The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-10-09

widow.
"You might raise garding sass" was
again suggested, as the visitor dubious
ly surveyed tho little plot of ground be-
yond the kitchen door.
"Vesty lowed she'd like thet Of our
garding was only sizablc enough; but
faint, Mis- Higgins"
"No, 'tain't. thet' g certing; an 'tain't
Inie rubber nuther"-laughing at her
Joke, and rising to 60. "Iguess must
be goin'. Ef vcsty's made up her mind
tliet she won't try for chance to the
hotel. I'm sure don't know what's
goin' to become of you. don't guess
there's any use Aic talkin' to her bout
it."
"No, guess not Good-day Mis- Hig-
gins. Come ng'in right soon; it's
powerful lonesome now,"
Eyes, 1t be, poor soul! an Drius's
goin' amt your wust trouble nuther.
wonder how you kin bear up under it.
Good day"
She quilted the house. and sauntcred
leisurely down the narrow garden path
to the gate where she mot the daughter
of the house. n trim. black-eyed, red
checked girl of eighteen.
well, Miss Vesty Kellyen," she be-
gan, in a sharp arraigning tone, $50
you amt a-goin' to try fur chance up
to the Surf Housep'
"No'm, 1 haint. Who said 1 WASP"
returned Vesta, her black eyes swapping
deiantly.
Nobody said as you was, Miss vesty
Kellyen; but you he'd ought TO. Efyou
want quite so triflin', Miss Vesty Kell-
yen, there'd be no danger of your poor
heart broken ma starvn'."
~ guess there won't nobody starve
round here-leastways not s'long as
there's suller full o. potatoes an
turnips, an plenty o fish to be he'd for
the ketchin out in the Cove"
"Humph! Guess you cal'late on
Zemro Dowlin's keepin' you in fish.
You amt a-goin' to kctch none, I'll be
bound!' was the woman's sarcastic re-
joinder. Then, her curiosity getting
the better of her dignity, she con-
descended to ask. "What be you goin
to do. anyhow. Vestyp"
''Hain't made up my mind yit; moth
in mebbe," laconically replied Vesta.
''Humph! You ca'late boardin' up
to the hotel, l dessay, Miss Vesty Kell-
yenp'
"Mebbe 1 do, Mis- Higgins" And
before the irate dame could frame re-
tort, Vesta had sailed past her and en-
tered the kitchen.
"'Sthet you, Vestyp" called her moth.
er's querulous voice from the adjoining
room.
"Yes m"
"Where you been?'
"Down to the shore"
"With Zemro Dowlin' agin, I'll be
bound"
"Yes'm.'
II don't see no manner o. use your
keepin' company with Zemro any more
He can't more'n keep his granny in
doctors stuff"
'Thet's so; granny needs powerful
sight" assented the girl, trying in vair
to stlfle sigh which rose from the low.
ermost depths of her full heart. "Gran
ny's had another spell; Zemro was uK
all night
"Zemro hadn't ought to let Samanthy
go out West"
"Ef Samanthy hadn't gone, Zemro't
have another mouth to feed, an guess
Samanthy was glad enough to git away
from waitin' on poor old granny"
"Yes, guess so. Samanthy never wa.
the good-dispositionc person Zemro is
Tired, be youp' as her daughter cnteret
the room and flung herself full length
on the lounge.
"No'm.h
"SickP"
"No'm."
There was silence for several min
utes. then:
II wish l he'd a Thousand dollars!
exclaimed Vesta.
"Why don't you wish you was Prcsi
dent Mt oncet, an be done with it?" i'm
patiently rejoined her mother. I"
never see sich girl to wish for on
possible things as you be, Vesty Kell
yen."
"Ef he'd thousand dollars" pur
sued Vesta, ignoring hor mothers re
mark, I'D buy tho Fearnaught fo
Zemro."
'.Grcat iedgment" calculated tn
widow. "Hes Squire Cornish got tn,
face to ask thousand dollars for tina
sloogp"
"No, of couse he ha;n't t." interrupted
Vesta; ian he don't ask half that mucl
for the beauty, nuther. But eff he'd ,
thousand dollars, Zemro should hev th'
the sloop, an the rest of the money
keep you an granny an me an Zemrt
till he'd git start. He says If he het
the sloop he could make at least will
emphasis three thousand dollars ,
year. But'-drawing long sigh
with jest that old dory-an' it not Fl
to go outside the ledge any more-an
. granny allus ailin', an wantin' tn,
, doctor, there amt no use hopin' ever t.
git start"
"No, guess not" in a melanchol,
|, tone, assented the mother.
For long while the girl lay there
, her hands clasped above her head, he
eyes fixed on the ceiling, which was a
white as lime could make it. Through
the open door and window came tn,
distant murmur of the pine forest
, blended with the harmonious ripple o
the waves upon the pebbly beach. Nov
and then a clear bird note. the jubilan
: call of the thrush or robin, cleft tn,
silence IN the room; or agreatyellow be-
, buzzed industriously among the lila,
: plumes nodding alongside the door
I step. More than once the widow
, glanced questioningly toward the clock
, then at tho motionless figure on tn
, lounges; but that the girls eyes wer
5 wide open she might have been sount
/ asleep, so utterly obrivious was she Il
, every thing around her.
q Fully halt an hour passed thus, whel
' the mother, who had fallen into peace
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