Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-11-07
DRAWING LOTS.

1t was a still, bright sunset in late
October. Last nights frost had un-
sealed the chestnut burrs on Yellow
Mountain and shaken the glossy brown
treasures out among the fallen leaves
and moses. The tall dallias by the
garden fence hung their blackened
heads, as if some unseen fire had
passed over them, and a locust was
winding. his shrill horn among the
hop-poles at the back door.
Old Mrs. Crisp, from her cushioned
armchair, watched the yellow light
fade slowly away from the western
hill-tops.
She was little old woman, her face
printed over with fine wrinkles, her
eyes shining like black Goals under
their shaggy gray brows, and she
Wore a black calico gown patterned
in an odd, sickle-shaped design of
white, with a muslin half-handker-
chief pinned around her neck, and as
she looked this way and that, in fee
bic. petulant sort of way, a deep sigh
pumped itself up from her inner con-
sciousness.
"Oh, dear, DEAR" said Mr.. Crisp,
talking aloud to herself, as was her
way during these not infrequent pc
riods of loneliness, "everything's every
which way! There's the cows lowing
at the bars to be MIXED, and nobody
to let 'em in, and the pigs a-squealin'
for their supper like all possessed, and
the turkeys fappin' up into the apple
tree boughs to roost, instid O. goin
into the poultry-house, as they should,
and the kettle not on, and me here
helnless. Door. good for-nnthin' croa,,
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black hair, before she went TO work.
"There is no hurry, Mrs. Crisp"
said she.
2E~ei>} 4vasaas watched her with
an exasperated countenance.
"Lotty Ansel," said she, '1'd like to
shake you"
Lottie laughed as she took up the
tea. kettle.
ooh, but you can't said she. 81
shall take particularly good care to
keep out of your reach. Where's the
milk-pail? Oh. l remember-I left it
in the sunshine, out on the bench"
"1'm sure dunno why l have you
here at all " sighed Mrs. Crisp, ner-
vously patting her foot on the floor.
81 know" said saucy Lefty. "Be-
cause you can't get an, one else for
the wages you're willing to give, with
all the seedlings thrown in. Bcss e
Barclay tired it, and made a dead
failure of it; and Susan Harrison
would't stay a week. | don't know, !"
Lofty added. rcfectiyely, "that l shall
stay very Iohg.
80 Lofty" cried Mrs. Crisp, "you
wouldn't leave me here alone?'
Lofty paused on the threshold and
turned her bright face toward the old
woman.
''No," said she, al won't, Mrs.
Crisp. You are very cross and very
exacting, and get dreadfully out of
patience with you sometimes; but
like You after all, and l won't leave
you just yet"
And she took her way, with light
footsteps, toward the cow-yard.
"PrWoking little creaturel'' said
Mrs. Crisp. "But / don't knows /
could do better. She's dreadful iude.