South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-12-15
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his Uncle.

one was poor, blind little 0rphan-so NOR
that often she aud her grandfather had 70
go out into the street aud beg Chilly was
restless little soul, ard as there was no
oody at home to take care of her. when
Max Miller went out, he always took her
with him, for be said there was 'no TELLING
where Chilly would shiver to if left alone
aud she was all he hal to keen Twin for
Grandfather ! said Chilly, one morning
as they started out early for long walk
! well, my child, what is it p
Are we the poorest folks in the world p
! NO, indeed, said Max Miller. We are
rich Chilly. Sometimes think we have
too much
i wonder 'ohen, said Chilly. Il never
have enough of anything. haven't
clothes enough, nor shoes enough, and |
never had as much candy to eat as | want
ed, never in the world. I wish could
And then, grandfather, we are begetrs too!
folks don't like beggars. wonder flood
loves beggars 2
why, Chilly, child. What makes YOU
talk so? But, do declare, after all,
! you've got it just right. God does love
oeggars, because you see, dear
I NO, | don't see, grandfather, and I wish
you wouldn' always keep saying So.
wen, then, you feel, don't you that
God does love beggars, else he wouldn't
tell us all to keep on asking for every thing
we want, and telling how we want just the
same things, over and over again, every
day ana every night, you see
On you mean saying our prayers grand
father; Is that begging2
vi course that's begging, little one. We
know the things we want don't belong to us
any way, and the only way to get 'cm is to
knock and ask
Chiily's small feet trod the earth a little
more firmly just then, with the feeling
that after all every one else was berpar
and that she belonged to somebody, come
where; but her slippers we're so old and 80
large, and her feet shook about in them so.
that she went back to the old shufling
walk, half-dragged along by Max Miller.
The old man and the little girl were far A.
way from the town by MONDAY, aud the
wind being high and cold, Chily's ear be-
gan to ache. a large handkerchief seem
ed just waiting in one of Grandfather Mil
Ter pockets, to get itself wrapped about
her face and ears, and then they turned
toward the town. The basket thew had
carried out empty had been filed for them,
and the contents had run over into n bum
de. ChlIly's ear gave her so much pain
that she began to cry and toss her little
arms about, and Max Miller was wonder
ing how in the world he should ever get
her home again, when W came carriage, /
aud right at their side it was stopped, and
voice that Chilly said was all full of or.
eans,' called: 'Get in, get iu. There's
plenty of room for you, and | am going
right your way
'Weil,D that sounds ike providence
sir, said Max, 'for this grandchild Of mine
is most crazy with carache.'
Etrache, is it ? Wei, that Is bad
had 1t once. I'll see if We cannot make it
feel better by and by
Was you blind, too?' asked Chilly. 'and .
beg2ar! Cause if you was, nobody low /
cd YOU but God, kp0c.'
Toe kind old doctor who had taken them
up from the highway, looked kceuIy into
ChlIly'a little face as she spoke, but said
nothing in reply to Der question lie be. /
gan to write on a slip Of paper When be- .
bad finished, be gave il with piece Of
money to Max Miller, saying: You can
get that at any drugstore, and use it for .
the child
WI'h many thanks the old man got down .
from the doctors carriage at the very door
Of Tho store and, lifting the little girl out
the two went to got the medicine.
Harry Iunder, littlo boy not much ol-
der than Chilly was waiting there but
Chilly couldn't see bin, and so she BEGAN 10
tolE TO her grandfather just as though they
two were al alone 10 their bit Of house.
There said she that trus nice. How
good II feels to have folks kind, and see
you want something, without your having
to ask for IL, O, grandfather I don't
IKE TO beg. / hate It so. Don't you be-
heVe that somewhere, in some bic town.
way OIL but really right in this world.
there is some awful rich man, that If he
knew jus, how had scarlet fever, and got
Oiud Afterwards, and how good, and ola.
ana feeble, and poor you are, would give
us money enough SOS We could know one
day that we was going 10 have some dinner
tomorrow, 'thout going and knockin' NJ
ever SD many doors to get itT
Nov, Harry Zunder had heard every
word little Chilly said for 10 was an out So
quick that Grandfather Miller bad no dmc
to arrest her words. And ~ soon rs tbe
druggist had measured and wcigbcJ. and
poured out and poured TO-, and examined
carefully The little tags on tho uecks Of The
bottles, and given The bottles 70 him, off
Ne ran to bis home, and told every word
oi Ut 70 bis uncle, who vas at bis fathers
house 90 a VISIT and for whom Harry bad
gotten the medicines.
Vow, uncle, said Harry, 'area'l you
pretty rich If 1 we're you, I'd 90 and
90 u. l.II help you, anyhow, with INV