Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-02-16

Outlook. But he WIS dressed still IN
his uncomfortable best, aud it was
plain thai something was about to
happen.
OF course am no eavesdropper,
and would not for the world have
listened to the conversation even
conld / have found the chance. But
Elmer Danforth, the errand boy, was
an unregenerate young scamp and
seemed to have no scruples agpinst
playing the listener, especially II by
50 doing he could "git one in on
I,vddv Anu. ",She's always sendin'
me for water or wantin' somethln'
done, he complained, "and Lin, he
wouldn't lend me his catboat last
wee1. cuz Ell Nugent told him l
didn't know gaf-topsl from mar
line spike"
So Elmer played eayesdropper, and
next morning rccounted for me the
whole scene, as he witnessed it from
the safe ambush OF the big ice boxond
the clothes horse,
'Lyddy Ann. she druv EN- all ont
o. the kitchen into the livin' room
cept n me. Elmer reported, n she
thought Id gone up-along TO order
some chickens from Mis- Clemens for
your folks's Sunday dinner. But |
hadn't; I'd ruther you'd all go with
out no chickens than lose what was
goin' to 90 on. So hid; and when
Lin came in there wuz Lyddy Ann A.
waltin fer him, sort o. csrelesslike, on
the sofv. Ey'n, Lin, she sez. 'Ev'n,
Lvddy Ann, sez Lin, sez he. How
is it up to Portland?' sez Lyddy Ann.
oh. noisier n nuthin', Ii hotter d
Min, sez Lin. N then they didn
say nuthin' for more'n ten mlnits.
Then Lin sez: Lyddy Ann, SEE he.
what is it, Lin? sez She, Lyddy
Ann, sez he, I've been e-thinkih "
spell whether you'd ruther go into that
there eatin' house bizness mp to Bos'
ton or Jest stay right on here, ei every
thing wuz all right? why, Lin sez
she 4 hain't goin' mp to no Boston MOI
run no eatin house. Who said 1 wuzF
why, Cap'n Jim, he VIZ ssyin some
thin bout it, back ways Cap n
jim sez Lyddy Ann, kind er snortin',
YOU know, like she does when she's
real mad DOT Cap'n Jim knows bout
me. When YOU want to know what
I'm coin to do, Lin Burnham, you jest
come and ask me, and don't YOU be So
ready to take no secondhand reports.
T baint soin' to run no eating -hou7,'
sez She, 'up to Boston nor up to no
where else. It's bad enough TO run
one through the summer without doin'
if ali winter. too. We'll, I'm real
clad on it. Lyddy' Am, sez Lin, sez
he; 'cuz I'd hate to have you 60 away
from here, and guess its real risky
bizness tryin' anything up to Boston.
sH'm. SAYS Lyddy Ann, lot Won caro-
whether stay here or not. ooh yes,
/ / DO, Lyddy Ann; ] care q lot. sez
Lin. kinder solemn like, ''cuz I've
knowed you so long [ kind O depend
on YOU sence fathers gone, "A Fyo
cot question I'd like to ask you to-
night. With that, said Elmer, "l
scrooged down clus to the ice-box as |
could git, 'cuz things wuz gittin'
mighty interestin', a listened fur
all I wuz wuth. we ont with it,
Lin, sez Lyddy Ann, and then
come sound as if she WIZ kind o
edging nearer to him. well, Lyddy
Ann, sez Lin, its this When you
bile Holsters do YOU think it makes
any difference whether you pop EN-
into the pot head fust or tail fuSt?
Well. swan, said Elmer, fairly dou-
bling up with unexploded laughter,
"wben I hearn tIat and knowed what
she'd expected instid, just bust right
out a-larhn'. Couldn't "a held in Of
you'd "a skinned me fur it-Rnd-
well--I vuz chased out with a steak
FOUNDER and Lin Burnhams boot, and
I hadn't been able TO walk smart ever
since, they give me such a lambas'
tim"
And that is all have to report on
the matter Just now. To this day no
one knows why Lin Burnham went up
to Portland. Lyddy Ann went off to
Sandwich at the close of the season TO
cook in young ladies seminary, be-
cause, as she explained, it would give
her such nice chance to hear some
good talkin' and get some enlight'
enin', besides gettin paid real well for
cookin'.
But "they do say" at the Hsrbor
that there really is an understand
in between Lyddy Ann and Lin,
and wagers have even been laid on the
postoflice bench, to such limited ex.
tent as the Harbor ever indglGesf1
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