Lower coast gazette., 1913-09-13

L, OH 1ANx0AAA AO 49,
ed many things. Hannah, black and
motherly, had been brought up in the
house back in old Virginia. Conse.
%auently, she could do wonders at sew
ing. at knitting, and at netting. She
had taught Molly all her fine craft, as
we'll as the speech and manners that
hefitted a descendant of the Carriers
and the TazeWells.
She had told Molly over and over
the family romance-how young John
Tazewell, i%nvalided home from the
Continental army, had run off with
Mary Carter, Hannah's young mis-
tress, Notwithstanding their fathers
had been deadly enemies for thirty
years. The fathers had promptly dis.
inherited them both. Thus it had hap
pened that after Yorktown, the glory
of which "Marse John" had got back to
his regiment in time to share.
young couple had come across the
mountains, bringing Molly, a babe IN
arms, and the two negroes VINO nad
been left to Miss Mary by her moth
er's mother.
Hannah's tales had given Molly stuff
for MANY dreams. She would never
see her rich kin, of course; still, she
was glad to have them. She liked to
think of them in big houses, with
grass about the doors, and Turkey
carpets within. There were spinets'
too. and mahogany tables that you
could see yourself in. And the Wo
, men wore silk, and lace, and linen
and fine tamboured muslins wheI
+ thew went abroad in their coaches.
Molly thought of them with awe
| all she had ever see Of such fint
. stuffs were the scraps and snippets a
4 the bottom of Hannah's chest. Yet
4 pleased her to hear that these fin
q ladies did not disdain homespun, o
the making Of it. Instead, they delight
ed to excel in it. All the quality
loved to work, according to Hannah
< Only the poor whites enjoyed laziness
t It was a pity Granville Ashe coul
IS not see Molly at the warping. Sh
10 was supple as a willow wand, an
moved. as lightly, carrying her hant
le fuls of threads up and down the peg
I and at last gathering them in sheet
over her left hand, while with ne
right she dipped up and down like
bird in flight, taking the cross" Tn
ID pegs were in the open passage b.
tween kitchen and weaving house, an
the March winds got a chance t" ru
file her hair delightfully."- and blow rose
into her cheeks.
re By mid-April she had her cloth reaC
I'd for bleaching. AS there was no graz
in the clearing, she spread the clo1
e. On a budding thicket, and sat beside
through frightening days OF sunshln
VS. She was sprigging the cloth sparse
I'd all over with oak leaves, acorns, bunc
or es of grapes and stiff roses, all Ia
re monized by sweeping tendrils al
lightly curved stalks. She had wrong
re free-hand, as her fancy led, putting
every stitch that Hannah had taug
to her. even venturing to invent othe
ne she had never. seen.
i'd. /. When the bleaching was done, Ha
NO nah washed the web, and starch
ut and ironed it.
Made up, the skirt came to Mol.
we ankles, the waist almost under ,
ell armpits, the tight sleeves down to i
re dimpled elbows. The neck was i
OH the shoulders, and high under !
gal chin, Molly meant to soften it W
the Canton Grape kerchief that b
he. been her mothers. Once pink, 1t "
he now a soft, faded tint.
vas If only she had a belt-but
wn would no task her father for it.
vas was so carelessly generous OF his
try and venison and bear meat, he
Of en- had not enough money for pow
to and lead. But surely she might
t a so much of her unknown grandfath
yer There was time; Granville was
ook come in October, and it was now es
June.
me She was in many minds about 1t,
her in the end the mail-rider, upon his
ame monthly trip, took out a quaint, !
nv epistle for Colonel Carter Of CIR
nv ways, written on a fly-leaf from N
as Carter's Bible, and sealed with a {
With OF understanding gum IRON tne W.
g Molly lost a nights sleep repea
it her letter. The next day things
pened that drove 1t from her n
cot AS it was Sunday, everybody, W
Itch and black, went away, leaving
the house shut ana IN care o. Dasn, 9
been mastiff as 1lerce as ne was .1uo.s
earn Molly, VINO got Dack llfs' lio