The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-11-23
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e boys had chosen
the tallest, slightest saplings, and
trimmed and cut them until they were
like exaggerated fishing rods, with
sharply-pointed ends. All the brush
and small logs had been gathered and
drawn on the stone drag to the high
pasture, and piled on the summit of it's
grassy swell. where the hills and val
legs could be seen sinking and rising
far and wide, the endless ridges of the
Green mountains sweeping away 10 the
east and the blue Adrondacks closing
the western view. 1t was the finest
farm in northern Vermont, old Mr..
Deane had always declared; and the
high pasture had been for generations
favorite place for coasting parties and
corn-roasts. It was more popular than
ever now. since Sue Deane was the
handSOmest girl in, the county, and
counted her SWANS by the dozen.
81 don't know how Sues ever goin' to
settle down." said her mother, plant
lively; for there's no one man will hui
NOR her the way they all do now. And
then, Sues so masterful; she's as sweet
tempered as you please, but she always
has her own way in the end"
Sues obedient enough. as far as l
see" replied Mr.. Deane.
We'll, father, she is to you, and al
ways has been; but, dear me! with
everybody else she does what she
pleases. l will say she's generally
right; but that's just it-she's got as
much sense. and more, than most of her
beaux. and she amt likely to find
husband she can't rule. And that's poi
son to a woman like Sue; she needs to
be managed herself. There's just one
I'd choose for her, and that's Tom KEEL
logg. But then, my land! he's not the
kind to stand bein' played with, and
Sues not the kind to give up her ways
for anybody. so there amt much hope
of it,"
Toms good fellow" said Mr.. Deane.
faint every boy could work through
college nd, law school. nd get into prac-
tice in city. as he has in Burlington.
And Sue and he, KNOWN each other
from children, eff they don't understand
each other by now they never will.
think it'll likely be a match"
Mrs. Deane shook her head. Accus-
toned to be ruled by her daughters
will, she had little faith in any man s
combating its capriceS successfully.
In the main she was right. That very
day Sue was planning in her coquettish
mind how to tease Tom Kellogg at the
coming corr-roast. Sue treated other
admirers as she chose; but she felt Tom
was different, and liked him all the bet
ter for not being sure whether she could
trif1e with him or not. On this Occa-
sion, being especially tender to him in
her thoughts. she was prepared to be
especially battling in behavior: for
deep in her woman's heart, she knew
that all the delaying, all the coquetting
in the world were not going to keep heI
lover from speaking before his short
vacation was over and he went back &c
the city; and meanwhile there was the
sweetness of an understanding no less
strong because it was yet unspoken.
Soft and clear the September evening
drew on. The whole neighbOrhood was
invited to the roast. They came in bug
gies, in carryalls. in hay wagons; and
one group after smother. they climbed
the dewy sleeps of the hill pasture. Blu
Tom Kellogg did not come. and Sues
brown. eyes sparkled with impstienc'