Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-20
A YANKEE LOVE STORY.

''Well ;ef we ain't here too early, arfter all! That's what comes O ivin' so fur from | the meetin' house, an havin' no clocks you can depend onl Week days it don't matter so much; I can kinder keep straight by the fact'ry whistles We'll, it'll gave us a chance | ter step inter the graveyard A good many O the monnyments have been put up sense you was here They're mostly alike, all 'cept old Capn Broadus'-he was bound ter have something different. He picked hisn out hisself an had it put up fore he died, ter make sure there wa'n't no mistake bout it. That's his'n over there-a female fgger holdin' a urn. Some folks would have it twas a goblet, an said considerin' he'd kep | somebody a-standin' round with glass ready for him all his life, he might "a dis | pensed with it when he come ter be dead; but he was a dreadful peculiar man, an he didn't have many friends Didn't you ever hear how he sarved his darter2 Law, now we've got time 'nough, we'll jest set down on this bench, in the shade, an I'll tell ye bout it, while we're waitin'; the fust bell ain't but jest rung.
 'How pretty them moss pinks look, grow in over there on Myra Pratt's grave! Will | Rogers planted lem there. He was keepin' compny with her when she died. Folks said he was most distracted; but land! men git over sch things he's goin' ter marry Fanny Scott next week. He's bought the Dunn farm an they're goin' to set up-Here. But was tellin' you bout Cap'n Broadus
 'He was great, rough, red faced, black bearded man, with a voice like a clap O thunder. He was cap'n O one O the big steamships runnin' out O New York, an he'd bin in sailin' vessels fore that. He'd bin in the Chiny trade, an don't know what not. He'd bin all over the world, but wherever he went he bore the same character-a dreadful rough man an dreadful profane. I shouldn't think twas right ter tell sich story on the Sabbath eff there wa'n't sich lesson be larned by it.
 "'Twas curus ter see the cap'n an his dar- ter together. You'd never "a thought they was related; but she took after her mother, who died when she was born.
 'Well, you'd spose, pretty as Alice was, an rich as the cap'n was knowed ter be, there'd be no end O fellers hangin, round her, like bees round honeysuckle; but the truth ont was, they was all scart O the cap'n, an Alice herself so took up a-try- in ter please him, an keep him from gettin' mad at folks while he was home, an when he was gone a-tryin' to get braced up an ready for his next visit, that she didn't have no time ter think O nothin' else. Elf you never see the cap'n, you can't have no idee : the sort O man he was. He'd stan an swear till he was black in the face when anything e put him out
 9 But the young men got the idee that Alice was stuck up, an felt herself 'bove 'em count g O her money an eddicaton; for the cap'n l. said he'd 'cOmplish her, an he did-she e played on the pianner beautiful. But they | didn't like it 'cause she never noticed 'enl- stead O bein' thankful, as they orter bin. She u had queer, slow way O liftin her eyelids as eff her long black lashes was so heavy she 2 couldn't hardly get lem high 'nough ter see , from under; but when she did get lem up well, she reely did have the sweetest eyes t ever see in girls face, an they had such c y innercent, appealin' look. I spose she got ii tryin' ter pacify the cap'n. But she never needed to try it twice on nobody, am one young feller found it out to his cost; but twas all the cap'n's fault it happened.
 'He was home one Sabbath, uglier'n usual swearin' at everybody an everything, higl an low, an he kep' it up all the mornin' til he was fairly in meetin'-he alters went tel meetin', reg'lars could be.
 Well, he sot there in his pew, his eye rangin' round, spyin' out sunthin' ter fint fault with, when all ter once they lighted o1 Stan Purdy-Squire Purdy's son, you know He'd bin off studyin' ter be doctor, an haC jest come home for little vacation for he begun ter practice. He was good lookin young feller
 ''Well, he was settin' there lool1in' too-an 1t jest shows how folks git into trouble whel they spend their time starin' round stead ( ,. payin' 'tention ter the minister.
 'But Stan, he'd bin lookin' at the cap'n, al thinl1in what curus old critter he was, al how his darter didn't look much like him, al then, as was nat'ral he looked at Alice, al , his eyes hadn't fairly lighted on her whe }. the capn turned an caught him. It scene ez eff that was what the old feller'd bin waitil for. He rig right up in his seat, his eye rollin' in his head, an he took Alice by tn arm, an he marched right down the aisle : out O meetiu, an as he passed the Purdy pew he glared so Stan thought he was goil ter have fit, an didn't know but twas h dooty ter foller an tend ter him; but 'tws jest as well he didn't
 FThe cap'n made straight for home usil {. most awful language. He said he knowe now why Alice was allus so anxious to go tt meetin'. An 'twa'n't no use for her to te
 him-what was the livin' truth-that sl didn't know Stan Purdy from Tom Noke
 and hadn't never sot eyes on him. He wouldn
 blieve her.
 ''He had ter go ter the city that nigh c lucky for her, for she was clear wore ou D, but ye couldn't blame her that next Sabbat
 she did look over ter the Purdy's pew, t.
 see who twas the cap'n made sich flu
 bout; an Stan, rememberin' how the cap
 had acted the week afore, looked 'cross at h. jest as she looked at him.
 'WeI I'm too old woman ter go inter {
 the particulars O that part of the stor
 Young folks will be young folks to the end
 time; 'an we all know how twas with ou
 selves. But eff Alice had had a hard tir
 afore, she had wus one now; twas b.
 enough ter have a hot an nasty old fathe
 but when you come ter have hot am has
 young lover ez well, things git complicated
 tsStan wa'n't 'fraid of the cap'n; he didl z care a cent for his temper an his talk, an
 loved Alice for all he was wuth. He couldl
 see no reason why he should be sacrificed {
 the cap'n's whims, There wa'n't the fl Y thing bout him for nobody ter object ter son-in-law; he was studdy an he had go
 connections, an there was money both sic
 O the house. He meant ter have Alice, {
 he knowed eff he didn't get her consent fc
 the cap got home be wouldn't get it tall, { ", he did his best.
 y "But Alice, she was jest like that flower . told ye bout; it didn't make no differer what rough, ugly old rock it was grow