Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-08-27


good .dispositioned person Zemro is. Tired,
be you 2" az her daughter entered the room
and flung herself at full length on the lounge.
Nom"
"Sick?r
Nom"
There was silence for several minutes
then
~ wish had thousand dollars /" e1claim.
cd Vesta.
why don't you wish you was President at
oncet, and be done with il Z" impatienlly re-
Joined her mother. II never see such girl
TO wish for impossible things as you be, Vesty
Kellyen,"
"Et l had a thousand dollars" pursued
Vesta, ignoring her mothers remark, "rd
buy the FedrndugM for u mro."
Great judgment !" calculated the widow,
"has Squire Cornish got the face to ask a
thousand dollars for that sloop2"
mo, OF course he hsin't,' replied Vesta
land he don't ask half that for the beauty,
neither. But Of l had a thousand dollars,
Zemro should have the sloop, md the rest Of
the money d keep you nd granny nd me md
Hemro till he'd git start He says Of he had
the sloop he could make at bdSt"-with EN-.
phasis-''thTee hundred dollars year. But
drawing long sigh-"with jest that old
dory-and II not fit TO go outside the ledge
any more-and granny a'ays ailin' nd want
in the doctor, there amt no use hopin' ever
to git start"
mo, guess not, in a melancholy tone as.
scented the mother.
For long while the girl lay there, her
hands olasped above her head her eyes fixed
on the ceiling, which was al white az lime
could make it. Through the open door and
window came the distant murmur of the pine
Forest blended with the harm onious ripple
Of the waves upon the pebbly beach Now
and then clear bird note, the jubilant call
OF thrush or robin, cleft the silence in the
room or a great yellow bee buzzed industri-
ously among the lilac plumes nodding along
side the doorstep. More than once the widow
glanced questioningly toward the clock, then
at the motionless figure on the lounge but
that the girls eyes we're wide open, she might
have been sound asleep, 30 utterly oblivious
was she to everything around her.
Fully half an hour passed thus, when the
mother, who had fallen into peaceful slum-
ber was reused by sudden movement on the
part Of her daughter.
That's Just what I'll do !" emphatically
exclaimed Vests sitting upright
How? Where? What did You say,
Vesty ?" stammered her mother, sitting bolt
upright and trying her best to look as If she
had not been in the land of dreams for the
last twenty minutes.
We mhue up my Lnlnu hDout WHAT L III a.
goin' to do mother, and l want you should
let me do IT,"
Nov Vesty Kellyen as IL you didn't al
'sys do jest a. you'd a mind to Ef you'd do
as want you should, you'd git chance up
to the hotel nd git your regular wages, week
in nd week out-thsts what you'd do"
''Just wait a bit, Mother Kellyen, returned
Yests, smiling brightly. You'll see eff
don't know how to manage, How much did
father make haulin' the company ?"
"More'n once, he cleared nigh onto four
hundred dollars and to think that most eve
~ cent of it went down that miser'ble mine
he used to low was chock-full O. silver and
would make our forth :"
Poor father guess ef more silly folks
had give all their money to them mining
chaps, we might travel right through that
hole to Ohiny now But" added the girl
sagely, "wonitn' amt goin' to fetch the
money back. guess Of poor fstherd known
the pesky hole hadn't no bottom, he wouldn't
"a kept on THROWN all his money into it. He
thought he was doin' it for the best that's
cert'in."
Eyes, tits. Now where you goin'-and it
most supper time ?" queried the mother, a
trine impstiently, as her daughter rose, took
her sun bonnet from its peg, and walked to-
ward the door.
You've often wished I'd been born boy
mother. I'm goin to show you that a girl
can be Of some use, too"
You're goin' up to the Surf House after
all ~ joyfully cried her mother, following her
to the door.
"Yes. I'm going up to the Surf House, "
repeated Vesta, with a peculiar smile. 81
shant be gone long ef you'll wait till come
back, I'll git the supper"
you jest go right along, Vesty Kellyen.
I cuaaa 7 hainil f0rOot hnw IN hoil cnd6ah i'i
and before Vesta was out Of hearing, the
| grati6ed widow was Gathering briskly among
| the pots aud pans in the little kitchen. Per
hAps it was an hour later when Vesta, with
buoyant step and with a heart much lighter
than it had been for many a day retraced her
way to the cottage. Just at the turn of the
road she encountered tall, sunburned, hand
some youth, the nets and fishing tackle hang
ing over his shoulder betraying his handi-
craft.
Hello, Zsmro :" she saluted
Hello, Vesty !" he returned, curiously ey-
ing her, as il doubtful how to understand the
gladness in her face and tone. "Where you
been 2"
ITO the Surf House."
"Goin to work there p he asked, his face
Frightening.
"Guess not, Mr. Zemro Dowlin'. Hain't ]
vowed l would't work up to the hotel ?"
Yes, you hev," slowly and with just q
touch of disappointment in his tone.
CLOVIS granny 2" questioned Vesta, sud
denly changing the subject.
"Some better. Coin down to see her this
afternoon?"
"Guess not want to see Squire Cornish
| after supper"
Eyes? heard that the squire was lookn
| for some one to plough his meadow goin' tC
let him hev the horses ?"
| NO"
"Oh, thought mebbe you was You'll bt
sellin' the team by .'n'-by?"
"Guess not leRstways not till-till you're
cspting O. the FeaTnGught," she added, smil
ing and blushing.
afraid, Vesty," he replied, shifting the nets tC
the other shoulder.
Movers q long time, Mr.. Zsmro Dowlin'
There's mother beokonin' to me. Good-by
Wait q minute" catching the corner Of ont
of the nets as he was starting forward. 'Tl
give you something pleasant for bait Ell yoT
amt capiing Of the FedrnGugM before you're
year older, my name amt Vesty Kellyen."
His free arm caught her before she haC
time to escape from his side and bending hi
face close to her own, he whispered, "WheI
I'm capting of the Fedrndught, my darln'
your name won't be Vesty Kellyen, that's Ger
ting"
She laughed, broke from his clasping arm
and ran swiftly toward the cottage.
With the advent of July came the frs
boarders to Haokmetack Cove. The day OF
which the stRunch little steamer ROokldn,
made her first landing Of the season was
gala day for the residents along shore, as vel
as for the dwellers among the adjacent hills
Long enough before the hour at which tn
boat WAS expected, every body that could wall
or hobble had repaired to the wharf to NEE
the genial ''captng" and to criticise the new
arrivals.
MANY comm to-day ?" asked a woodman
who had walked at least FIVE miles from hi
camp in the forest, of the proprietor Of tn
Surf House, with whom he was trudging to
ward the wharf
"Only siX," was the reply.
81 don't see no team at the wharf"
"No"
"Hedn't we better tell Mel Hammond
Guess he'd make bout rs good a show will
his team as any one round here, now D'Tlu
Kellyen's gone"
"rve arranged for a team" returned tn
landlord with peculiar smile wTeathing hi
good nAtured mouth
''Sol Bankers, dessay 2"
"No."
There was silence for several moments
then, unable longer to curb his inquisitivt
ness, the woodman asked again who is &c
in to haul emp"
The Ksllyen team"
K,ll. L Z