The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-11-18
Record.

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
leys could be seen sinking and rising
far and wide, the endless ridges of the
Green mountains sweeping away to the
east and the blue Adirondacks 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. 1t 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, plaint-
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 I
see replied Mr.. Deane.
well, 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 fishes got as
much sense, and more, than most of her
oeauN, and she amt likely to find a
husband she can't And that's poi
son to woman like Sue; she needs to
be managed herself. There's lust one
Ia choose for her, and that's Tom Kel-
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
Tor anybody, so there amt much hone
of it,
''Toms good fellow" said Mr.. Deane.
"'Ian't every boy could work through
college nd law school, md 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. I
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 mans
combating it's caprices successfully.
In the main she was right. That very
day Sue was planning in her couuettish
mind how to tease Tom Kellogg at the
coming corn-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
trite 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
in4the world were not going to keep her
lover from Speaking before his short
vacation was over and he went back to
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 another. they climbed
the dewy sleeps of the hill pasture. But
Tom Kellogg did not come. and Sues
brown eyes sparkled with impatience
andSa touch of anger at so unexpected
turn Of the tables. Finally. when.the
big bonfire had been lighted, and every
one was gathering about it, Toms
buggy drove up to the foot of the hill,
and he helped out of it a very young
and very pretty girl-Miss Eleanor Ca
bell, the city boarder at his aunt's.
Poor Tom! it was not his fault. and
Sue might have knownit; but the aman-
It's eirae is proverbially unreasonable.
The facts were that Miss Cabell was
young. charming, ignorantly enthusi-
astic, had never seen a corn-roast. and
thought she was comforting great IA
vor upon Tom by accompanying him,