St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1889-08-31

ment OF grenadiers to rush out at her.
Miss Lliot was experimenting the
production of pan of daintily drowned
wafiles = her rest had not been
especially promoted by the grOwlings
Of the fierce bulldog under her win
dow all night-when she saw a face
peeping in at her through the vine
leaves that draped the kitchen win
dow
Mercy on us, who's that?" said
she, dropping ladleful Of batter into
the fire.
Its the tramp, ma'am." said Ham
nah Ann. instinctively sweeping the
silver spoons into the dresser drawer.
IL only wish, madam" said the
stranger. apologetically. Ito thank you
for the hospitality which"
.'Oh. it's very well to talk" said
Miss Eliot. with asperity. ''but you
ought TO be ashamed of yourself!"
Madam
"At your age. to be lOafing around
the country. a common tramp! With
your gray hairs to be Hannah Ann.
there's that dog again. Give him q
bone or something to stop his yelling.
or we can't any of us hear ourselves
think. I've fed you. sir. and clothed
you" (whcn Tigers snarls had tenn.
porarily ceased). ''but l don't believe
in you and your like, and I'll trouble
you never to cross this threshold
again. Hannah Ann. get the man
some breakfast, and Dear me, has
he gone already, and without any
thing TO eat? Very well," her kindly
heart hardening into stone again. Iii
he doesn't like to hear the truth it,
no fault of mine. Set on the coffee.
Hannah Ann: and. Tim. you take that
dog back to Farmer Sopus'. l don't
know but that I'd rather be murdered
by tramps than kept awake all night
by the barking of dog"
Miss Eliot had hardly recovered her
equanimity that morning. when a note
arrived from Mrs Deacon Dix. invit.
ing her to what little Tim irrcverently
termed ''tca fight" that very even-
ing.
To make the acquaintance OF the new minis.
ter, a most blessed man." enthusiastically
wrote Mrs Deacon Dix, ..who has only Just ar.
rived al our humble dwelling"
And Miss Eliot. delighted at the Op-
portunity. put on her best black silk
gown and little cap trimmed with
lavender ribbons, and proceeded to the
Dix mansion just as the clock struck
five.
Mrs. Deacon Dix was there in her
best attire. The two Misses Wilmerd-
ing We're there in the moirc antiques
which had belonged to their grand
mother. and old Miss Halliday with
her white curls and pearl brooch; and
Miss Eliot was led into the room by
Miss belinda Dix, a blooming maiden
of three-and-twenty summers. TO find
herself courtesying low to the man
who had been locked into her barn
chamber last night. and whom she ha d
lectured so fercely that morning on
the duty of earning his own living.
Miss Eliot simpered the uncon-
scious belinda. ''allOw me to make you
acquainted with Mr.. Revere, Of Stoney-
lands. our new minister"
But Miss Eliot had turned as many
colors as dying dolphin.
IL didn't KNOW" faltered She Il
never suspected. Oh. Mr.. Revere.
what must you think OF me?"
II think" said placable Mr.. Revere.
who fully perceived the humor of the
situation, THAT you honestly believed
me to be a tramp. and that you
wouldn't allow me an opportunity to
explain. I had letter to you from
your late pastor. but l couldn't get .
chance to deliver il, and"
.'Oh. Mr. Revere, if I had only
known ~
And Miss Eliot wrung her hands in
anguish of spirit.
Pray don't reproach yourself any
further. Miss Eliot" said the minister,
''for what is really my fault. My
wife always says am too careless o!
my clothes. and if did look like a
tramp"
But here. fortunately for good Miss
Eliot. new arrival necessitated new
and she was allo wed to
drop. crimsoned and breathless, into
the nearest chair.
TO think" she gasped. almost in
that / should have made
such a mistake! To think I could
have been such fool! And even
Hannah Ann knew better! Did not
she say. from the very first. that he
wasn't the sort for the barn chamber?
What will Hannah Ann say the first
Sunday she sees him at church,"
Poor Miss Elliott was an awkward
piece of business! And to this day she
isn't quite certain whether she or the
minister was the most to blame for it,
Amy Randolph, in N. Y. Ledger.
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