The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-09-02
STORY.
AUNT MARTHA'S VACATION.
BIT LILLIAN GREY.

1T beats all, Israel, how folks do fly
about this time of year" b.. ~
Aunt Mortha laid her paper down
to wipe her spectacles, and her hus-
band, after getting a drink at the
"best well in the world" sat down on
the shady porch. .
cts fiy.time, amt it motherp'
(Uncle Israel always would have
his little joke.) .
His old wife smiled, and said: Yes,
so it's ; an they seem to follow me
all over" ..s a.t-. -a.fs.Z ARIE
After a vigorous flourish Of the
palm leaf, she picked up the paper
and looked for the article she had
just been reading.
The paper says everybody most
goes travellin' an yisitin' in summer
time; an it thinks it would be a
good plan for 'em to change around
once, lust to see how the world looks
other times of year : special city
folks, who never q the woods when
they're all ~colors, o the trees in
blossom in the spring"
"AR' I've been thinkin'. Israel,
that 1t hits us too ; cause we never
60 anywhere of a distance only late
In the fall. ,S'pose we take our little
vacation now for a change. an see
how we like it. Well go down to
niece Marier's an see how the coun-
try looks down that way in harvest
IN; an it seems as il I couldn't wait
Till fall, no how. The farm 5 IN good
hands, an we've nothin' special to
keep us home any more. as ! ses.'
Eyes: we jest as well as not,
that's 50. But we ought to go right
away before the roads git dusty agin.
Shall we 60 to-morrers Of couldn't
yoa get ready so quick P' 1'qo-
"Law, yes; I ain't like grand ladies
that have q car-load of finery TO pack
before they starr. Oh, yes: I'll be
glad to GO right away, for I've got a
terrible lonesome feeiin' lately I amt
tired of home exactly. but I feel
kindly roamin' an oneasylike."
I hope to goodness you amt get
tin the malaryl They do say one
has all sorts q queer feelin's when
that comm on, Marthy.''
"Oh, no, 1 amt sick a mite. It's
the old trouble Israel; Rachael a.
lepgin' for her children, more'n any
thing else" Z
"Poor heart ! you do get awful
lonesome, an down-spirited, that's
a fact an it's no wonder! But we'll
90 an see Marier an joel they seem
most like our own, an I'm real glad
you got the idea of goin'!'
He went back to his work in the
garden, and his wife, laying down
tho paper with her glasses on 1t, fell
to day-dreaming. 81 HJUI
She made q pleasant, peaceful pic
ture sitting in the old Boston rock
ing-chair, with the sunlight family
fickering through the leaves Of the
morning-glory, and the sweet sum
mer-scents and sounds all about her
Not always had she spent her at
ternoons 50 quietly. She had beer
noted far ard wide for her thrifty
housekeeping. and the products o.
her dairy ; but now she was growing
old, and they had rented the farm
and put all its industries into young
cr, stronger hands. Every tiiinl
was going on well ; there was moth
ing to lind fault with, and yet in he
many hours of leisure she was lone
Iy, and kept wondering how it woul'
seem to have her own way about th'
place. Her husband and she wer'
.Uncle. and Aunt to every enc
4 snd YET with the exception Of MA
flor, no one was akin to them in al
tke state.
Long years ago they had laid
besptifsl boy away in the church
yard daisies snd mayer, morning
jnooa or night, had he been forgotter
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