Iuka reporter., 1889-06-06

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Iideon gave a little start and open<s
n's mouth suddenly, but closed Il with
out speaking, while his face Ansba,
scarlet, as Miss Elecla noted and ha,
voice was less harsh as she said uO,
course she'll have to go with me. vor
never IN the>world could do for be,.. h,,s
! amt going to say she shan't coma ~
zee zee you often, though 1 never expect Il
oother you none myself"
"All right 'Lecty," replied Gideon.
Tor the third time. ssGo ahead. an AZ
rs ye please" and he he took the ave
ne had been sharpening OH this pr;nd.
stone behind the barn and walked awnv,
willis his sister went back I'd ths bonsya
ner lips quivering little, and her head
ess erect and defiantly than when She
came out. '-e
johanna was the only child of the
brother Elihu, who had died ten wears
Defore. Her mother had died when .Jo-
hanna was born, and in the eleven Years
That had elapsed since that sor1wfnl
day, Johanna had BECOME yery dear 70 :,
Uncle Gideon and Aunt Electa
Gideon hardly dared think what the
mouse would be like without johanna.
ana MISS Electa did not fully realize how
cruel she was in taking the little girl
She thought more about it the first
night she and Johanna spent h THAR
new h&me. The clild's questions trou-
Dled ydier aunt. She and Gideon had
been wise and kind enough not to QUAR-
rel before Johanna, aud the child could
not understand what had caused the
change In her uncle and aunt's af-
falrs. 1T gave Miss Electa something of
a shock, when Johanna said as night
came on.
There won't be anybody to get I'm
Gle Gideon's pipe for him TONIGHT will
there, Aunt 'Lecty? Don't Won s'nose
ne misses his little Joey dreadfuls And
what's he going to do without his sup
PERI"
He's got it himself many time when
I've been down with my rheumatic. an
reckon he won't starve now," replied
Miss Electa.
"But alwayshelped him, said Johan-
MAJ 'You know you said he mussed
things up SO if l didn't help"
Although it was hers no longer. a yis-
ION OF the probable unused up" condi-
tion Of things in the house she had left |
SO tidy troubled Miss Electl greatly.
There was lump in her throat. as she
SAID to herself while she made her own
kitchen tidy:
Things won't be fit to be seen in the
old house in two days. A mans as much
out OF place in kitchen as a bull in
chany store. There if Ididn't come
away and forget to leave any dish rags
out. He'll use corner of the table-cloth
9r one OF the best towels like as NOT.
and don't s'pose he'll sweep under
The bed once month, and the milk-pans
II get sour, and his bed II never be air.
ID, and-I wish that roam colt was in
Guinea p
She rocked vigorously to and fro in her
'reaHng little rocking chair, and dashed
way tear or two Is she took down her
niHenty igofof red. aS;s---.---- g
ziE,s ai4ias house that Miss ElectA now
ived in was on a strip OF meadow land !,
lose to narrow, shallow riysr, while =
5ideon s shousestood on little ill nearly
mile distant. The houses wee in plain !,
light of each other, and theoccnpants y
# each looked toward the lther many =
lines every day, and alway with more " "
II less longing for the peacshl days that q
we're gone. Each, hover, was too =
stubborn to make an advice toward a ..' af
and the brch between !. q
hem seemed growing ashc days wore Is Is
IN. &s =:
They had not met sin the day Miss IN
Eiecta had left the oldome; but they -. -
heard often Of each otl, Tor Johanna ~ ~
lad worn path acrosfe meadow, and oii
oy the roadside betws the two houses.
She went up to see Jie Gideon ever aul
lay and often twicl day. He was hin
shifting for hims now, to Miss |
Electa's distress an fssa atlsfaction. ant
( II reckoned thai course, he'd get he
i housekeeper rif OIL, she said 10 in
herself. .srhingfnst be in purity 9
clutter up. there. mig
Z The reports 'nia brought back ROOT
til ltnvictlon. it '
uOR anntv II Johanna, one dav COLI
ssUncle Gideoh't bit nice house, witt
keeper. Why you 70 and clean don
things up forl yus' mink, he only her
washes the oouc once week, befo
and then heiloas = 'nem III the biz the
~0-o.o-h exclaimed Miss Peak III =,
sAnd jua *, he pnt crackers on in il' Il
the % table Fl the bag, and molasses s q a bra ~
n the % ;nclh che had fried potatoes tI,e haot; IN
other ds@y Az big glass preserve dish G bea,.l be.'sl
You kepts -! 81 una Today he door
wiped tn was M 'ne 'aDie-cloth, and llll
the tabB vas oie oi your linen ssU
sheets! mo 49, He
s'Do1vI o,.;-,I Ny. OF Shall was
go rav]eo,, ou MISS feak. door
Unqo,,s ,.,<.sss % also solicitors stIt
aboutes o,,n aior1. eye
II often asLa1 n1nt Lecty ct Aunty
sW3e e her wood for her and aits '"TIm Tha
the spl;ta nst e4, rayed
good daal os y - nerseif, and patch
pier bank" ''oi uown Jonanl
her rhen%ma+;,u % ulueon. She u 'Lecty'
hronnd .ls.z~ ~, tL,.. Z sne goes to fully, q
mlik the old COW herselfY. ri,x.,. -
'she does, and it kicked ~. s1 ynGie
n !, heels four times.' II.o.lies,
g mite s'prised. That cow rnssa nsnna =,
Well T ,Tnct,' woman foohn hind olt
an Kin m;1n Ks grltty, and if blesome
- '''0 cow reckon c0mpanl
though she was. there 80. ln9 the