Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-12-12

HF PA1lssS sES earnest peas Ia market and hoein' and brusnIn' em, and then goin' out aforc sun-np- to pick 'em. if my folks hain't life enough to cook 'em?"
 I'll have lem for supper.' said Mrs, h-sdley. with 2 little fremalo in her.Yoice.
 No you won't, neither. said the eeEire. 'rIl send 'em- over to Neighbor BartoA'a His wife's got some snap to herI l declare. it's clear discouragin' tur man to be dragged back all the time by shiftless wtfelS '
 A big round drop plashed down into the fryin-pan which Mra Sadley was just preparing to receive sundry slices ot well-cured ham which she had BSen cutting; she made no verbal reply. however.
 "Eh?" said the squire, ''why don't you say something? sulking. Spose. as
 At this, poor Mrs. sadley burst into tears.
 ''No. Titus" said she, ''I ain't sulk- ing. But feel awful bad to-day, and 1t don't take much to upset me. ItS all true what you say. an . .pocr, worn. out, feeble creature. and I don't blame you for gettin' out of patience. Hut if Il hadn't worked 90 hard all these years" '@'
 "oh, yes. there's always soms excuse" l" growled the squire; and taking . stray "sample number's of fashion paper, he went out to sit in the honeysuclEle shade. fss.' -7.,@
 "I Ican't stand that roasting ire. ? said he. ''N s''9 'S'az'P.' 9''i t5s
 Then" !" said Kitty. the enfant ,tes5i6A "how do you suppose that mother likes
 In an. instant, however. her flckle, childish attention WaS diserteA.
 .Seep' she cried ssEherS come Cousin Mary and MR. Dallas over the hilli Ohi fathert they're engaged. Did you know
 .'Yes," absently answered the aQuirs. intent on his paper. '''' '7'7' ''''7si' ' "I was in the ,parlor that, night; it thundered, and, sraine6 so hard,n said Kitty. with . twinkling eye, l''And they didn't know it. And l heard them, talk ing to each other. And ha called. her his darling love-"
 ''Humphl" Rrunted Th0 squire. GA reR'lar case O spoon4nG."
 And she said he was her doaResS dedress one," added Kitty the circlm- stanttal. "''-' i'''' '''1 .5
 ''YounR foolsr' snapped Squire Sad Icy:
 Father" said Kitty, leaning on his shoulder-she was the only ono in the house who was not afraid of the stern despot-'don't all lovers talk OO8'
 "Thsy're fools for their painss if they do."
 Didn't yOW love mother when she was Q girl like Cousin Mary7 Didn't you say just such things to. her3''
 The squire mayed uneasily+ in his chair under the calm, searching, light of Kitty's eyes. - ''-' '' .' - '-
 II might ha' done," he eowaed at last '1 s'pose I was just, as great an idiot. aa other folks be-"
 'T don't see why people ever leave t oh, said Kitty, abstFactedly. "Was mother pretty girlP"
 Don't talk nonsense" said the squire, almost angrily; and he got up and walked around to the old wooden bench beside the we'll curh
 |. Had Kitty's mother been . pretty Rirl3 Yes, that she .had--FosO.cheake6 and limpid-eyed. with . laugh sweet Aa tho note of Q thrush, and the liRhtest foot, in Q Virginia reel, of any girl in the neiHhborhood. And now. 'I an | poor, worn-out feeble creature" l" she had said. in the faint weary accents, looking at him out of the dim, faded eyes; ''and don't blame you for ret. ting out of patience" Yes; 1t was all true. But what had wrought the change? Whose fault was it3
 ''1 don't know," sad the squire, star ing at Heavens blue eye ,reaected faI down in the. heart ofzthe deep, cool well, .'but I most think I've been t0C hard on her. Now I .come. to study on 1t, I've had lots O hired help about the farm, and she's done all the house. work herself. And she never was ,very strongl Was she . pretty girl? There wasn't none prettier in | radius Q twenty miles around KtnRsley Church And to look at her nOs11"
 The squire got up and stamped m. easily around the woll. .. | ssI've. been a bru4eITl he nAutterods 4< himself. "Worse lthRnS6 dnn6 bruts-- for they Ain't supposed oiknow no bet tor. don't know what 1've boen think i'm of all those years Leave oR loylnf l her? hatnst never left tt oM. love l her now, bless her faithful, pStlen, l soul. as well a ever I did, only I've fell into the way of bein' eaReless and neg lectful. But Pll turn over nSW'leal this very day. zee If I dOnsts' He kept his word.
 Engaged, Mary9 h 1t really | settled thing3P sAid Mrs. eaAley. ss0h I hope you'll be happyl hop0, aftsu twelve years of marriAge. dear Mary l you'll bo as happy ss am nowI" l Her eyes shono; q faint color glNwei ! on her ordinarily pale chsel& I,2 Mar, HadlOy looked at her in surprise. '- '.i Would you bSNeyes"z NeAt on sth, Il squire's wife ''he4 has hfred Rirl ts como here and do all tho rough work so as to spare ne2 And there is sucl an easy. spring.upholStsrOd sofa in thu hall, in place of the lumpy old lounge and; there's one of the highlands split ting . pile pfswood Co last from nov ( Mehaelanas. E And Va ass to keep on wedding anniversary in real old-fAsh toned style, next week; and Titus hal