Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-09-18

If I outlived sister Desire but that that
highpost bedstead would come 20 me.
wasa little girl twelve years old when
Desire was married, and the very next
winter after / came ont from the farm
70 STAY with her and tend school. III
never forget how pleased l was when
brother Abner told me | was to sleep
in the high post bedstead mp IN the +
spare room. can remember list as +
we'll a. if II was Yesterday how Desire /.
used 20 iron the bed every night with /
the warming pan. / haven't got long
for this world-Ill be seventy-ive my
mex. birthday aal II does seem - me
that l should have the bedstea1 while
7 stav. I'm sure il Desire could speak
this minute she'd tell me 20 take II.
"Aun. Hester. where on earth could
Won put II in your little house, Ia
ike u know" spoke up Mrs. Red
fern. excitediy. such a bedstead.
with ia tester AMI valance needs
very large room. and i seems % me
our house Is the one most fitting IN
which To- show of Julge Boutwell, =
bedstead
Mrs Reifern was the richest mem
Der Of the Coles family. Her husband
had made "a fortune from a fertilizer.
They owned one OF the most preten-
tious homes in Mount Otto, and were
slowly. by persistent efforts, working
their way into the aristocratic society
Of the village.
, "Why. it'll 90 nicely IN the pa-lol
bedroom" proceeded Aunt Hester
4, no: seeming T. notice the slur on he
small house i've got Il AL planned
, I'll shut up the closet, l don't use /
4 for much, aud then move the bureau
j. ont into the pavlor-'
: "wellf' exclaimed Mrs. Redfern.
n II should say SO" echoed Abner
n wife SO loudly that Elder Cheesbr
II leaned on, Of the buggy aud locke
- back 70 ascertain the cause a the fur
- eral procession turned iatO the Gem.
AZ terry
,f The Boutwell, lot was the only GA
IN in the cemetery divided off by an Gc
fence Even here the family shove
es their evclusiveness. aud the huge Ia
20 lock hanging 20 the gate told PLAIN
n they wished no intrnders.
lie GA the way home hardly a wore v
IN spoken by these mourners IN the IN
an face aud wore a much-abused All. q
remark, however, was ventured
srs Ahner's wife. which she designed
m be very cutting.
nd The Boutwell, family cal fer
all people out Of their cemetery lot,
ex- they can't feace out the MULE
ant There was a stalk half as high as
Of monument on Judge BoutwelIs era
No one condesceuded 10 reply
al this observation. bat a very perceI
I BIZ "heh" came from Mrs. Redfer
INV corner
e il In the carriage just behind the c
ms versatiOn had been of a very differ
nee nature. The harmony of the CO
had family had formed the principal to
ife- among the occupants IS they rode
sr.v 10 the cemetery, AID coming nc
pa they had dropped into the same s
had lect again.
,ove Ma was saying this morning,
marked Augusta Ganson, that
oaut family hadn't missed coming toge
n in for thanksgiving dinner in over ~
.fe" ty-five years, and that's pretty
but record. She said, too, she didn
rally ieve we'd ever had what could
nilv. termed family quarrel once,
wss remember, Aunt Hester made
N 20 trouble for ma over that swarm OF
: we but ma let il all go. Then, you k
does when Cousin Jane coaxed the side
"a no die away from Aunt Desire to sci
be- the missionary, Cousin Car line
awful touchy, aud was going TO |
r;te.l a great ado about it, for she wa
= tbe the saddle herself for one of the
had but somehow IL All one" over
trait nothing came oft. l do hope
sssyn- won't be any trouble now whel
Bout- come TO divide Aunt Desires thu
roDyn "Oh, there won't be" ansV
rsla- Abner Coles, confidently, ''for
image isn't one of the family but '
hitting give mp for the sake of peace.
4 fur only thing that am particularly
Bout ious to have is Uncle Abner's
bedstead, but that would nat
,ur in come to me anyway for my name
o had At this Augusta Ganson straiSh
III the herself up. She had pale,
nmov- complexion, but it turned or
me 70 when her cousin made this anne
black ment.
= abe The tester bedstsad! WI