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TH s S virl i she gent over to the pantry, and whispered qe her mistress that G Was t tin-

i@lor

aleivae “* .

“RBotheration!’’ cried Mrs. King im pst ntly: ‘‘why } hey come anc day? Here mn rht in the miastof butter, an i ve got lots of rags, a Tye got to hev some new milk- sails right away a Mae . os :

All of this reached the ears of the tin- pediler, but he merely stood waiting, the corners of his large mouth curving gp cood-naturedly, and scrutinised with pleasant blue eyes the belongings of the

kitchen, and especially the slight, slouch- ingfigare at the sink, to which Sally had returned. “] "pose, ”’ King, approach- ing the peddler at length, with decision thinly veiled by douot, ‘‘that I shall hev to trade with you, though I don’t know how to stop this mornin’, for I’m right inthe midst of butter-making. I wish yoo’ a’ happened along some other day.”’ “Ya'al,"” replied the peddler, laugh- ing, “an’ so i would, mam, ef I'd only known. But I don't see jest how lecoulid ber. anless you'd ‘a pasted it up on the fines, cp had it put in the newspaper, e@ mebbe in the almanac.”’

os as. said Mrs. + ]

He lounged smilingly against the domasing, jingling his scales, and

waiting for the Woman to make up her

mda Sheamiled unwillingly, with knitted brows,

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“Wal,” said she, ‘‘of course rou ain’t to tleme. I guess [ll go an’ pick up my ragsmpinthe garret. ‘There's quite a lo¢ of ‘em, an’ it’Jl take some time. I don’t know as you'll want to wait.”’

“lor, I don’t keer,’’ answered the peldier. “I’d jest as soon rest a leetle not It’s a powerful hot mornin’ for thistime o’ year an’ I've got all the day afore me,’’

Eecame in and seated himself, with ‘hoese-jointed sprawl, on a chair near the door.

Aivr Mrs. King had gone out, he sat sfew minutes eyeing the girl atthe sink tently. She kept steadily on with her Work, thongh there was a little embar- manent and uncertainty in her face.

“Would it be too much trouble ef 5

id ask you to give me a tumbler of Water, miss>’’

She filled one of her hot. newly-washed

es with water from a pail standing Washelf atone end of the sink, and Wught it over to him. “It’s cold,” she ait “drawed it myself jest a few Dinntes ago, or I'd get some right out the well for you.”’

“This is all right, an’ thanky kindly, Miss; it’s proper good water.’’

He drained the glasq, and carried it

Kto her at the sink, where she had cael. She did not seem todare absent

elf from her dish-wa3 ing task ¢ Setant 1-washing task an He set the empty glass down beside the pail ; then he caught hold of the eri by her slender shoulders and faced “ round toward him. She turned pale a #ave @ smothered scream “Thar!

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don’t you go to being

said the peddler. ‘‘I Wouldn't hurt you for the wikeas world. +est Want to take a square look at you. Ure the Worst-off-lookin’ little cretur

Ser set my

She looked u j uly half reass

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eyes on,’ him pitifully, still ured. There were inflamed

Dp at

@eles ax,

— around her dilated blue eves. on’ ae ane u've been cryin’, ain’t you?

he girl nodded meekly. ‘Please let ‘ | She said. ve, Tn Oo ask

but I’m a questions first, 0 answer ’em, for I’ll be éf { ever see—— Ain’t she good

you you a iew

@' | want yo : you t tanged

om e 0;

os ‘ . -s : a Indicating Mrs. King with ye - : ' i *» % his hand towards the door Bi Which she had departed, ; “De she’s good enough, I guess.’’ “Ta, . ever scold you, hey?’’ ma t know; I guess so sometimes.’’ re ‘hls mornin’ didn’t she?” lit a a i ; _ Iwas kinder behind with Work,’’ i - Atepg vi ee i I tn’, aes a workin pretty stiddy ie 4s 8 i Pan ; as ¢ » thar’s consider'ble to do this

& 9’ ear.” ed Fear,

} L00kjn? ; ettes 2 for hired men I spose and be . n Milk?’ L Yes es i “Ho C “She long hev You been livin’ here?’’ ok me When I was little.’’ Moret 8° any: t besides work?— be’ Other gais?—hev any good ‘ * IMetiy, vn : P ea mes. Ss idit doubtfuily as TO Shines 2 . . Peng Sehout in her mind for remini- tn, br t > ‘ Bit p9 “a 1 Of it. ‘4 dy, _ ; Uwe ne @ Week sence Iwas eighteen. 1 ye “Gee. ‘¥Y board an close afor.’’ Wt an, tolas?? i

“ER guess ive got some brothers and sisters someywhe L don’ know jest whar, Two of ‘em went West, an’ one is merried somewhar in York State. We Was scattered when father died. Thar Was ten of us, an’ we was awfal poor, Mis’ Kirg took me. I was the youngess; ‘bout four, they said, JI was. [ ’ain’t Never known any folks but Mis’ King.”

The peddler walked up and down the kitchen floor twice; Sally keps on with he } =T : }

rd back "

shes; then ‘Look a-here, ave your lish washin’ alone a minute. Io ow:

you to give me

mala: ‘ie

the fac ’ an’ tell me what you think of me.”

She looked up shyly in floria, freckled face, with its high cheek-bones and scraggy sandy moustache: then she

plunged h

' LOOA Look in

his

hands into the dish-tub again, I con’ Know,’’ she said bashfully. “Well, mebbe you do know, only you can't put it into words. Now jest take a

look out the window at my tin-cart thar, That's all my own, a private consarn, I ain't

runnin’ for no company. 1 owns

the cart an’ horse, an’ - disposes of thea rags, an’ sells the tin, all on my own

hook An’ I a-doin’ pretty well at it; I'm a-layin’ up a leetle money. I ain’t got no famil Now this was what I Was a-comin at; s’pose you should jest leave the dish s, an’ the scoldin’ woman an’ the butter, an’ everything, au’ go

a-ridin’ off with me on my tin cart. I wouldn't. Know youn, an’ she wouldn’t Know you, an’ you wouldn’t know your self, in a week. You wouldn’t hev a bit

ot work to do, but jest set up thar like a queen, aridin’ and seein’ the country. For that’s the way we'd live. you know 1 wouldn't hey you k in’ hoase an siavin.’ We'd stop alo the roads for

vittles, and bring up at What d’ye say to it’’

She stopped her dish-washing now, and stood staring at him, her lips slightly parted and her cheeks flushed

i know [ ain't much in the the peddler went on, ‘an’ older than you—I'm near forty—an’ I’ve been married afore. I don’t you Kin take a likin’ to me right off, but you might arter a while. An’ I'd take keer of y leetle thing. An’ I don’t b’lieve you know anything about how nice it is to be taken keer of, an’ hev the hard, rough things kep’ off by somebody that likes yer.”’

Still she said nothing, but stood star- ing at him.

“You ain’t got no asked the peddler, as struck him.

**No."’ She shook her head, an cheeks flushed redder.

“Well, what do you say to goin’ with me? You'll hev to hurry up an’ make up your mind, or the old lads'll be back. ’’

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The girl was almost foolishly ignorant of the world, but her instincts were as brave and innocent as an angel's,

Tainted with the shiftless weariness and phlegm of her parents, in one direction she was vigorous enough.

Whether it was by the grace of God, or an inheritance from far off Puritan ancestor, the fire in whose vefns had not burned low, she could see, if she saw nothing else, the distinction between right and wrong with awful plainness. Nobody had eyer called her anything huta good girl. It was said with a disparagement, may be, but it was always ‘‘a good girl.’’

She looked up at the man before her, her cheeks burning painfully hot, her eyes at once drooping and searching. ‘‘I —don’t know jest—how you mean,’’ she stammered. ‘‘I wouldn’t go with the king—if—it wasn’t to—go honest—"’

The peddlers face flushed as_ red as hers. ‘‘Now, look a-here, little un,’’ he said, ‘‘you jest listen, an’ it’s God’s own truth ef I hadn’t a meant all right I wouldn’t a come to you, but to some other gal, hansumer, an pearter, an’— but, O Lord! I ain’t that kind, anyway. What I want is to merry you honest, an’ take keer of you, an’ git that look off your face. I know it’s awfiul sudden, an’

same

it’s askin’ a good deal of a gal to trust so much in a fellow she never set eyes on afore. Ef you can’t do it, I'll never

blame you; but ef you kin, well, I don’t believe you’ll ever be sorry. Most folks would think I was a fool, too, an’ meb- be Iam, but I wanted to take keer on you the minute I set eyes on you; an’ afore { know it the wantin’ to take keer on you wiil be growin’ into lovin’ you. Now you hurry and make up your mind, or she will be back.’

Sally had little imagination, anda loving nature. In her heart, as in all yirls’ hearts, the shy, seeret longing for

a lover had strengthened with the growth, but she had never dreamed |! definitely of one. Now she surveyed the | homely, scawny, good-natured visage

before her, and it filled well enough the longing nature had placed in her helpless heart. His appearance dispeiled no pre- vious illusion, for previous illusion there had been none. No one had ever spoken to ber in this way. Roughand precipitate though it was, it was skilful wooing;

for it made its sincerity felt, ania girl more sophisticated than this one could not have listened to it wholly un- touched.

The erratic nature of the whole pro-

ceeding did not dismay her. She had no conyentionalties; she was too simple; hers only provided for pure right and wrong. Strange to the possible injury she would do her mistress by leaving her in this way did not occur to her till afterwards. Now she looked at her lover, and began to believe in him, and as soon as she began to believe in him-—poor, unattractive, ignorant little thing that she was!—she began to love just like other girls. All over her crimson face flashed the signs of yield- ing. The peddler saw and understood em. ners will—won’t you, little un?’ he cried. Then, as her eyes drooped more before his, and her mouth quivered between a sob and a smile,he took a step forward and stretched out his arms to- ward her. Then he stepped back, and his

conscience for

say,

arms fell.

NO, : he cried, ‘‘I won’t; I'd like to give you a hug, but Iwon’t; I won’t so much as touch that little lean hand of yours till you’re my wife. You shall see T mean honest. But come along now, little un, or she will be back. I declar ef I don’t more’n half believe she’s fell

Mm & Hh vr shea ia been Dack |} now. Come now, dear, be spry!’’ i; **Now?'" said Sally, in turn.

aiore

‘Now! why, of course now: whats the use of waitin’? Mebbe you want to make som: weddin’ cake, but Lreckon we'd better buy some over in Derby, or it might put the old lady out;’? ar the peadler chuckled. ‘“‘Why, ’:m jest a-goin’

and |

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to stow you away

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in that 'ere tinecart o’ s plenty of room, for I’ve nigh a week. to drive out of this ve traded

mine—there’ I 1 on the road a-sellin’ n-goin’

Ln’ then I’m |

th your missis

’

i rracen $s the very innocentest lamb

A evi see, an’ I’m = a-goin' to drive along a piece till it’s safe: an’ then youre a-goin to git ont an’ sot up on the seat alongside of me, an’ we're goin’

till we git to Derby, an’ then

\ t if Merriea, jJe35 As Soon As Wwe tha & minister as wants to airn a te ’ at i

il, i Sally, “‘she’ll ask whar

, om Las UE 1 lay here in the cart jan’ heer what vy wor’, i'd .iest aa ' soon t to | race, myst, what

et you right up

; ON the seat astde ¢ ie, afora her eyes;

she’ tal rel, t likely an’

you look se ‘ y an’ you'd

wn’ you 1 lder: an’

» might sass von so you'd be reads ta mack out too. Women kinsay h

ari things

to other women, sn’ they ain't 1 ny | tounderstan’ any woman buat themselves trustin’ a man overmuch. L reckon thi is the best way.’’ He went towards the | door and motioned her to come. “*Bat I want my bonnet.”’ vo imal hie U r i a you one in eoy.*’ ‘But I don’t want to ride into D bareheaged,’’ said Sally, almost erying.

“Well, I don’t know as you do, little un, that’s a fact; bat hurry an’ git th bunnit, or she will be here. I thought ! heard her a minute ago.’’

‘“Thar’s a leetle money too.”?

‘“‘Well, git that; don’t want to make the old lady vallyble presents, an’ you kin buy yourself sugar-plums with it. But be spry.”’

She gave him one more | and hastened out of the

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we

scared glance, room, her limp

calico accomodating itself to every ungraceful hitch of her thin and sharp

Rios

(To be Continued.)

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“Why, ssy,’’ said the retired burglar, I got caught onee in the very simplest sori of way. I stepped over a doorsill in- to a room one night raising my foot rather high, as [always did, whether I had on rubber shoes or not, so as not to scrape my foot on the doorsill and set it down stnooth and easy inside. But the instant I hore my weight on that foot the floor Wonder it gave just a little bit. But it was i pienty.

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) tat some of the folks had brought up. “Of course the most important thing e>bout all this was the time it cost me, but ¢t was in‘ ing about the electrical ap- itus. You Know, I'd been surprised, to Kéar the boll ring in ancther i. .ead of in the same room where he plate was. Ishould have thought if ai ybody wanted a contraption of that sort in his own room he’d have wanted the bel) “ore too. But it seems it wasn’t a bur- ralarm at all. They had a young son , there that was a somnambulist; used to | get up and walk around in his sleep | nights, and they didn’t always hear him, | and they wanted to. So they put this

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tome 28. ome

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