Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01
things had come.

Passing slowly by the closed door of
the cabin near the icebound creek.
jimmy turned her face away from the
.habitaton of her childish playmate
and friend, just as any one Of her fur
and velvet clad sisters would have done
from the sight of an erring fellow
mortal. The door was closed. AS
was but natural. thought jimmy. For
when every one from all the country
around was Fastening to the Widow
Davis, Cyrillv, not being hidden, must
hide her cOuntenance.
The sun had come out from the
clouds when Jinny's oX-cart reached
the heart of the settlement and the first
person whom she saw was Brother
Cheyne, just dsmounted from his
mea9re horse. jimmy buShed and
bridled. The preacher was a young
man. One who stood tall in his stock
ings and whose blow could be as
powerful IT'S one from Il backsmiths
anvil arm. He had Il strong, Irregular
face in which the good and the evil
that swayed mankind held cont bat. had
one eyes to read the lines that character
draws on mouth and check and brow.
But Jinny's eyes were not attuned to
such readings. She only knew that
Brother Cheync had fallen III the habit
of stopping more and more frequently
at the small frame house in the farther
valley and talking to her in desultory
undertones. while the old grandmother
dozed over her corncob pipe and jimmy.
being Young and well-favored, be-
sides being able to bring the husband
whom she might choose some stuff
not to he diSdained. it was but in the
course of things that she should have
come to regard these visits in Il Ger tain
not wholly pastoral and other-wor Idly
light. The more that she was quite
conscious that if there were any hus-
band she would be at all liable to
chose it would be one of II physio gnomy
wonderfully like that of young Brother
Chevne.
You uns hev come to the dancin',
too" said jimmy springing from the
front seat of the oX-cart with Il coquet-
fish effect of not seeing the preacher
outstretched hand. A knot Of young
men in store clothes for the occasion
stood about the steps of the school
house a few feet away closely regard
ing the girl, who was fresh and bloom
ing, as though she had not been iot-
ting over the country since long before
the rising of the late Winter sun.
Jimmy was conscious of these stares
and enjoyed in her harmlessly so.
phisticated soul the footing of quasi
familiarity upon which these young
men might perceive that she stood with
the preacher She rather accentuated
her own appearance of ease, indeed
that nothing of this effect might be
lost.
But Brother Cheyne's face was SET
in lines strange and new to her to-day
aud as she looked more closely at him
her coquettish uess dropped from hel
and she tossed her head and bit hel
llu.
II lowed 1t war no hurt til ask q
preacher eff he had KEN TIL the dancin'.'
she said. Thar hev been riders an
preachers hev KEN ter see dancin' afort
now"
And full of bitter disappointment
she could not have formulated in hel
simple heart Jimmy hurried inside tn,
door of the Widow Davis. Th,
widows son Dick lounged forward
He had been witness of the scene, anC
his own hopes, long set on jimmy au(
for some reason always frustrated
caused him to say.
Il low ez the preacher he'd no cause
ter look at We that-a-way. jimmy. same
ez if We wuz dom somwot sinful. an