Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-05-01
THE BANK FAILURE.

He ID ANN EAiUUNU.
can 50 you've sold your farm.
Belindy?'
eyes. an ! must say Pm glad Of
it. a lone woman amt got nc
business trying to farm, no way,
Though | must say, Eve made out
pretty well this year. | cleared
5000 on tic wheat, over and above
payin' fur the harvcstin', thrashin',
am the like. An Eve sold the hay,
clover an timothy mixed fur about
$500 more. But it's awful wearin'
ON woman, a-tendin' lettings an
watchin' that the hands don't sbirls
nor nothin'. As | was a-saying', a
lone wolnan amt got no business
with Il farm. Twas different be-
fore Aaron died. ana Mrs. Belinda
blossom gave Il regretlul sigh to
the dead and gone Aaron.
"You needn't I've a lone woman
no Ionaer'n YOU want to, Belindy,' y
quietly Observed her sister, Mrs.
Jemima Hatch. '.Thcre's Deacon
Gibbs, now, would give his eyes
to"
:.Don't say Deacon Gibbs to mel
retorted the widow. Don't | know
What he's at'tcr9 Don't he know as
well as do that Eve got $4,000 PM
away safe am sound i'll the Blue
grass bank? | haven't Il doubt he'd
like TO Get the handlin'of it; but he
never will, | can tell him that.
$50, now. Belindy,n rcmonstra
ted Mrs. Hatch, what's tie i!St
o'u3aking the poor man out wass'I
ne IS. don't know as he's any
lkeIiar to he after the money thai
Lawyer Greene"
'I,awyer Grcene's got money
himself, an it stands to reason
faint Sc much OF an object to him.
Mrs. Belinda Blossom was q typ
ical widow, fair, fat and not.quite
40, and was known .as the :.bes:
hcusekaepo@ II ard around tie
neishborhood where she lived.
With even less personal attrac.
lions and good qualities than she
possessed she might have eX
changed her widows weeds for bri
dial attire long ago, had she so de-
sired. However. for some reason
best known to herself, she had pre-.
felTcd to remain a clone woman,'
rs size called it, SO far. Whether
size would remain so iHuch longer
was a question which puzzled her.
sell quite as much as it did some
other parties.
7
1t Wis tie day Of Airs. Larcoln'S
quilting, and the supper was al
most ready, tll,, quilt was already
out, and by little preconcerted
vancouver on the part of the fun.
loving girls, it had been thrown
over the widows head, when taken
ont OF the lrame-a piece of mis-
chief which afforded no little amusc.
ment, as, according to the time
honored tradition, whoever the
quilt is first thrown over Is soon to
become q bride.
Mrs. Blossom wore her honors
blusiiingly, and her checks were
still covered with crimson when the
gentlemen began to drop in just
belare supper.
LAWYER Greene, who was among
the first to arrive, was Erofuse III
Ills attentions to the blooming
widow, much to the discontinue Of
his less fortunate rival who could
only sit in corner and cast des-
pairing glances at the cbject OF his
affections.
'Just look at Deacon Gibbs
whispered Mahala Williams to
Dorcas Lamb.
"IEe looks like q hen on IL hot
grid'lle, while Lawyer Greene is
courtin' the widow.n
Dorcas Uttered out loud, where
upon the deacon grew red i'll the
face, as if aware that he was the
OBJECT OF their mirth.
Wal, ] rcckin III be a-g ,in', Miss
Larvom," he announced, approach
ing the hostess, a short time later.
- only just dropped in to see how
you was al la getting along"
'.Oh, YOU mast Stay to supper,
deacon; IT'S most ready now, am |
can't let you 60 before that" dc.
ciared the hostess determiuedly.-
Rut the deacon WAS equally deter
mined, and go he did.
"Dcacon Gibbs! Deacon Gibbs!
stop Il minute, 1 WANT to speak TO
YOU" cried Mrs. Hatch, running TO
tie porch where he stood, looking
bewildcred at the unexpected sum.
mons.
II want to ask ycu to come over
the lay alter to-morrow-Thanks-
giving day, you know-and eat
dinner with lis. Now don't SHY no;
there WON'T be any body there, only
Belindy Aid Our own folks. Say
you'll comc1'
oval; I dunno, Miss Hatch, rsaid
the deacon, uneasiIy. II thank you
kindly fur The invite, but l've been
a-tcellh' kind Of blue for good
spell now, and i dou'r know as I'd
be 1ittin' conil'ny to go am Ell
ThanksgiyIn' dluners with folks
when Im plue.n
"Sho! THAT'S all nonsense, deacon
You must now, an I shall b(