St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-02-20
A MORTGAGE" CANCELLED
The Belle; OF Hull Celebrated the
Joyous Event.

Old Peter Harvey was a strange man.
After Irving fifty years a bachelor he
assoaished 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 nis only child Annie. After
twelve years of married life he and his
wife Elizabeth were called away almost
IN ar, hour, leaving little Annie to sob
out the first great grief of her life.
After the funeral, when Peter Har-
vey and his wife had been laid side by
side in the old graveyard, and the stern
Covenanter minister had said his few
solemn words os 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
Inc bud eSpa'ad into the magnificent
mower, lesf the delicate tints or the ex-
qulsite pr oportions may be lost
such were the feelings of good Mrs.
Mallory when she said to her husband:
- wish the lassie would Just s.av the
PRETTY BARN she is now
Tut. tut, aither; | mind when We
were wee BARN yourser: and who
SAYS ye're not a comei. body noo?"
sad the sturdy old Scotcaman.
Mrs. Mallory. delighted with CON-
pliment from her husband. went about
her work, remembering the DAYS of her
girihoo,i in far-away Scotland. when
handsome Andy Mallory. in his Sunday
oest, came to court herself. Marian
u9 rvev.
That Annie Harvey should have other
views than her aunt concerning her
self is not strange. She was impatient
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.
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 thas
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 guatrupled in the
careful hands of Uncle Mallory.
But another thing she had rot been
told, that would have been pleasan:er
in her ears than ail this She certainly
had lovers; but they Were such milk
and water fellows that she could not.
for the life of her. help thinking of
ahem as she did of her uncle.s oxen
great, harmless. good-na.ured animals
good enough. but so dali.
Among the friends of Peter Harvey
was Robert Wallace. IN honest. hard
working man, but singuiarly mfortu-
nate. If COW became chokek eating
turnips. it was his cow: if boy went
to sleep in meeting. and was marched
Uut in disgrace, or warned from the
pulpit. it was sure to be his boy. When
the minister's bees swarmed on Sum
day. and refused to 60 into the nice
new hive, out of q hundred heads
present they selected his head. and
fought sharply for a resting-place there.
His wife nailed a horseshoe over the !
door. and he drove his oxen and horses
with witch-hazel rod. but still the
troubles came. Finally old kezzie !
Brock threw salt in his well. and from
that day forward his troubles ceased.
Within on hour after old Kezzie had
settled the witches in the well, Peter |
Harvey came riding down the lane.
singing his favorite song ''Comin'
Through the Rye" sign he was in an
excellent good humor. After stepping |
to have chat and taking a drink of |
..Glenlivet" with drop of water froms
the well. he proposed to Robert Wal
lace to sell the few animals and other
things he could not take with him. and /;
emigrate to Illinois: and drawing out
his well-filIed pocketbook, he counted
him four hundred dollars for the jour-
ney.
Great was the JOY of the Wallaces at
this unexpected act of friendship.
Bat" said Peter Harvey. when he
had written out note for = le money,
made payable when convenient, ..you