Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-04-11
MISS MANDY.
Ark1RsI.r TrarsNsr.

Mandy Mullen, spinster, lived all love
less and alone 10 the village Of Kingsdale.
She was alone 80 far as human compan
iouship goes, but she had quite menag-
erie ofIets,
There was Web, the sEeOt.yoiced canary,
in his immaculate prison Of painted wires
suspended from the ceiling, and Button,
the msiestic gray and white cat that al
wcys mapped on the big chintz rug before
the Ore; thsu there we're Coch and Butfy,
the chickens that Miss Msndy's DartGlity
gave credit for more wisdom than soms
people.
Mandy Mullen was q woman OF thirty
Gge. Size had Seuud face, made strong
in its contour by firm mouth and pair
of mettlesome gray eyes. She never wore
ANYTHING finer than calico. Bat her
dresses alSays made up in neatuess and
cleauGness chat they may have lacked in
quality -.
For some time tie lot adjoining Miss
Maudy's property had been 40 let" AT
/ last il was to have a tenant The agent
he'd been down. and the house had under
| gone . tHoIo4sk Serovation for its rev oc
cupsnt.
Miss Mandy watched the "movin' in, " as
she termed it, with no favorable eye from
behind her own cotton blinds.
1T must 90 and be O nasty man" she
gritted out, scowling very uBbecomipgly
upon Me-. Hardness Bathurst, who was
rapidly transferring various articles from
the dray, which had drawn up before the
door of the little cottage opposite to his
new place of abode.
Pots of plants, too" she uttered with
dSsp contemp: well, l declare to mercy,
if that s;n't too disgustin', to see q big
man with hairy face actin 90 silly with
green things. III jis! record in my almanik
| that he's q regular old grsnny-and ]
never could stand q granny man Well, II
he lives next to nae I'll show him true
sample Of womans Independence I'll
never notice the critter."
With which characteristic speech she re
tired to her kitchen and wagsd war with
her household appur;enanc.s there.
usrkuess Bathurst was 0 bachelor o
forty six. 9Th more ecceptricities, people
began to announce, :hsu he had any use
for. He had met With some disappoint
ment in the DAYS OF his childhood. He had
then drifted of from his native State aud
had encountered good luck. He found
himself possessed of large fortune before
he was aware. He had wandered OF te
Corsigu lands aud had set bis face home
ward at last, and resolved to settle IN the
quiet town OF KiDgsdsle, q village not very
remote from his boyhood home, which hsc
passed to other hands.
Oae day Miss Mandy was out at her els
tern. She was 10 greater hurry thar
usual; for abe slammed the TIN psR int
the eistern with such vehement force as t
draw the attention Of Hardness Bathurst
who sat at his window reading o news
paper.
There's that noisy old maid again,
he began TO spostrophize. She tryini
her best TO draw my notice. I'll bst pill
What q pzim old bird she Is! But lSor
der Why she Away wears that white "a
pianed around her wizzen pips2 | wonde
il she was ever in love? No; I'll be
Cupid has been to shy Of her to ever pierc
her heart She looks about IS sour ss
crab apple a. q wedding feaat. Well, 20
might better stay in the house than
come out here to capture NE, Miss Prim
Prime. I'm too old dog to nibble
such hash.
When spring came Mr.. Bathurst mad
. quite an extensive garden next to Mi
&. Maudy's yard. The beds were laid out
: handsome rectangular shapes. and receive
into their bosoRs the seeds OF onions, &c
/ ery, rsdisbes, bssts. psas, Eta.
s, careful had darkness been to enli
vsts every elod of the garden plot that
had sssiduouslY raked allthe dirt away tro'
the psiinss which separated his lot iro1
Miss Mandy's. This left an opening in OF
Z place which Goch and Rufy discovsre
and they quickly invited themselves
creep under and explore those mSsteTio;
, mounds that looked 50 irresistible IN ths
exact smootsness.
Coch and Buffy went 10 work at the
= sslfappoInsea mission Of remodeling,
5 frss making 8 poetEl depression right
a the centre Of the onion bed. ksSs d
tsey made duplicates Of it on most Of y
p.hss heds, END we're vigorously engaged Q