Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-01-04


seem ter care. but it most distressed Mis-
Willard she KEEP house for EN- YOU know,
ter death. There was "a heeius great iigger
head nailed up over the front door nough
ter scare ye outer yer senses an shells
layin' round everywhere ye could think,
an a big red buoy out in the middle o. the
dooryard-though Mis- Willard trained
mornin' gl0ries over mat tell it didn't show
much an there was a great rusty anchor
an chain fastened ter the front gate ter
keep it swung together Oh ! couldn't be
gin ter tell yer all the Capn's contrivances.
well, that night Alice was out in the
gardin after supper, wanderin' round,
thinkin' bout her father, an kinder won
derin' ei Stan would come, an hopiu' he
wouldn't, an KNOWN down in her heart
she ii he disappointed ef he didn't when all
ter once she Leard that chain clank. an her
heart begun ter beat an she couldn't help
thnkin' it might be a good thing ef the
Cap'n had got a anchor hitched ter her too
'She didn't need ter take but one look at
Stan ter know what he come for He didn Z
waste no time bout it neither There
want no putin him of she'd got ter
come ter the pint, an she did.
She told him her fust dootv was ter her
father he hadn't got nobody but her, an
she knowed twouldn't be right ter 20 of
am leave him. Then Stan he told her she
needn't leave him he want home much
o. the time an when he was he could be
with her jest's he allus had bin an he
did think-though he didn't say so-that ef
he could put up with the Cap'n the Cap'n
might do as much for him.
But Alice she told him her father didn't
want her marry nobody. an ef she did he
wouldn't have nothin' more ter do with her :
mn g 1 al & 1l-.
who had friends ter fall back on--ef she
left him he wouldn't have nothn then she
looked at hun straight. and she sen:
" 'Ef ! loved a man ever so much. /
wouldn't leave my father ter 20 off with
him, cause he has fust claim, sez she an
stan he come step nearer, and he seq
90 no You love me, Alice {,
She kuOwed she got ter answer that
question, and she knoved 'twoudn't do ter
have him come no closer, if she was goin
ter do her dooty by her father She'd never
told a lie in her life, but she looked at him.
and she said it slow like ez ef twas "a les
son she was sayin;
No,-I don't love you you must 90
" Twas queer. but Stan b'lieved her. 4
woman would "a knowed in minute she
wasn't t-iin' the truth, but he trusted her
as he would Il angel an he took her at her
word
An the gate hadn't no more'n banged
ariter him when the old Cap'n jumped right
out % ii bunch O. syriugas an stood in front
on her in his tail hat. with a valise in one
hand aud ID omhrill in the other. lookin'
bigger. redder. more bristIin an ever he'd
bin there the hull time an heard every
word but all he said was
" Good girl Done right That's the
way ter serve young ,raiawags Ne won't
nave no more trouble from EN- Yer old
fathers come home ter stay
Am so he had He'd give up the com
maud % his steamer. an there he was
well, Alice she took him inter the
house, an she give him his supper, an
mixed his rum punch fer HIM an ,ot by
while he drinked it then he wanted her
ter sing ter him, an she went ter the plan
ner an played an sung him his favoriteS-
AN he had a deal % taste in musician all
the while there va, poor Stan : desparin
face in front on her, an you'd "A thought
even the Cap'n could "a told her heart was
broke by the way she was singin'
AN Stan he went off an jined a party
% naturalist f-lers who was goin on a
| three-years' trip to | don't know where,
arfter outlandi,h species % spiders an cat
erpillars an sich He didn't care where
tween holm, man an aILe tar Tito otf
when We ,,ot brrt an, G"nrisb ro,,r5 taII We
fsI, Lat,s, an raiI,' ,,',,,,,,, an, ba,.i,,
fer settle ri,bt down ts,. hmm an make the
best o. things
"Ef a womon's got ,,rit-an' she oep'all,,
bss-.heU 90 ter work an she'U puil
through somehow sometimes 1t makes her
sour an grabbed, but more often she turns
her thoughts to another country, where, ef
the ,or,r,rt'lI l,, yb, ,,1,,'t want 'au
..An' AIira y,ant on join' her dootv
L,..,,;, .I,;,,... ,Ioa.,,t an, l,i,J.r ,,al,i,,
il m, tsr -. nai,,ttors ,,ben tbs CAM,
npa,r,lsj with 'an bur sLe rev naIer
AM thinner .verv dar tell She looked like
- sboJJa,. -. .,i,l 6nt .ba diir't lose none
| ~ bar nrattinass sba conIdn't- -loro,'s there
va. a,,,tl,in, l.ft an bar 'tvos Lji,,od ter
ba nrotty
/ tNJi .,rr,., ,b.. ,,,,,', bod hin home .
,.,,. IN. t,,, h.. be',,,, ~ fnd il hinder fire
so,na ba'd d,,,, s,,s,,.tbins, he could tbirL
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49, hi. b.,5 ta,. L,,, he ,o,,,,,.,,,,,t tbat
tsn. hin, Lns,. fo,. ,,n,,ths bs visited a,,-
a,.r marble vord in the country fore he
f,,nJ auvtbino, Tor snit him He said his
announcement was liz a moor mans suit m
rl,tbas ba wanted lest the ri,bt thin,
'cous. II hal rot ter last him
III ',.a. ,isasaJ 'nop.,b yvban he finally
,,t il sot mn. be5 walk down with Alice
- SoLI,tb a,,sni,,' ta. saa il an ba
hadn't lin tar yisit his v,ifa's crave fore
senca She diad he rlaar FORGOT ter have
her name nmt on the tombstone
,.V-aU tbin.,s ,yant nm this way toll one
dav he vlas to9, witb fl and vent ter lie
he.ide his announcement and Alice was left
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