Connecticut western news., 1889-02-27

morning.
 It must be nice to have city company, !" sighed Marian.
 "Oh, but think of the work of ftp said Maud, lifting both her hands.
 Mrs. Oh. h.pley came in at that moment, also clad in what Marian called her "scrubbing regimentals, and wearing an old o.ive-silk handkerchief tied around her still bright and glossy hair, and the three set themselves determined ly to work.
 The Reverend Milo Milner, on reach ing the railway station, received a tele gram that his friend, Professor Klingen- burg, could not possibly meet him that day.
 "Very good, said Mir. Miner. 'sIll just step back home and get a mouthful of lunch, and then I'll go to look over those ancient manuscripts with Dr. Hodges. He has been urging ne to do so for some time past, and 1 may never have a better opportunity than this."
 MT. Milner tucked the umbrella slnder his arm, tipped his black, wide-brimmed hat over his eyes, and set off on swift, swinging stride back to Simpson Ter race.
 The blue door stood wide open. He walked in, with no sort of ceremony.
 sFresh paint!' he said to himself, ele- vating his thin nostrils. If there's any thing on the face of the earth detcst, it is fresh paint. And I've got it all over the skirts of my best coat, too! Where is Mrs. Chipley? What has become of the girls? Nobody ever seems to be in the way when they're wanted. But, fortunately. here's lunch ready spread. I wonder, now, how it happened9 How could they know. I was coming back? Cold roast grouse, with currant jelly chicken salad-pickled oysters-rcally, now, this is something quite beyond the ordinary run of our bills of fare!'' The pastor sat down, and ate with an excellent appetite. He made a yawning hole in the chicken-salad mound; he picked the bones of a crisp, brown grouse with genuine satisfaction; he but tered flaky biscuit, and added to its flavor by several spoonfuls of amber quince preserve.
 stAll the same," said he to himself, as he wiped his mouth with damask nap- kin and rose from his chair, with an other glance at the vegetable-shaped watch; "this sort of thing is quite be- yond Mrs. Chipleys means. Thought she had better sense. I must really speak to her about tt. In the meantime I must make good speed, if expect to have much time at my friend Hodges place.
 Away he trudged, much comforted and sustained as regarded his inner man.
 "Joe, Joem shrichcd Miss Francesca Dean, coming into the room a few min utes later, "what have you done? Eaten up all the company lunch! Oh, you grecdy-'
 'I'll be blamel if I have!' shouted Joe, from an upper room, where he was transforming himself from an amateu, journcyman painter to modern tennis player. "What arc you talking about?
 'Somc one has eaten his fill!" cried Mss Franklin. "Jus. lcok at the ta- ble!"
 "Then it's some tramp sncaked ir through the door that I left open to dry the raiut,' bawlcd Joe, smiting his leg.
 And while the Dean family were en- deavor.ng to repair damages, the task o house cleaning went swimmingly on al the Chipley domicile, only two doors away, the girls and their mother scarccl, taking t.me to sit down and cat theil nasty dudding. which, by the way, got badly scorched through Maud's override votion to putting the chintz window cur tains in t..e pastors study.
 Bat hasten as they would, the newly whitewashed walls were scarcely dry an6 the furniture not yet rearranged, whcr dusk dc ccnded on the scene and til, Rev. Milo Milner came in.
 "Oh, take care, Mr. Milner!" OK claimed Maud. 1.-The door-the pain is fresh!"
 Mir. Milner solernly advanced into tn, area of the lamplight, and, twisting himself around to get at the skirts O his coat, eyed them disconsoately.
 "More paint'' said he ',Blue paint ?
 "No," cried Marian. ''Green'
 The two colors were ludicrously alike by lamp-light. The green might b mistaken for lively blue-the blue fo a siull green.
 "Blue, said the pastor firmly. "Dt you think 1 haven't the use of my eyesl'
 f"Green," persisted Marian. "I know because put it on myself"
 "It is not well," said the Rev. Milo 'for the young to be too positive"
 'But truth is truth,' said Maud.
 'sAnd while I am about it, said Mir Miner, now thoroughly exasperated II deem it my duty to remonstrate witt you concerning the extravagant and un warranted sty.e of diet in which you in dulgc during my absence!"
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