The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-09-02
~R RICHMOND.

aA"ayes Out ! OOnC know. The
time will come, perhaps, when you
will miss your NANNY
Miss you, mother Z says Dan,
i hope I'll never do that. Tiny
wants q mother as we'll as L.
What's her name, says l.
Christine says he
Let's call her that saysI. No
good in baby names. l never was
called aught but Margret.'
He laughed. Then says he,
Come Hannah, dress in your
best. You and mothe. must see
me married
Baking day says I.
but think OF Dan, with no one
near him, so lonesome says Han
nah.
WELL, says ], let's hear who you
are goiug to marry that will make
. difference Somehow, l never
felt SO stern to my boy.
Says he. turning the color Of my
double pink, in the window sill:
She's beautiful. Her eyes are
blue and her hair pure gold
Beauty is only skin deep, says 1.
What kind Of girl is she ? Good ?
Good as an angel. says he.
Who is she, says I.
A girl-y young lady, says he.
Says l. stick to the girl until you
are q gentleman.
We're all alike in this country,
says he.
NY English head can't UNDER
stand it 80, says !. You are q
tradesman.
Well, we'll, says he, let that drop.
My wife will be suited.
What do her folks say asked l.
She has none, says he.
Is she rich :?
No.
Then she earns her living7
Yes.
How?
Honestly, he says at last.
How2 Is she at service l don't
say I'd be angry at that.
At service, cries Dan. With her
lily-white hands, and lady like
look! No, mother, she's
He stopped again and swallowed
the word.
Whati asked l, in a kind of a
shrek.
Well, she's an actress.
l wonder l did not die. gave
a grosn and Hannah run for the
camphor.
You've killed your mother, Dan.
says she. She'll never get over it!
l don't think shall myself. An
actress -! Between grief and
csmphor I came near suffocating.
but found breath ut last.
Dan, says l, Was it for this l
whipped you till you knew the
Shorter Cstechism by hearth Was
it tor this I've prayed tor you and
took you to meeting and kept you
like wax2 Train up child in the
way he should 60. is out of the
Bible, but it hasn't proved true
this time. I must have gone wrong
somehow. / remember l let YOU
read the Shepherd of Salisbury
Plain a Sunday, and let you off on
:ae tenth chapter of Genesis when
you said you couldn't learn it. /
don't know what else I've done
that you should C. me to marrying
an actress.
She shall not play ait er she is
my wife. says he.
But this made no difference, L
felt that / should die ior shame.
Go to your wedding! says l, net 1,
nor your decent sister. Just keep
your wife away q day or two, until
l get q place for housekeeper.
and Hannah goes to
her aunt t. |. arm dress making and
you'll be rid of u for 1t you
marry her, neither OF rs would !
live with you if We starved for 60
ing.
Aud Hannah said the same, tho
she cried over 1t heartily. Aud so
in the end. we went; and Daniel
and l quarreled wo:ulIy, and there
were ali my tLings-thc tins I'd
kept so bright, and The wooden
ware I'd secured, and the furniture
Ia rubbed until it was like a look.
ing glass, left for an actress to do
What she chose with used 20
lie awake o nights thinking OF mv
lovely tea-set, and WONDERING
whether the bold thing had crack
Ell the milk jug yet and how many
OF tho plates ~ere gone.
l hadn't seen her-I didn't want
to l knew what she was; a painted
thing, with pinchcd up waist, and
no good in her face or heart. And
to think my Dan should get such a
one-my Dan.
The place I'll got was with a
widower ont of town A youpv
man. with a troop OF noisy chi,-
d'en. Always making a mus. and
never quiet, and l was wild with
hem Then it was as damp as
we'll, and a lonesome place enough
to give you the blues. Aud IIan.
nah wrote that she hated dress
making and could never earn her
salt, and wished We had stayed
with Dan, and l was worried and
chilled and heated and finally tax
en- down with the rheumatism. 1
hid it as long as could bu. nv
pains grew 80 bad, and my limb.
were swollen and as red as beats.
and. At last gave up and went t.
bed. And my master, q little,
weak chested gentleman, with .