Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-04-12

b'ys, too. Jerry Callahan was walk
ing wit you last Sunday"
Hes a great lout, so he is said
Ellen with sudden fury. Il turned
down a street to get rid of his COM
pany. Great omadhaun."
An Phil CAROLS a good fellow
that came away from Mass wit you
on the Sunday before. Oh, there's lit
tie birds tells me everything; an all
the bys said you was the prettiest
girl on the floor last Saturdays dance
a week ago"
But Ellen would not be cheered.
"Tis aisy tarking, then" she answer
ed gloomily. "Tis all them fools has
to tark about, is other people and
what they does"
John says his brother Dams got
his mind on some girl now; | don't
know who it was told him
oh, tbs that tall Desmond girl at
home, that lived on this side the road
beyond Donnelly's. She always want
ed him" said Ellen after a strange
little pause, but the color all left her
bright cheeks. Mary Ann did not
look round, but seemed more than
she had money too, hadn't she?'
Mary Ann persisted.
Folks said it of her; twas from an
old aunt in Dublin that she got named
after. Some said it was forty pounds
there was conversation about moth
ing else an | coming away
Ellen spoke slowly as if with much
effort
What come between you an Dan
ny. then. if you liked him?" asked
| Mary Ann with the authority and di-
rectness of an elder sister and a mar
ried woman.
Twas me own foolishness: there
| amt day but | says it," answered
| Ellen mournfully. Il never thought
of amy one but poor Danny, an
never was satisfied till Id find some
way to tease him. He'd them honest
cy es like Johns, that'd be lookin' at
you all the time like an old dog, and
! he'd take every word a girl said for
| the thruth, an | wint too far wit tell
ing him he'd no wish for amy one
| but the Desmond girl since she got
her money
Most like twas but forty shillings
in the stead o. pounds said Mary
Ann consolingly. We'll. an what
happened them
I'D given him no promise" said
Ellen. more sadly still, except twas
in me own heart. think I'll never
see amy one in the world like Danny
an he had the lovely patience wit me
for a grand while, till | plagued him
too far an we had a smitch O tark
that day on the road. All the way
we didn't stop bird from singing We
were so quiet ourselves, till | fought
I'd tease him; an he pied with me
then like a priest-would | turn away
from him altogether and misthrust
him so? An | don't know ever since
why didn't | give in, but | didn't, an
| turned an walked off down the road
from him, an | fought livery step
took he'd be after me, till I'd changed
me mind so much | demeaned meseli
to look over me shoulder, an he wasn't
stopping where | left him at all, but
going off like a soldier, most out o
sight An he wouldn't look back an
thin | called loud enough to him, and
afterward | went back of the furZC
bushes, so none O. the market folks
would see me, an | cried till all mt
tears was gone. So that's the ind;
and | amt the first girl, either, thai
was such fool, but | wish I'd be the
last
An what made you come off ther
an lave him? All the while since
you come out I've said to John you
want happy; twa'n't Ameriky dis
pleased you, but something of YOU
own was on your mind. You might
have had the sinse to speak" sale
Mary Ann, with awful severity; ian
John maxim things worse with writin
home what admiration all the b'ys haC
for your looks an your dancing
Il was full to the head O. me wit
pride an sorrow, an ISwouldn't let OF
I'd got hurled" said Ellen, AN
come out to hide away from liver.
one there, an now I've told all All
tbs all done an over. Folks woulC
try to tease me, an there was thos,
would both fetch lie an carry one
an fan the fire O. throuble. | listened
for him whistling by night whin twas
fine an dark, as he'd always don,
} when he'd waited a while after on
little pets before, an I'd run out t,
him, then, an we'd make up lowell
! what throubles had been between us
, But this time he'd no whistle left, an
they told me he was seen a good dea
} up to Desmond's, an all that. Some
times I'm glad l come away, an some
times me hearts broke that was i've
; such fool. He'd never speak to m,
again amy way; but don't blame in
ayther."
Ellen had now come to the poin
; where she couldn't do without tn,
, help OF much fumbled little handker
chief. He didn't come with all tn,
neighbors to say good-by to me, an
was lookin' for him to come an stol
: me from it, an l pretendin' to be ful
; of laugh and very gay-hearted, SO nc
bodyd carry him word, an | though
: the first month was here I'd be get
ting letter from him livery day, or
7 word in somebody's letter to wish M