The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-14

housekeeper We don't care for greens
at all: | think III send them around
to Mrs Parkhurst; her mother is a
very old lady from Maine, is visiting
her, and pork and greens are so old
fashioned.
Mrs. Parker didn't see Mrs Tibbetts S
card in the basket, and her messenger.
who was sent for the doctor at the
same time, gave the basket to one OF
the Parkhurst maids without any
explanation The Parlhurst family
had got 10 their after dinner coffee by
the time the basket reached them. AS
it had come mystericusl>, Mrs. Iark-
hurst looked for some token OF the
donor, and found the card.
She uttered an exclamation OF sur,
prise, and her face flushed as she READ
the name aloud.
"Augustv Tibbetts, Why Adeline
why Adeline and cowslip greens,
in the clover-leaf ch;ny that was her
mothers chiny that Augusty
Pritchard had when she married Ma
hun. French, It's just as if twas yes
tiddy. The wrinkled hands that
lifted the clover-leaf china cover
trembled visibly, and tear came near
falling upon the pork and greens,
Grandma was childish, the Parkhurst
children thought.
Il don't see how she came TO do it,
murmured Mrs. Parkhurt.
Its holdin' out the olive branch,
Adeline. and it amt Christian not to
take it sor' said the old woman, bro
kenly. Life is too short for lastin
bitterness; we was young together.
and like own folks. Why, Enoch and
Hiram Tibbetts are own folks.
Ssh" Mrs. Parkhurst laid her hand
on her mothers and glanced warning
ly at her husband.
They're the kind that hold a
grudge-both OF them. she said. IN a
low tone. Enoch Parkhurst arose and
left the table silently He was taci-
turn man by nature, and Of late the
habit of silence had grown upon him.
The old lady said she thought Enoch
was burdened; old eyesar dimmed to
some things only to be opened wider
to others; his wife and the children
said he was always SO; he had so many
business cares.
As he closed the dining room door
behind him Enoch Parkhurst put his
hand to his head.
Hiram Tibbetts. he could save
me, he murmured; he would have
done it once-now It is impossible"
"Adeline, you'll take me tomorrow
to see Augusty Tibbetts, won't you?
Grandma was saying as the door
closed. When Augusty has come
more'n halfway so, seems as if twas
the least you could do"
I'VE haven't spoken for SO long,
and she ISIS in such different set,
faltered her daughter.
II would really have liked to have
Addie Tibbetts in the tableaux," said
Augusta Parkhurst, is seventeen-year-
old girl, whose very plainness was
stylish, Addie Luella said. She
would make beautiful Bluebeard' is
wife-with her head hung up, you
know, her hair is so long and light;
but she isn't in our SET.
Il don't know how Augusta would
take it," pursued Mrs. Parkhurst,
meditatively.
Il should think she had shown you
how she would take it, 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-
bettss~6oor. 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 mouths; but the two occu-
pants of the carriage were quite obliv-
ious of such troubles. Grandma, ra-
diant with delight, holding the basket
containing the precious china on her
knee, and Adeline Parkhurst, wonder
ing whether all her acquired society
manner would enable her to be quite
at her ease with poor Augusta, who
had never acquired any manner at all.
They are-they are coming here
ma" 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
homemade lace, Addie Luella's des-
pair over her shoulders and hurried
down the steps; nothing less than a
sidewalk welcome would do for Ade.
line and Gran mama.
She was simple soul but after all
she showed herself quick of wit she
felt only moments perplexity about
the cowslip greens and of that she
made no sign.
II won't tell 'em it's all a mistake
about my sendin' 'em-not till l have
to-" she said to herself. ''And if l
can make Lucretia Lund keep still I
don know as I ever will"
And it may as well be here recorded
that Mrs. Tibbetts managed the affair
with such truly Machiavellian diplo-
macy that the little comedy of errors
was never discovered by the final re-
cipients other cowslip greens.
It was a delightful call. Adelme
Parkhurst for got that she had ac-
quired a society manner, and Augusta
Tibbetts forgot that Addie Luella was
being mortified by her bad grammar.
They talk of 'faraway and long ago,
and the broken friendship was cement
ed by laughter and tears.
Hiram Tibbetts listened in silence
to his wife's story Of Adeline Park
hurst's visit and the renewal Of the old
friendship; she had felt a little uncer-
tain how pa would take it, he was one
to hold a grudge; but her delight had
to have vent.
''Mebbe I shouldn't have felt quite
so pleased if l hadn't been thinkin'
considerable of East Macedony-as |
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