Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-06-22

"Pm blessed if / know! What's
herS?'
"IfS a Miss-or a Mrs. Daley
or kalley-or some sich-I can't
ies' recolIeck Which,"
"Elviry," gaSped the old man,
"you are the biggest fool out !"
"No wusSr yourself retorted
his wife.
"Thar never was no business 60.
I'M" said LiltoD, with slow en-
phasie, "but what a woman would
be sartln to get her finger into"
"Simeon," said his wife, "ain't
you and me been tryin' our level
to get this 'ere farm let, so we can
get to Hebron9'
Lilton gloomily nodded.
"Who says We hain'tf'
"And I've let it,"
"Sjve ~
"What time did yonr feller give
you the months renti"
"The clock In the glove factory
was jest a:strlkln' 'leven."
can twas 'leven to a second by
the hall clock here when Miss
Miss-whats her namef-signed
this paper| groaned Mrs. Lilton.
"SlmeOn, what be we to do? They
can't hang nor fiue us, nor nothln,
can they, for lettin' the farm to two
people at onceW
"N-Do, l don't believe they can
do that" hesitated Simeon. ''But
it's blamed awkward, that's what
it is.7
"Conldn't we write to him there
been a mistaken wlStf1lly ques'
toned Mrs. Lilton.
"WIere be we to write to 7"
Its just like man." satirically
observed the old woman, "to man.
age things after that looseended
fashion -
81 don't know as you've done
much BETTER" growled Simeon.
"Well, well, Elviry, don't fret.
Let them folks as has hired the
place do the frettIh' now. P'raps
they'll fad some way outen the
taDgle. 1t don't make 10 differ
ence to me. Whichever of 'em
backs out, I'll refund the money.
Their shan't no one say that 81.
neon Lilton aln't done the square
thing by 'em.
"But day after to morrOw's the
first O May~ screamed the old
woman.
"Well, what theDi l can't set
the almanac back, ken II There'Il
be Jest time to pack our trunks, so
fuI's l see. My man, be hired the
pony, an OId Crumple horn,
too"
$50 did Miss-Miss Rslley, or
Whalley, or whatever it wasp
Simeon chuckled.
Gts kind O o'queer, amt iti' said
he.
81 only hope," croaked his wife,
"that we amt rendered ourselves
amenable 10 the law"
Get outp SAID Simeon. "WOmen
don't know nothln about law"
The first of May was an ideal
spring day, and before the sun
had mounted above the eastern
crest OF old Blue Mountain, the
furniture van stood before the Lii
ton farmhouse, and two little girls
danced merrily around, picking
golden dandelions out of the green
grass of the door yard and listen
ing to the whistle OF the bluebirds,
while a pretty young girl in black
superiDtended the unloading of
CHAIRS and bird cages, boxes of
books and carefully strapped
trunks.
At the stile that guarded the en-
trance to the woods, the children
met tall young man carrying a
yalise aud a package of umbrellas.
"WhY, Kitty DAllas!" cried he;
"what are you and Flo doing herei'
"We'Ve come to live in the coun-
try," said Kitty, triumphsntly.
"Sister Alice is tired of living in q
fat where the people down stairs
grumbled every time we ran across
the floor. And this Is such a love-
ly plNce, with q brook and a lot Of
applelvees. But, Mr. PlDdar, how
came you herei'
so WV are to be neigbborsl"
said Mr.. Philip Pindar, with an as
pect of greaI satisfaction. ~ have
rented q house close by, where l
can work at my occupation In