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Show THE FAR.1ER BOVS. UV li. V. Ji'.V-L V.u -' - ... ,'-. -.-u- .r, 0:.-i.-.-x-a v.. - e 'e-.-r IrW. l'i. a- .MJ in v.i by th-r ; . ; Tae -1. a'- It., .1 ; uc .-r f , i .cL ::-!, rr oL. - 1 u, aj.. . i- r ...i, .r w.",.. t'li-r.z'-; " '- " Al.d t:. nail- fl.,J. su .u.-i, -1 .u , jJ, Ite KtaJ wf It. WWW ,Uj".li A REAL LADY. One sumuier I was boarding with uiy lauiily in a farm hou-e by the sca-shure. sca-shure. Uur Lo.-t was a pitiful mi-er, starving lum-eli', starviiifr hia family: and, a jortiuri, starring his boarders, fciya of human nature, sick of petty, miseiable contention, a parry of us started our one day, in a wagon, for a fine beach some luiles away, to try to lorget our noes in tie "kind lap of mother nature. As we approached the beach, we stopped at a farm house t ) ask pcniiMun to put our horse in the barn. Knocking at the door, it wis opi ned by a motherly-looking woman wo-man if fif.y, in spectacles, the glasses of which, however, far from Lidiug, seemed only to serve, like varnish on a picture, to bring out the light and ttaimth ot a pair of loving b.ue eyes und rneath. She gave us the heartiest reception, "l'ut your l orse in the barn? Certainly! Cer-tainly! i'ou'll find plenty of hay there. Come to spend a day by the beach, have you ? That's right .' I do like to see the young people enjoy themselves! Won't you eat your lunch in our apple ore-hard; it's so nice and cool, ani shady there?- And wouldn't you like a pan of sweet mi.k to have with it ?'' ''iile.-s your dear, loving heart!' I cried internally. ''I'lieu the stern necessities ne-cessities of farm life do not shrivel, and wizen, and dry-rot souls alter the manner man-ner of old Grimes we are boarding w.ih. But perhaps this old lady had trodden a mure silken path.'' I looked round the room. There were milk-pans enough to make one's lile one eternal sour. Her dress, loo, was trussed up, her arms bare and with that battered and callous look, about the elljuws which betokened hardy usage. ''-No chi'dren, probably; that accounts ac-counts for it." l'lcsently a rustling of bed clothes and an incipient wail from a neighboring room. "Ah ! that s your, , grandchild, I suppo.-c ?" ".No, that's; my bat'V." L w;t about as incredulous ns Sarah of old; but she went on: "1 1 have sixteen children !'' j Sixteen children ! All these milk i pan-, ordinary work of the farm-hou-e, : and room still ill the heart for such a reception as we had had, lor such a generous ''I do like to tee young people peo-ple enjoy themselves," for such hearty proffers of the ho.-pitality ol the apple orchard, and of a full gallon (if sweet uiiik ! Ah! 1 see it. "Where there! is rooai in the heart, theio is always I r.-oui m the hon-e, '' room for all these ; children, and then room to spare lbr a j bevy ef pleasure-seeking, do-nothing strangers, who would seem sent only to j suggest the com plaint, why must my! hie be a c 'aseless toil of nursing, , sciU'ibiug, ripping, se-ving, while theo ' people can lie on the rocks all day long, couiitiui; the breakers, cooled by the spray, d zing oil to the music of the puNing oCi an ? 1 could tell a great deal more about tin blessed woman how she refustd all pay, leeling .-he was already paid amply in tue ueliirht ot kindness itselt; how .-lie manili s'.ed a delicacy id' politeness polite-ness worthy of Chcsieilield himself. Chesterlield ! forgive the wroni: of naiuim.' his litnlow. artificial type vf lnaniH r in such a genuine presence but still an exquisite delicacy of politeness, polite-ness, by replying when 1 went, after 'a preliminary eniharra-smint in the stable over the horse's collar, and said, blu.-hingly, ".Madame, 1 am a.-ha ned to say 1 do not know how to harness that hoi.-c ! " "Of course not; everybody every-body can't do everytUing !" and this in a tone as though she were already ovi rwlu lined with ainaZ' incut at the number of ihitics I could do. Her rep'ying thus, 1 say, aud then runiuiiL' lo the buck door calling to two . f her sons in the tic ,1. "Here, you, Henry C ay ! l'amel Web-ter ! Hoom sti.l ill Hie" he ot, e see, for a streak of In 10 wer-liip!) CVme here an 1 he'p iirs genileiiian hiirne-shis hor-.-!" li:it 1 caiiu.'t enlaige fur; In r. I'ees not sli-. In. wove', i"l ns,ra:e g!i'riou-.y the cve.i'ive p ''cr oi' a huge heart c.caiive p r to luaaC a -mall hous i:a:r.w nuiiD- alunlai't. w, rk p av. aeo::;r:tvc I Sj h-.'re lootr.y. bread and any '.' It . |