South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-02-13
ONLY A DEAF WOMAN.

on time th1S wednesday afternoon.
1t was not q particularly punctual
train. neither did it especially matter
whether it was or was not, as Blue
s! alton Was one Of those flodges in
the vast wilderness where time was
not reckoned according to the Wall
street standard, and where people
took things easy. ,t
The stage for Hemlock Hill was
waiting :here--a clumsy conglomera.
tion OF musty leather, faded paint and
ancient wood, drawn by two sleepy
horses, and driven by Jehu so old
tina. one iastinctively wondered how
he ever got up and down from his
&c ial perch on the box seat. Dir.
Richmond and his friend Col. Jones
took their seats, packed their valises
snusly under their feet, and fastened
their nstty silk umbrellas in the rack
overhead. There WAS only one other
passenger woman in a brown wa.
terprocf cloak and q green veil, with
marke. basket In her lap and ire.
mendous ear.trumpet in her hand
.Onfy a. deaf woman said Col
Jones. glancing toward her.
i see, observed Mr.. Richmond
we need put no particular restraint
upon our conversation
Are ne all ready, driver shoule
Col. Jones. who was IN used to The
leisurely methods Of life in q place
like B,ue S,aio The diver, ap.
peared 10 rouse himself from q sort
OF doze.
i be If you be p said he. 'Git up
Ka'e! Look out thar, you Sorrelr
And away they rolled.
Yes said Col. Jones, rubbing his
neatly gloyed hands, 1T will be a gen
uine surprise. And / mean 1t TO be-
| want to see for myself how things
are
Certainly said BIr. Richmond,
lurching from one end of the seat 10
the other, es the vehicle took a big
stone on their way.
The lad is over head and ears in
love- said Col. Jones.
Young men will be FOOLS observed
Mr.. Richmond, cynically.
But a scLool Teachers district
school teacher = sighed the Colonel
who was tall and portly, and clean
shaven, with very black eyebrows and
! hair just dashed with silver.
"A good many nice girls take to
that business remarked Dir. Rich .
mond, who was gsunt gentleman
with hollow eyes, a parchment coils
ored skin, and general dyspeptiC
air.
1t isn't that l dospise the trade,
said Col. Jones. 'You know that az
we'll as 1 do, Richmond. If the CIR
is good and pretty, I'd az soon she
should be a school teacher as any.
thing else. But I want my boy u
have real home-hke home. MJ
wife gave me one, and solemnly be-
lieve II was the making OF me. Ant
Victors wife must be no mere book
machine or Wearer Of fine clothes.
she can't sew and sweep and cool
she's no 81 mate for my son. Well
you see, have been studying The
matter over.
i see, said Mr. Richmond, holdinI
desperately on 10 the leather slral
above bis head, as the driver guided
the wheels ever a succession Of stump
on the side Of the road.
i give them no time for prepara
Lions,' said The Colonel, cbuckIiDg
Il drop down upon Miss Alden like
wolf on the fold. see just exsctl,
what she is. judge for myself.
wouldn't give hg for all the Bsli
and guitar music and china psinIiDI
Ia the world IL woman can't make
loaf Of light, sweet bread and cook
steak Eh2 / am sure beg a thous
aud psrdons, ma/am,' "a a sudde
swing Of the coach preoipitated bi
head against the basket aud sent th
eaT.trumpet rolling to The floor.
ALLOW me Did you want TO ~
out
For the woman with The green We
was making vehement gestures Wit
her hand 10 the driver. She put u
the trumpet with an inquiring ex
preston of face.
'Did-you-vant get--out
roared Col. Jones into its cOnVolute
depths, the veins starting out on b
forehead as be did 30.
Yes, sir, please said the old wo
: man add the courteous colonel hin
self got out to expedite the removal