The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-05-06
CHAPTER l.

L am 1rlScllld Neville, Win nc
thanks to them that named me, for
such name ought to belong to six
foot, five hundred pound, red-haired
old maid. l cant get any sort of a de-
cent nick name out of it, though I've
tried by the hour.
ella might do, but my brother Ar
chic, who thinks, because he is sixteen
years old, that he's got all the educa-
ton Of the Caesars, l suppose they had
a great deal, people talk so much
about them, but 1 don't know, I'm
sure. Nobody's living who knew
them, and l don't believe all l hear
don't study much anyhow, and his
tory is my abomination, [ get things
mixed up in such style,) says, eyes
Cilla is the very name for her, and
call Belle" (my only sister-thank
heaven y [ do spell so dreadful that |
paid girl at school two pears to tell
me the other word, and found out it
was "Charybdis" He said we were a
nice pair, and that would suit exactly.
would ask, but l feel certain that
they were two awful men, who
fought all the time, and ate people,
and perhaps eat each other, and
fought in bull-fghts, and d;d lots of
dreadful things. If Belle and | were
to try to eat each other, | do wonder
which would enjoy the meal the most.
know she'd find me awful tough.
Sometimes | feel mad enough with
her to destroy her in some way, she is
so provoking. would like to know
it all girls have su.h trouble with their
grown sisters as | do ! do wish she
would go into a piece where Nuns
stay, q forget what they call it) or
get married, and leave, SO [ could have
some showing.
I'm only fourteen | know, ''too
young" as she says, "for beaux,"
heaven knows | don't want pair OF
pants tagging after me wherever [ go,
but I would like at least to peep into
the parlor once in hundred years,
without her simpering voice saying,
Priscilla, mother wants you"
1t nearly kills me with laugeter,
the difference in Belle, when COM
pany's there; butter wouldn't melt in
her mouth then, and those men think
she's saint, and I'm spit-fre, be-
cause let out sometimes and tell on
her, that's why mother is forever and
eternally wishing for me, and which |
know is all her manufacture to get rid
of me. OHIO. miss, didn't [ have my
own fun the other night, when that
upstart James was here, when YOU
couldn't fix the lamp, and | HAD to
be called upon then to do it, (and by
the-way [ notice Pm mighty apt to be
wanted when work is to be done; our
dainty Belle stands in mortal dread Of
running her white hands, and finding
he took a sort of fancy to me, I got up
brisk conversation with him, and
told him how you made your hair
curl in those little tony cork-screws all
over your head, which you are so out
landish proud of, and that you could
not spell a bit better than | can, if
you have been off one year to Staun-
ton and think yourself so smart, and
| had determined to put a stop
to that fellows coming here by tell
ing him you were engaged to Joel,
if mother had suspected my staying
so long wasn't for any good, and cali
ed me out.
Yes, that very sister of mine, with
her silly airs, high notions, and mons
strous amount of conceit, keeps me in
hot water all the blessed time. ta
Here she is nineteen years old, en-
gagged to Joel Newcome, who was to
have been our brother anyhow, if
Fanny, the oldest girl had lived, but
she died seven years ago, and can
remember how sad he was then, and
how peeped through the shutter,
when he went to look at her in her
coffin, and I saw him lean over her
and kiss her, and take her hand and
rub it gently, and then he took some
white jess anime and put it in one of
them. Then after the funeral he used !
to come SO often and talk about her,
and so I've got used to seeing him
around and feel exactly like he be-
longed to us, and next to Father.
Mother, Jack and Jamie, love him
better than anybody else
None of US ever thought of his
tancying airy, good-for-nothing Belle.
He saw too much of her behind the
curtains, but bless your life, when he
came home from the war, with one
arm left on the battlefield, she show
ed SO much pity for him, and petted, |
and made SO much of him, (which
treatment, Archie says, "no man can
stand" he ended by getting in love
with her, and she did the only sensible |
thing she ever did in her lite, when |