The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1868-03-14
WHOLE NO. l67.

m MS Misery TO once. Though, she added
signing, he does bring me piles Of pcrfecionary
an ! IKE sugar puins ~ well as Nangcline
specially. she said, with lackadaisval ait that
wa irresistible. Them that's swce,ened by
love.
rhrn will write him polite refusal
saM
Yes Suub him gent, Tor me. Tell him
ala no fool, an there a lAN AZ 10 a Inan mar.
ryn' his grandmother. Tell him be better carry
his pigs TO some other markii u you can slick
that up into pieiry.'
drew the desk towards me- and wrote the
note, which was approved, sealed, and directed.
to the old lady's evident relief.
There 7 she said, that's oil my mind How
orful slick you do do II, Miss Annie. Well, la
Ions Is various. don't s'pOsc, now, ii's much
harder for you 10 write sich note ~ that, then
II would be for me 10 make Johnny cake.
! am very glad was able To relieve you
said
Thank YOU, deary. The good Of YOU is. YOU
was Jrst ~ clever on accommodation before We
was rich Ne you are now and ain't re.pec,in
all the time you want 10 sit something Ou, Of the
Miss Annr. what's a DaTkies sobrieiy {?
\ darkry's so6reiy, ] reaPraird. Are you
surr that Is iiP I don't know what II can be.
unless u - "a Temperance meeting for culored pet
suns. why dors some one want you To give
money 10 h!' for was fully aware Of the fact
that the old lady was fairly bcsei by begging let.
,ers.
No, huncy, were perviird 10 a mec,iu ia the
vested oi the church this afternoon.
'Dh. ] said, glimmsr Of light breaking upon
me YOU mean the DOrcas Society.
YES, there's the note aud she handed m- an
Invitation, requesting her to join the Durcas So
cieiy oi ilIr fashionable church 10 which Euphro-
syn- had taken a Icw
Ninuy's 90, Que tu" she said Hut hav-
en't the prestige Of al idr- what I, H.
explained iO her the object Of the meeting.
We her siu ais.a 1 Ia
her was a member VI this same society.
Nov. ain tina, nice. she sail, heartily. IAN
that The only thing ia ia, NhOlr ketbuudlr OF
thing ~rVr b'en aArd To that rally like WHY,
] wa membrane of Ont Ia liahbington iron, III.
time WI. gal until We diskivet,d w. was all
lie miliin"Is ~ Ninny SAYS, nn corne AVA
from there
Then YOU will prohAbl, -ujoy this one
said
We callr! .ln srwin' circles. she said, bu,
s'pUss i, all amount. TO the SAINT thing
just the sam~, ! assrnisd
" there any thing do like, she said, IL j..
se~in' tor chariiables. IL Is 80 nice 20 think -:
some Poor starved critirr that perfectly cons,i-
inie, Ai:h noend Of babirs. An not a shift among
them, an To know yuu te going TO kiyer .m up
from the cold weaihtr With tanning Hu talikrr.
when the barometer at aero Most Of cm Is
the ,hankfullesi critters, too ihou,h sonr oi IN
is NV ful swindlin
Yes, said, Jon are yer, apt io be- imposed
upon
usind one woinan saii the old lady. set
iling herself Tor long story, rotne to our house
one day IN wiEier. l. was MS cold as the equa-
tor, ct wherever II is things fret1e so tight, An
Ninuy said the 'elcmeniarJs WAS in n raging pro-
fusion. The rain was n pOuiin down, an the
wind was BLOWN, and IL was pfigid enough
to irceZ" solar bear You vr s.en them Kind
OF days.
OL. yes.
Well as said, this woman she came to the
house with the most piiifilcsi story. She was -
wild-r with five li'ile bits Of BOYS all sons an
all sick With the tied-sp pneunatics an the bil-
hard ftver 'cep,n one o; 'em, an he had diges-
iiv, chills offu, an her husband was dead
though never seen one Of them beggin widdefs
whose husband TdsH't dead--an' she was n.s,ar.
win an a-ircczin an' sufferih in generalize
an she'd been 10 the village 10 git medicine for
them sick boys, with bad quarter somehody'd
give her Tor washin', that the apoiheosi. wouin't
take for the doctors stuff Shed walked four
miles an been caught in the storm, an she was
a-cryin' an a-iakin on till II was dreadful TO
hear her.
Well p said, as the old lady paused
Well, honey, all she axed for was the loan Of
umbrella TO git home, that she was TO return
faith fol the next time she went 10 the village
We took her in an done for her | gave her
clothes ou, Of nv share Of the sewin circles re.
r'y for herself and the poor little boys, an We
packed her a basket fall of things TO eat an give
her = bran new cotton tumprella. she was that
thankful. thought she'd never be done a-bless- .
IN the whole kit Of Us, "a FIVE was mArkangels
Miss Annie, the nexi 1eek, when the sewin cir
Gle came TO dissemble, told what I'D done with
my share OF the last INSTITUTION Of clothes, an
" you u believe me, that Timposturing old wom-
an had been 10 every one OF them ladies with
tina, fabrica,ioned story that was lie s'pose
from one end 10 the other They all give her
clothes and pervisions, an some on EN- money
an she musta rccollecied no lessn Twenty-Five
cotton rnmhrellas. for the storm held on two day
IL is very hard, I said, that the deserving
poor should be robbed by such imposlors
It's awful encouraging But we eoulin new
er ind her, an s'pose she's doing publishing
business now in clothing an rambrella store, /
with the things she stole from them Babbingtoh
ladies
During this long story, my eyes had more than
once wandered TO the pile of books upon the old
lad, table 4 am afraid you were going To
read said, and my coming in here, this morn
ing, ~as al interruption TO you.
Bless you, honey, she replied, you ain new
cr u" eruption 10 me. Indeed, though ! wouldn't
say 20 ai0re Nnny, I'm always ,ickled TO death
ii somebody will be any disruption 10 me when
I'm rcadin' don't like Il much, nohow.
Why do you read, then |?
Why, my dear, I'm sich an orful ignogram- !
pus. wanted 10 deranRe some idees 10 my head
SOS 10 quit mortihyin Ninny every time open
my mouth. know all the readin' in the unver- I
sal wont disable me TO reverse English as she
does but J thought, perhaps, II read some OF
the books in the librarian, they would help me
10 dissee, my in,elligibles, an perverse better
with the visitors
You have a varied collection here said
wondering what had directed her choice.
! jes; took 'em as they come. They re sOi up
the shelves 'cordin ~ size, you know To-day
I've read this " and she held up 'Anihon's clasi.
ical Dictionary
Not the whole Of itr
oh, no, jrsi here an there, like a hen a.pick- I
in corn. Miss Annie, I'm free 10 confess that I
don't believe word Of II =
Nor
No, don't VI course there's a lot Of II /
that's all heather Creek TO me, but there's good
plain English beside, an I've read n heap Of H.
It's all about people Now, there was Jew Peter I
DO you believe all tina, about his maxim bull /
Of hllnself a-couriin' Miss Europe-an' sich fool
~ she was a.gittin on his back 10 be rid away
with An Ne for his thunder bars and his rulin' I
the heavens, why, It's downright 'infaniiy 10 /
write sich stun. An there was Omnibus. poor /
little feller, that old Tartifus give 10 some other
ius, with his poor little twin brother Remus 10 I
be drowned only they wasn't drowned at all,
bu, as she wolf come an nussed them. Now. /
wouldn' I any civilized wolf a-gobhsd EN- w +
Why, they the savagesi critters 10 the univei.
sty. an u stands 10 reason two babies woHldn't I
R"' on hnu'gesed' US iuss tueu'ous. An
there was ProspeFous-sO, Prosper,as-never did T
poor gal have sich awful time. The story
abuut her 10 perfectly preponderuus. How she +
au her serious mother was out one day, an old .
Plural, who lived In place full Of he cats, run /
o6 With lier, jet siampin' on the ground an Il /
a-opeuin an swallerin up the pair Of them /
Aud her beau, he was . fiddler, went after her, 4
an old Plural, be was 80 ihickled to hear him /
fiddle, that be- let her 10, only a.lellin her she /
must look straight a-head all the time she got 4
home, an'. of course. beln' a woman, she bad 10 /
look back, when like ~ not she 4 never although
OFF " they hada't a-said nothin TO her. That's /
jesl mach sense ~ some meas got. A teilin' /
a woman whal she ain't 10 do, on some awful /
oanoply, when, OF course, she jet gifts ravin' /
iarin mad 10 do that very thing. An 80 this (
poor gal, she had 10 20 back 10 old Plural again.
an her beau he was nanied rry Dice, had io .
come home all alone by himself.
INT. ! said. as Mrs DaAnlil rsn.ed crinpleir-