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3 III
DON'T know whether you will
X suit nio or not," said Miss Towers,
reflcetiiifrly.
" I will (i i my best, ma'am," said littlo
1'ceky.
" Any objections to tho country 1" Jde
uianded Miss Towers, in a brusuqe, busi-ncfs-likc
way.
"No, ma'am."
" I never have kept a cirl before,"
said Jliss Towers, pravely, "but my
brother is coming lionio this sumnier, nnd
I don't want to be obliged to be in the
kitchen the whole time. Where huvo
you lived last?"
15ccky Ilarland grew pink all over.
" I have never lived out before, ma'am,
but my uncle died suddenly, nnd there
is no more than enough left to support
my aunt, so I'm going to try to support
myself."
" Very right and proper," said Miss
Towers. " Well, Kcbecca, I will try you
at all events. Hx dollars a month is
very moderate wages, and although you
don't look real stout, yet I think I can
make you very useful about the house."
Ho Miss Towers took Ilccky Ilarland
back with her to the old stone farm
house in the llousatonic Valley; and
Eecky Avas never tired of helping Miss
lowers strain tho milk, and work over
tho butter, and gather pink honeysuckles,
and feed the little downy turkeys. And
the roses in her checks grew deeper, and
the velvet bloom of her lips seemed to
catch the scarlet of tho Avood strawber
ries, and Miss Towers declared, with an
admiring glance at her little " help" that
" she didn't look like tho same child she
was before."
Meanwhile the preparations for Miss
Tower's brother went briskly on.
" 1 11 make up a lot ot cocoanut pound
cake," Miss Towers said, with the recipe
book in her nana, "ihats what he
used to bo desprit fond of Avhca he
a boy."
" rerhaps his. tastes may have chang
ed," said Jecky, who was rubbing the
old mahogany furniture Avith a waxed
cloth, at the other fend ot the room."
" 1 don t know about that," said Miss
Towers, Avith a troubled air. " I havn't
seen him since 1"
" Not seen him since ho was a boy !"
echoed Becky, with open blue eyes.
Well, it does sound strange, don t
it?" said Miss Towers; but you boo he
went away from homo when he was fif
teen, and he's been out in tho world ever
since ?"
" Is he a very old gentleman. Miss
Towers V innocently questioned Hebocca,
as sho rubbed away at the claw foot of
the antique pier table.
" Old !,j uttered Miss Towers, uplifting
both hands in amazement. "Why, he's
ever so much younger than I am."
" Is lie i" asked JJecky. " Why, I've
been fancying him, all along, an old gen
tleman in a wig and cane."
Miss Towers burst out into a fit of
hearty laughter.
"Well, if that don't boat all?" she
cried, Aviping the tears from under her
spectacle glasses. ijut alter all, to a
stranger that don't know the family sto
ry, it might very easily appear so, You
see, child, my mother was a Avidow when
she married fur tho second time, and
dear heart alive, what does ail that little
turkey chick, queaking like n, possessed
creature i kun, Kebccca, and see. I'm
afraid tho old speckled hen has broken
her string, and it is Avorryinc: it."
was
T, 1 ... .1 . ., , .
jeuccca was sitting in tno twilight on
the door step that cvenintr, one cheek
resting on her hand, and her eyes dream
ily bxed on the Jar off Avail of woods,
growing purple in the coining dusk.
Miss lowers had gone to carry a basket
of her ripest Wilson strawberries to a
sick neighbor, am Becky was alone
inking over her past, and pondering
vaguely on tier luture.
" How strange it seems that I should
be here," sho thought, " when it is hard
ly a year since I Avas the gayest littlo but
terfly in any city ball room. The ech
oes of thoso old waltzes and gallops come
back to mo sometimes, when I am just
falling asleep Avith moonlight on my face,
and tho maple leaves rustling softly at
my open easement ; and yofcffl u far hap
pier here. That is, I should be, if I
could only forget ono thing. I wonder
what gins want to dc so httul and capri
cious for ? Oh, dear," and Becky's bluo
eyes swam with tears as she remembered
the handsome lover who had been so truo
and faithful, and constant, until her own
coquetry had driven him away from her
side. " I would like bo to know what
Colonel Falconer is doing now, and wheth
er he is married yet, and if ho ever
thinks of me. I would write to him
if I wcro tho petted heiress still;
but as littlo Becky, who docs housework
for hor daily bread ah, never, never 1"
And Becky, anxious to cscapo from
her own haunting thoughts, jumped up
and ran across the dewy meadow to meet
Miss Towers, whoso tall, angukr figure
was just coining in sight round the curve
of the maple swamp.
" Bless and save the child 1" cried Miss
Towers. " hy, llcbecca, you ain't
afraid ?" j
" No ys I don't know. Let n.f
carry your basket, please.
" llcbecca, cried tho old lady, next
morning, as she drove tho shaggy little
pony into the door yard, returning from
the village post office, " I ve got a letter 1
lie's coming to-night."
"Is he?" said tho girl, smiling be
cause Miss Towers' face was so radiant.
" Then I'd better run out in the garden
and gather a fresh lot of strawberries be
fore the sun gets any higher."
" Yes, run along ; and remember, Ke
bccca, all that I have told you about sit
ting quiet and never disturb him when
he wants to write, and speaking very
low, and keeping out of his way, except
when you are wanted, for ho has just
come from England whero they are very
particular about servants.
" Yes, ma'am I will remember," sho
made answer, meekly, and folded ud Miss
Towers' lartro black shawl, while that
lady hurried out into the kitchen to see
whether the fire was in proper condition
for tho baking ot diver and sundry savo
ry compounds designed to tempt the ap
petite of tho expected guest.
"lAvishhe wasn't coming!" thought
our Becky. " We hav6 been so happy
together all tho summer, and now "
" But Miss Towers' voice shrilly call
ing to Becky to come and stone raisins for
her, interrupted the discontented frag
ment of a reverie into which she had
fallen.
Miss Towers was arrayed like unto
lilies of the field in her new steel-colored
silk dress our similie applies to the gen
eral gorgeousncss of the apparel, not its
color merely and Avhite satin ribons in
her cap, Avhen the stage rumbled into
sight round the corner of the fence,
where a huge willow waved its green ban
ner, shutting off all outside view beyond
its streaming boughs.
Littlo Becky Ilarland, who had been
on tho qni vioe at the garret window,
came flying down 6tairs like a thistledown
blown by tho summer breeze.
"Oh, Miss lowers! Miss lowers!
there is a gentleman all alone on the back
seat of the stace, and I am sure it must
be Mr. Towers!"
" Mr. Towers I" repeated tho old lady,
with an accent almost ot irritation
" Why llcbecca, 1 ni sure Lve told you
that his name isu t lowers; it is
But here she broke short oil, hurry
ing to tho front door to greet the new
comer, while Becky, in an accountable
fit of shyness, shrank back into the corner
and looked up to the picture of Until
and Naomi that hung over mantlenieco
" I wish he hadn't coino ! I wish he
hadn't come !" repeated Becky over and
over to hcrcclf. " V c were so happy
belorc !
And then remembering Miss Towers
judicious advice as to keeping out of the
way except Avhen she was wanted, Becky
turned to escape out among hor friends
the downy chickens, at the south door;
but to her infinito discomfiture, just as
sho opened the door, Miss 'Towers' steel
colored silk rustled up to the thresh hold
with a tall, stately figure by her side, and
poor little Becky came face to face Avith
them, her cheeks dyed scarlet, and her
rod-brown hair dishevelled by her haste
yet looking wonderful pretty withal.
"llebecca! slowly enunciated iAIkss
Towers, in an accent betokening a sort
of mild displeasure.
But her tall companion, a man of about
thirty-five, with dark urcy eyes, hair
less I havo lost all my old arts of per
suasion," domurcly added Col. Falconer.
" But," cried Miss Towers, why did
not you tell me, llebecca ?"
" Because, Miss Towers?" answered
Becky, " I never dreamed for an instant
that your brother's name was anything
but Towers, or that Colonel Falconer
could by any possibility be related to
you !"
" Well," cried Miss Towers, " if this
don't beat all that I ever heard of that
Maurice ralconer should dear me
there goes the kettle boiling over in the
back kitchen 1
And away went Miss lowers, every
housewifely instinct in her bosom roused
by the sibilant sounds ot the escaping
clouds of vapor.
Avhen she came back it is but just
to state that she stopped to take the two
pans of buttermilk biscuit out of the oven
and to reach down sundry tumblers of
amber jelly from the top shelf of the
cupboard Col. ralconer and Jsccky
Ilarland Avcre snug and confidential on
the front porch. Becky blushed a little
when Miss Towers came out, but she did
not withdraw her hand from Maurice
Falconer's.
" Well," said the lady, after a single
keen glance through the gold spectacles,
" I s'pose I shall lose my hired help."
" Yes; but then, sister Eunice," said
the Colonel, " I shall gain such a sweet
littlo wife."
" Is it really so ?" said Miss Towers.
"Yes, it is really so," laughed Becky.
But oh, Miss Towers, shall never in all
my life forget how kind you have been
to me.
And she stole to Miss Towers and
kissed her withered cheeks so fondly that
the old lady had to wink hard to keep
back tho tears.
" Well, well, go along '." quoth tho old
ady, " I don t know that 1 blame you
Rebecca, or Maurice cither. iioun
folks will bo youns; folks."
And she very sensibly went bact to
finish getting tea.
A Funny Incident.
A T the Albany Museum, some years
r since, wax figures Avcre in vogue.
On the Fourth of July, 18;2, a patri
otic addition to the show being desired,
Chas. Salisbury, a comical genius, notori
ous for practical jokes, was chosen to rep
resent George Yvashington, and of course
was dressed in the traditional costume.-
The doors had just been opened for the
evening performance, and visitors had
commenced thronging the curiosity rooms
when a mischievous idea struck Mr
Salisbury, who, Opening the door of one
of the Avax work cases, unobserved, took
a position among the figures, and tried to
look as immovable as possible. A coun
tryman, and his wife and daughter, a
young miss of eighteen, Avfcre tho first
who entered. As the young lady ap
proached Washington, he bestowed on
her a most unfatherly wink.
"Good gracious, ma," exclaimed she,
"that figure of Washington winked at
Female Patriotism;
1
A GOOD lady wc knew her when
jLJL sho had grown old in I no,
lived on the seaboard, about a day's march
from Boston, whero the British army
then was. By some unaccountable acei
dent, a rumor was spread in town nhd
country, that the regulars were on a full
march for that place, and would probably
arrive in three hours.
This Avas after the battle of Lexing
ton, and all, as might be supposed, at;
in sad confusion; some were boiling with
rage, and full of fight ; some, iu fear
and confusion, wcro hiding their treasf
ures ; and others flying for life. In thif
wild moment, Avhen most people, in some
way or other, were frightened from their
property, our heroine, who had two sons,
one about 19 years, the other about 10.
was seen by our informant preparing to
discharge them to their duty.
Tho eldest she Avas ablo to equip in
fine style ; she took her husbands fowl
ing piece made for a duck or plover, (the
good man being absent on a coasting voy
age to Virginia,) and with it the powder
horn and shot-bag. But the lad think
ing the duck and goose shot not quite
the size to kill regulars, his mother took
a chisel, cut up her pewter f-poons, ham
mered them into slugs, and putthein into
bag, and he set oft in great earnest,
but thought he would call one moment
and see the parson, who said ' Well done,
my brave boy ! God preserve you ! and
on he went in the way of his duty. '
The youngest was importunate for. his
equipments, but his mother could land
nothing to arm him with, but a rusty out
sword. Tho boy seemed rather unwilling
to risk himself with this alone, but lin
gered in the street in a state of hesita
tion, when his mother thus upbraided
him: ' You John II , what wiil
your father say, if he hears that a child
of his is afraid to meet the British ? Go
along beg or borrow a gun, or you Avllt
find one, child; some coward will be run
ning away, I dare say; then take his gun
and march forward; and if you come
back, and I hear you haA-o not behaved
yourself like a man, I shall carry the
blush of shamo on my face to tho grave.'
She shut the door, wiped the tear
from her eyo, and awaited the issue.
The boy joined the march."
me.
black as raven's wing, and a face which
if not handsome, bore tho exquisite out
lines of refinement, had hastily passed
her, and entered tho room.
" Becky ! my darling Becky !"
" Colonel Falconer !" Avas all tho girl
could gasp, so totally bewildered was
she. "Bless my soul !" ejaculated- Miss
Towers, rubbing her spectacles as if sho
Avould wear a hole in the crystal lenses ;
"how ever did Bebccca get acquainted
Avith my brother?"
" 1 was engaged to be married to him
once, Miss Towers," said Becky, coloring
and smiling for there Avas something in
Colonel Falcouor's eyes that told her all
tho past was iu a fair way to bo forgiv
en. " Aud she will bo again, Eunice, uu-
" Nonsense, child," exclaimed her ma,
" you are so conceited you think every
body is in love with you."
But at this moment she was almost
snecchless herself, for tho venerable
Washington had applied his fingers to
his nose in a very suggestive manner.
'' O, "William," sho exclaimed, grasp
ing her husband s arm, "look at that.
" What is it ?" asked William ; " why
I believe you women folks are crazy."
At this moment General Washington
struck a belligerent attitude, and uttered
a terrific veil. In an instant the whole
party tumbled down stairs pell mcll. and
related the wonderful story, while Wash
ington quietly clipped off to his dressing
room, laughing in his sleeve at tho joke
he had practiced.
A Musical Fright.
A few weeks since the Alleghcniaiis,
Vocalists, and the Swiss Boll Ringers,
through their agent, I). G. Waldon, Esq.,
secured tho Methodist church in a West
ern town, fur the purpose- of giving tin
first concert of the kind ever advertised
in tho place. While the troupe Avore
singing that descriptive quartette " The
Ship on Fire," and as usual tho tenor
makes the vcntrilonuil cry of fire ! fire !
fire! the old sexton ot tho church seized
tho bell rope, hanging down in the sing
ing seats, and pulled away with might
and main men, women, and children
screamed fire ! alarmed the whole neigh
borhood, and it was a full half hour be
fore quiet was restored. This little inci
dent, says a Western paper, has adver
tised tho Alleghcnians everywhere, and
nightly they uio called upon to repeat
this distinguished quartette, Avhich tho
old sexton wished to extinguish.
Anecdote of Daniel Webster.
riIlE London Sun contains a pleasant
I sketch of Daniel Webster, which
concludes with the following amusing an
ecdote of this distinguished , orator and
statesman :
Mr. Webster, just before Lafayette's
last visit to America, formed ono in a
fishing party in Massachusetts Bay. Ho
had been selected to deliver the welcom
ing speech to the Frenchman on his ap-.
proaching visit, and during his occupa
tion of hauling up cod-fish and tautog,
he was observed to be very abstracted.
It appeared afterwards that he must have
been studying that part of his speech, in
which he afterwards addressed Layfay
ettc, for a gentleman Avho was fishinu
next to him observed him pulling in hi.
line, hand over hand, with some difficul
ty, as it a large fish Avas hooked, yet with
out exhibiting any satisfaction on his
face at having captured a prize. At
length the fish was seen approaching the
surface, and gleaming through tho green
waters, like a lively bladder of quicksil
ver ; still Webster's J'uco gave no smil
ing welcome ; but just as the fish came
to the surface, he burst out with, " Ven
erable man : the representative ot the two
hemispheres, welcome to our shores !"
nnd down flopped the monster cod on the
deck.
A Fish Story.
We met a boy on the street recently,
and without the ceremony of asking our
name, he exclaimed ; '
" You just orter be down to the river
a while ago !"
" W hy V we inquired.
" Because a nigger was in tliero swim
ming, and a big cat-fish came up behind
him and swallowed both of li is feet and
went swimming along on top of the water
with him, and they camo up behind an
other big fish, and the nigger
swallow
two fish
ed his tail, and the nigger and
went swimming about!"
" Well, then, what?" wo asked.
" Why, after a Avhile tho nigger swal
lowed his fish, and the other fish swallow
ed tho nigger, and that's tho last I saw of
them."
" Sonny," said we, with feelings of
alarm for tho boy, " you aro in a fair way
to beoome tho editor of apaper;" and we
left him."