Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-12-14

| halt-wltted, instinct warned MN against
/ Granny Salisbury.
''Well, Mis- Salisbury, Tn thankful
/ to have one left. Who knows but Eli
ASH come back yet. I'd like to see
my la child before / die, but yet |
shall be pleased if he don't come, for
mebbe 'twould rile him to find me in
/ the poor house, though it's good
I home for me; and OWN to Mis- Sper-
/ RVS first husband bein' cousin to my
/ husband, nd her Ruth bein' called,
like my Ruth, .arter their grandmother,
Why it amt exactly's though / was
with strange folks, you see."
g I should think you'd jest as lives
/ they warn't no kin to We; eft hadn't
been for them you might ha' had them
fifteen thousand dollars Grandsire
Spencer left to Ruth Crane Your hus-
band was jest as near kin to HIM as
her father, and EFF you ha' had that
property, you'd ha' been comfortable
for the rest o. your days, and had lois
/ of folks bowin' and curtseyin' round
you like flies after a honey pot Land
don't know2 Moneys what lies the
Wheels
! Sister Lockwood laid down the red
mitten in her lap she was very earnest;
I in any other soul her earnestness would
have been Indignation.
Nov, Mis- Salisbury, what could
ha' done with that ! nd ha'n't it set
up little Ruthy for lifel Look a
| there"
For the little parlor-door, as if con-
scious that the right moment had come,
swung open, being only half latched,
and showed pretty Ruth Crane standing
4 in front of the bright fire, with hand
some young mans arm round her waist,
and her fair head lying on his shoulder
in perfect content.
"Go shut the parlor-door real soft
", Sairy," said Mrs. Lockwood, nod
! ding to little curly headed Irish girl,
/ who leaned against the settle, staring
/ ut the fire Eyes, Mis- Salisbury, how
long 10 you think DR.. Sparkle would
ha' had to wait afore he could give
Ruthy home, and afford to take care
on her, workin' day and night? And
now a'in't day after to-morrer more OF a
Thanksgivin' Day to them than ever
twas before2 A weddingday beside Z
| Goodness if Grandsire Spencer had
1 ha left that money to me, | should ha'
GIN it to them, Mt least part ont; Eli
could have had t'other part and then,
s'pose, they wouldn't have took it.
No! ] am thankful about that, [ tell
yet"
"Well,n growled Granny Salisbury.
d" You do beat all You ha'n't got no
sperret, nor no ambition. ketch me
! bein' so tickled about nothin! I've had
enough troubles to kill one woman, and
| don't pretend | ha'n't. l guess eff
you'd he'd drunken husband to spend
iist as fast as you spared, nd bring ye
to poverty, you'd ha' crawled some by
! this time"
"She driv him to it She driv him
to it, Now she's blamin' on him y
muttered Uncle Sol, shaking his head,
but nobody heard him except Jake the
negro.
. Twas hard, Mis- Salisbury; but
he got over it, didn't he?" said Mrs.
/ Lockwood.
Eyes, he'd got over it, yed better
believe; broke his leg, and got kerrled
to Canton Hospital couldn't drink nd
so he didn't; nd then jest as | might
| ha' had some peace o my mind. he up
an died | tell We | was real glad
there wa'n'tno more children than Joe,
for had enough to do to take keer o
him and me y
"You had a nice little farm2'
Well, yes; twas fair medder land,
and tol'able good wood lot; but Abe
Sykes, he took it on shares, and never
civ him credit for dom the fair thing,
and when Joe got kinder sick o stayin'
to home, nd run off to Californy long
o. your Eli, | was left lone widder
with nobody to stick up for my rights,
nd that old Squire Spence, he under
took for to build new fence to his
hill pastur', nd went and sot 1t two
foot furder on to my lot than he'd orter
he stuck tot that twas his Old line,
nd | knew better, so we had snt,
and had ter sell the biggest part OF
the medder land to pay fort,
/ nd lost the hull case beside
then my barn got attire nd
, burned the house down, and cos I'd got
il insured for morn twas worth, folks
said | sot il afire myself, nd | had an
r other suit with that pesky insurance
company, and that | beat, but IT tool
all the money about to pay those darneo
t mean lawyers SO l calkerlated to run
| what was left of the farm myself, and
. had a shanty put up, but | want useo
to such work, and fust | had spell o
fever, nd then rheumatic set in nd fus
. knew my farm was sold and the none,
used up, and me and my clothes fetched
: to the poor-house! l don't know wha
, Methodist folks think ont | gues
= there amt nothin to Methodys more'l
A bein' called brothern sister to every
! body"