The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-03-08
MISS DOLLY'S DESTINY,

| shouldn't be surprised any Gay
Dolly, to see David Wiggin tying his
horse at your gate, said MIR. Biount
rosuishly, gathering up the reins.
Nonsense, brother! Anything the
matter with his own hitchina post1 re.
torted Miss Dolly turning in the door
way.
MIR. Blount laughed. Everybody fell
lIbound to laugh at Miss Dolly's crisE
sayings sh!cs sss <sp1 sfSis her fiends in
good humor these forty years.
And when David does call on you,
pursued Mr.. Blount more seriously. l
do hope, Dolly, you will give him a
chance to do his erand. That'll be no
more than fair, and the man won't be
easy till he has freed his mind.
What mischief are you the forerunner
of now, James Blount1 cried Miss
Dolly, facing about like soldier on
drill. "What upon earth have l to do
with David's errands7
Well, his wife has been dead year
or more, said Mr.. Blount, suggestively,
shutting one eye, and squirting with
the other down the length OF his whip
stalk, and lately he has been asking
about you. You can put that and that
together to suit yourself.
Fiddlesticks said Miss Dolly ener-
getically.
shan't say have him or don't have
him-though there isn't a likelier man
living than David-but do say, Dolly,
you ought to give him hearing, and
having convinced himself beyond a
reasonable doubt that the whip was all
right, Mr.. Blount tickl,d his sleepy
horse with it and drove away.
o, my SORROWS calculated Miss
Dolly, closing the door with an afflicted
countenance, and sitting down SO
quietly for once that photographer
might have copied her then and there
Not that he could have done her JUS
tce, for her expression was too quick
and varied to be caught by any trick o.
chemicals, and with It Miss Dolly's
physiognomy would have been rather
characterless but for her prominent Ro'
man nose. This organ gave tone tc
her face. By which l would not be
be understood literally as saying tha
she talked through nasal whine.
mean simply in a metaphorical sense
this bold feature spoke loudly of energy
And Miss Dolly had abundant need o
energy-else why the nose1 Every two
years during her childhood she hae
been tiptoed into the east bed room tt
see new baby, till at her mother
death five little brothers fell to he
charge TO be coaxed and scolded int
manhood.
| You can't bring up those boys
groaned a dolorous aunt. They'll rul
square over you. Dorothy Almeda.
Let them run over me so long as
does not hurt EN- laughed Miss Dolly
skewing her haxen hair with a COOS
quill and trying a calico apron over he
calico longshort, preparatory to "brinl
up" said youths.
From that day forward she wen
cheerily on, making the best of every
thing, though 1t must be confessed sh
often had odds and ends to work with
as people usually do have who are borl
with a faculty. Somehow she fount
time for all her duties except matri
mony. If that were duty, il was on
she wouldn't and couldn't attend Il
while her father and children needed
her. Divers young men thought this
great pity, among them David Virgin
Don't be silly, David said Dolly, whel
he hinted as mnch to her whereupo
David went tff and married DIV
Searle, the most pleasant girl i'll tn
parish.
This happened thirty years ago, AM
David was again wifeless, and again tn
current of his thoughts turned toward
Dolly, who still lived at the old home
stead at the foot Of Bryant's Falls. He
father had died some months before
Of the boys, James and Ezekiel ha