Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-03-23
BELLOWS FALLS, VT, FRIDAY,


on new earth.
When we got home we told our landlady
good Mrs. Colesworthy, who had been so
kind TO me, Of our beirolhal. Robert said
frankness was best in such matters, as in |
all others. We could not be married just /
yet. His salary was small. and he must
save enough to begin housekeeping in
quiet way. In the mean time he would
want, Of course, to be with me as much as
possible, and so it was well our relation
should be understood, and then there would
he no room for gossip.
That New Year. however, the firm he
worked for raised bis salary, SO that he
saved the money we needed sooner than we
had any hope, and we were married the
next summer, year afler our be'rothal
Then Robert took me home. We had
three rooms---a chamber, kitchen, and
little parlor. We th ought of spare bed
room at first, but I had no friends who
were likely TO come and see us, neither
had Robert so we saved that expense.
What alright, CHEEKY home we had! How
much pride and pleasure we took in every
convenience and adoinment We thought
we we're just as happy as We could be;
but then another year passed by, and with
the June yoses came baby girl to look up
at us with her shy sweet eyes, full of
strange baby wisdom, We found we could
be happier still. wanted to call the lit
tie thing Rose, because she came when
the roses came, and Robert wanted to call
her Mary, because that was my name; so
we compromised and called her Rosemary.
think you never saw just such baby
never surely, unless you have had a
. first baby of your own. She was such a
round, rosy, fat, dmpled, loving, sunny,
/ bird-like creature, with wise, still ways
: ro1, that kept yoa wondering how the world
d looked to her. and what she was thinking
8 about. She was perpetual novelty and
!, entertainment to us. We never tired ol
$, speeulating about her. And so ten month,
d went by most happily, until it was th'
le March alter little Rosemary came.
,e Then Rober, took sudden. violent co d
.e 1t came on to rain one day while he wa
at the store. He had to go out to a'ten'
-. 20 business, and having no overshoes o
+ umbrella, went carelessly without them
i. and came home to me at night so hoars
"A he could hardly speak. Ii was his la'
n days work.
,e Let me hurry over these few terribl
,e weeks of suffs ring and suspense througl
: which | nursed him. He died in the las
e of April. Before he went away from vi
d little Rosemary had learned to say papa.
te She said it TO him just before he died, ant
il can never rget the way his face kin
y died with life-bke brightness which mad
!, me almost hope 10 hold him back it'll
W longer from death. He reached ou; hi
"A arms, those thin, weak arms, and ! lai
70 the child in them.
7 GOD bless you," he said, /" my darling
n my little darling! God bless you aud kee
e, you from all evil"
e. Then he began to cough, and took he
vs. away, and tied her into tiny rocking
;r chair, where she had learned to sit p,
n tiently hour after hour, never lroublin
any one. When the coughing spell WI
en- over he closed his eyes, and ! heard hi
e, say in low voice:
Mt The angels do always behold the fac
ha of their Father" and / knew be W;
nd thinking Of his little one, and what her /
~ would be when he was gone.
ey Just at the last he turned his eyes to m
a 4 and said in weak, fain; tones:
zoe "You have been my true wife, Mary
:, You have walked with me down to Il
>, very brink of the river. You must
mn back alone."
off With these words he made sign for !
to kiss him, and bending down l press
in my lips 10 his, tha, even then quivered
ust meath my touch, and family returned r
ers pressure. When i lifted up my head
,ly, was dead.
md had been alone month before | h
of courage to look about me, or think at
Ok what | was going TO do. The firm h
the been very kind. They continued Rober
,ry, pay through his sickness, aud for t
of months afterwsTj, making up the b
am year. OF course that was all could ha
expected of them. and more-I must ia
,ho care of myself and my little gill. r.
4. ert had left little money, but that l
no, mean 20 touch. felt that it ought
~. remain as provision against any lime
!, peculiar need, or for Rosemary if sho'
die. So / went around amongst my
e, customers and procured the promise of
=: much work as could do to take hor
!, foe it was of course out of the question
II, leave my child and 60 out all day, as