Show miller jims daughter yes the old mill there kind euid romantic roni antu looking aint it but bui it seems awful lonesome to us folks as knew it ful fill of life lire and just piling ahat ling in the grisi grist all day long that there water wheel never stopped for repairs repairs ir in them hi m days it just fuzzed a along ong al all the tile time and the teams stood around and see the bo boyf a comin up tho the hill bill ridin an of old mare with a great eack of grain thrown over her instead ofa saddle arit trot arit liot and a halt balf grown grow n barefooted boy on her neck folks allus sent a boy to mill in those daye days if they had one and you see that there house theres there where miller jim and his darter lived we hoys boys used to cast sli eyes over at that door I tell you and when shed come and look out kind of unconscious like and pur tend not to sec shapelier sha shade delier her eyes with her hand baud and look way down the valley it was just as if an angel from heaven had lit down there why there want a aba cba chap in sugar valley that thieu think slie she waa was the handsomest gal in the world and when she smiled on any of us with that kind of sort of of sweet insinuation way she had wed just have walked on hot for her herand and draped lots for the privilege what are yo o a sketching chin the ruin well ye yo dont see any ruin but that of the senseless esit wood and stone tho the ruin was made by one of your painter chaps darn his if I could bavi held his head in the millrace mill race for half an hour id have died happy and what makes me cry now like a poor weak critter I him to her he wag was a movin round here bere gettin sketches as he lie called em cf the valley 11 and I may as well own up he was a nice smart looking well spoken chap and paid his way liberally they said he was only working for amusement and so it turned out and one day I told him he ever seen the prettiest picter in the place and I said it was miller jims daughter and he ought to see her the next sunday I was wv at the church and so was the painter chap and we happened bosit to sit together P and when the choir sang there was one voice that kind of carried the tune alone I knew it well and it made me tremble all over with happiness happi and the stranger listened and says he in a whisper what a he heavenly evenly voice yes aez I and its her the one in the straw bonnet and white v vil vii ii the pirl girl air that miller jims darter i after church nothing would do but I must inter duce him which I did god forgive me rue and lie walked bv by her and carried her book just ju t as if he lie allus had known her but then her father was with them only he of any account kind of shiftless believed everybody honest till he be found them out and then lie would kinder apologize for them and hed lend money as long as he had a penny in his pocket if anyone made up a good story and never locked a door or took over toll or made a sharp bargain kind of witless and foolish with a soft heart that allus kept him poor though I dont know as he ever wanted anything much well weil beauty is a misfortune if t the ile grace r ace of god go with it N nobody od V d a anything out of the way w when I en all to once it came over us like a thunder blast the millers girl was gone gone with the painter ainger chap but wo never knew eov hov or where there was more than one of us that going to ask miller jim about it but when wo we come to look in his face we ire just say anything the miller was a changed man hed allers had a smile and a pleasant word for us boys he lie ever what yo you call jolly but he had his little quiet ulet jokes they were the same old old ones over and over but we ire expected X led cm em now he be had bad a look in in his is face aa as if something inside was dead and his lips that used to be kind ot of smiling and ad foolish they were now shut like a vise and he lie never mentioned her name to livin living mo mortal artal and he lie got sort of absentminded absent minded forgot to take toll from a widows grist used to stop little children and kiss them or pat them ou on their heads and there was allus a tear just falling failing from 11 rom his eyes cold I spose spose cause he didn dian take care of himself and then ho lie took a good bit of notice ofa little child a little mite of a girl that jived near and one day he see her leaning out afan of an upstairs window and he ran over a and nd told her mether mother ehe she would fall debbe and get hurt the woman had an ugly temper and she says says to him says ze she I kin kiu take ca re of ray my own children more than you can do with yours and he looked at herbort ot of still and white for a moment and turned away the next day the mill goin nor the next and on the third we looked and found him in the race but whether he lie slipped in or drowned himself of purpose u of nobody can tell fors ive often looked into the faces of hand some ive seen since then und and tried tr cd to find one that favored that ga gal I of miller jima jims bu but t fo foi and rale beauty auty ive never been seen her equal and how she silo could leave us all would have died for her is more th than an I c can a n conceive a ralo good picter er youve got ot odthe of the mill but you yu cant see the full hull of it ther theres es two peo I pic when I look at iland one of them is I wish I had the trick of painting from memory she why h ats theres damptz some something in in my ray eyes ita the dampness I guess this mill air allus docs does affect me just so |