Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-07-03

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I6-SSsI cult of his lobster traps in the
- Gypsy's boat, with Telly as
companion, and watched the old man
hauling and rebaiting those elongated
coops and taking out his prizes. The
day was perfect one, the sea just ruff
lied by light breeze, and as her first
/ timidity had now worn away. he found
| Telly a most charming companion. 1t
was an entirely new experience to him.
and the four hours pull in and out of
the island coves and around isolated
] lodges where Uncle Terry set his traps
passed all too quickly.
/ DO you know" said Albert when
/ they had returned to the little cove
where Uncle Terry kept his boats and
as he sat watching him pick up his
mornings catch and toss them one by
i one into large car, that the first man
i who thought of eating a lobster must
have been almost starved? Of all crea-
lures that grow in the sea there is
none more hideous, and only hungry
savage could have thought them fit for
food"
They amt overhansum," replied
| Uncle Terry, ''but fried in pork fat
they go middin' good if we're hungry"
That afternoon Telly invited Albert
to row her up to a cove, at the head of
which was a narrow valley where
Fblueberries grew in profusion 81 want
to pick few she said, "and you can
make sketch of the cove while I do"
Helping her picking berries proved
more attractive. and when her pail
was full Albert made picture of heI
sitting in front of a pretty cluster of
small spruce trees, with the pail be-
side her and her sun hat trimmed with
ferns.
Your city friends will laugh at the
country girl you found down in Maine"
she remarked as she looked at the
sketch, ''but as they will never see me,
don't care"
my friends will never see it," he
answered quietly, "only my sister.
And 1 am going to bring her down
here next summer"
''Tell me about her, said Telly at
once. "Is she pretty?"
Il think So" replied Albert. "She
has eyes like yours, only her hair is
not so light. She is petite little body
and has mouth that makes one want
to kiss her.
Il should like to see her ever so
much" responded Telly, and then she
added rather sadly, ''Pve never had a
girl friend in my life. There are only
a few at the Cape of my age, and I
don't see much of them. I don't mind
it in the summer, for then 1 work on
my pictures, but in winter it is so lone
some. For days do not see any one
except father and mother or old Mrs.
Leach"
"And who is Mrs. Leach?'
"Oh, she's a poor old soul who lives
alone and works on the fish racks.
She is worse of than am"
It was a little glimpse into the girls
life that interested Albert, and, in the
light Of what he knew of her history, a
pathetic one. Truly she was alone in
the world. except for the two kindly
souls who made home for her.
You will go away tomorrow, sup
pose," she said with a faint tone of
regret as they were rowing home.
Father said your boat was coming
: after you today"
He looked at her a moment, while a
slight smile showed beneath his mus
| tache. 81 suppose 1 shall have to-" he
answered, "but I should like to stay
here a month. I've not made sketch
of your house, even"
l 81 wish you would she said with
charming candor, ''it is so lonesome
t here, and then maybe you would show
i me little about painting"
Gould you endure my company
every day for month! he asked,
S looking her full in the face.
$ Il don't believe you could endure
< ours" she replied, dropping her eyes,
d and then she added quickly: There is
e a prayer meeting tonight at the Cape.
Would you like to go?'
n Most certainly" he answered.
i Albert had expected to see the Gypsy
e in the harbor when they returned that
afternoon, but was happily disappoint-
: ed. Il hope they will stay at Bar Har-
s Dor week. he thought
b That evening when Telly appeared,
= ready to be escorted to the prayer
meeting, he was certain that no fairer
r girl was to be found anywhere.
She was dressed in simple white, her
j masses of sunny hair half concealed by
thin blue affair of loosely knitted
= wool and had cluster of wild roses at
her throat. 1t was a new and pleas
e urable experience to be walking beside
well dressed young man whose every
s look and word bespoke enjoyment of
: her society, and she showed it in her
y simple, unaffected way
t. That evenings gathering was a unique
s one in Alberts experience and the re-
It ligious observances such as he never
d forgot. The place was little square,
e implanted building, and when Telly
t and he entered and seated themselves
? on one of the wooden settees that stood
s in rows not over a dozen people were
L there. On small platform IN front
, was q cottage organ and BESIDE 1t a