Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-01-30

what Bob Hanks has gone and done:
I'm at the fust of ii. Mrs Hillyer
We'll. he simply got that little or
phan gal. Dora May. some'n' or other.
from Louisville, out o. Mrs. Styles
boardin' school last night an driy er
in buggy to Springtown an got
country preacher to marry EN-"
Good Lord. Mrs. Hillyer."'
That's what he done" went on Mrs.
Hillyer. They spent the night at the
preachers house, tuck breakfast an
driv back to barley. They've put up
permanent at the Johnston House. Mrs'
Dugan went up and seed whar BOD
had registered r. o. Hanks and Lazy
bless you! An that chit OF a gal III
short dresses hardly below the Knee
Mrs. Dugan says while she was lh"i
a-lOokin' old Hanks come IN as yalial
as squash an axed if they had LIZ
yet The clerk told 'im nO-that Tue
bridegroom had told i'm to say that hT
was not at home to any callers, ah
1t was about business they wanted "
see i'm to refer 'em to his head safes
man at the store Did you ever! is
any wonder his daddy wouldn't set I'LL
up in business? The wust big heau Oi'
earth is the sort that young boys mas
when they think they can start In 10
| raisin' a family Bob couldn't slallu
| prosperity, reckon. Mrs. Dugah says
Mrs. Styles has dismissed school LEI
the rest o. the week an Is waikiki
about the campus on her hands WIN
'er feet in the air. 1t seems thal the
gal was put in Mrs. Styles care oH
some kin O. her'n, an the old lady doli
know what she's to do about it. mar
some secret about who an what the
gal is anyway. Mrs. Styles Is alealu
it will bust up the institution MIS-
Dugan saws it will help the school
that folks will send Their scrub gals
thar to git 'em married off. Hahn they
heard it at the warehouse"
They hadn't when left about TWEEN
ty minutes ago, Mrs Hillyer."
"Well. / won't stop you. l see MIS-
Stillman leanin' over the fence without
bonnet or shawl in this wind III e
an ease 'er up. | know yore eecllh
to tell it to yOre gang"
A few minutes after kenner hau eA
ploded his information at the ONCE ol'
Hanks came in. He was pale, anu III
skin looked as dry as old parchmen'
but he was eating roasted peanuts
breaking the husks with steady, prong
| like finger nails. He sat down Will
| out a word and dropped a handtul o
i bulls into the stove.
| "Jim." he said suddenly to Kennel
I what did you ever do about that d.
I count Bill Haskill was a-owin' you!
| 81 got it vet" said Kenner, thrown
4 a knowing smile around the room.
4 well. eff you'll discount it enough
make it interesting, I'll buy it. "
got i'm tied up with a piece O. land
&c his'n. an want the land
lo 81 reckon we kin make DEAL sa
~ =, the cotton buyer as he wiped sml
;, from his facile mouth with his lor
hand. 81 reckon you heard that Be
=. had taken to hisself a helpmeetT
- The group hung on the old mans
- ply. Hanks crushed another peanut
9 his hand and raised the best part of
= to his lips.
"a L 49,
- 81 told you all you'd make fool
+ i'm, an now 1 reckon you see l w
u, right" He was staring accusingly
IN Hillyer. You started it" he blurt
out. Thar amt one boy in forty ID
49, lion that kin keep from gittin' the
- head with sech responsibilities put
-. i'm all of sudden, but hain't a-cari
- I reckon you know how to git yC
no money back"
"Oh. I don't know that this mea
,g absolute ruin" said Hillyer in his O.
m defense. Somehow I've got faith
al, Bob yet. A boy full o puppy love
sometimes act reckless, but 1t may
,se all right"
nj At this juncture Bob Hanks hims
or came in. He wore his best cloth
and his boots had been freshly poll
ith ed His glance, a rather frank Q
lilo Kenner thought, rested obviously
his fathers face.
They told me at the hotel that
wanted to see me, father" he said.
I'd known you
"Yes. | called an left my cyard,
his oS uonlrS With sneer "bu
ner wasn't in no hurry. jest called
VII little matter o. business. You sol
anu anu got me to promise a week ago that
''iii hep you put in that stock o dry go'
ll In but find out that my present intent
10 won't permit of it. When L thou
- favorably of it, you was unmar
~ man, with jest yoreself to look
100 100 an yore board paid by another pa
- but now you've tuck the best quar-
at the hotel an got high priced Oh
ar. maker runnin' round to put hens
1nI yore wife's skirts TO kiver up yore
or ly, an it's different. No; won't
..o cent in that business O. yore'n,
moreover, 1 want to say right
DO, that as soon as Mr.. Trabue gifts
,s,41 from the country he'll stick a eli
80 in my private papers that'n keep