Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-02-24

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 This hkening of their misanthropic customer to nn animal which was the dread of the Long Island settler. and on whose head the courts had fixed Q price, put the old man into a tower. ing passion. and he poured forth a torrent of abuse on the wholo of womankind from Eve downward.
 They will trouble thee but little. said the good wife, for all thy hid den gold would notsuffice to purchase oner and she pushed Matt into the store and slammed the door in Hugh's face.
 .Ha, hal how tho she foxes hate mel" exclaimed Hugh; 'I am too sharp for themi too sharp for them r
 Clutching his basket and stick and shaking the latter at the oak tree in front of the Cattlin domicile as though it were an individual of ths money melting" sex. old Tmon tot tered up the road and was soon se- cluded in his fortress.
 On the following Sabbath Hugh appeared at church as usual and was surprised to see in the Cattiin pew, with the miller and his wife, . tall, handsome girl of about twenty, evi- dently Q stranger to Southampton and an acquaintance of tho miilers family.
 It was remarked on this Lords day that the old man did not shut his eyes once during the entire ser vice. but kept them riveted on tho young woman as though he was meditating some design with which she was intimately connected.
 The sermon concluded, he followed them. though at q safe distance. to the mill, chuckling to himself as though his thoughts were of the most pleasant nature. At the mill he en- countered Matt looking up a Sunday dinner for bis hogs. A few questions put he believed in cieveriy guarded way, gave Hugh the information that the visitor was Miss Ccelie Goodrich, Mrs. Cattlins younger sister. who for the past several years had filed a position as governess in the family of titled lady in Breuckelyn; that the departure of the titled lady for England had left Ccelie without em- ployment, and that she had arrived in the whaling ship Montauk. then anchored in the Mecox bay. with the intention of spending the summer with her sister
 As Hugh listened to the story he found it necessary to shake his stick at Matt's hogs in order to hide from the miller the sudden trembling which had seized him.
 Matt Cattlin, he said, ''would'st like to ait at e wolrs marriage feastf"
 The miller looked at him in aston ishment; he had forgotten the incl dent of the preceding Sunday. The old man caught up his basket of food and walked homo at a quicker paco than usual.
 Two pretty faces watched him from . the upper windows of the house, and two sweet voices rang with laughter as he shook his stick at the trees.
 There was no little excitement next day in the neighborhood of the mill when a farmers boy who lived up the road, rushed in breathlessly with the information that Hugh Bucklfs shutters were open. and that the old recluse had sent him for the barber, promising him tthe boy) Q shilling for the faithful performance of his commission.
 The news spread with wonderful rapidity, and the entire town was soon discussing it The barber be- came visibly nervous when he re- ceived the order to repair to the vel low brick house. and 1t was only when sundry other citizens declared their readiness to accompany him and sit on the opposite bank during bis stay that he concluded to go.
 Saint George and the king guide usl'' said he, an hour later. 'I have brushed and powdered his wig and shaven his gills. and he is no longer Hugh Buckliffl He talked of the crops. asked how would like the job of wedding his garden and putting . coat of paint on the doors and shut ters. and actually gave me this crown piece for my labor this mofning. 1t is kindly soul. and hath been much malignedl"
 The good dominic was no less sur. prised when later in the day he re- ceived visit from Hugh. and was called upon to write out a receipt for a years rental of vacant pew ad joining that of the miller. But this was not all; tilers came and repaired the leaky old roof; pots of blooming flowers were put in the windows, and a bay horse which had seen consid- erable service in the South Shore coach" delayed his departure indef- nitely at the request of Squire Buck Tiff.