Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-23
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III tSl IN bl>fftTnt1kEfl tllAC.
ESSSsa liF ~, s,gslSj But Charity
IhSS, hlS{S 'fssSzij was pretty and
{iIya} SsSyA tt3ES liked TO flirt-
4NssSesS21hGtt SaassAlD Mt lenst Bob
thought shc did-and Bob was jealous,
especially of Jake Hargood.
81 don't care for him. Bob" Chari-
ty said once, glancing pat him, with
soft depreciation, from under her
rurled brown lnshes.
'Fhon tell him So" said blurt Rob.
''What II big silly you ARE, Rob"
she answered. "Hc might shy better
whit till he asked me to care. The
time TO refuse anything is when it is
offered"
But Rob shook his head, and failed
to SEQ the logic of this
''Better let him know before he does
ask, F" he said, sagely.
Notwithstanding this good advice,
Miss Charity very roprehcnsivoly went
busgy-ridlng that same evening with
Jake larGood. But rs she tied OH
her hat and smiled at the pretty vision
of blue eyes, corn silk curls aud baby
pinkness in tho looking glass, the
thought of Rob did come M and
trouble her peace and her conscience.
"Hc's IL dear boy" said she, ''and
1T too bad 10 be tlcncherous 10 him
but it shall be tho lust time. After
this evening I'll reform right straight.
But tho "last time" often proves the
fatnl one time too many.
lob saw them as he WAS driving ND
tho cows from pasture, went home in
II rage, and did not go near Charity
that week.
"Rcckon You're about to lose yer
beau, Charity" enid Aunt lluida
Pitcher, who dropped in one day to
borrow II yeast cake. 81 hear tell
how Rob Redwood is going of TO the
lnlies or some sich Turin place, to
stay with II uncle"
"Lawsy!' said good Mrs Mead
ows, concernedly. al hope not.
That's awful hot land. He'll get plum
scorchcd up yallcr"
ooh, | reckon lie won't stand no
chance OF that, replied Aunt nulda,
checriully. "Bctwixt tho wild mi
miles and the savagos, hell git cat be-
fore he gifts scorched."
} Anything at all "iurrin" necessarily
embraced cannibals and wild beasts
i'll Aunt lIuldn's mind.
81 don't believe it - said Charity
to herself. al don't think Rob wouId
make up his mind to go olrthcrc with
out letting me- know about ii"
Bat the next day Rob's mother was
over.
Charity saw her from window
where the was sitting, busily engaged
Ill putting squares OF patchwork to-.
gether with blocks of pink and white
muslin for quilt.
Sho was going to have n quilting
the next day, and had not quite
finished her own work on it; so She
did not so down stairs now, but she
could hear the conversation on the
porch below.
"This hero they're a-tellin' about
Rob a-goin' Off to the iniies MINI
true, is it?' Mrs. Meadows asked, as
she set out the big cushioned rocker
for her visitor.
"Yes, shouldn't wonder if it was. ~
returned Mrs. Redwood, shaking her
Dlack sunbonnet dolciully. Ellis
Uncle 'Lijnh, he got rich out there,
and wants him to come mighty bad,
and he amt plum mado up lis mind,
but he's a-studyin' about il consider
able"
"Shucksl hntc to SEQ him a.roin'
oil there. He'll get baked to n crisp.
low to tell him SO. s'poso him
and Tillie'll be over to Charity 3 party
tomorrow?
"Tillic will, replied Mrs. Redwood.
II do'no whether Rob will or not.
do says maybe ho might and maybe
he mightn't. It'd depend on circum.
stances"
"Now, that's TOO bad OF Rob-" sail
Charity, dropping her head on the
window sill and brushing away sud
den tear with n square of patchwork
when he's went and stayed away s,
long already. He's just right cruel t.
c mel But if he don't want to come tc
a my party he needn't, and I'll dance
/, with Jake Hargood till L drop ON til,
l floor"
9 According TO tho Higginsyill,
Il etiquette regulating cuttings, TIN
is ladios usually assemble in tho morn
p ing, and Oh the principle of duty be
ioro pleasure, devote themselve
y wholly to the task of getting the quill
l. done.
" BY the timo that is accomplished
d the young men begin to drop in, nm
>, so continue TO do until dark, whe
!, the fiddler" arrives, and the gran
u fun OF tho occasion commences.
le The morning OF the quilting, Will
IL Miss Tillie Redwood was embellishin
,e her charms ms bcfittc.l the occasion
u her brother Rob sought the privac
~ OF the smokc-house, there to address
0, himself to the business of writing
n. note to Charity.