty, and
has spent hall his life there. But there
goes the DELI
" Funny, that Rose don't know more
about this aunt that's cOming! whis-
pered one OF the girls to another as
they followed her In
Well, there's a reason for t. I've
heard that General Bellamy, who's n
very determined old gentleman, didn't
like his son S marrying an American
girl There was no intercourse between
them Tor years. But two years ago,
when Rose little brother died, Mr..
Beuamy wrote to ms tather. lie an
swered and reconciliation ookplace. "
Wel' nope hose S aunt won t
turn out as determined customer as
her father somehow L begin to imagine
her as dred-up' 1ussy old thing al
ways in worry about her health, and
ready TO order everybody around. And
II that So shan,t envy Rose, any
more assure you.
Over three weeks had passed, and
still hose 'aunt from India was the
general suDiGcJ OF conFer'aJIon IN the
schooL nd'a' that tar-aWay' en-
chanted country any one who came
Irom there was sure to be invested with
romance, no matter how dry and pro
SaIC t3e person mlghJ lurn out TO De-
ana mere was q mystery ABOUT Ihe eE-
PecJeu stranger thaL Plqued Inelr curt
osliy' 0he was caiGd AUNT Marion,
ana was not oer9 oIdi InaU was all the
Information they could CLEAN from
hose
AT last news came thaG the steamer
was IN, ana that MT ana Mrs Bellamy
had gone to meet Their guests Great
was the excitement IN the school, and
the moment Rose. appeared next morn
InS' She WAS o'oi"ne'ueu WIN queS-
tions;
o. W hat does she look Ike, hose?
s. How old is sne'
Is she at all what you expected!
ana 90 you Ina her real Jolly and
klndE
she ism Hke anything expected,
SAID Rose laughing but shan
tell another word, except that she
very sweet, and that Just love her
already Tomorrow she's coming To
visit the school, and you shall all see
her and be introduced to her.
" oh' hose now splendid! BuJ won
Yon ust tell us how she looksP
, q, No. persisted Rose. stout!!y But
look at this bracelel-ilsn' 1t prettyF
Aunty brought 1t to me-
" On, what beauty! Girls, look at
the dear little bangle~
GLOW nice it is to have an aunt from
India. Rose we ran wait tlll to-mOr,
row to know what she looks like
well you j. mare to walt saio
Rose, and not another word could they
get from her ON the sub. ect ...-.
The ne>t day was bright aud pleas
ant, and the girls Hooked early to
school all agog to see the mysterious