The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-04-24

pure air." :,
40, You teen seeky' asked the old
farmer. turning with compassionate in
terest to Mr.. Sharp
"Yes The doctors say that cannot
last more than six or eight months, prob
ably, if do not give up Wall street and
get out to some healthy place IN the
country. suppose shall have to do
so if can find the place"
"Vell. vot is the matter that you shall
not come up here unit live vile you get
vell?" :,
"You are very kind, but that would
hardly be practicable. l must have
home of nv own. have family and
reonire a place. You don't think you
would care to sell, do you:"
"No. OF such thing I would not
think. My children here were born and
here | shall die. did knock around
the world enough ven l young man
vas Now will take my rest. Every
Mace in the world would be strange to
me ven I should go from here out
"You are right 1t is great thing to
be settled down. | would willingly give
forty thousand dollars for place like
this"
The sound of a plate falling and
smashing upon the dining room hoor
reached their ears.
"Mv gracious! exclaimed Mr.. Kropff,
starting, "Lieschen is at it again! Ven
her Young man comes her mind into
she imbulsively opens her hands, and if
she got a dish in them, down it goes.
By chimini! We got to eat out of troughs
ven she don't got married poorly kvick."
But he wronged Lieschen that time.
, It was her mother who dropped the plate.
When Messrs. Cute and Sharp were
seated at the table, with Lieschen wait
, ing upon them, and dinner enough for
dozen men set out before them, Herr
,, Kropff settled himself to resume his in
terrupted siesta, and was already drowsy
when his reluctant attention was COM
, pelled by suppressed but still sharp
voice calling, "Henrch! Heinrich!'
Away out in the orchard stood Mrs.
Kropff, making vigorous signs with her
, arms, summoning him. Unwilllngly
and slowly he arose from his chair.
can afferage of dozen garter snakes
every summer for twenty-five years, he
grumbled, "unt yet she will not by her.
self either kill one or let it alone. She
must gall me to smash its head. The
;, three hundred unit first has no doubt ap-
0 peared to her"
But when he reached her he found
that a harmless but offending garter
: snake was not the vital question.
= Gum gottes willen!" she fairly painted
: in her combined eagerness and anxiety
\ to repress her voice. 'Vy you did not
. yoomp on proposition like dot' len
;, thousand dollars!' :,
= 81 vas not thinking that I would sell
r. my farm" =. -,
: mo! You would sit there like an old
= fool ven man offer you more as tWo
times so much as the place been vorth.
GLOW YOU know vat it is WORTH"
- eft cannot be so much worth. Hem
y ,.;o,, = vas no astonishment by me ven
- Won die nit the boorhouse, you got FOL
businoss so lettle head. Don't you evel
think vat will BECOME of our Door poy
- Jacob, ven We are gone!
40 ives: | think he will go in Jail"
Zach, himmel! How you, his waiter
oan abuse dot boor poy. You got ~
lofe yor dot poy-you yoost look on MN
like he vas your sohn by another waiter
unit mutter' :,
..Herr Colt! Woman, how you maxi
that OUT"
well, like he vas adoptioned.
81 did not think you, any more thai
+l,,f cbn711l va
from this old place. Anna, We we're yonn'
vet ven We came here together. Lleschel
mt Jacob have been born here. On
the leedle one that has slept so man
wears under the elm tree-all she knev
, Of earth vas here. Habit makes the Oh
Mace dear to me, unit love unit deaf
make it sacred. feel as if my gate I
another world vas right here"
J "Narrigkeit Ven We got to die We oil
yoost so veil one place as some otne
places. You talk sentimentallsch, Tx
YOU vas vet in Deutschland. You forge
here in America everybody he got I
ON speculate unit be sharpif he want that
nd shall get along" ;, y,
,n a "Then you will that | Shall sell I'll
~. farm"
~ 81 gif you no peace of your life We
nd you don't"
cro you Will not anyway"
- ave can buy another place yoost
"a goot for five thousand, unit put five tho'
- sand in the bank for Jacob.
80 Jacob 10! INT Lieschen? Eth"
rr' "Ven she marry George Stirling 81
Ala got enough for her."
',.. SIS dot 70? Veil now, look a-her
;oh You gan make your old jaw greal
arr much ais you like, but got somethll
to say about that myselluf."
,,u "Vell, will you sell the farm, you
,ur fool:"
toh II will see. Maybe Lieschen got mo
chance that way ven been gone.
o4 Turning his back upon her, needless
,o,, her continued clack, he slowly return
40 to the porch. He heard her cry aft
I'm him that she hadm to say. OF couI
,,,t. she had. she always had. But he h
~ heard enough. Too well he understo
o,,t that the Angel of Peace had her grlpsa
90 packed. metaphorically speaking, a
a. was only waiting to hear his final refu'
,,.oh to sell the farm as her signal for lnsta
flight Itw quite true, as he admit
Mr. to himself that his opposition was pure
sentimental. that the sum offered "
.ho more than the value Of the farm; st
80 the thought of selling made his he
he sore
When the visitors came out from
cor NJ Sharn stood for several mlnu