The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-05-26
DAISY'S MILKING STOOL
BY ANNA SHIELDS.

10 va 0dlSy MetcalI aHu maue ouf up
B b. 'pearance in this world of care upon
Pud the same day, and our mammas being
" Tlold friends we became from wee child
., hood fast friends and companions. We
\ went to school together; we dressed
!U: each others dolls; we entered society
together, but under different circum-
\ stances. In the eighteen years during
which we had grown from in-
fancy to womanhood, Saul Metcalf,
Il Daisy's father, had made one of those
mammoth fortunes that result from
n successful modern speculation. My
. dear father, on the contrary, had been
treading the path that leads downward
nn the race for fortune, and we were
N M poor folks compared to the Metcalfs.
h " Daisy, being all only child and little
| n ", beauty, entered society as belle and
&C. b.! heixo01; her costumes imported from
EvHl T,a' l. i I'M Jewels of the most costly
Aen'1 6tion, her carriage, horses, sur
1li6ings of every kind those that
Nth can procure.
!. w hen 1 say we were poor folks, l
Etraai1o not meal that we were reduced to
Msuffering poverty, but we lived in q
Es every quiet way, kept only two SER
wants, and while l economical in the
'" 4 housekeeping department, Fred my
llpnly brother, worked at clerking in a
wholesale drug store, and helped my
Grsnan,verworked father in the family ex-
bly, pHoenses. We were invited out and
'' lad our share of gayety. but my
n,.s,aS;ostupvwer ,.,a the work of my own
tire tingersy1He same material often serv-
CO.. %, nr y ng for two or three dresses, and my
e far Daewel-box was my Inheritance from
= ,l'sol ns mother, and but slender stock of
henlls retty trinkets
ea +" don't know when first suspected
where. lat Fred was in love with Daisy. We
bestalreo had been SO much together, Fred
ping only three years older than
E0 hisy and myself, that it was matter
course for both of us to depend
E1bon Fred as an escort, and to fulfill
NyvE duties of brother to Daisy as
Y,bll a. 10 his own sister. One block
pelly lay between our modest dwelling
4. IA "a the superb brown-stone front of
9uIR&I "a u nj Metcalfs stately house, and not a
3 pas@y passed that Daisy's feet or mine
- not trip over that block to bring
. air together for girlish chat and ex-
ANhnge Of confdences.
orthasa dS NJ j think it was the winter when we
m IsIos sSs Eth ''came out" at party given by
ssIsrcTssss. ns Metcalf, to introduce me as we'll
dr..a' dGr.r Daisy TO society, that first noticed
TeEs seShange in Fred. He began to plead
IA -sN other engagement quite frequently
81 BISien was going to Metcalf's, or
aery ns:Ssssntel him to act as Daisy's escort as
MS 40 M as mine. He no longer hurried
d eafls me when Daisy came to dine ana
Peace' md quiet evening at our house.
R & sSSa duets they had learned together
...ss untouched for weeks upon the
a AsyLss c-rack, and no longer saw Fred's
Ssst Sa; 'ss sspss 4 nInn Daisy's ball-programmes
%n En. bysgs By 1nr or five dances. And as he
|sHsssl Mental 5rayer and some Of the boyish
TSirsd, rs 6s died out Of his eyes, Daisy,
~ i. uYS%,sssI Ys,sssslI 6omethi of the old girlish
EnFssii L. y. iSaas and her step no longer
C6 i0spr, Z -,
psr ss..s sss sprang as if from mere
~ joyousness.
ke" 30. and m ave noticed more If my
IS and iSn he bad not gone out of my
yCp ping ing that wintor, and the
-rJply fae4 Nations of Harry Wilmer
w W. silyrossed ny own dreams. This is
my love story, so it suffices her
r'tbst at Easter became Mrs,