The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1912-02-15
By NJ. QUAD

=, the whole county of Broome there
-. not a more unassuming man than
p.,sr Day. He was an old bachelor
md worked IN grist mill In the vii
,,,e of Coburn. lie was not an edu-
..,ed man, and he had no ambitions.
:, the same village lived Miss Anna
n-oen. old maid. She had the only
u,l,nery store in the place. She was
Lao unassuming and uneducated Mel
.hor had she any ambitions. She just
,euted to be a milliner and dress
...ter How 1t came about that Pc
-, nav and Anna Green became &c
ouainted and engaged to be married
roc a matter that many people could
nat understand, but it was known that
,hsv intended to get married-some
time
One day two important letters reach
"A the postoffice at Coburn. One was
Or Miss Green. 1t was from a law
90, IN Indiana, who stated that her
maiden sister, who had been living in
that state. was dead and that she had
,of, her all to Anna. That sister had
not been heard from in ten years. The
ether letter was for Peter Day. 1t
ras also from lawyer. An uncle Of
b,s in Vermont had died and left him
b,s all, The receipt of those two let
,srs was to make a sudden and great
change in two lives.
Peter Day had not had a holiday In
thirteen years. He had been as steady
as an old clock. He had scarcely read
that letter, however, when he went to
bis boss to say:
aYou can take your old mill and go
10 grass with it. I'm not going to be
auybody's slave after this"
And Peter almost paralyzed the town
By dressing up and loafing around and
actually entering a saloon and calling
for beer.
Miss Green had always been very
humble to her customers. She had
felt It her duty to abase herself. She
would no more have dared to dun one
Of them for a bill year old than to
have put her hand in a lions mouth.
And now what a change! Within six
hours after receiving that letter she
was saying to Mrs. Adams:
IF you don't like that hat you
needn't take 1t, and you'd better be
paying something on that old bill or
quit coming here"
When Peter Day went sparkling his
habit was to slip into the house as II
be expected to be kicked out again.
He didn't stand up or sit down or
cross his feet or drop his hat with
out asking to be excused for the same.
Those two letters had reached town
Of q Monday morning. Sunday even
Ing came before Peter called on Anna.
BE had been thinking, and SO had
she, that there should be no slipping OF
sliding. but a bold gait and bold
fronts He sat down without being
asked to. and he held his position like
man in possession. Instead Of saying
that the. long drought was killing the
corn he opened with:
See here, Anna. there's a cast In
your left eyer
"What-what on earth do you mean
afp
"And you've hump to the middle OF
Jour nosep'
Peter-Mr. Dayr
and I don't like the color Of YOU
hairY
"Sirl Sir"
"And you don't know nuthin' abou
grammar. and you can't sing fol
shucks Pm here to say our engage
ment is orr
I've been left legacy" he explain
ed I'm goin' to take my place up a
the head"
You got legacy! And l want yol
TO understand that I've got one too!
was waiting for you to call that
might tell you few things. Peter Day
you are as ignorant as an OK. You cal
scarcely write your own nameg
Miss Green, don't talk to me tina
wayw
You are humpbacked. bowlegge'
and deaf In one ear"
Miss Green
You haven't enough ambition abou
you to throw q stone at a gander
Grammar! Why, you never even saw
one. You can't speak FIVE words with
OUT blunder. can't sing, eh? Well
Enat does it sound like when you tr!
MT And the color of my hair dom
Please you. What's the color Of tina
w your own head? And I've got .
cast In my eye? Yes, know, and w
sot mat eye on you. Why, wouldn'
marry you IL you was the last mai
efitter on the face Of the EARTH"
4 don't ask you to-"
III marry a man as far above yo'
tne eagle Is above the crow. I'll b.
nding In my auto while you are slop
ping through the mud. Get out of m.
dght, sirr'
N each case the lawyers had beel
uucted to settle up things and rem
e9 an account. 1t didn't take then
1ng. Three weeks did the business
Ans all that had been left then
mounted In the one case to STA
sno IN the other to S32.1S. Queerl
snough, those two letters also arrives
" the same day. Peter Day sat o.
Ms tavern steps as he read his. II
read Il three times over and then wen