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Bellefonte, Pa., September 18, 1914.
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The Story of Waitstill Baxter
[Continued from page 6, Col. 3]
“No, Ivory didn't tell me.
seen him lately.”
“I said if the big brother kept schooi
the little brother ought to keep house ”
laughed the boy. “He says I can hire
out as a cook pretty soon! Aunt Boyn-
ton’s ’most always up to. get dinner
and supper, but 1 can make lots of
things now—things that Aunt Boyn-
ton can eat too.”
“Qh, 1 cannot bear to have you and
Ivory cooking for yourselves!” exclaim-
ed Waitstill. the tears starting again
from her eyes. “I must come over the
next time when you are at home, Rod.
and I can help you make something
nice for supper.”
“We get along pretty well,” said
Rodman coutentedly. “I love book
learning like Ivory, and I'm going to
be a schoolmaster or a preacher when
Ivory’s a lawyer. Do you think Pat-
ty ’d like a schoolmaster or a preach-
er best, and do you think I'd be tou
young to marry her by and by, if she
would wait for me?”
“] didn’t think you had any idea of
marrying Patty,” laughed Waitstill
through her tears. *'Is this something
new?” >
“It's not exactly new.” said Rod.
jumping along like a squirrel in the
path. ‘Nobody could look at Patty
and not think about marrying her.
I'd love to marry you. too. but you're
too big and grand for a boy. Of
course I'm not going to ask Patty vet.
Ivory said once you should never ask
a girl until you can keep her like a
queen. Then after a minute he said:
‘Well, maybe not quite like a queen.
Rod, for that would mean longer than
a man could wait. Shall we say un-
til he could®keep her like the dearest
lady in the land? That's the way he
said it. You do cry dreadfully easy
today, Waity. I’m sure you barked
your leg or skinned your knee when
you fell down. Don’t you think the
‘dearest lady in the land’ is a nice
sounding sentence?”
“l do, indeed!" cried Waitstill to
herself as she turned the words over
and over trying to feed her hungry
heart with them.
“1 love to hear Ivory talk. It's like
the stories in the books. We have our
best times in the barn, for I'm help-
ing with the milking now. "Our yel-
low cow's name is Molly and the red
cow used to be Dolly, but we changed
her to Golly ’cause she’s so trouble-
some.”
“We had a cross old cow like that
once.” said Waitstill absently. loving
to hear the boy’s chatter and the eter-
nal quotations from his beloved hero.
“We have great fun cooking, too.”
continued Rod. ‘*“When Aunt Boyn-
ton was first sick she stayed in bed
more, and Ivory and I hadn't got used
to things. One morning we bound up
each other's burns. Ivory had three
fingers and 1 two done up in buttery
rags to take the fire out. Ivory called
us ‘soldiers dressing their wounds aft-
er the battle.” Sausages spatter dread-
fully. don’t they? And when you turn
a pancake it flops on top of the stove.
Can you flop one straight, Waity?”
“Yes, I can; straight as a die; that's
what girls are made for. Now run
along home to your big brother. and
do put on some warmer clothes under
your coat. The weather's getting
colder.”
“Aunt Boynton hasn’t patched our
thick ones yet, but she will soon. and.
if she doesn’t. Ivory’ll take this Satur-
day evening and do them himself. He
said so.”
“He shall not!” cried Waitstill pas-
sionately. ‘It is not seemly for Ivory
to sew and mend. and 1 will not allow
It. You shall bring me those things
that need patching without telling any
one, do you hear, and 1 will meet you
on the edge of the pasture Saturday
afternoon and give them back to you.
You are not to speak of it to any one.
you understand. or perhaps 1 shall
You'd make a
sweet rose jelly to eat with turkey for
Thanksgiving dinner, you dear, com-
forting little boy!”
Rodman ran toward home, and Wait-
still hurried along, scarcely noticing
the beauties of the woods and fields
and waysides, all glowing masses of
goldenrod and purple frost flowers.
Patty was standing under a little
rock maple, her brown linsey-woolsey
in tone with the landscape and the
hood of her brown cape pulled over
her bright head. She looked flushed
and excited as she ran up to ber sister
and said: “Waity, darling, you've been
crying! Has father been scolding
you?’
“No, dear, but my heart is aching to-
day so that I can scarcely bear it. A
wave of discouragement came over me
as I was walking through the woods,
and I gave up to it a bit. I remember-
ed how soon it will be Thanksgiving
day, and I'd so like to make it happier
for you and a few others that I love.”
Patty could have given a shrewd
guess as to the chief cause of the
heartache, but she forebore to ask any
questions. “Cheer up, Waity!" she
cried. “You can never tell. We may
have a thankful Thanksgiving, after
all.”
I haven't
CHAPTER XX.
Phoebe Triumphs.
RS. ABEL DAY had come to
M spend the afternoon with
Aunt Abby Cole, and they
were seated at the two sit-
ting room windows, sweeping the land-
scape with eagle eyes in the intervals
of making patchwork.
“The foliage bas been a little mite
too rich this season,” remarked Aunt
Abby. “I blieve I'm glad to see it
thinnin’ out some, so ’t we can have
some kind of an idee of what's goin’
on in the village.”
“There's plenty goin’ on.” Mrs. Day
answered unctuously, “some of it
above board an’ some underneath it.”
“An' that’s jest where it's aggravat-
in’ to have the leaves so thick and the
trees so high between you and other
folks’ houses. Trees are good for
shade, it’s true, but there’s a limit to
all things. There was a time when I
could see ’bout everything that went
on up to Baxters' and down to Bart’s
shop and, by goin’ up attic, consid’able
many things that happened on the
bridge. Bart vows he never planted
that plum tree at the back door of his
shop—says the children must have hove
out plum stones when they was settin’
on the steps and the tree come up of !
its own accord.”
“Men are an awful trial,” admitted
Mrs. Day. “Abel never sympathizes
witk my headaches. I told him a-Sun-
day I didn’t believe he'd mind if I died
the next day, an’ all he said was,
‘Why don't you try it an’ see, Lyddy?
He thinks that's humorous.”
“I know. That's the way Bartholo-
mew talks. I guess they all do. You
can see the bridge better’'n I can, Lyd-
dy. Has Mark Wilson drove over
sence you've been settin’ there? He's
like_oue o' them ostriches that hides
their heads in the sand when the bird |
catchers : are --comin' along. - thinkin’
‘cause they can't see anything they'll
never be seen. He knows folks would
never tell tales to. Deacon Baxter,
whatever the girls done. They hate
him too.bad. Lawyer Wilson lives so
far away he can't keep any watch o’
Mark, an’ Mis’ Wilson's so citytied
an’ purse proud nobody ever goes to
her with any news. bad or good; so
them that’s the most concerned is as
blind as bats. Mark's consid’able stid-
“Patty’ll be Mrs. Wilson or nothin’,”
was Mrs. Day’s response.
dier'n he used to be, but you needn’t
tell me he has any notion of bringin’
one o' that Baxter tribe into his fami-
ly. He's only amusin’ himself."
“Patty °’ll be Mrs. Wilson or noth-
in’, was Mrs. Day’s response. ‘Both
0’ them girls is silk purses, an’ you
can't make sows’ ears of ‘em. We
ain't neither of us hardly fair to Pat-
ty. an’ 1 s’pose it’s hecause she didn’t.
set any proper value on Cephas.”
“0h, she's good enough for Mark. I
guess, though I ain't so sure of his in-
tentions as you be. She's nobody's
fool, Patty ain’t; 1 allow that, though
she ‘did treat Cephas like the dirt in
the road. I'm thankful he's come to
his senses an’ found out the diff'rence
between dross an’ gold.” :
“It's very good of you to put it that
way, Abby," Mrs. Day responded
gratefully, for it was Phoebe, her own
offspring. who was alluded to as the
most precious metals. *‘T suppose we'd
_better have the publishing notice put
up in the frame before Surday?
There'll be a great crowd out that day,
pat ‘at Thanksgiving service the next
ursday too.”
“Cephas says he don’t care how soon
folks hears the news, now all's set-
tled,” said his mother. “I 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 comsid’able notice of him an’
Phoebe settin' together at the harvest
festival last evenin’. He thought the
Baxter girls would be there for cer-
tain, but I s’pose Old Foxy wouldn't
let ’em go up to the Mills in the even-
ir’ nor spend a quarter on their tick-
ets.”
“Mark could have invited Patty an’
paid for her ticket, I should think, or
passed her in free, for that matter.
when the Wilsons 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
» the river or round the corner of
Bart's shop, or anywhere they can.
when the deacon’s back’s turned. If
you tied a handkerchief over ~Wait-
still's eyes she could find her way
blindfold to Ivory Boynton’s house,
but she’s good as gold, Waitstill is,
She'll stay where her duty calls her
every time. If any misfortune or scan-
dal 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 Wil-
sons brought here, Abby? Wait a 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 Jack’s hill, an’ Mark is studyin’
the road as if he was lookin’ for a
four leafed clover.”
“He'll hitch at the tavern. or the
Edgewood store, an’ wait his chance
to get’ a 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® we'll wait. * * *
Why. as to that Boston singer, 1 don’t
know how high she went, but 1 guess
there wa'n't no higher to go!"
“It made me kind o’ nervous,” al-
lowed Mrs. Day. “Folks said she sung
runs and irills better’n any woman up
to Boston.” :
[Continued next week.]
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