The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-05-14

vi URN iNU, MA 1 IL, 1911.
was given money to spend on toys and Other
articles shat children covet, she thought she
would increase the supply. To do this she
kwould take from, the store-room q few BOTTLES
To- w4ne, cordial OF liquor some SOAP starch OIL
other articles, and, hiding them among the
bushes in the yard, she awaited a favorable
| opportunity, when she would take them out to
some corner grocery, and sell them for quar-
ter of what they were worth. Sometimes she
told the keeper of the shop that her ma was
| short of change, and sent her out to sell the
articles, and again she would say that her ma
want them, she would sell them.
In summer she had two months vacation,
and Then returned again to school. After she
had lived with Mrs. Macourty about ten
for her, and she ran away. She had taken a
great fancy to Mr.. and Mrs. Cheerful, and
went to their house. As an excuse for running
away, she told them that Mrs. Macourty did
not give her enough to eat, that she had to be
| q servant for the other children, and that she
had been frequently whipped in q cruel and
unmerciful manner. Mrs. Cheerful listened,
with wonder to the outrageous stories she told,
and did not know exactly what to make of it.
She had always thought that Mrs. Macourty
and her husband were such good people. Mr..
to find Cecilia there, and listened to her story
with ill-concealed doubt and anger.
You must think we are FOOLS" he said,
which she had finished, to come here telling
me that story. Mrs. Macourty is @ perfect
lady incapable of harming anyone, or treating
anyone cruelty, and her husband is a fine, hon.
ready and will take you back there. If you
want to run away again, do not come here"
Mrs. Macourty had been in o perfect fever
all day about the child, and could not imagine
brought Cecilia back again she was much
shocked at the tales she had been telling about
them, and asked why she had done So Ce-
celia pretended to be very penitent, cried o
laaI M Yarn Iaad NOT tn a
more. After this Mrs. Macourty took her back
again and the next day she returned to school.
The decided manner of Mr.. Cheerful dsap-
pointed Cecilia very much, and from that time
she avoided him and bis family as much as
possible. She pronounced his singing horrid
squeakiDg, his conversation dull and lima
tured, aud declared him the most disagreeable
man she had ever met She was not long,
however, i'll finding new friends outside of her
adopted home Mrs. Marie LIE Crasseux was
the person to whom Mrs. Macourty gave all
her sewing that conld no. be done at home. |
She was a woman much under thesmedium
height, small and delcately framed, pale and
thin, with large black eyes, the lustre of which
increased the unnatural appearance of her
thin lips, sunken checks, and sharp, straight
nose She looked like a woman who would
faint at a spider and sink under the fatigue of
ascending one short flight of stairs; yet there
are probably few women whose lives are SO full
of trouble and care, constant work, worry of
mind aud wear of body, as this poor, broken
spirited woman's was. She did much of the
sewing, especialiy the nue. work OF tne neigh
bornood ana long after the last omnibus had
ratified by on its way up town, after the last
straggler from the theatre or opera had sought
repose, and the carts and market wagons were
vending their way to new days business,
long after her liege lord had been tucked into
bed and snoring, her needle was flying fast,
ana night after night, by the dull and gloomy
ight OF her lamp, she pursued this weary,
lonely, intending work. She had large
family, and her days were spent in cooking,
washing, ironing aud mending for them, with
now ana then chase to this OF that lady's
house TO return finished garments or to get
always sick, and requiring, medicine and at
tention. With all these duties devolving upon
her, she, at least, might with much reason ex-
claim, a woman's work is never DONE" Yet