Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1890-08-09
DAISY'S FARM.

oaisy was engaged, and her Detrothed
was receiving the merry congratulations
of the family, consisting of her uncle.
her aunt and nearly u round dozen of
cousins.
Wharton Hill, a young lawyer, slowly
winning name and fame ia his profession.
was being vigorously handshaken and
%noisily welcomed by the Truemans when
Ned cried = !.
perhaps you didn't know Daisy was
an helress, Wharton
"Nsd-don't!" said Daisy reproach-
fully.
"A landed proprietress,' cried Tom.
81 do not refer to the paltry six hundred
ayear she draws from her fathers estate,
but to her own property
"Her farm, in fact" cried Sue.
eyes; her farm" echoed Ned. comiur
to the front once more. "When YOU are
tired of the law you can start gentleman
farming pom your country seat"
After they were all gone, having tested
a long time on the subject, Wharton was
surprised to see tears in Daisv's soft.
brown eyes.
What is it, darling2" he asked.
"Thcy don't mean to hurt my feel
lngs, Daisy said gently, "but they will
jest about my farm, and-and-I don't
like 1T
'Then You really own a farm
at ~ not a valuable possession, as
you will see when I tell YOU about it.
When | was a baby, soon after mamma
died, | was very i'll, and the doctors ad-
vised my father to send me to the ~
try Tor change of air. There was an old
servant of fathers family, who had mar
ried a farmer and was left a widow with
a small farm. Such a farm, Wharton,
The house has only three rooms, and
looks as If a high wind would utterly de
molish it, the land is so poor that it is
slow starvation TO cultivate it. But il
was oil the home Margaret had. You
may Judge that she was very glad to re-
celve the liberal price father paid for
me, and my own mother could not have
given me more loving care. Every wear
ia'heF came to take me away, and every
year was persuaded to leave me, until I
was eight Years old, and a marvel Of
rugged health and perfect ignorance.
Then | was put in boarding school. bu,
still spent my summer vacations with
old Margaret, and my trunk was ALWAYS
hall hlled with comforts for her. Havinc
no one in the world who claimed Kindred
with her-no one else but NE to love,
Margaret loved lie with her whole
heart, Six years AGO, after father sled
and | came here TO live with with Incl,
Tom, Margaret died and left me he,
larfn. 1t has been a Joke in the famiI,
ever since. The place is 50 utterl,
vaiueless that we can neither sell il nor
rent 1t, and 1t represents only tie love j,
AN old woman for her nursing
Some time we will wish ",
have not told ne It's locality !"
at is in Pennsylvania, nine mile,
from anywhere, father used 70 saw he
cause II Is nine miles of the railroad
But you can always hire Il wagon or car
rage 1T d 10 go over to Corn's Mill
anu my farm Is very near Corn'S Mill.
After his explanation. Wharton Dor.
the testing about Daisv's real estate viii
perfect good nature and declared his in
'eh'loii OF erecting a p%alatial country sea
upon the place. when ht became mill
ionaire and Judge OF the Superio
Court.
Being people Of modest desires. an
having an income Of about 5000 apiece
Wharton and Daisy saw no reason TO dc
lay their wedding, and were marie
with g large assemblage of true friend
around them. They went 10 hoasekecp
Ing IN a little house, modestly fur
nished, and were fair specimens Of ..lov
N acottage."
hut Wharton Hill was ambitious. HAY
Ing studied his profession under grea
dimculties, often going hungry to bu