Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-30

"@Si anu HILL II UOLSu IItiiii-iVtl lduS.
'But you didn't spend all your money
on this!" said MIR. Poland, checking up
the sums on his fingers.
''No-I-bought Il bonnet"
GLOW much yc give for it''
"Six dollars"
The truth again, but not the whole
truth
"Six dollars! Whcw! Your ma never
give that for Il bonnet in her life"
! Things cost more now. pa
"Wal, you must be awful savin' OF it,
that's all. Then there's two dollars left.
Guess you'd better send that to old Aunt
i'ctscy up at Three Big Pines. We amt
done much for hcr this year, and she was
your mas own aunt Will you write to
her, or shall II"
I'm write, pa," said Hannah, with a
sinking heart
Size was already beginning to repeat OF
her bargain in bonncts.
Size repeated still more that night when
before her ci,cap little pine framed mirror
size tried on the new treasure In itself
it was undoubtedly very pretty; but the
delicate color seemed TO acccntuatc every
ircckle, every patch of sunburn, every
separate hair in Inc cowiick
II look like the owl that Peter lIib-
bard caught last week." she muttercd to
herself. "But perhaps il / used little
pomatum, and washed my face in butter
milk every night until Sunday-''
And she put away the new bonnet with
Il sigh.
"Thc Bismarck brown with the gilt
quilts would have been far more bccom-
ing she thought. II wonder if they
would exchange it?'
Mr.. Perkins called the next day 10 sec
If Miss Poland would contribute ANYTHING
for the chiltircu's picnic. and with burn
ing cheeks and heart throbbng with
secret notification, Hannah was obliged
to decline.
81 know he thinks me mean and
Siingy, thought She. but what am |
to io!"
Amanda Troll was the next visitor.
'Oh, Hannah, said she, could YOU
make it convenient TO let me have that
two dollars lent You! Eve chance to
buy silk cape real chcap-all jcttcd,
you know, such as Mrs. Deacon Wales
wcars-;nd I'm Il little short of money!
Hannah turned first red, then pale
''If You could take il ont in cwgs--"
she began.
Eggs, indeed, who wants cegs?"
said Amanda, Grossly. ''Whcn lent you
that money ! expected You to br ready to
repay it when asked for il. However,
| dare say your father
"Oi, don't SLY ii word about il to pa.
cried Hannah.
And she went TO little table drawer,
where sine knew that M. Poland kept his
money. took out two-dollar bill and
han,icd ii silently To Amanda
ell replace it wien Mrs. W-illett pays
me sor that butter, she thought. ITS
only ioan.''
st sight OF the cash payment Amanda
rcgaincd her clupoise and sailed again.
lave yoa lc.,rd the ncws!p said She.
NO. What news"
"Frank Bond is engaged TO Kitty
Pcll."
Hannah felt herself grow scarlet to the
very roots OF the rcdoub;ablc cowlick.
How she hated herself for that dreadful
habi: Of blusl'ing ii; the wrong time!
"l-I hope they'll be happy" STAN
mercd She, and Amanda secretly chuclllcd
to herself
"Then it's true, she thought. "Han-
nah Poland was dead in love with Mr..
Bond. AS if he would ever have given
Il second thought 10 such Il coarse, plain
girl rs she is'
Poor Ilannah She had had her day
dreams, and many was the scalding tear
that dropped into the milk pan OF cur
rants that she WAS stcmming to make jelly
that day.
She went over to Mrs. Nillctt to ask
for the butter money as soon rs the cur
rant Jelly was strained through the fan
mel bag. Mrs. Wil!ett, however, like
many another boarding mouse keeper, wis
short of resources.
81 cant pay We, Hammer, till my city
family pays me, said she. And what's
more, | don't like To be dunnod, neither.
P'raps on Friday or Saturday,
And with that, Hannah MAS forced TO
he content.
On Sunday morning, she dressed for
church in her best white gown, neatly
hundred by her own hands, and went to
take out the pink iulc hat with tie hum
mlnE-blrd.
But, to her tlismay, the closet door had
been left opea-she had not replaced the
lid on the bandbox; and there in the
very centre oil the roscbuds and tullc puff
iings, lay the old gray cat with a family
OF three downy kittens.
Hannah went to church dispirited and
sad, iii her old straw hat, with its faded
yellow daisies and dyed strings.
Her father stared at her as she climbed
into the wagon.
II thought you had bought new
bonnet" said he.
"The-thc old cal has made q nest Of
it," faltercd poor Hannah, with tears in
her voice.
"Wal, DECLARE" said Mr. Poland.
That afternoon, of all afternoons, he
saw fit to count over the money he had
been saving to pay the interest on
mortgage which had broodcd OH the farm
for full ten years.
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