The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-02-11
A MORTGAGE" CANCELLED
The Bells OF Hull Celebrated the
Joyous Event.

Old Peter Harvey was strange man.
After living fifty years bachelor he
astonished the little world in which he
lived by marrying little old maid as
strange as himself, and all the little
world laughed.
But he was good husband and kind
father to his only child Annie. After
twelve years of married life he and his
wife Elizabeth were called away almost
in an hour, leaving little Annie to sob
out the first great grief of her life.
After the funeral, when Peter Har-
rey and his wife had been laid side by
side in the old graveyard, and the stern
Coyenanter minister had said his few
solemn words Of regret for the dead
and comfort for the living, little Annie
Harvey went to live with her uncle,
Andrew Mallory, till she should be-
come of age.
At twelve years old Annie Harvey
was like rosebud. One fears to see
the bud expand into the magnificent
flower, lest the delicate tints or the ex-
quisite proportions may be lost.
Such were the feelings of good Mrs.
Mallory when she said to her husband:
Il wish the lassie would just stay the
pretty BARN she is now.' g
'sTut, tut, mither; | mind when We
were a wee BARN yourself; and who
says ye're not comely body noo?"
said the sturdy old Scotchman.
Mrs. Mallory, delighted with COM
phment from her husband, went about
her work, Remembering g the days of her
girlhood in far-away Scotland, when
handsome Andy Mallory, in his Sunday
best, came to court herself, Marian
Harvey
That Annie Harvey should have other
views than her aunt concerning her.
self is not strange. She was inpatient
for the time to come when she could
assume the long dresses and the accom-
panying airs of ripper years, and already
she had faint dreams of the delights of
beaux, parties, dancing and that crown
ing delight, flirting. ss ga@ = &
From twelve to seventeen! How
slowly the years move! 1t seems an age
IN youth, and but moment in age.
Little Annie Harvey had become Miss
Harvey. She was exceedingly pretty
and she knew it. She also knew thak
she was heiress to the lands and money
OF her prudent, though odd father, and
she-had been told that the money had
been doubled and quadrupled in the
careful hands of Uncle Mallory.
But another thing she had not been
soid, that would have been pleasanter
IN her ears than all this. She certainly
nad lovers; but they were such milk
and water fellows that she could not,
ior the life of her, help thinking of
snem as she did of her uncle's oxen
great, harmless, good-B ahlred animals
good enough, but so dull.
Among the friends OF Peter Harvey
vas Robert Wallace, an honest, hard
working man. but singularly unfortu-
nate. Ii COW became choked eating
.ufnips, it was his COW; if boy went
sleep in meeting, and was marched
ous IN disgrace, or warned from the
pulpit, 1t was sure to be his boy. When
sne minister s bees swarmed' on Sum
uay, and refused to go into the nice
new hive, out of hundred heads
ehcy Selectou MS Ueau, anu
lm9ugnt ~ sharply for resting-place there.
nus wife nailed a horseshoe over the
J uoof' and he drove his oxen and horses
WIN wltch-hazel rod, but still the
@ouees came. Finally old Kezzie
/ threw salt in his well, and from
wat say forward his troubles ceased.
IN. mthln on hour after old Kezzie had
SIsaea the witches in the well, Peter
sey came riding down the lane,
1Mging his favorite song Comm
s,nag rnsoagh the Rye" sign he was in an
- s.eiient good humor. After stopping
y .sne aave chat and taking a drink Of
,ha hulenilvet" with drop of water from
lsa. e wen, he proposed to Robert Wal
,ase ~; @ sell the few animals and other
sa. a.nss ne could not take with him. and
grate to Illinois; and drawing out
I well-hlled pocketbook, he counted
aan .m iour hundred dollars for the iour.
th;s sat "a was the joy of the Wallaces al
=. ..p panexpected act of friendship.
h.a put said Peter Harvey. When he
mss nsu written out note for the money "
sssaae payable whom oo,r.,:s.