South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-12-23
Shaking the Table Cloth.


shall, Aunt NaDnieY
/ Mrs. Mamie Marshall wasn't nv aunt.
but had called her so for many wears for
she was tue kiudcst and truest friend ever
bad She sat silent, knitting busily and
smiling little before she answered me
'lt all came of shaking table CLOTH
said Aunt Mamie.
What! did you trip him up in its folds.
and bring him down ou his knees 10 Won =
No; LII tell you. When | was four
years old my mother died. don't know
whether children of that tender arc geper.
/ ally remember their mothers as | remember
niue or not; but when was so little that
! sat IN high chair at the table. | would
watch the chairs filling up around it with
the persistent hope that my mother would
come aud SIT by me; aud | did not re inouish
this hope after L was old enough TO com.
prehcnd death, hut chung to it, praying
Christ to work miracle, as in the old Bi
Bile times, and let my dear mother appear
to my longing sight.
Never was there more afTectionate or
imaginative child, aud my youth was n
dreary time. My grandmother. who had
charge OF me, mraut to do her duty by me.
did ,yos fol and of,,I.I - - ',o
me ~ ,vou ~ bar l;r,;,.,I
low. Bat she never manifested any alice
ton for me. She was one Of those kind of
people who think kisses and cnre.,es foil
lsbucSs, and though can lool, back now
and remember proof of a secret tender
ness, she never kissed or caressed me when
was a child D'' " ~"
| grew up starved FIR Ioyo Ac,-r
fourteen y.,rs,.l ,,ro,. =, l,.,l. ~. o.
whence ali g,ris l,,t c,r :, rr.,, - i'o'n
read romafc.s- hn;l, a., o..,!l, ~, -
well bad been trained in nran,;-,I ~, =, 80
and habits that mn ma droa,,oJ 80 ,L, ""y
NV mind was t,liug Mr f,a1,.. WI"
was of The Time w6on i, n,a,,ri,I G 60"
yifh bold. b,i,ht cves snI ,,,,. -. 11'N'
should. seated IN r;Il, wL;,a fr',.''
near brfore IN, ~ .n,,,, - H. ~
5a,bered bcrrio. n ,bIT ali aaI i '3:' VI
n hi, bcort ,yitI, .nJ.ranI ',,1'S az
loan mn an ~. s,,aJ ~ ",'1 80 i,S"',"s "''rs'
or,ns a. =, ..,,.,, -. '''1 " -" "io III MS
he wonyd n,k, m" nn"an af w. - "u'''
7 never re,Iiya1 nrI, ;,noran, .i Ii,3e-T
wos how ncrnIi,ri,' obtnrJ ,r's 'u',r a.
49,, Nv" r., ;eI''-''y '"'u'u WIS any sucn
,l;ng ornnrrod rh;ch J'.,,n-oJ 0 "a, 10y So'ii:-
f,l ;7l,,.ia, .,,5 ,,',I, O''"''-
Tb.ro nero L. - 80,
flI Who, e ,h.. 1r,,,s ,,-, , ~ '''e
almo., iuco..,otiy o,fnI,roJ = o'' va
bcrrics ,ylic,, ,,.,, t ,i,- ''''''''I
: W." ny E''"'i''''"t' preserved
work w,smv cousin S'e1Lon h,,, -, ,1-, ,''s
ibr,a vo,rs y,,,,'.,r 49,, ,,,r';lf
ono i,, ,rL.a n,., ~,
c,psbt . oI,',..a 81 man
riding swiftly throu,b tho wood.
.Wh' can it he p said S,cnben
sOh" said IN doli,bt ,rsrf,,s iti,r,-
lover kpiob, c,n,;n, C,,,, e., 49,, e'y
me LET me ,y,,ch mil H., c,r,'.. .,-,,'-..i
the bend in ia. road Irit ;.Lo La,.;ii
take of nj, nlpmod hat and r,co :, c,,n,
Then he wiIl ,.,il,r -, all ,;c, no ~, 49,.
horse and r,,,,. mo -. III. ,,,,.,..1 a,.,l,.
a nice Dir. Won oro f,r toi,L, ~ INN
off with aim v1p2 b,rd.o,na I.l,. -
you would make. with vour b,,cb C,c, .,J
hyiur hair. Ikea wild I,di,n's orJ ,r,o,,,l,
all stained viii, horries, UoiLo' Iyo,l.l,,,,
you look Grand Ay;nr and yo,r .boos c,II
ing off Lrcause tley arc III, ia 49,, H.,
To sec Won,
,Ny cloud l..,,j u.,s Jo.,-.-,.1 r--....-
From that moment know ,E,t ,.sn,i,
uucouth and upat,r,ctivs and my hcro I5T,.oor
would never come ceased - Cvnoc, hio,
/ crew Older. ,r,s LIN ana .,,rl,,r,,rI
~ shy, and Stunned what s,ciclv ,vasa ~.
ta:p,bictowo
When | was eiob,oen vo,rs oil 7 r,oo;,
cd an invitation from an amt win, liyel in
Boston Co visit her had novo, soon b.r
and he know me onIy hg r@,ar, ~