The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-07-08

OFFSPRING. VINO was Alluded 10 as the
most precious metals ~ suppose we'd
better have the publishing notice put
up In the frame before Sunday :
There'll he great crowd out that day
and at Thanksgiving service the next
Thursday too"
"Cephas says he don't care how soon
folks hears the news. now all's set
tied" said his mother II guess he's
kind of anxious that the village should
know jest how little truth there is in
the gossip bout him bein' all upset
over Patience Baxter. He said they
took consid'ab notice Of him an
Phoebe settin' together at the harvest
festival last evenin'. He thought the
Baxter girls would be there for GER
tain. but I s'pose Old Foxy wouldn't
let 'em go up to the Mills in the even
In nor spend a quarter on their tick
ets'
Mark could have invited Patty an
paid for her ticket, l should think, or
passed her in free, for that matter,
when the Wilson's got up the enter
tainment: but. Of course. the deacon
never allows his girls to go anywheres
with men folks
"Not In public; so they meet 'em side
o. the river or round the corner Of
Bart's shop. or anywhere they can.
when the deacon's backs turned. IL
you tied handkerchief over Wait
stills eyes she could find her way
blindfold 10 Ivory Boynton's house,
but she's good as gold. waitstill is.
She'll stay where her duty calls her
every time. IL any misfortune or scan
dial should come near them two girls
the deacon will have nobody but him
self to thank for it. that's one sure
thing
Young folks can't be young but
once" sighed Mrs. Day. How'd you
like that Boston singer that the Will
sons brought here, Abby? Wait min
ute. is Cephas. or the deacon tendin'
store this afternoon"
"The deacon; Cephas Is paintin' up
to the Mills"
"Well, Mark Wilson's horse an bug
gy Is meanderin' slowly down Aunt
Betty Jacks hill. an Mark Is studyin'
the road as IL he was lookin' for a
four leafed clover"
Hell hitch at the tavern. or the
Edgewood store. an wait his chance
to get word with Patience" said
Aunt Abby. He knows when she
takes milk TO the Morrills, or butter
to the parsonage: also when she eats
an drinks an winks her eye an ketch-
es her breath an lifts her foot. Now
he's disappeared an well wait. 80
Why. as to that Boston singer. don't
know how high she went, but guess
there want no higher to GOT
1T made me kind o. nervous" al
lowed Mrs. Day. Folks said she sung
runs and trills better'n any woman up
to Boston"
Runs an trills," calculated Abby
scornfully. II was talkin' bout sing
in. not runnin'. My niece. Ella, up to
Parsonfield has taken three terms ON
the palmer. an I've heerd her prac-
tice. Scales has got to be done no
doubt. but they'd ought to be done to
home, where they belong. A concert
amt no place for 'em. There. What
did tell yer? Patience Bakers cross
in the bridge with pail In her hand.
She's got that everlastin' yeller brown,
linsey-woolsey on an a white cloud
wrapped around her head. with con-
sidable red hair shown, as usual.
You can always see her fur's you can
sunrise. And there goes Rod Boyn-
ton chasin' behind. as usual. Those
that boy, but don't s'pose Lois Boyn-
tons got wit enough to make much
fuss over the poor little creeter"
Mark Wilson could certainly see Pat
ty Baxter as far as he could see a sun
rise, although he was not intimately
acquainted with that natural phenome-
non. He took a circuitous route from
his watch tower and, knowing well the
point from which there could be no
espionage from Deacon Bakers store
windows, joined Patty in the road took
the pail from her hand and walked up
the hill beside her. OF course the vii
lage could see them: but, as Aunt Alb
Dy AhtiLhhAtht "hSh "a
woman or child ON either side Of the
river who wouldn't have taken the
part Of the Baxter girls against their
father.
Meantime Feeble Phoebe Day was
driving her fathers horse up to the
Mills to bring Cephas Cole home. II
was a thrilling moment, sort OF out
ward and visible sign OF an inward
and spiritual tie, for their banns were
to be published the next day
1t had been an eventful autumn for /
Cephas. After a third request for the
hand OF Miss Patience Baxter and
refusal OF even more than common de- |
cision and energy. Cephas turned
about face and employed the entire
month OF September In a determined
assault upon the affections OF Miss !
Lucy Morrill,, but with no better avail. |
Cephas' belief In the holy state OF |
matrimony as being the only one prop
er for man really ought TO have com
mended him to the opposite land I'M
gratefully seq more than Al did and |