The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-17
Hnn's Only COver.

| Quarrellng, you're old enough not TO
/ be so pesky aggravatin'! Do stop
/ sniveling, Ann; you make me ashamed
Of ye, a great grown-up girl like you,
/ to bawI SOL"
''BUt-I-want to go, to that
/ party,-so much; Pm dying-to see
new faces and hear new things, and
| have good time"
Il know why Ann wants to go"
/ broke in Mrs. Grant. THAT young
/ dandy cousin Of Rates, that she saw
/ last summer at the picnic, has upset
1 her mind, and she wants to see him
agin. I amt in no hurry for her to
/ get a stiddy beau, an I'm glad enough
/ that the SHOWS so deep that she can't
go to that dance"
You needn't worry. I amt likely t.
I see beau, nor be seen. by one, as clssel
as you keep me here at home, so
/ there."
you needn't begin to worry. Ann. at
| your age! Eff the good Lords made
| anybody for you, fences nor snow
banks amt a-gOin' to keep him from
/ finding you. and you won't find happi-
ness, If you get in such a hurry that
| you start out to find what waFnt made
! for you! Tain't the girls that go the
most, an have the most fellers a-hang-
| in round 'em, that maTries first, nor
the best"
NO" chimed in her father, faint
no recommendation to a likely man.
to have it said that the girl he's all
took up with, has gone buggy-ridin'.
and sot UP with half the gay boys in
the town."
1t won't never be said about me-
said Ann, bitterly. "Louisann Green
told Jemima Brown the other day that
she didn't know what there was a~in
Er=E r~1-- L. r AZ
with the felleTS, like the Ellery girls.
that there was a light every Sunday
night in their parlor, and they warnt
no beauties, either"
I'm grad for once, that Louisann
Green told the truth; when you're older,
for you're no fool an you'll know
then, why it's a compliment to you
that folks can say such things about.
you, and prove it, tool"
NO. Ann, don't feel worried about
your being a old maid, you amt a-goin'
to get left Onless it's best for YOU.
Things come along, about as the Lord
orders"
That's 50, weddings an funerals
can't be held back when their times
come, for Providence pushes them right
along whether we coax or how'll" said
Mrs. Grant.
What's that, down by the bend in
team, can't be that the Lower Deestrict
is a-tTyin' to break out the road this
time o'day, and the wind ALLOWING
like Sam Hill, Somebody must a-got
stOlled, and made 'em start 20 shovel
him thru"
It's the Lower Deestrict's men and
teams, sure enough! I can tell 2e1n
Boss now, by his blue wooden frock,
tied around his waist with a red COM
fOrter as usual.
They can't get no further tonight,
for that air mex banks piled up too
high; guess III go an see F-hOs in that
red sleigh a-hind the OK teams. They're
trying to help somebody through, sure's
my names John N. Grant"
Halo, Grant! I guess you'll have
to do as the, Bible says, and take this
stranger I'M Seems to be sort Of.
you've got to do it whether or no; for
here he is, and here's his boss and
sleigh He was mighty sOt on getting
to Rakeville tonight, but it can't be
did, for I can't get through here to-
night, an the upper deestTict is wuss
nor this; this is the biggest snow we've
had this many year"
Thus it came about that the Grants
had a guest for the night and late in
TO the next day, and Ann Grant enjoyed
the unexpected pleasure Of seeing-aeW
face, and hearing a new voice. Inc
blushed as she recalled her parents
crude logic that fate could not be
baked by wind nor weather. ProYf-
dence had provided this pleasure for
her in a double sense; the young man
had come from the city of that name,
and the storm had prOvidentially kept
her at home, against her Willl
It chancellor was it ordered THAI
his father had been a bOyhOOd friend
of Mr.. Grants, a great recommended
ton to a man of his type who held
TO old notions and was afflicted with
that idea that men he knew were prob
ably more worthy than those who came
to him as strangers
Late the next afternoon, the does
triet teams" from the upper district
came down, and he prepared to follow
them back, hoping TO meet wen no
further delay. He gladly responded
favorably to Mr.. Grants hearty Come
and see US again, sometime, when you
don't have to-
He made his dinner calf a day or
two later on his return trip TO PrOvi-
dence.
The sleighing was so unusually fine
that he would have been a very strange
youth indeed. if he had not asked Ann
to take a snOw-ride Of a few miles with
him in his cutter
other sleigh rides followed with sus-
picious frequency, so the neighbOrs
thought! Evidently Frank jenkins
fully believed in the theory that hap
py is the wooing that is not long a
doing" For when the first warm
days of March began to touch the for
ests with that rosy glow so prophetic
of spring, that it is easy to Forget that
snow is still with as, it was common
talk that "LOuisann Green's a-telling
all over town, that Ann Grants not
only got her first beau, but it means
business, and she's a-goin' to be mar
ried afore any of the other girls who've
all had a dozen beaus to her only one.
Just as we told you, Ann, If there's
ANYTHING made for a girl, she needn't
run after it, twill come direct-if you'd
a-had your way, you'd missed it by a.
going to that party. Good luck won't
follow if you run agin its grain too
much" said Mr.. and Mrs. Grant that
proud May morning that was TO speed
Ann toward her city home.