The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1893-12-21
BA WILLS MAID

!u,t beginning 20 break bright and tsIr
~ dssa never does show ABy sbete eIosp
10 this ftuitr p'csl cline.
The road to shverado is bordered Of
lo.b sljes sith long ro~s Of pepper trees
Nos. other fellows msy have difirren
i,ste 10 trees, bot fer u there never vs.
saytbius 10 trees % pruy IS ros {
prppen, With brsucb,s lookIng dosn like
the eyes Of modest Rirl when she see,
brr lover coming Along tho road. and th,
fret CLINT Of day creeI & through tbtu
and making little gold paths 10 item tai
you don knov whether the tree itself u
green or yellow, snd the morning bteeze'
blowing through them iii they ppIe
aud shine Ill over ss il they we're laugh.
iug
Ihtre never Was .nytbins else 80 like q
pretty woman with smile 90 her face as
Il ose pepper tree, 10 the mornirg With
the Wind blowing over them that kind OF
emile that creeps over the face 10 soft
szy way snd lsua BIS 10 the eyes sud hides
avfy 10 the waves OF hair.
ased TO thilk tibet the pepper trees
were what made me like TO DIVE my milk
wagon out to Slveralo Bat that wss
before bnd seen the little maid at Bar.
wells
Barwell's was boarding house. Sil
yers 20 vss kind OF health resort, and
people used to come from the east and go
ont there winters and board ut Bsrwell's.
May be 1t did their health good, but,
don't think Bsrwell's ever improved the
heslth Of the little inside very much. II
i aid, she must have b3en sight TO beI
hold before she came
The first time saw her she came ont
vi, h the milk can. Usually it stood on
the stoop waiting to be filed, and | would
pour in the milk and leave it standing
here for the first serysnt who was up to
come ont and get 1t. But this time 1t
seemed TO have been forgotten, and the
little maid bad crept out 10 the early dawn
bring it and stood thlveriDg in the
morning ctill. for the dawn of a semi
tropic morning near the SEA is not warm,
/ owever the mind may tend TO romance
concerning ts balmintss, Aud she WAS
such little maid could scarcely see ber
90 the Other side OF the milk can and
thought OF first that the can had just
taken a notion to walk out alone and get
tseli filed.
Hello said.
Yes, she replied, quite IS matter OF
course. And then saw what a very thin
and white little maid it was
Where did You cone from2
II you please, I'm Mrs. Bawell's girl !
work for my keep.
n ", did not please in the least.
hould have preferred, il she must be
my bodys girl, that it should be any one
lse IN the world whom had ever seen.
Aud as for the keep, il there IL any proof
u lcok, il must have been very small.
chanced to have big orange in my
pag on that some one on my drive, who
lsd I'D grange orchard, had given me. |
brew il TO her when had filed the can.
,he caught it eagerly, and when | looked
ack as ! drove of saw her going up the
,alk with ihe orange pressed mp close to
Ier mouth.
Aiter tbisI never forgot to have an Grange
r nectsrine, or some spricots in my
,sson when stopped at Bsrwell's. Somei
mes the milk can would be on the stoop,
nd ! would no see the little maid for
yeral days, but when ! did zee her
gain | would give her oil th9 good things
lat bad sccuu ulsted 10 my wagon since
le last time saw her. And gcoi things
ad a way of sccumuIsting very rapidly at
rat time.
Oace when Mrs. Bsrsel hsppend to be
p early to get q picnic pUrty successfully &,
II her hands saw her seize the little
Isid and drag her into the kitches, And
she struck her just as the door
as clio ing, | grew hot all over and
ought savsgely that il Mrs Bar@eIl bad
.en smsn stould have called her ont =
5 il was, had fancy thst ii would do
e good 10 got out and assault mrs Bar =,
ellis Kitchen doc and tiiag my opini :.
her gr l,ultously aud forcbly.
But neither course seemed quite Teas
lie. picked up my whip iuriously and
,oked around for something TO lay 1t on =
AsI could see nothing available for ,
at purpos bnt my patient good tenn -
red horse, who never gave me the
!htesl excuse for ssvIg,ry, | put II y
.yn sesin with u resolution 10 make
ings more even tome day, though 1t y
yer entered my ridicu'ou head in uhsi
r,ioulsr way ! could sccomT lish the i
yelling process. But the little maid got
whole spro2fu Of the incest peaches
ID nectsrlues aud Ponegrsustes 10 the
atket the urIt morning when | stopped
deliver the milk. T
so time won't by until the little maid
d grown into clip OF sglrl and would d.
We been pretty one, ioj, II she bad not "a
en- 20 thin sod white as TO the checks Il
a starlag So / the eyes She bad besni IN
ul cyes, tut taey u company sith her
Der iealutes bad gtoau 60 starved th't u
made .uy boiy hunsry oily to look at ~
EN-. b.
About thc time that began 10 notice
e,e little tLlags about her eyts aud ies
rec generally, thought she begsu to n
a little say The milk can slSsys stood Il
i,s place on the sto p. Sud ! bad toth' /,
z 70 DO bot 90 Il 10 the milk and dnve
/, uLtch !0a mig cay vas much
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