The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1855-11-29

" Who blesses others in his daily deeds,
Will find the healing that his spirit needs;
For every flower in others pathway strewn,
Confcrs its fragrant beauty OH our own"
So you are going to live in the sams
building with Hetty Turnpenny,' said
Mrs. Lane to Mrs. Fairweather. you
will find nobody to envy you. IF her
temper does not prove too much for
even your good nature, it will surprise
all who know her. We lived there a
year, and that is as long as anybody
ever tried it
Poor Hctty!' replied Mrs. Fair
weather, she has had much to harden
her. Her mother died too early for her
to remember her father was very Sc
we're with her /; and the only lover she
ever had, borrowed the savings of her
years of toll, and spent them in dissipa-
ton. But Hetty, notwithstanding her
sharp features, and sharper words, GER
tainly has kind heart. In the midst
of her greatest poverty, many were the
stockings she knit, and the warm waist
coats she made, for the poor drunken
loves, whom she had too much sense to
marry. Then you know that she feeds
and clothes her brothers. orphan child. ,
IF you call it feeding and clothing, ,
replied Mrs. Lane. THE poor child
looks cold and pinched, and frightened
all the time as if she we're chased by the
east wind. l used to tell Miss Turn
penny she ought to be ashamed of her.
self, to keep the poor little thing at work
all the time, without one minute to play.
If she does but look at the cat, as it
runs by the window, Aunt Hetty gives
her rap over the knuckles. | used to
tell her she would make the girl just
such another sour old crab as herself
THAT must have been very improv-
ing to her disposition replied Mrs.
Fairweather, with good humored smile.
But in justice to poor Aunt Hetty,
you ought to remember she had just
such a cheerless childhood herself
Flowers grow where there is sunshine
Il know you think everybody ought
to live in the sunshine rcjoined Mrs.
Lane; and it must be confessed that
you carry it with you wherever you 60.
If Miss Turnpenny has heart, l dare
say you will find it out, though 1 never
could, and never heard Of any one else
that could. All the families within the
hearing of her tongue called her the
neighbor-in-law.'
Certainly the prospect was not very
encouraging; for the house Mrs. Fair
weather proposed to occupy, was not
only under the same roof with Miss
Turnpenny, but the buildings had one
common yard in front. The very first
day she took possession Of her new hab-
itation, she called on the neigLbor-in-
nav INV. Aunt He.ty had taken the pre-
caution to extinguish tho fire, lest the
new neighbor should want hot water,
before her own wood and coal arrived.
Her first salutation wae, II you want
any cold water, there's a pump across
the street; l don't like to have my
house stopped all over
Il am glad you are SO tidy, neighbor
Turppenny,' replied Mrs. Fairweathcr |;
6 it is extremely pleasant to have neat
neighbors. l will try to keep every
thing as bright as new five cent piece,
for see it will please you. l came in
merely to say good morning, and to ask
if you could spare little Peggy to run
up and down stairs for me, while am
getting my furniture in order. l will
pay her a siIpence an hour
Aunt Hetiy had began to purse up
her mouth for refusal, when the prom
Use of sixpence an hour relaxed her fsa-
lures at once. Little Peggy sat knitting
a stocking very diligently, with rod
lying on the table beside her She
looked up with timid wistfullnes,, as
III tho nrosnoet of INV change was like q