, 1870-08-07

determined there shouldn't nobody hayo n,
peaee 90 long - he couldn't.
:" He'd got Mtsy up md down With hltn night
after night maxim har hoat aaupols snd IN
negar, and then hold jaw and scoid 20 t.a. M 1u xha
| WAs eenJnoss beat out. lie wouldn't have
nobody Set up with him, though tI,ern vas
offers u,adc. No, he a.id, MY vas ',;s
daughter, aad it raa her bisnsss to t.lo cure
Miry VIA clear worked down folks kind
g pitied her. She wm 4 strong cal. Lut
therea things that We3s out the ssronseat.
The worst ont was It hung on go. OH Klaek
lioss had most anaEin' sisht q corss;tuGor.
Aed 50 al down 10 deaths door, aud seeu
ns1b!y to have ths breath o lite In him and then
nobody wants TO haze Live alters have esch 4
sisht Q, Tcar u EN-, they. Jest last and last;
aud 1t really did BEEN as II he'd wear AIirv ont
and St her into the grave tus., fos .shod sot
! cough with belu mp 70 much in the cold, aud
there one time to Offer to wasch lest il lie
spring q the 5ear, when the la51ocks Eas Jest
buddin' out, and lliry she coma and t,iked
WITH me over the fenca, and the poax ysl abe
fairly broke down and sobbed ~ il heS hea1t
would break tallin' me hae trouble,
My g1se up 80 than most gals, Cause sued
ailerB held her head mp. and had sich sieAE
e,,g. gnt and Resolution, but Ehe told ma al
1T seems old Black Hoes he want coutep,
With Wolryl9' en ler, and gettin' on her no
Eide, Kin, and uaniiu' on her to promise that
hlc wouldn't heE Eill when he was dead auL
gone. and Hirs she wouldn't promise and
then tho old m.n said she shouldn't have
ceit f1um him il she liln't. aud 10 t4ey had
s.sS Sass and ~h,f ,9Ftl t,a Eys5sb0ay IL 'oS ~,s
SHOULD sarve her so, for though he
he'd other children. tho7 Was married aud
la1n tut jist Miry.
tho front yard Wis Legiunin' to blow out. aud
then he began to feel he vas goia', snd he
tent for rareon Loth1op to know VIVA. HAs to
be dono about Lis soul
Wal, sa,s pa1son Lothrop, syou must
tettle up all your worldly anairs you must ba
III peaca and love with ali scanEina, and il
you've wrouGed anybody you must make it good
"om Black uoss he bounced night over in
his bed with his back 10 the minister.
The Devil! eayu ho- 't~ii1 taxa all I've
! got, And he never spoke another word,
though r1taan Loshtop he prayed with him.
| Wal That night sot up with him, and he
went od tween two and three IN tie 1nornin'
ana laid him out regular or all the rlckh
q Lone ever soc, naSe1 6ee a llunau critter
so poor a. he WAS, 'Twa' MT nothiu' but his
twas.
'We had tho funeral in tie meotin' house
Sunday, and Parson lntl.top he preached 4
sG1uon on contentmtnt on tho text,
We brought no.lin' into the world,
and lsa sattin We can. eatzy
Us be Herewith content. ra1son I1otlrop he
sot Iound the Ruh(ect about A. handsome ~
be could he didn't lay what ekiuflin. old
Black Hosa WAS, but lie talked in general wAy
about tie va!isy o wor1yin an sc1apin' to heap
up riches. 10 see PAtsoa Lotlrop he could
ticd rich vito ho never lad no occasion to
Wort about temporal matters. and folks allen
pEeacl..s better on ynuity q 1iches when they /
iu toIat'le easy circumstances: Se SEQ when
folks il pestettl an4 worried to pay their hills
and don't kEow wl,ere the next dollar = to
come f.om, it's greas temptation 10 ba kind
q valuoin' riches. and 1ncbbe ensyin' those
that's got EN- whereas when ones accounte
Ill pays themselves, aud the money comes jest
when It's wanted regular, body feels sort O
compos ed like, and able to take tho n sht view
o tlings. lko pareoa LotL1.p.
Wal, after Sermon the relations all weni
over to the old house to hear tie viii read, nnl
As was End o friend will the family, jes
s1irptd in along with the rest.
SqUiIo Junee Ae had the will. and so whet
they all got sot round all solemn, ho broke ts1k
seals and unfollel it, crarkiiu' IT gao0 Will.
I
ncaFA pin drop ~hen hesleguu 10 real
Ft,st. there was the farm and stock, he lef
J to l!,s son John EfUwn over in She1burnu
| 1hcn there was tue household stuff AMI al
them things, SPOONS and dishes, and to4ls ant
kivczlids. aI1 60 OIL, to lis dAIer polly Blan
cLA.d. And theu, laet Of all. lie says
h. left TO hts ia trr 3liry the pitcher tha. wa1
| OIL ;! Q top . the shell III his bedroom closet
| That arc waE an cid ct1eIe1 pitcher tha
Asr, nliera had hated the sight If, au1 sprine
a.!a fall shn useI 70 beg her father to let he
| throw it away: but no, ho woullnt 10. lcl
touch ii, Gna 20 it stood gatherin' dust.
''Snn2e ono Oh en- s1tn and handed it down
| ard it seemed jest full o scoariu -saal aut
III, '.in' che, aud they handed it TO Miry.
'NWsl, Nitr sho xas wrathy then. She dtilil'
20 mitch mind he;n' LIFT out IN the viii, 'caus
Ehe expected that. but to have that aro oil
,i;cticr loted at her 90 sott scornIul va
lIore,n shc could bear
isle took il ard gin it throw across til
lonm with all her might, and it Lit aSin th
VEL anu Lsokc into thousand bits, whett ou
rcsiel hundreds o gold pieces; great gol
o,al.s mud Scinc:s ttw around the EscheI
s.tnbt leu en- up pretty quick and we Ill helpe
Ter.
Come 10 count 'em over, 1lirJ hai III
hest fortin Of tic whole, as t was night an,
| prope- she should 1liTy she was scneibl
tal, and shc invested her money we'll and 20
when Bill Eldetkiu got through his lag etudie
be founl d wifc that conld mako uice begin
Ling with hin. And that q the way, you sec
they came to be doin' as vol as they ho.
So boys, you jest mind nud remembe
an alters ecc what thcro is III i provs1etc
mauy things in this world turns out like Mi
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