The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-01-01

!, Oi,oh AalIsj ana turned mi
cattle into their crops whenever we fobH
IN our fields; and as to any of theA 3
staying In the house, that of course vi 4,
slble. Oh, that wretched life! n
IL there was any one person Who'll 4
more than these step-sons, it was her ~
hunt. feared him, too, and he "a
suppose, and took q fendish sort OF
IN tormenting me, pulling nv hair. !,
me, swapping my head with his gre y
and calling me all sorts of names.
The mother and son always guard
money, think, but his frightful %
troubled me SO much until after OlliX 4
how wicked they were. On such ~,
Ollie and | used to get out of the W. |,
our garnet, if we could-and sit sila,fl h
our arms around each other, while Ia,
ally stole glance at the picture Il iii
to see if Satan was still there. andWI
stairs, in the person of Tom Hunt.
| had come to identify him. Tom " IA
Hastily dressed, and once he brought ,;nl
woman and little girl, who astoAs. /
by the splendor of their costume. M
| suspect | must have had natuA ,see
th9 rich and goreeoAgi az What 8 adsu,
Saorance sucb, tor the inp-essi4r hi
Emery made upon ne. Is still v- y.
zach doreled whe her any xf t..t
deens tHat J,iie read sijoue /. aer
queen Esther herself, when, Sin .egs5 81
siee Went ~ 10 her lord, ~ save e .TevFf
dismal fate" soon made friends WITH
child, and for some hours, that one Suud
To my siia.no ~ It said alpo,t foroo,
gentle Ollie. ii
III was midsummer, and took my new
down to the pond, and showed her my fA
turtles, wading knee-deep into the wkte
reach the floating pond.lilies, my treashrl
beauty and JOY. She liked fish well enouf
eat, she said, but the turtles were "uglythir
and she lung my lilies back in the pond,
ing the NASTY things wet her dressg'
smoothing out its folds, she asked me VIII
wore such old patched things for, and W
" dld not curl my hair like hers. 1t wss all
fashion"
Ollie was looking down upon me hom
narrow chamber window, as l came bacl
the house, and | went to him with these
ries. He did not say much about the are,
but when spoke about the curls, he tbok
his pocket-combs, and began combinc bu,,
tangled locks, and winding them aboutbi5
gers. They were rather longer than usbao,
Sally Hunt had neglected to cut them IF :
and when ne took from the iapanned H. :
little pasteboard box, and showed meInpl
in the two-inch mirror set in its lid. I IA ;
.onished and delighted.
Pride IN my personal appearance wal n
I'd, and L smoothed nay cnrls daily. IA +
Mrs. Hunt did not notice the changeh =
md his wites visit had ruffied her tempeiss,v
'ut one day, coming upon me saddeuk5
TODD before her bit of mirror in the III IN
visiting a refractory lock around NV Errs
he seized her hand into my hair, and rla !,
or her shears, which lay on the windof7
eVerei every JOCK close to my head. and :,
hem in the ire. =
There, madam, take up that work. AM !,
ne see you lay it down again until / tellv {,
on dare" she cried, as she hit me a ia !,
ne side of the head. 81 don't keen vos y !
ollar weel:, 70 stand before looking. ia 2
| took the sheet upon which / was SEW /,
nd yerked my needle back and forth viii
.eling that / would like to tattoo her e !, !,
sme way. Ollie was wedding or doino so !
ling in the garden. When he came q
inner, his poor, pale face was very sad. as
okod - re. -hou4ht = was for the loss