Hale's weekly. (Conyers, Ga.) 1892-1895, August 06, 1892, Image 6
A SUMMER'S DAY. Black hees on the clover-heads drowsily clinging, Where tall, feathered grasses and butter¬ cups sway; And all through the fields a white sprinkle of daisies Open-eyed at the setting of day. Oh, the heaps of sweet rosea, sweet citvna mon roses, In great crimson thickets that cover the wall! And flocks of bright butterflies giddy to see them, And a sunny blue sky over all. T-railing boughs of the elms drooping over the hedges, V. Where spiders their glimmering laces-' have spun; And breezes that bend the light tops of th willows And down through the meadow grass run. Silver-brown little birds sitting close in the branches, And yeliow wings flashing from hillock to tree, And wide-wheeling swallows that dip to the marshes, And bobolinks crazy with glee. So crazy, they soar through the glow of the sunset And warble their merriest notes as they fly, Nor heed how the moths hover low in the hollows, And the dew gathers soft ia the sky. Then a round beaming moon o’er the blos¬ somed hill coming. Making paler the fields and the shadows more deep. And through the wide meadows a mur¬ murous bumming Of Insects too happy to sleep. Enchanted I sit on the bank by the willow And trill the last snatch of a rollicking tune; And since all this loveliness cannot be Heaven, I know in my heart it is June. —Mrs. A. G.Woolson, in Boston Transcript. LOVE AND LUCK. BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES. “Under a spreading chestnut tree, The village smithy stands—” BETTY little Elma .Elwood m tm the was to herself words whispering as softly she tjA p dow-sill, leane O — and both gazed el I M "^4 mfS: ^ out across the glow W, ing landscape. Pis*" * i “ Are you ready for breakfast, Miss W Elwood 1” primly demanded Airs, w Perkins, the governess, as she manciured her nails at the marble wash¬ basin. “Yes,” complacently observed the ar tist, “I think it is rather good." .‘‘And the little dog sitting by the Qi O or—it just exactly as aatural'as 1 ' ' cr Q added.! \ y > f ‘ Ella frowned. I \ t t i • , > “the little dog, as you call it,” said she, “is the stump of the old tree. Don’t • stand quite so close, please! I can’t move my elbow.” .> ' * 1 Plilzell colored. He took up hi3 pail and moved on. * “I’m always saying the wrong thing,” said he, in a sort of desperation. Elma hoped she had not offended the young mah. She rather liked ; him, ( al¬ it was awarkward for him to mis ti^e anC-she the butternut stump for a little dog, made up her mind to say sorne thiog bahk pleasant to * him when he came to the spring. '' But he did not come back at all.' Evi dently there was some other way between the smithy and the little brpok. At six o’clock, according to compact, Mrs. Perkins, came for'the artist to es¬ cort her home. • • i “And you’ve been dll this time doing that little bit of work?” said Mrs. Per¬ kins. 'V “Oh, I haven’t worked all the time, Perky!” impatiently .spoke the girl. ‘ ‘Besides, one. cardt- hurry ■ art. ” As they strolled slowly down the shady road, Elma suddenly stooped and picked up something. >; “What’s that?” said the governes3, lifting her crisp flounces out of the dust. “A horseshoe-—an old, common horse¬ shoe. Put that down at once, 'MsS El¬ wood!” ■ “Wait for a moment, Perky!” cried the girl, rushing away through the bushes. “I’ve forgotten something.” Half a minute later, she was down in front of the closed smithy, balancing herself on the identical butternut-wood stump. With a round stone for a hammer, she drove in a rusty nail, and hung the thin old horseshoe over the door. “There’s good luck for Louis Dal zell!” she cried, as she sprang lightly backward. “Take care!” said a voice behind her. And then she became aware that Dal zcll himself had emerged from the bow¬ ery shadow of the trees, and that she had nearly knocked him over. “Is that for me?” he said. “Oh thainks 1” Aud placing both hands lightly on her shoulders, he kissed her, driven by some sudden impulse for which he himself could scarcely account. Elma Elwood turned scarlet all over; she rubbed her cheeks to efface all ves¬ tige of the offense, aud stamped her kid shod foot in the sand with futile passion. “How dare you?” she cried. “How dale you?” And like a flying nymph she vanished into the dense shadow of the woods, leaving the young man transfixed with surprise. “Why does she make such a fuss?” he asked himself. ‘She’s only a child— but good fatel what a beautiful child!” angles, and a low easy-chair on a tiger skin by the door, was drifted over with newspapers. Presently Mrs. Perkins came, smiling back. said “He ykiU be vpth ns presently,” she. “Really, my dear, he’s quite a young man—not at all the bald-pated railroad king I expected to see. And be is most kind and gracious, and has promised to recommend us everywhere.” The door opened t and the iron man en tered, followed by two or three magnif icent hounds, Eima sprang up with a cry. * * exclaimed, .“ItVLouis t , t t Why,” she " — It’s Louis Dalzell !” ■ , , He held out both his hands. “I can’t have changed so very much then?” said he.” At dhe same instant Elma’s eyes caught sight; of a strange object above the , horse¬ arched ’doorway—a gold-plated here shoe, worn thin at the ends, with and there a bent nail in its curve. Louis’s glance followed her own. “Yes,” said he. “it’s the very horse¬ shoe. It. has done its task, Miss El wood^R , has brought me luck! Miss Perkins,” he added, turning to the elder lady, “I shall expect you and your young friend to remain here as my guests for the present. I have a large house, and I am a lonely man.” “Oh!” said Miss Perkins, her eyes be¬ coming larger than the lenses of her spectacle glasses. “You’re not married then ? ” * “No,” said Mr. Dalzell. “Before I left the East, I fell in love. I shall never marry until I can marry that first love of mine.” He looked Elma full in the eyes as he spoke. She colored. Her long lashes drooped. month Mrs. Per¬ At the end of the kins aroused herself to the exigencies of the case. “All this is like life in fairyland, dear Elma,” said she. “But it isn’t business. I see by the papers that several music teachers have recently arrived from the East, and if we are to get to work—” “But,” said Elma, patting the dear old wrinkled hand, “I don’t really see any particular reason for our getting to work.” “Eh?” gasped Mrs. Perkins. “You see,” went on Elma, “Mr. Dal¬ zell is engaged to that first love of his. He has given me back the horseshoe,and as I couldn’t think of breaking the cur¬ rent of luck by taking it from the house, of course I must stay here.” “Oh!” said Mrs. Perking. “Thenit’s true? He’s the same young man that kissed you when you were hanging good luck up over the smithy door—the ‘un¬ der the spreading chestnut tree young man’?” Elma nodded assent. “Oh!” again uttered Mrs. Perkins. “But you said you never, never would forgive him.” “Don’t you know, Perky,” coaxed Elma, the audacious, “what the Bible says about forgiving people? Anyhow, it’s all settled, and we are to be married very soon, and you are to live here with us always. Does that plan suit you?” j mx ? Tfjjf BCT& [E % * r m ■ mm Wri If % 1 m Qmmm wLm |4| mm Mils ifflr m Mm m W<f8r5?5 ~--rV Ss ! 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