Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-08-21

time it was.
$50 when they said that about the prize
Hetty said she didn't care about prizes an
flower shows an things. 1t was quite
enough to ave such a rose tree for Ter very
own.
"The next year the roses come blue
/ again, an every one came more'n ever to
look, an the grocers an people with carts
they come from far an near, for they said
it was novelty
"But mother she was rather quiet like,
an she didn't say much about tue roses;
an one day when she an me was maxim up
the bread-iust our two selves in the back
kitchen--shc says to me:
"'Addie, she says (my names Adelaide),
about then blue roses now. II it wasn't
/ that don't like to think o. a child o. mine
/ bein up to such tricks, | should say as you
/ or Hettv had been a borrowed o. my blue
| bag
"'Your blue bag, motherr says l. Hard
work had to keep my face, for Hetty she
was a-makin faces at me through the
winder
"'Yes, my blue bag mother says, look
| in at me very straight.
"'Why, aunt says Hetty through the
window. if it was the blue bag, how would
all the roses be the same! An wouldn't it
all wash oil in the rain? An you know it's
always brighter after shower, she says
| Besides would we do such a silly thing if
we could. an keep it up so, an allY We
might do it onst or twice. says she.
"'There's summat in all that says my
mother, going on with the bread i mis-
doubt me it, age turns the roses blue, like
it turns folks hair white. The rose was
alus a pearly white or what you might
call blush pink afore'
"An the grocers an people with carts
they come from far an near to see the rose
tree, for it was a novelty, We see.
"Says to Hetty that night after I'd said
my prayers an read my chapter-for was
allu~ pro- erly brought up-'Hetty,' says |,
fancy mother saying that about the blue
"'Ycs faucyr says Hetty. laughin-an
she snuff. out the candle with 'er fingers
an jumps into bed. Il amt agoin' to ave
my blue roses run down neither Why,
I'm a-4oiu' TO take the prize at the flower
show am, with my wonderful blue
roses"
AN sure enough she told Parson the
very next day as she would try for the
prize at the flower show.
1T was Just about that time she took up
with George Winstead. Yes, i'm as come
to be your grandfather instead, an i lyin
in his grave at Long Mailing these twenty
good years. Well, they kept company to-
gether, an every one was willin, for he
was a godly young man and taught in
Sunday school, an had good hopes of his
uncle's business, which it was Il corn chan
lerS in Milestone, an she was a well lookin
girl enough, for all her red hair, which was
made fun of then, though hear it S all the
rage nowadays. | never see girl 50 took
up with "A CHAP as she was with him. She
give up curtin 'er hair acause he liked it
plain, an she took to readn the Bible and
sayin her prayers dixie I'd allus done and
she'd allus laughed at me afore for it).
Why, I've seen her kneel there over 'alf an
hour, and then get outer bed again wher
she thought was asleep and kneel down
On the bare boards by the winder an cry an
pray an say, George, George an pray
again, not ont loud, but so rs | could 'eai
'er Not proper prayers she didn't say like
people gets taught, but things outer 'el
own cad, an the same things over al
over, till useter say:
"'Come along ter bed, Hetty, do, fol
gracious sakes You'll catch your death
o. cold on them boards, an I'm a-droppir
with sleep.
"Well as flower show day come nearer
an nearer, she grew stupider an stupider
an more an more given to prayn, an USED
to be all for goin off by herself an leavir
everything to me-even to maxim oul
dresses for the flower show an loOkin aftel
them roses what was to take the prize.
did it all a course-I was allus called {
good natured girl-an the dresses they
looked lovely, an the roses was buer thar
ever, instead of being pcarly white or
blush pink, like they should ha' been b,
rights. An Hetty She prayed an cried o
night, till wonder ever got wink o
sleep, an Of a day she'd laugh till she near
ly cried again. Well. flower show dal
came, an we ad our new sprigged prints
( gown was wore short in the waist then
an Hcl;y she looked like a ghost in hers
Int they d.d LAY mine became me wonder
full
1t was a beautiful day, remember
very sunny an BRIGHT, an You was glad t,
walk the shady side o. the way that day,
can tell you. Very hot it was in the bi!
barn where the flower show was. 'Twa
all done up with fine flags an wreaths al
all sorts, an it was that hot the flower
was most wilted afore it come time for tin
prizes. An every one was wipin thei
faces with their 'andkerchers, an sayil
there hadn't been such "A day this twenty
year.
, when il come time for the prizes w
was all sttiu' on forms packed close Xix
herr'ns. Mother was there OF course, al
George an his friends, an Iletty sat neXte
me- an George-that's your gran father
was settin the other side of her An sh
, KEEP edgin away from him an gettin clos
: to me, an she KEEP on 'oldin my and tina
tight didn't know 'ow To bear myself, a
never see Il bonnet with pink ribbon
- look worse On any young woman than
did on 'er Mine always suited me. / "a
r it done mp with blue the year was married
=, "Presen.N it come to roses. The bar
e was full-dll the gentry an the parson a
: his friends an the grocers an people wit
e carts lad come from far an near,
"Well, the gentleman what was givin
out who had got prizes, he takes up tn
d bunch O blue roses Il done 'em up NIGEL
: with white ribbon, for Hetty was in on
r of her queer fits an wouldn't touch em
h an he saws:
I "Hetty Martini
e "Hetty jumped on her feet. ] felt wha
g she was a-goin to do, an ! tried to hold he
a down, but no She shook her arm clear {