Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-12-22

VA GHF i'l' l'OI hno"
"a Llt N11D a old NJ s.
~ ,Eln.A/ Moon was pump
MA IN N-AaDl set against lom
''.~| Nhlte' lhey also
knew tnai lom was determined TO
marry CIarssy Noon The views of
Carssy HeTseIt were locked IN the
breast OF toat maiden and no one. not
even h'r gfandmother' could draw
them ioE,n' she listened to the OLD
Iodys 0.alr'oeS against Tom, just as
she Ist'0cd 10 Tom S ardent Wooing
and sand nothing
Mrs "eoh' ner unmarried daughter
and Oarssy lived in a tiny cabin at
The foot OF the Little backbone, very
peasant place IN summer, though
mat season was brlet enough in a
region which is described by its
uenizeuS as ha'lhg 'nlne months win
Ter ana 'hree months cool weather.
eocn year. IN winter the cabin was
hot peasant place Of abode. Not
oh!y ana ihe snow drift high about it,
ouV inc lIaEiul WINDS entered through
''e 're'l'es which Mrs Moon was al
ways l9,Cnolng TO nave hiIed up and
never oI'' II was lonely in winter,
'oo' mol even the most persistent
Su''or could fnd his way to it fire.
q'V,'. ""eh lhe iran was ooIlter-
a'u by sGo" drifts and when night
came early ana suddenly, too, in the
s0aae oi the mountains,
C''FSsf was thinking OF these
"'sS, 0s she stood at the cabin door
V"e afternoon IN the middle of De-
''DO5f, IJ was rather a cool place
'O' "''0''''Ions' nut her Aunt Phoebe
was on "ual ner mother was wont
W Ca'' a hIgh' and any place was
n'''',''e 10 her immediate vicinity
y, '"'" uil'e' Aunt Phcehes tenn
t'I' never very sweet, had Ill with
I, 1'Uo, 'He s'Foln OF prolonged spinster-
1'00 al" she vented her naidenly
GSoppo'"Jment on the nearest OBJ
I'''S' ",r mother and Clarissy, who
"tie al quite innocent in the matter.
'ccIus II CANT please her, no.
up"' u,' ,.arissy was saying to herself,
81 CANT bear that mir botbersome
iom NnIte' but he's bettern' what
,1e i, 'S' anyhow Sposn' was { give
",,u ,Hn :. q, sign [ come N talk t me err
,D.''' ,, =, AS she hesitated she heard
"us. Fhoe0e's shrill tones still raised
o danger pitch in the cabin. Draw
s =" ,ue RED handkerchief which
", Ano'Ied coquettlshly about her
s''A , naIr she ran down the path and
"S"'nS down branch of the young
y'" U |n'ch stood alone, she deftly tied
wy, WV S,Ie'iner to 1t. The handkerchief
wa, I'S TOM S gift and he had begged
~. .' ~ use 1t as signal whenever she
G. s''G MS company 1t was the first
s"'e SHe mad made use of it, and as
n S'c ued it she was assuring herself
that she didn't care er r,itc for tbot
S,'aI ., m awkward fellow" but in spite
tm 5al iact her checks riyaled the
o','uHgrcnlei o1, in color. Yielding to
na a,, suogGn impulse she scurried into
tor,,5 or vao'l regardless of Aunt Phoebe's
u.t, ~ peek outn the window an
Il, .tIa ti 'er hlm,' she thought, IAN I'll
ty, 1,.l nln cool his heels bit waitin', be
issJ Ky s9 OUT Anyhow, | amt prom
cI,. "o'n,ng u by tying that handher-
cI,n,i. 1p '"ere'
nonntai, ,9sS noo the sharp ears of the
con,'leer ru'.'olneer and soon she heard steps
no '"s ai a'ohg the trail and finally into
,vo t,'ar'nE' out she never moved,
6o,ira See ,nat her grandmother was
Annt ~ III 'he chimney corner and
nioos iAoeoe o absorbed with her quilt
tbo vs. oo., lne latter had passed from
,bn,g,; us;l.e TO the passive stage of her
Tho ''oaS '. and was now sulking.
pooro, S'epS approached nearer and
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yere, after all" C,a., Gln 'o,'lin .', -
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