New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-11-28

l her uneasy. Irue, the eV1iSeemed to
be dying out, but who could tell; and
many as harmless and seemingly as
innocent as she had been accused of
exercising evident witchcrafts upon
/ their neighbors and carried to jail.
] Her uneasiness continued, until,
the meal ready some space Of time
before her husband S return from the
fields, she could no longer restrain
her curiosity, but, sitting down on
the wooden settle in the chimney
corner, she drew her child to her lap
and, stroking her long curls, ques-
toned her.
when didst play with Abigail
Bishop, sWeet?'
"This morning, mother. But I
don't like her.. She's rough and she
pulls my curls and laughs at them. .
| Nay, then, butWell she may, y and
the mother thought of the contrast
between her own child's prettiness
and Abigail Bishops coarse features
and stubby locks. 'sBut, alack! that
| should encourage vanity in my
child. Sweet maid. thy locks should
| have been shorn this many day. So
| thy father says, but he mislikes to
see the pretty ringlets go. He says
| they are like mine when he first saw
me step on shore at Boston port
| when father and I arrived from Eng
| land"
SAbigails mother says you are
above your neighbors in pride, be-
cause you came from England. She
says you ought to crop my hair close
and not let it grow. Abigail wants
my Kitty, but / told her she couldn't
have it,
"And what said .Abigai1?' asked
the mother, smiling at the mixture
of matter in her daughters speech
who, precocious as the children of
those stern times were won't to be,
yet showed her childishness in this.
"She called me a proud mink. I
told her she was verify an ugly one"
'sChild, child! and is this all the
breeding thy mother taught thee? /
am vexed for thy words. And what
said she then?n
"She said she did not want my dew
IFS cat. What did she mean, moth
err? She said fire came out of it's
eyes and she ran and told her moth
err"
ooh, my poor maid! Ifear me thy
tongue has brought us into trouble.
Did'st come home then?"
Yes; and as | passed Dame Bish.
ops door she called me vainrogue,
and asked why 1 came to plague her
child.'
II like it not. I have ever felt
GOODNESS towards her hypocritical
ways" said Dame Carny, setting
down the child and walking to the
door, anxiously watching for her
husbands coming. before he
reached the step she saw his face
wore troubled look. She stepped
out to meet him.
"Nay, then, sweetheart, and what
is thy vexation," said he, as he
scanned her face. She gave him the
substance of Deliverance's words.
II would not mind them at other
times, but with the past troubles
fresh LII luilu-
''And goodWife, they have broken
out again afresh Good Mr.. Mather
has been called to Boston to inquire
into a new case more full of enchant-
ments and devilish torments than
any other And he gave her the
particulars as he had them from
Elder Winthrop who had heard them
read from a letter sent to their
minister, Seeing his wife's deepen
ing distress be ceased to dwell on
the probable miseries to follow, but
tried to encourage her.
"Nay, then, be not so downcast.
Wharf evil should come to US? Are
we not God-fearing and earn
est in Well-doing? Are any more
constant in attendance on the pro-
vided means of grace? Neitherknow
| any woman in our goodly settle
ment who is so kind to her neigh
bors as my good wife, and all spe ak
we'll OF her in turn"
"All save neighbor Bishop, and
she is sore against me. because of
our sweet maid, Deliverance; she
harbors jealousy towards u.s."
'sBe not SO doWncast, and all will
be well, sweetheart"
NAY, then, according to Good
wife Bishop, thou art the one who,
by thy sweet titles and endearments,
sets thy wife and child to feeling
above their neighbors, Goodman
Bishop does not so, she says
Goodman Carny laughed as he
moved towards the door, at the I'M
couth, coarse grained and uncourt-
eous Bishop showing sings of en-
dearment towards a wife and child
SO truly his mates, even to exceeding
him in his unamiable qualities. But
for a time these people were forgot
ten in his play with his little daugh-
ter. In his love for her he was negli-
gent, as his minister warned him, in
enforcing the strict discipline APP
proved by the Puritans in the rearing
of children. Besides, as she grew old
er, he thought her quick tongue and
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