The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-02-16

found, their IS certain person he would
be as glad to see as he would another
certain person"
"There is some mistake" said Mag
gle Snow. cake Coleman is always
joking"
'Itwas male" said Lucinder Dobbs,
"else why did she call him Hugh? You
have all heard the minister say his wife
hadn't relative on earth except her
mother aud maiden aunt it couldn't
have been her mother, and it couldn't
have been the maiden aunt, for her
name was Martha instead of Hugh.
Besides" she kontiude, for she had so
hardened her mind with mathematics,
that she could grapple the hardest fact
and floor 1t, so to speak. Besides" "
sez she, "the maiden aunt died a year
and a-half ago that settles the matter
conclusively that it was not the maiden
aunt"
| have thought something was on the
minister's mind all the spring." said the
widder Iubbs. Il have spoken to sister
Ann about it number Of times" Then
she kinder rolled up her eyes, jist as
she does in class meetin', and sez she.
'lt's an awful dispensation, but | hope
he'll turn it into means of grace; |
hope his spertool strength will be re.
newed. But" sez she, 81 have borryed
a great deal of trouble about his benz
SO handsome | have noticed that hand
some ministers don't turn out well they
most always have somethin' happen to
'em sooner or later but l hope he'll be
led"
"Well, l never thought that Miss Lin
den was any too good" said Betsy
Bcbbet.
"Neither did l." SAID Lucinda DobEs.
She has turned out jest as l always
thought she would, said Opheiia, "and
| have just as good an opinion of her
as | have of them that stand up for her.
Maggie Snow spoke up then /; JEST as
clear as bell her voice sounded she
amt afraid of anybody, for she is Law
yer Shows only child and has been to
Boston to school. SeZ she "Aunt AL
len, (she is little related to me on
her motner's side) Eunt Allen, why is
it that, as general rule, the very worst
folks are the ones to suspect other folks
of being bad2
Sez l, Maggie, they draw their pic.
lures from memory. And sez |, They
want to pull down other folkses reputa-
tions, for they feel as if their own good
ness was in totterin' condition, and if
they fall they want something to fall on,
so as to come down easier like.
Maggie Snow laughed, and so did
Miss Edwards and the Joneses but
Betsy Bobbet and the Dobbs girls
looked black as Erobious. And sez
Betsy Bobbet to me, sez she,
shouldn't think, Joseph Aliens wife,
that you would countenance such con-
duct.
| will first know there Is wrong con-
duct, sez l. 81 l, "Miss Linden's
face is jest as innocent as a baby S, and
| amt agoin' to mistrust any evil out
of them pretty brown eyes till L N OBJ
LEGGED to.
Just at this minutes the hired girl
came IN and SAID supper was ready,
and we all went out to eat. Miss Jones
said there wasn't anything on the table
fit to eat, and she was afraid we couldn't
make out but we did have splendid
supper, good enuf for the Zero of
Rushy.
We hadn't more'n got up from the
supper table and got back into the par
lor, when we heard a knock onto the
front door. Miss Jones went and
opened 1t, and who, of all the live
world, should walk in but the minister
The faces of the wimmen as he entered
would have been study for Michael
Angelica, or any of the old painters.
Miss Jones was so frustrated that she
asked him the first thing to take his
bonnet off, then she bethought herself
and sez she, How's your mother?
before she had sot him a chair or any,
thing. But he looked jest as pleasant
aud composed as ever, though his eyes
kinder laughed. Aud he thanked her
and told her he left his mother, the day
before, good deal better and then he
turned to Maggie Snow, and sez he:
l have come after you, Miss Mag
gle, sez he. My wife came home
night before last, and wanted to see you
so bad that | told her as | had business
pass your house | would call for you as
| went home, and your mother told me
you was here. | think | know, sez
he, why she wants to see YOU So very
much now; she is so proud of our boys
she can't wait till
Your boys gasped nine wimmen to
once.
Yes, sez he, smiling more pleasant
than l ever see him. | know you will
wish me JOY. We have a nice little
boy, little Hugh, for her father. He is
a fine, healthy little fellow, almost two
months old.
1t wouldn't have done any good for
Michael Angelica to have been there,
then, nor Mr.. Ruben, nor none of the
rest of them we read of, for if they had
their paletes and easeless all ready they
never could never could have done
justice to the face of Betsy Bobbet and
the Dob0s girls, and as for Miss Deacon
Graves, her spectacles fell off unnohced,
and she opened her mouth so wide that
If was very douhtfuI to me if she could