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The Wingham Times, 1895-05-10, Page 24. THE "WINGITAIVI TIMES,AY10 1895. DOMINIC PARTRIDGE'S COURT- "So she did, Simon," assented Mr, caricatures of Mr. Partridge on his INC. Partridge, knees to babies in long frocks All "And got nicely paid for it," said, day, and was capable of producing Dominic Partridge, riding barn• Simon, with a cimekle. "She'e re- those, And Myra was dangerous wad on his last load or hay, formed gretted it many a day. Her hus- when vexed ; and she felt pleased a resolution and uttered it, although band ran oir, and she's housekeeper when Mr, Partridge declared that he the words were rather a remark.; to the Squire. Yes, she's sorry— must see how the garden look than, a declaration, for what he said1she's sorry." . rising, sauntered out into it, Then, was t "Think so, Simon ?" asked Mr. indeed she could scold her girls in "I hadn't ought to be single." Partridge, turning red again, whispers. • He had been, making an estimate "Of course," said Simon, "Now Dominic Partridge did not linger of his possessions—of his money inthe you got through hayin,' leave things to listen, nor did he pause to look at bank, his acres, the corn and. bay to me, and go up to the Squire's to the flowers he passecl as he skirted and, apples and eider in the barn, spend a week. You'll see 'eni all. the house, and stopped. at a low the cattle and. horses that were his There's Bella, kinder slim and black-iwindow beside which a woman sat own—and he had decided that he eyed ; and Flossy, she's pink and 'peeling peaches. She was dressed in was too rid' to be a bachelor. white and. yellow haired ; and Myra, , black :nan's veiling, and wore a and her hair pale white linen collar and a little, dark Ile did not adore those beings of her eyes are gray whom some people speak as "the brown, and some calls her queen- erimson bow at her throat, Over ladies," others as "lovely women," like. You've got a choice, and ber dress was tied a cheek apron. nd others still as "wimmen folks " pretty as they are, they hhe haven't got Sbore traces of great beauty in A; but he knew that if there was a Mrs, a beau amongst 'ctn. This is a poor . her face, but she was fifty years old, Partridge he should bemuch more place for young men, and everybody and looked it, comfortable, should take a new knows Mrs. Dobsonwants to marrir : "Cousin Bee," old Dominic Par - position as a married man, and ' 'em off." . i triage, "how are you ?" ' donbtless find himself at the end 0f1"Il1!" cried Mr. Partridge, sud- ! She looked up and smiled at him, his days with someone to inherit his denly, in the voice ho would have, "Pin very well," she said.- -Pinproperty, property, son to take the trouble used to a cow which had broken in- never anything else; and I suppose a off his hands in his old age and to be 1 to a cornfield—"hi ! Si Millet; where you aren't sick, or you wouldn't be asecond Dominic Partridge. There- iyou goin' ?" flyin."round after the girls, ' I hear . 1a fore Mr. Partridge, sole of that name i "Eli P" ejaculated SiD1011. .ycu'r© gain' to mrry ?" at the moment, remarked, "I hadn't "You mean for inc to marry one: "Pmgenerally refused, you know," ought to be single," and began to I of the Squire's little gals ?" : he answered, "so I shan't count my call up before his mind's eye a list . "Most suitable match"( know for chickens before they're hatched, this of the marriageable ladies of Locks -lye, Partridge family is a good one, !time." lie. There was the Widow Bor- ! and - you're a rich man," said 51.1 She blushed. roughs, too fat and. very lazy ; thei"Shol what's a year or two on a "Have a peach ?" she asked. Widow Green, the most suitable !man's side when he's as forehanded ; "They're good." partner for a middle-aged man ; but as yon ? Go over to :Dobson's, I say; He took one. "Dunne as I could stand it," said', but you can take your own course -1 "They don't bold a candle to 'Mr. Partridge. Miss Spicer was Yon mostly do—and you mostly re- !seine of mine," 114; said, as he ate it. stern and man -hating ; her sister, .gret it." 1"I've kept up niy orchards. The Miss Prudie, silly and, an old coquette. i -With these words the old hired place is a sight to behold for beauty, The minister's sister was cast iron man slipped to the ground on one : Bee. The house wants fixin'." dignity and frozen elegance combin- I side, as his master vanished on the ; "For a bride ?" asked Bee. ed, but she would stop his pipe, his other, and the work of housing the ! "Yes," said Dominic, "for a bride. holiday glass, his circus -going, : his hay commenced. . ;She should hey her own way about wearing of old clothes, and doing as I However, on the next Monday Mr : things. I could afford it. How do he pleased. Who was there, besides? !Partridge, dressed with' scrupulous roti like being Mrs. Squire Dobson's A sudden thought came into his!nicety, and looking extremely well, housekeeper, Bee ?!' mind and he laughed. itook the train for the next station, "Like !" • repeated Bee. '"0h, I "Why shouldn't I marry for love?" ' and appeared at Squire Dobson's don't expect to life nowadays; I ! he said, under his breath. with a neat portmanteau in bis hand, just put up with things. I can do. Simon, who had managed his :and was received with open arms by1I don't mind doin'. She likes that. affairs for many a day, and, while , host and hostess, to whom he had; She calls me housekeeper. I'm here supposed to be hired man wa,s actn- i written to apprise them of his conalbecause she does ; but I do, hard ally master, sat in the hay beside .ing. Mr. Partridge, like an old jackdaw Out in the arbor, under the big in an immense nest, and watched wistaris three young girls clung him. He. saw Ms cheeks flush a soft, ' together, with little chirps and called housekeeper r couldn't stay, wintry apple red, and heard him twitters, like so many frightened and 1 tried to sew at starvation laugh a little foolish laugh to him- . birds, Flossy with ,the geideft hair, prices after—ff self. ;Myra with the brown, andr,Viamette "I'll bet a cookey I know what Bella. "After your husband died," said Dominic. you was a thinkin' of, Mr. Part- "Can it be ?" whispered. Flossy. "After he went off," said Bee, ridge," he said. "Say, it isn't true," sobbed Myra. "I'll bet another you. don't Si," "It's true, and an awful shame," sternly. "But he has been dead said his master. sighed Bella "That man only flire three years.'' "And I've had enough for two all "You was a thinkin' of getting years younger than pa, has come married," said Si. 'There, now!" : here to court one of us, and ma "I wasn't exactly,' responded Mr. ' wants him to. Ma says it would. be Partridge; "but I was thinkin' of a great thing for one of us, because thinkin' about it." he is rip. What good would it be "Conies to the same thing, sir," to be rich? ! girls, if it should be s, said. Si. "Comes to the same thing.. me, will you. save me ?" Dobson, she waset up, I can tell I was turnin' it overin my mind"We'll all drown ourselves to- you. I'd have l3ella ef I was you. You'd orter' hey a nice, pretty wife gether, like the seven sisters, in the She's got the most sense. They in your big house. And hey the :ballad, by what's his name," vaguely haven't any of them got too inneh parlor fixed up, and a melodeon and., sobbed Myra. soft -bottomed cheers, and a ehany1 "We'll run away and live on wild lamp, and lace curtings, like they do ' cherries," said Flossy, the youngest. up to the Squire's and your portrait But Bella recovers herself first. "Bee, did you believe Simon Mil - and horn to match, framed. She'd 1 "Let us disgust him," she cries, let when he said. I was such an know. That's only a kinder a out- bravely. "Let us frighten him away. old fool as to want one of those little line. And I should sort o' take more 'Let us show him what it would be girls ? not an old man. I've got airs when I drove you to meetin.' for an old man to marry a young years before me. I feel strong and It's all very well to be keerless, ram- girl who didn't eare for him. I feel prosperous, and I feel I hadn't pageous bachelors when your young, ! "My darlings, here is Mr. Par- orter be alone, 11..tt I don't want a but when yon're settin' down there's tridge come, I hope, to make us a de- dressy baby to bring up. What I more required. Your fifty, fourth of lightfully long visit," said the mother want, Bee, is you. You're a dear, next November, and I was fourteen to her daughters, five minutes after; darling little woman,. and I've when you was born. We'd orter but the daughters shook hands with hankered after yon all my life. settle." Mr. Partridge in a limp and. unen- When I heard for sure that your "But, Si," thoughtfully responded thnsiastie fashion, and retreating to a count—" Mr. Paatridge, "I was thinking this, sofa, began to giggle together in. a "He was a baron," said Bee, Simon. 'Out of the fryin' pan into way that horrified their mother. "We'll, that your baron was dead, the fire.' Suppose I was to get a' Generally they were so charming. I made up my mind that I'd never tartar. Middle-aged women get Why, when a fortune might be lost left off loving you and jest four pretty cross sometimes. Peace is a by it, would they appear at their days ago I said to myself • I'll go comfort, anyhow. But to be ordered worst now ? The fact that Dominic over to Squire DobSon's and ask Bee 'round, and flung at, and asked 'why Partridge intended to look for a wife again. P'raps shell hey me this you. don't?' and told 'she said so,' in her home had been communicated time." like my poor brother Ike was in his to her by .Simon Millet, who had "I d.on't know that you want of wife's lifetime, ain't pleasant." managed to get himself sent oyer an old thing like Me," said Bee; but "Don't take one of that kind," said with a present of poultry. she laughed, and he kissed her. Simon, with an air of great experi- "He's sort o' backward, on amount "Three young girls," peeped ence. "Where you'd orter go is up of gettin'„on in life," the old man through the hedge hard by, saw to the squire's," had said ; "but you kin encourage him, and elapping their hands softly, "Think so ?" asked Mr. Partridge, him • and I know how solid he is with the winter apple flush all over and 'what he's worth." ran away to tell their mother. his face this time. "Think so, Si ?" With which recommendation he "And he is awfUlly nice, and she "So do you?" saki Simon, looking departed, And now the middle-aged is awfully nice," ;they cried bit at his master. "Rich folks like you man sat looking at the giggling, musical chorus; "and it was all a can choose. Yott dress up and you girls, who might have been his mistake of that rilaiellieus Stirlen; look quite presentable yet. The daughters; and their mother, and you ought to be glad, tna; that Partridges mint never been called despair at their conduct fanned her„ you didn't let him fnci out what you humly. Why, your cousin Bee was self on her sofa, and.' did her best to thought. One of tus and Mr. Par - tailed the handsomest gal in the place them in a favorable light. But tridge I Absurd.. 3ut it's splendid country at seventeen," ; when she sent Bella to the piano the for -Bee, and romantle, for they were "oiltt was, too," interpolated Mr. girl, instead of playing cunade old lowers, Partridge. of Pearls," or "The Rippling Water -1 "I used to see you sneakite aster fall," nicely, pretended to forget her Karl's Clover Roo will purify your her the lane, there," said Simon, notes, and she dared not bid Flossie holouordileolvtits yaonudr phodartati !erre "and thought you'd make a pretty bring her portfolio of drawings, be- :Yie a hell. BOO, atik r" $1. elgolg clear pair. But she gave•you the mitten.' cause the girl had been making Chisholes Corner Drug Store, work for a very little pay. The. other servant they put a eap on and call a 'maid.' Maid and house- keeper. Well, as I said, ef I wasn't this while," said Dominic Partridge, softly. • "Well, I've no . doubt one of the Misses Dobson will share. it," said Bee: "When Si Millet told Mrs. but they're pretty=" "Pshaw !" said Dominic Par- tridge. A Big Soherne The Elm Connell for some time past have been bringing to bear -their influence upon the Ontario Government and neighboring, muni- cipalities with a 'view of seeering thole eo-opertaion in aix effort to deepen the Maitland River by dredging it from its source to its out- let at Goderich, more especially through Elmo and Grey townships, Their chief object is to so ,deepen the river through these townships as to afford a good and sufficient outlet. for the several big municipal dillies ; running into it. At present thc! river is too shallow to allow of an ample outlet for these drains, and at certain seasons in the year it over- flows, doing much damage to property skirting its banks. James Dickson, Reeve of Elma, presented the Elm, petition to the Ontario Government some weeks ago, and received a hearing, as well as some valuable information from the Hon. Mr, Hardy, of the Crown Lands De- partment. The -Globe made the following note of Mr. Dickson's visit; "James Diel Reeve of Elma, waited upon the Government to -day and on public grpund asked for the appropriation of 425,000 to dredge the River Maitland in that township, that a sufficient outlet may be afford- ed the municipal drains. Mr. Dickson urged a number of strong reasons in justifiction of the request, and the Government promised the matter easeful lonsideration. He was introduced by Thos. Magwood, the local naember, and Thos. Gibson, the member fbr East Huron." Among the claims urged by Elma for government aid was, that at the special sale of Crown lands in 186.8 the government received $16,600 for , 4,100 acres of land, which is over $10,000 more than could have been realized had f.the land not been improved. The maginal price of this land, at $1.50 per'acre, would. have netted only $6,150. Now, by ims provement we mean the constructing of the gravel and other roads through Elma by the township prior to the sale referred to. The above figures were furnished Mre Dickson by Mr. Hardy, and if they prove anything, it is the reasonableness of,Elma's claim upon the. :'government for assistance. As tihe dredging of rivers properly cones under the core- trol of the Public torks department, Ottawa,the Donii ion will doubtless be asked to take the .matter up, and with the joint aid of both govern- ments and interested municipalities the scheme could soon be accom- plished. 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