The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-13

rah was tired out and went right up
stairs to bed Billy seemed fustered
at having lost his way. He had boast
cd that ha knew every road round
about the farm for fifty miles and
seemed to feel degraded at this proof
of his ignorance.
The next letter told how Mrs. Harbe-
son had gone into a room where the
two children were together. They did
not seem to be much interested in each
other Billy was whiting at one end
Of the room, while Sarah was sewing
at the other On the whole, the writer
didn't think much had been gained by
leaving the children together.
The Joneses went home, and Mrs.
Jones invited Billy to remain awhile
longer with them, an invitation he ac-
copied neither with alacrity nor hesita-
ton. The hostess was somewhat dis
appointed to notice that he fought
shy" as she expressed it. of Sarah
even more than before she went away.
and, as for Sarah. II she seemed eay-
thing but indifferent when Billy was
about, her manner betokened con-
seem to promise success.
One evening at supper, while Billy
was still guest, Farmer Jones, with
mans want of tact in such matters.
gave vent to q bit of teasing of the two
children Sarah colored. and Billy
looked as if he wanted to get away at
once. Mrs. Jones gave her husband a
lecture when she was alone with him.
accusing him of having spoiled every
thing. She said they might as well
give the matter up, and the next morn
ing her opinion was confirmed by Bill
US saying that he must leave them.
He had decided to go to q college
where he could take a special course in
| agriculture.
The matter of bringing about a fu-
| ture match between Billy and Sarah
| having mfscarried, it was dropped, and
| for some time no further attempt was
| made to find husband for the little
| miss, She matured rapidly, however,
| from this time and, since girls in the
| country are liable to marry earlier
| than in the city, her mother, after she
| passed sixteen, began again to form
| plans for her But Sarah did not ap-
! pear inclined to follow these plans any
more than she had followed the first
| ONE laid for her. She had little to do
| with young men and maidens of the
vicinity and when with them acted as
| if she did not consider herself n part
of them.
One day Mrs. Jones received a scare,
| On coming suddenly upon her daughter
| she found her reading a letter. At heI
| mothers entry Sarah looked confused
| and tossed the letter into the fire tha+
was burning brightly before her. Mrs
| Jones was too diplomatic to appear to
notice the incident. but that night
| when she was going to bed she toid
| her husband of it and added that it in
dicated an unknown lover. Farmer
| Jones failed TO see how Sarah couC
have found an opportunity TO receive
| the attentions of a young man since
she had never been from home, anC
they were sure none of those in TIE
village had access to her. Mrs. Jone.
was not so easily satisfied. She hat
been a girl herself once and was awar,
of the devices of girls to hide a Low,
affair.
Billy Allen confined himself TO tn
study of agriculture during his colleg
course and at the end of Il year decid
ed to apply what he had learned in
practical way on his farm, then g
back during one or more winters t
study theoretically, thus alternating
between theory and practice or, rather
working the two together. He cam
to see the Aliens. but his first call pass
ed with q certain formality that ha
never appeared before. Mrs. Jones al
tributed it to his having mingled wit
persons from other walks of life tina
farmers and to his having grown oldel
Farmer Jones and his wife, howevel
thought little now of Billy Allen, fC
young widower in far better circun
? stances than Billy had called sever;
times at the house. and, although h
, was never alone with Sarah. the quic
eye of Mrs. Jones detected that he wa
, not calling merely for the purpose {
, spending an evening in company, bl
, was looking for a wife. While his az
miring glances at Sarah We're lost 9
D dIHeE jules. they biu d uldA hSu I
feet on his wife She informed b,
, husband of the situation, suggestiI
that the next time the widower calle
:. they offer an excuse to leave the tw
f together This was done, but Mr.
h Jones was disappointed at the wooer
leaving much earlier than usual
d Il don't know what we're goin'
g do with her she remarked to her hu
) band Il reckon she's goin to be !
1 old maid
q One afternoon when Farmer Jon
/. had been to the county seat on bus
). ness and Airs. Homes was at Aunt Ma
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