1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
151 
minister. I’d have told you, only you 
didn’t seem to be interested in him at 
all. His health kinder give out and he 
had to come into the country and work 
outdoors a few months, till he got bet¬ 
ter again.’ 
"Maud never said a word, but just sat 
there, thinking hard. She thought min¬ 
isters was awful nice, and I could see 
she was trying to remember just how 
she had treated him. 
“Finally she cried out: ‘What must he 
have thought of me?’ 
“ ‘I didn’t hear him say,’ I says, ‘hut 
if I’d been him I’d have thought you 
was a ridickerlous little snob.’ 
“ ‘What made you let me treat him 
so?’ she wailed. 
“ ‘I’ll tell you why,’ I says. ‘I see 
you’d got the idea that it was awful nice 
to be exclusive and play the grand lady 
toward folks that you thought wa’n’t 
nice enough for you to associate with, 
and I thought I’d see if I could get the 
idea out of your head. I thought it 
might be the only chance there’d ever be 
to show you just what exclusiveness is 
—that it’s just excluding yourself from 
lots of pleasure. 
“ ‘Now if you’d been friendly with 
Ransom you’d have had a fine time talk¬ 
ing with him. You’ve both been to col¬ 
lege, and you’ve studied the same things, 
and Ransom’s got a nice voice and you 
could have played and sung together. 
“ ‘That’s what you’re likely to do 
every time you’re exclusive. There ain’t 
anybody but what there’s some good in, 
and you can see it if you’re a mind to, 
and it won’t hurt you to associate with 
anybody that is decent and moral, even 
if some of ’em haven’t been to college 
and have to work hard for a living. 
“ ‘And another thing, it is such a 
small-souled way to be, and you get so 
mean and narrow that it ain’t no loss to 
other people to have you exclude your¬ 
self from ’em—you’re the only one that 
loses anything, and you are likely to lose 
a good deal. 
“Poor Maud sat there with the tears 
running down her cheeks. ‘Keep right 
on,’ she says. ‘You can’t say anything 
half hard enough about me.’ 
“I just put my arm around her and 
wiped her eyes. ‘There, there, little 
girl,’ I says, ‘I don’t need to say no 
more. It was a hard lesson, but I guess 
you’ve learned it.’ 
“ ‘I guess I have, too,’ she says, with 
a kind of sobbing laugh. 
She was awful sober all the rest of 
the day, and I didn’t know but I’d spoil¬ 
ed her visit, but I hadn’t. She’d been 
kinder stand-offish towards the young 
folks of the neighborhood that had come 
in, but now she begun to be real pleas¬ 
ant and friendly. We had music and lots 
of good times, and all the neighbors was 
sorry when she had to go home. 
“ Aunt Asenath,’ she says, while we 
was waiting for the train, ‘you were 
right about that exclusive business. It 
was awful nonsense. I didn’t really be¬ 
lieve it, even after your talk, but I 
thought I’d try your way if only to prove 
you wrong. But it proved you right. 
Those young people in the neighborhood 
were as bright and interesting as can be, 
and they made my visit very pleasant. 
I'm all through with exclusiveness. 
Aunt Asenath—and here’s my train.’ 
“ ‘What’s the rest of the story?’ Well, 
it was a year from that next Summer 
before Maud come again. We sat talk¬ 
ing together, waiting for the men to 
come to supper, and she’d been asking 
about all the folks in the neighborhood. 
“John come in, and Maud spoke to 
him. I wondered if she’d really got all 
over her exclusive ideas, and in a min¬ 
ute I found out. ‘Here comes the hired 
man,’ I says. ‘This is my niece Maud.’ 
“Maud turned toward him with a 
pleasant smile and a word of greeting. 
Then all to once she turned as red as a 
beet as she recognized Ransom. 
“There was some awkwardness be¬ 
tween ’em for a day or so, but Ransom 
never acted as if he remembered about 
that other visit, and they got so they 
was real good friends. Ransom was 
busy most of the time, helping John 
with the haying, but what time there 
was to spend with her he made the most 
of. 
‘ He w r ent away before she did, and I 
had her carry him to the station. Some¬ 
how, when she got back she didn’t look 
so lonesome as I’d expected she would. 
“Then, pretty soon, I noticed she was 
following me around, and she looked as 
if she’d got some news to tell me, and 
some awful good news, too. Then all of 
a sudden I guessed what was up, and 1 
give her a chance to tell her news. 
“ ‘Aunt Asenath,’ she began, ‘do you 
remember how horrid I was to Ransom 
the last time I was here?’ I thought you 
were dreadfully cruel to give me such a 
hard lesson, but I’ve been ever so grate¬ 
ful to you since then.’ 
“ ‘I guess it was a good plan to cure 
you,’ 1 says. 'It would be an awful bad 
thing for a minister’s wife to be exclu¬ 
sive.’ 
“ ’Oh,’ she says, blushing, ‘you 
know!’ ” 
SUSAN BROWN ROBBINS. 
The Rural Patterns. 
The box-pleated skirt and waist shown 
will make a pretty Spring suit for a 
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