Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-06-28


Inc cnurcn meeUIng proKe up sud-
denly, the sentiment which Mis- Hosea |
Blodgett expressed being apparently |
the sentiment of all-that she should
have died in five minutes ifshe couldn't
have got out where she could talk it
over.
"Don't talk to me about that grip
exclaimed Miss Nancy Perkins with
deep feeling. "There never was q
man that it took so much faculty to
get as the minister"
"And she wouldn't have him? De-
pend upon it, there'smorei in that than
meets the eye. She's deep" said Mis-
Ichabod.
"What do you think Mis- Moses
Gregg whispered to me in meeting'?"
said Mis- Hosea Blodgett. "She says
Pamely sells the pictures she paints
for money-sends 'em off to
the city. And, besides supporting
her and Ketury' she's a.going' to
pay off the mortgage on the farm"
II hain't never been sorry that
was brought up to work." said Mis-
Ichabod. "Vanity and folly may pros
per for a season, but we all know
where the downward path ends. If
Pamely Semple hadn't been sent away
to that academy she might have been
as likely and well-behaYed as any
girl in Brimblecom-if she hadn't
any faculty"
And with these remarks Mis- Icha-
bod withdrew herself from the coun-
Gil.
On the even tenor of her way went
Pamela, working early AMI late with
her brush, and before long report
found its way TO Brimblecom that
she was considered a remarkable
artist. and some things were evident
to Brimblecom senses: the mortgage
was being paid of, the crops were in
prosperous condition, and old
Keturah was renewing her youth.
Brimbleeom began TO be proud of
Pamela. 1t almost forgot that it
had ever been afraid she would be-
come a pauper. Nobody seemed to
remember that she had been thought
to have no faculty-nobody but the
committee.
One or two persons were actually
heard to say that it was a pity she
wouldn't marry Mr.. Stockbridge, but
perhaps she had no right 20 look
higher than the rest of the Brimble-
com girls. Mis- Ichabod always
shook her head with mysterious
meaning when Pamela was mention
ed, and said grimly, "Them thst live
longest will see most"
One day triumph came to Mis-
Ichabod.
The committee were in the post
office-Mis Ichabod and Mis- Hosea
Blodgett were often so kind as to as
sist Miss Nancy Perkins in asserting
the mail--when in it came Mrs. Dea
con Simmons, who was fat and scan'
, of breath, and in such a state of ex
: element that the committee had, al
and severally to fan her vigorously
before her news could be extracted.
Don't you think, as true as I'm {
Twin woman and not a corpse, as
might expect to be hearin' such up
settin' things and hurryin' So"
go on, go onl don't lose you
BREATH" cried the committee, il
chorus, tanning vigorously. Wei
: never breathe it to soul"
, "Oh, it's all over Brimblecom
. That good-for-nothing cretur, Bel
| Seaverns, has come back, withou
, hardly so much as a coat to his back
| and the rheuL attic fever. Been cas-
! away on det At island, and eat up b,
, canerbals 'most-whichn nobody can
say want exactly like him-andn moth
{ ing but skin and bones, and the docto
says most likely won't never be GOO
i for anything again, not to mentio
? that he never was. And Pamely'
/ took him in. and she and Ketury
! a-nussin' him up. And that ism
II the worst oft: the minister went u
? and married EN-. She's took tina
3 good-for-nothin' cretur to take car
Q OF for nie-her that might a had tn
= minister"
"They never got me to believe tina
h she had any faculty." said Nil
( Ichabod.