Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-05-09
THE TWO BRIDES.

II declare, Pamela, SAID Aunt
Judith, you're the awkwardest
creature ! ever did see"
Pamela Parr heaved deep sigh.
Do what she would, exert herself
as she might, she never succeeded
in satisfying Aunt Judith. But
she never had been quite so i'll
pleased with herself or unacceptable
to her aunt as since Maud Ellison
had come to the farm on that sum-
mer visit, when she won all hearts
and made, unconsciously perhaps
a background for all poor Pamela's
faults and shortcomings. And
now Pamela dropped her end of the
huge roll that Aunt Judith was
binding up with coarse, brown bag,
ging stuff and mattress needle, and
burst into tears.
81 can't help it, Aunt Judith, ,
she sobbed; II do try my best, but
but"
"And bad's the best" said the old
lady, petulently pushing her away
There! Go along, and get the
potatoes peeled for dinner! | dom
suppose it's your fault that you was
created the clumsiest girl in Ridge
Vile! What are you crying fol
now? Jealous because I'm going
to give this beautiful rag carpet t.
Maud EllisonP But she is to b'
married next month, and | wan
her to have q real handsome pres
ent as a remembrance from me
She is my brothers daughter, yo'
know, and"
"And / am your sisters daugh
ter" Pamela ventured to remon
strate "and-and I'm to be mar
ried this fall, too!"
"Eh?" said Aunt Judith, facinl
suddenly around andviewing Pane
la through her glittering spectacl
glasses. "You married! Is Their
any fellow alive who would fame.
you?"
81 know l am not a beauty" &C
knowledged Pamela, "but JOIN
Story likes ME, and he has aske'
me to be his wife. John isn't
grand lawyer, like Cousin Maud
city beau, but he is good and hon
est, and he says he'll try to make
comfortable home for me-"
WELL" said Aunt Judith, taste
differ. That's all | have to sa
about it. But you are a good CIR
Pamela, after all, and / hope you'l
be happy when YOU'RE married
Now go and see about the potatoes.
And Pamela, much consoled b
Aunt Judith's few kindly words
fastened to obey, while Aunt Jud
it'll finished packing the roll of RAJ
carpet by herself.
And Aunt Judith sat down t
dinner with a good appetite, an
actually told Pamela that when sh
went to housekeeping, she Nigh
have the old wooden clock on TIN
shelf, that had kept time for forty
odd years without varying five min
utes in the twelvemonth.
III wish / had another new ra
carpet for YOU" said Aunt judith
her heart warming with the exercis
of generosity.
II wish you had," said Panel
meekly. But l dare say we CA
get along without carpets"
Maud Ellison was a golden-haire
beauty, quite unlike her plain cous
in. Her mother, a dashing widow
had strained every nerve to secur
what the world called a "goo'
match" for her daughter, and whel
Mr.. Montague Maynard proposed
both mother and daughter wer
ljubilant.
I'm glad that that Anticipated oil
woman from Ridgevill isn't com
ing" said Mrs. Ellison, who, al
though Aunt Judith had accomo
dated them by freely giving Maui
a summer home, during which
time it was represented that she wa
at Mount Desert Island, did no
care to put herself out for an,
country cousins at such time q
this.
"But expect she'll send m,
something very nice for a present,
said Maud. "She seemed to take
great fancy to me last summer
and once she told one of the neigh
bors that she intended to make m,
her heiressr"