The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-07-11

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how she would take IL, sendin' you
cowslip greens on her mothers clover.
leaf chiny," insisted Grandma.
The next day the prancing bays and
the new carriage stopped at the Tib'
betts's door. There had been some
anxious and angry looks cast after
them, as they passed the mill, by
workmen who had heard that the
bread was soon TO be taken from their
children's months; but the two occu'
pants of the carriage we're quite obliv.
ious of such troubles. Gran Ina, ra-
diant with delight, holding the basket
containing the precious china OF her
knee, and Adeline 'Parkhurst, wonder.
ing whether all her acquired society
manner would enable her to be quite
at her case with poor Augusta" who
had never acquired any manner at all.
"Thev are-they are coming here,
ma I" cried Addie Luella, in tumult
of delight, and earnestly hoping that
everybody was looking. "Oh, ma,
ma, won't you wait till jenkins opens
the door |" she walled.
But Augusta Tibbetts's simple soul
and kindly heart had, in an instant,
dropped into oblivion the coldness and
social sights Of years; she threw her
large white apron trimmed with
home made lace, Addie Luella's des-
pair) over her shoulders and hurried
down the steps; nothing less than
sidewalk welcome woulddo for Ade-
line and Gran 'ma'am.
She was simple soul. but after all
che showed herself quick of wit she
felt only moments perplexity about
the cowslip greens and of that she
made no sign.
'T won't tell 'em it's all mistake
about my sendin' 'em-not till j have
to-" she said TO herself. "And if l
can make Lucretia Lund keep still l
9on' know as 1 ever will ~
And it may rs well be here recorded
that Mrs. Tibbetts managed the affair
with such truly Ma,hiavellian diplo-
macy that the little comedy of errors
was never discovered by the final re-
cipients Of her cowslip greens.
Il was n delightful call. Adeline
Parkhurst forgot that she had acquired
society manner, and Augusta Tib-
belts forgot that Addie Luella was be-
ing mortified b. her bad grammar.
They talk of "faraway and long ago"
and the broken friendship was ce.
mented by laughter and tears
Hiram Tibbetts listened in silence
to his wife's stocy of Adeline Park.
hurst's visit aud the renewal of the old
friendship; she had felt little uncer-
tain how pa would take it, he was one
TO hold grudge but her delight had
to have vent.
"Mebbe / shouldn't have felt quite
so pleased il / hadn't been thinkin'
considerable of East Macedony-as l
do, come spring o the year, she mur-
INJURED, apologetically.
"And Augusta has sent me invita-
tion to take part in the tableaux! I'm
to be Bluebeard's last wifo-not just
one of the heads hung up in a
row!" cried Addie Luella, ioyously.
Her fathers rugged features reflect
ed Addie Luella's JOY.
HES felt her little Sights il he is
man. She takes after him in think
in so much of them kind of things,
thought Addie Luelia's mother.
"l've been thinkin', ma" said Hi
ram Tibbetts, huskily, and little q
shame efacedly, to his wife, the mex
morning-"Pve been thinkin' tha
mebbe I'd better help Enoch Park
hurst little. It's SOS l can about rs
well as not"
''I was hopin' you would, par
cried Mrs. Tibbetts, joyfully. at
amt worth the while TO hold grudge'
and-mebbe you was some to blame.
There were only few who evel
knew how Enoch Parkhurst weatheret
his financial storm; but the mills die
not close and there was no run upoI
the bank instead of those catastrophe
he seemed to be entering upon new
era of prosperity, and Potiphar City
felt renewed confidence i'll the sound
ness of its rich men.
And Addie Luella really was Blue
boards last wife in the tableaux. Be
ing simple soul, to whom it is nat
ural to share her experiences, Angus
Ia Tibbetts has sometimes wanted Il
tell, bat she has so far contented her
self by saying, aloud, when she wa
quite alone:
"'Twas all an overrulin' Providence
and them cowslip greens !'-lnde
pendent.
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