Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-12-27
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Diana Iitkin was like some OF the fruits
Of he native hills, full OF Juices which
tend to swee ness in maturity, but when
when no. quite ripe la a pretty decided
dash Of sharpness. There are grapes
that re III rOSt to Iiptn them and
Dian wa, -omcwhat akin TO these.
She was a ueltIr,Ume warm blODGed
creature, Il OF energy and audacity or
you'd, 10 whom a5 yet II e was ONLY
troic ami pla, spell. Work never tired
her. She ate heartily, slept peacefully,
went to ed laug ing, and got up in
merry humOr in the morning. Dianas
laugh was as earl a note as he song of
BIRDS Such a nat is not at first SYM
pathetic. 1t has in it some of he unc II.
Sclous cruelty which be On,s to nature
itself, who sunshine ne er pales before
human trou lie. yes that have never
wept CannOt comprehend sorrow. Mo e.
Yer. Ii ely girl Of eighteen looking at
life out of eyes which lie Niders others
with their brightness, does not always see
the wO Id tru y, and is sometimes u gel
to he heartleSs when she is only imma.
turc.
Nothing was fur her from Diana 5
thoughts than that any grave trouble was
Overhanging her lovers mind-fOr her
10 er she very we'll knew that James
was and she had arranged Uefo. ehand 10
herself very Pretty little comedies of life
to be duly enacted in the long vacat on
IN which James wa to appear as the
sutton, and she not too soon nor with too
much eagerneSs was at last t. acknOwl-
e &c to him how much he was t. her.
But meanwhile he was not to be too pre-
sumptiOuS. 1t wa not set down in the
10, 4l,nN H., u. 1 49,
make his way too easy. VIII n therefore,
he brus ed by her hastily on entering the
house with hushed cheek and frOwning
brow, and gave no glance of a ImlratiOn
| at the p city toilet she h d fOun time TO
make she was slightly indignant. She
va as ignorant of the pang which went
like all arrow through his heart at the
SIGHT OF her as the hoUOlink which whirrs
and chitte and tweed es over a crave.
She turne away aud commenced a
kitten like frolic with i'll, who was
| always only too happy to second any of
her motions, and readily promised that
after supper she would 90 wi him a
walk OF half mile over to a neighbour,
where the was corn huSEing. A sreat
| golden lamp OF a harvest moon was al
ready coming up in the fading ush of
the evening sky, and she prom Sed her
| self much amusement in watching the
| result of her maneuver on James.
Hell see at any rate that | am not
wa ting his beck and call. ext time, il
! he wants my comra y he can ask for it in
season. Pm not going to indulge him in
| sulks, not ]. These college fellows wor-
| ry over looks till they hurt their diges-
ton, and then have the blues and look as
If the world was coming to an end, and
Diana went to the looking glass and rear
ranged the spray of COL zen rod in her
ha!r and nodde at herself de antly. and
en- turned to help get on the supper.
The Pit in folk tina night sat down to
an ample feast, over " hich he impending
| Thanksgiving shed its h iarity. There
was not only the inevitable great pew er
| platter SEQ red to silver brightness In the
center Of the tablh, piled with all solid
masses of boiled beef, pork, cabbage and
all so Is of vegetables and he ually in
evitable smoking leaf of rye and Indian
bread, to accompany the pot or baked pork
and beans, but Tn re were specimens of all
the ne ly AIDE Thanksgiving pies Hing
| every availa lie S ace on the table ID ana
| set special value on her eli as pie arti t,
| and she had taxed her ingenuity this yeaI
! to invent new varieties, which ere re
! &c Ftu Win u Eslo VI dppIduac ny tHc DOy ,.
! Tn So "a down to the table it'll o LOcrat
! ic equality. biah arter and Abner, it'll
al the sons of the ia lily, old and young
each eager, hung y and noisy, and over al
W tn m0orli hit calmHess aud steadiness
Mary pGkin ruled and presided, dspens
| in 10 each his port Oh i'm due season
while Diana. restless and mischievous al
spirit SCENE to he losses ct wi h al
ell n spirit o. drollery venting tSelf II
sundry little tricks and antics, VIII oh drew
ready laughs from the boys and leprovint
| glances rom the deacon For the deacon
n as That nj Int IN me ~ his ssverest hu
\ mOrS. As Liah Carter afterwards remark
ed of that night "iou could feel there
was Il under in the air somewhere raua {
The deacon Ia got on about the langes
face, and when the deacon face IL ayou
down to its wust why would stopa rob
in siugin there couldnt nothing stanc
IT,"
: Tonight the severely cut lines OF hi
lace End q On more than us uni Of haggarc