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Nancy Scovandyke, too, was duly informed of her loss, and charged when she came to Kentucky, "to look out on the ferry-boat for a youngish, good-looking man, with brown frock coat, blue cravat, and mouth full of white teeth." At Buffalo Mr.
Rivers?" asked Anna more interested in him than in the exact minute of her father's birth. "The Lord only knows," returned Mrs. Nichols. "Little girls shouldn't ask too many questions." This silenced Anna, and satisfied her that there was some mystery connected with 'Lena. The mention of Nancy Scovandyke reminded Mrs.
"I promised Nancy Scovandyke," said she, "that I'd have some on 'em set free, but I'll be bound if 'taint harder work than I s'posed 'twould be." Still Aunt Polly's freedom lay warm at grandma's heart and now when she was mentioned together with "Christmas gifts," a bright idea entered her mind,
"Yes or that is, Nancy Scovandyke's sister, Betsy Scovandyke that used to be, lives there. May be you know her. Her name is Bacon Betsy Bacon. She's a widder and keeps boarders." "Ah," said he, the teeth this time becoming wholly visible, "I've heard of Mrs. Bacon, but have not the honor of her acquaintance. You are from the east, I perceive." "Law, now! how did you know that!" asked Mrs.
She was greatly shocked, but thinking she could not do the subject justice, she said, "Wall, wall, it's of no use for you and I to arger the pint, for I don't know nothin' what I want to say, but if Nancy Scovandyke was here, she'd convince you quick, for she's good larnin' as any of the gals nowadays." So saying, she walked away to Polly's cabin.
Wall, I've seen folks that it sarved jest so; but you'll get over it. Now there was Nancy Scovandyke did John ever say anything about her? Wall, she couldn't bear snuff till after her disappointment John told you, I suppose?" "No, madam, my husband has never told me anything concerning his eastern friends, neither do I wish to hear anything of them," returned Mrs.
Still her Massachusetts friends were not forgotten, and many a letter, wonderful for its composition and orthography, found its way to Nancy Scovandyke, who wrote in return that "some time or other she should surely visit Kentucky," asking further if the "big bugs" didn't prefer eastern teachers for their children, and hinting at her desire to engage in that capacity when she came south!
Livingstone had yet made their appearance, but the latter soon came languidly in, wrapped in a rose-colored shawl, which John Jr., said "she wore to give a delicate tint to her yellow complexion." She was in the worst of humors, having just been opening her husband's trunk, where she found the numerous articles which had been stowed away by Nancy Scovandyke.
Had the old lady been a Catholic, she would have crossed herself for thus early breaking her promise to Nancy Scovandyke. As it was, she mentally asked forgiveness, and as the colored girl "didn't know where marster was," but "reckoned he had gone somewhar," she turned aside, and seeking her son's room, again entered unannounced. Mrs.
"What was your grandmother's aunt's name?" asked Durward. "Susan Howard," returned Joel. "The Howards were a stuck-up set, grandmarm and all not a bit like t'other side of the family. My mother's name was Scovandyke " "And yours?" interrupted Durward.
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