The Advocate and news., 1899-02-15
AROUND THE VILLAGE; OR, VII
LACE TYPES.7-II.
Old Aunt Sussn-The Story She Told Us One
Evening.
By PERLE HALEY.

WIN everybody Oue was On manu- W
nurse the sick and always dose them with
herb teas and other homemade medi-
cines she carried In little black leather
satchel. Then after giving them the Bit
ter draught she would tell an interesting
story, II 1t was a child, and the latest gos-
sip II an older person.
knew when Susan Blake, (she was
named after Aunt SusanJ was sick She
told an excellent story. At least thought
1t was fine. 1t was one evening, and Su-
sans beau, Jake Hilson, had dropped In
TO see how his sweetheart was getting
along. Susan had a sister and had
sister. On this evening had taken Jane,
that's my sister, over to see Ann, Susan's
sister. | thought Ann was the sweet
est girl in town and wanted Jane and
Ann to be good friends, for my benefit,
II no one elses, for knew would get to
take Jane over to see her and then I'd
have an excuse for going so much.
Well we went over to see how Susan
was, at least Jane did, Il went to feast
my eyes on ANN and before we had been
there long Aunt Susan came In and then
Jake. Jake acted like q fool He sat
there holding Susan's hand and looking
at her like he'd never seen girl before,
while had to sit in the corner with my
feet tucked under my chair, and only get
ting a look from Ann now and then.
Well, Ann was older than /, out l loved
her with all the love a boys heart Of II
could hold for girl OF 18.
Ann and Jane sat and talked about
boy knew, until was green with jeal-
Ousy. I'm going to peat that boy next
time meet him. He was older than /
but my love would give me strength, and
then I'd go back to Ann and offer her my
heart and hand and marry her and live
happy forever after. But to Aunt Susan
and her story.
Aunt Susan gave the younger Susan an
awful bitter dose Of her tea and the poor
girl made the awfulest faces, and Aunt
Susan said she would tell story she had
never told before II Susan would like
to hear 1t.
We didn't give her time to say whether
she would or not, but set up yell for
her to tell 1t.
There, there! Don't be so noisy about
1t. You will make poor Susie's head
worse" the old lady said, taking out her
knitting and seating nerself In corner
by the fireplace.
We listened for her to begin and at last
she cleared her throat and began in o low
voice we hardly recognized;
when / was young girl about 20
years old, there came to the town where
we lived young man about 30 years of
age. He was handsome, oh, my yes!
and many Of the young girls fell COM
pletely head and ears In love with him.
He purchased O beautiful house near the
edge Of town and flxed II up In fine style.
/ remember passed by there one day In
the cart with my father, and how beauti-
ful the grounds were and the flowers.
Susan my father said, here's @ fine
home for some girl
II answered yes, and just then the
owner appeared on a handsome bay
horse. My father and he exchanged
words and could feel his handsome eyes
resting on my blushlng face. had never
seen him before, and, like the rest, had
fallen in love with him.
"Time Went on and he began paying
attention to young lady there cher
name I'll not mention) and lney could be
seen driving through the streets side by
SIDE IN mas pretty little buggy Dehlnd
pair Of bays
"Those were happy days to her and she
grew to love him passionately and devot-
edly.
Her heart was soon to be panied,
though, for one day it was announced in
our weekly paper that Col. Haegle and
his daughter, Irene would take the old
Norman residence for year or two.
Irene was an helress and beautiful as she
could be.
"She and her father were driving one
day and passed the girl and young man.
she stared at the pair and then nodded at
the young man. He blushed and lifted
his hat.
"'Who Is that lady we just passed,
Neil? asked the girl by his side,