The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-12-11
GRANDPA'S STORY.

rainy morning, as he stood shaking off the
drops from his great coat on our kitchen
stove.
Yes replied ], ms ! filed a pan with ap-
pies and prepared to cut them, Aand more
shame to him, too Brought her clear up to
an engagement, and then left town with
another girl, and without one word to Fan. y
sShameH repeated good Grandpa West,
with an indignant flash from eyes blue and
clear as ut u; "it's a disgrace to any Chris
tian church 10 let one OF its members go on
So Time was when he wouldn't have gone
scott free as he has nown
But what could have been done1n in
quired.
''Donea He'd have had the full broadside
Of church discipline ON his shoulders fifty
years ago He ought to be dealt with as
Harmon Page was,n concluded grandpa,
medtatively.
NHow was thaty7 inquired |, interested at
once
~ wonder II you never heard that storylt
said he, with a curious glance understood
better afterward ''See here; it's rainy
day, and mother won't be expecting me home.
Hand over a knife, and Iii help you with
your apples and tell that yarn at the same
time.n
| Well pleased with the plan, took another
pan, aud our fingers flew as grandpa went on
with the true and authentic history of Har-
mon Page,
"You see,n he began, 'all this happened
fifty years ago, and Amityville wasn't then
the slow going, dull little place it is now. 1t
was comparatively new, and was as lively
and enterprising as the new places of the
west are to-day. There were good many
old afistocratic families, though, and / tell
ye they held their heads high. The very
meetin house slips had to be gauged accord
In to the rank oil the buyer, and / tell you old
= Deacon Avery would never have got the
scowl out Of his folrard if Squire Page had
happened to had a seat in front Of his.
Deacon Avery had daughter--a quiet,
gentle girl, with a slight, graceful figure and
q face--well, you don't see such faces now'-
days; clear fine complexion, with deli
cate pink trembling up into her lips, when
she was spoken 10. Her eyes were great linz
III, ,..n s,St a,.4,,s4 snoNensi si'u
about her face in its own wayward style.
'She was lovely girl, became professor
young, and was always to be seen in the end
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