The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-02-08
.Dld she leave any messages?" asked

mo" said the young man; ''but the
night before she died l was lying at
the foot Of her bed. felt her foot kick
me.
"'Piet,' she said.
"'Annie, my heart said 1.
"'My little baby that died yesterday
has been here, and 1t stood over the
wagon box she said.
"'What did it say? I.asked.
"Tt said that If died you must MARI
ry fat woman
81 WILL said, and went to sleep
again. Presently she woke me. -
1.-THE baby has been here again. and
1t says you must marry woman over
80 and who's had two husbands
II didn't go to sleep after that for a
long time, aunt; but when ! did she
woke me. ..-..' ...
1.-The baby has been here again. she
said, and it says you mustn't marry
woman with a MOLE l told her
wouldn't and the next day she died."
THAT was vision from the Re-
deemer," said Tant' Sannie.
The young man nodded his head
mournfully. He thought of younger
sister Of his wife's who was not fat
and who had mole and of whom his
wife had always been jealous. and he
wished the little baby had liked better
staying in heaven than coming and
standing over the wagon chest.
II suppose that's why you came to
meT said Tant' Sannie.
Eyes, aunt. And pa said l ought to
get married before shearing time. 1t
Is bad if there's no one to see after
things then, and the maids waste such
a lot Of fat"
when do you want to get married?'
Next month, aunt" said the young
man in a tone of hopeless resignation.
May kiss you, aunt?'
ely, fyw said Tant' Sannie and then
gave him a resounding kiss. Come
draw your chair a little closer" she
said, and, their elbows now touching,
they sat on through the night.
The next morning at dawn, as EN-
passed through Tant' Sannie's bed
room, she found the Boer woman pull
ing off her boots preparatory to, climb
ing into bed.
where is Piet Wander Waltz
"Just gone," said Tant' Sannie, land
am going to marry him this day four
weeks. l am dead sleepy" she added.
1.-The stupid thing doesn't know how
to talk love talk at ALL" And she
climbed into the four poster, clothes
and all, and drew the quilt up to her
chin.
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On the day preceding Tant' Sannie's
wedding Gregory Rose sat in the blaz-
ing sun on the stone wall behind his
daub and waffle house. 1t was warm.
but he was intently watching small
buggy that was being recklessly driven
over the bushes in the direction of the
farmhouse. Gregory never stirred till
it had vanished. Then, finding the
stones hot. he slipped down and walk
ed into the house. He kicked the little
pail that lay in the doorway and sent
it into one corner. That did him good.
Then he sat down on the box and be-
gan cutting letters out Of a piece of
newspaper. Finding that the snip
pings Uttered the floor. he picked them
up and began scribbling on his blotting
paper. He tried the effect of different
initials before the name ROse-G. Rose,
E. Rose, L. Rose, L. Rose, L. L. L. L.
Rose. When he had covered the sheet,
he looked at it discontentedly little
while, then suddenly began to write
letter:
Beloved Sister-It is long while since I last
wrote to you, but / have had no time. This is
the first morning / have been at home since
don't know when. EN- always expects me to go
down to sthe farmhouse in the morning, but ]
didn't feel as though / could stand the ride to
day.
/ have much news for you.
Tant Sannie, Ems Boer stepmother, Is to be
married tomorrow. She is gone to town today,
and the wedding feast is to be at her brothers
farm. EN- and l are going to ride over on horse
back, but her cousin is going to ride in the
buggy with that German. ! don't think I've
written to you since she came back from school.
l don't think you would like her at all, Je-
NINA; there's something so proud about her.
She thinks just because she's handsome there's
nobody good enough to talk to her and Just as IT
there had nobody else but her been to boarding
school before
row. All the Beers about coming, and they
going to dance all night, but don't think
/ shall dance at ALL for, as Ems cousin says,
these Boer dances are low things. am sure
only danced at the last to please EN-. don't
know why she is fond OF dancing. EN- talked Of
our being married the same day Tant' San
ME, but I said it would be nicer for her IL she
waited till the shearing was over and took her
down to you. I suppose she will have to live
with us-Em's cousin, mean-as she has not any
thing in the world but poor ESQ. don't like her
at all. Jemima, and don't think you would. She's
got such queer ways. She's always driving about
in gig with that low German, and don't think
it's at all the thing for woman to be going
about with man she's not engaged to, do you?
II it was me, now, of course, who am kind Of
connection. it would be different. The way she
treats me, considering that ! am so soon to be
her cousin, is not at all nice. I took down my
album the other day with your likenesses in it,
down close to her, but she just said. THANK you,
and never even touched it, as much as to say,
What your relatives to meH
She gets the widest horses in that buggy and
a horrid snappish little cur belonging to the
German sitting in front, and then she drives out
alone. ! don't think it's at all proper for a
woman to drive out alone. I wouldn't allow 1t II
she was my sister. The other morning. don't
know how 1t happened-I was going in the way
from which she coming, and that little
beast-they call him Doss-began to bark when
he saw me-he always does, the little wretch
and the horses began to spring and kicked the
splash board all to pieces. It was a sight to