The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-11-15

em in pictures in the Illustrated Family
Bible. l s'pose down in JUDGE ther' was
makes AM dogs that a man had to take clip
1t with stick, once in while, same as in
other countries"
What else did Sol sayf' asked the mother.
swell, he didn't bring no special news He
else like enough he'd have sent some word.
He said Phil was loolxin' well, an had a walk ON
him like a sojer in a picture rm glad the
boys got q chance to get the pillow handle
stoop out Of his shoulders for few days
SEE you wouldn't know his face, though,
cause his hairs cut so short; got new watch
chain, too; I'm glad to hear that, cause
was particular to tell him to do it,"
'Well, half wish Sol Mantring's sloop had
stayed down to York, IL that's all the news it
could bring,n said Mrs. Hayn, replacing her
spectacles in their tin case, which she closed
with decided snap. "Such little speck of
news is only aggravatin'; that's what it's"
''Small favors thankfully received, old
lady, as the advertisements sometimes say.
Oh, there was one thing more Sol said; twas
that he reckoned Phil was dead gone on that
Tramlay GAL"
Mrs. Hayn received this information In
silence; her husband began to throw his open
knife at leaf on one Of the veranda steps.
II don't see how Sol Mantring was to know
anything like that" said Mrs. Hayn, after a
short silence. HE isn't the kind that our
Phil would 60 an unbosom to, IL he had any
such thing to tell which it amt certain he
had"
"Young men don't always have to tell such
things, to make 'em known" suggested the
farmer. "Pooty much everybody knowed
when was fust gone on you, though didn't
say nothin' to nobody, not even to the gal
herself"
IF it's So" said Mrs. Hayn. after another
short pause, ''mebbe it explains why he hain't
writ. He'd want to tell us fore anybody
else, an he feels kind o. bashful like"
"You've got a good mem'ry, Lou Ann"
said the old farmer, rising, and pinching his
wife's ear.
What do you mean, Reubenr'
"Oh, nothin, Except that you hain't forgot
the symptoms, that's all"
''Shol" exclaimed the old lady, giving her
husband a push. though not so far but that
she was leaning OH his shoulder moment
later. "'Twould be kind O. funny if that
thing was to work. though, wouldn't ito" she
continued; "that is if Soils right"
WELL" replied her husband, with sud-
den accession Of earnestness in his voice, "if
Soils right, twon't be bit funny IL it don't
work. hope the blessed boys got as much
good stuff in him as I've always counted on.
The bigger the heart, the wuss 1t hurts when
D it gets hit; an there's mighty big heart in
any child of you an me, though say it as
mebbe shouldn't"
THAT boy amt never goin' to have no
heartaches not on account o. gals" said the
mother, whose voice also showed a sudden in
crease Of earnestness. II don't b'lieve the
gal was ever made that could say no to a
splendid young Teller like that--a young fell
Ter that's handsome an good an bright an
full O. fun, an that can tell more with his
eyes in q minute than hull sittin' room full
Of ordinary young men can say with their
tongues In a week"
'No," said the old man, soberly, mot IL
the gal stayed true to the pattern she was
made on--like you did, for instance. But
gals Is only human-ther' wouldn't be no
way Of keepin' 'em on earth II they wasn't,
you know-an' sometimes they don't do
'xactly what might be expected Of 'em."
''That Tramlay gal won't give him the
mitten, anyhow" persisted Mrs. Hayn
''Mebbe she amt as smart as some, but that
family, through an through, has got sense
enough to know what's worth havin' when
they see 1t. She needn't ever expect to come
back here to board for the summer, II she
cuts up any such foolish dido as that"
Lou Ann" said the farmer, solemnly, "do
you RELY think it over an above likely that
she'd want to come back. i'm such case made
an pervidedT
Then both old people laughed, and went into
the house, and talked Of all sorts of things
that bore no relation whatever to youth or
love or New York They retired early after
the manner of farm people in general, after
prayer containing a formal and somewhat
indefinite petition for the absent one The
old lady lay awake for hours, 1t seemed to
her, her head as full Of rosy dreams as if it
were not covered with snow; yet when at
last she was dropping asleep she was startled
by hearing her husband whisper;
Father in heaven, have pity on my poor
boy"