Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-23

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S. Barring GOULD


your hand tremble when you hold your
fork at dinner, you are becoming thin
liner every day. I would spare you
TROUBLE 1t is really necessary, must
have it-you must engage bailiff.
shall break down, and that will be the
end, or we shall all go to ruin. Tie
woods are running to waste. There
are trees lying about literally rotting.
They ought to be sent away to the
Davenport dockyard where they could
be sold Last spring, when you let
the rendlng, the parKers snuyeu a
whole copse wood, as if shaved a
mans chin, instead of leaving the bet
ter sticks standing
We have enough to live on.
We must do our duty to the land Oh
which we live. | cannot endure TO
see waste anywhere. have only one
head, one pair of eyes, and one apir
Of hands. l cannot think Of see to,
and do everything. l lie awake night
after night considering what has to
be done, and the day is too short for
me to do all have determined on in
the night. Whilst that poor gentle
man has been i'll, have had to think
of him in addition to everything else;
so some duties have been neglected.
! That is how, l suppose, the doctor
came to guess there was a stocking
half darned under the sofa cushion.
Eve was mending it, she tired and put
| it away, and of course forgot it. | gen
orally look about for Ewes leavings,
| and tidy her scraps when she has gone
| to bed, but have been too busy.
am vexed about that stocking. How
those protruding eyes of the doctor
maraged to see it I cannot think. He
was. however, wrong about the saucer
OF sour milk
Mr.. Jordan continued nervoIsly
sorting his minerals into little white
card boxes.
We'll, papa, are you going to do any
thing?' -,a~
iDo-do-what?'
Engage a bailiff I am sure we
shall gain money by working the es-
tat better. The bailiff will pay his
cost, and something over
You are very eager for money
said Mr. Jordan su1kily; ARE you think
ing of getting married, and anxious
to have dower%
Barbara colored deeply, hurt and Of
Tended.
This is unkind OF you, papa; I am
thinking of Eve. 1 think only of her.
You ought to know that'-the tears
came into her eyes. OF course Eve
will marry some Day, then she
laughed. no one will ever come for
me-
TO be sure said MI. Jordan.
I have been thinking, papa, that
Eve ought to be sent to some very
nice lady, or to some very select
school, where she might have proper
finishing. All she has learnt has been
from me, and I have had so much to
do, and I have been so unable to be
severe with Eve that-that-I don't
think she has learned much except
music, to which she takes instinctively
as a South Sea islander to water
4 cannot be parted from Eve. 1t
would rob my sky of its sun. What
would this house be with only you
mean without Eve to brighten it?'
IF you will think the matter over,
father, you will see that it ought to
be. We must consider Eve. and not
ourselves. l would not have her, dear
heart, anywhere but in the very best
school,-hardly school, place where
only three or four young ladies are
taken, and they of the best families.
That will cost money, so we must put
our shoulders to the wheel, and push
the old coach on She laid her hands
on the back of her fathers chair and
leaned over his shoulder. She had
been standing behind him. Did she
hope he would kiss her? If so, her
hope was vain.
DO, dear papa, engage an honest,
superior sort of man to look after the
farm. 1 will promise to make a great
deal Of money with my dairy, if he will
see to the cows in the fields. Try the
experiment, and, trust me, it will an
swer.'
| All in good time
No, papa, do not put this off. There
is another reason why l speak. Chris
TOPPER Dayy is bedridden. You are
sometimes absent, then we girls are
left alone in this great house, all day,
and occasionally nights as well. You
know there was no one here on that
night when the accident happened,
There were two men in this house,
one. indeed, insensible. We know
nothing of them, who they were, and
what they were about. How can You
tell that bad characters may not come
here? It is thought that you have
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