The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-04-13
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fs had never seen her, but Sarah
! s5sS Ann Carson, who, because she
A8ea is acquainted with us, concIu-
ded to call on her when she was in
New York, said she was a "mighty
stuck uplittle body" Mother says
that it is not a pretty way to speak
of any one, but poor Sarah Ann has
no mother to teach her, and some
folks seem to think that anybody
who lives in a handsome house and
wears fine clothes must of course be
vain and proud. Yet, If the truth
must be owned, we girls we're not at
all ayerse to accepting Sarah AIMS
opinion.
81 know I shan't like her." said
Frank, struggling her shoulder,
shell be so prim and precise that
we shan't dare to turn round. It's
always so with those city girls
For my part, I wish she was not
coming"
q wish so, toe" echoed Ellie, 1--WE
shan't have one bit of fun as long
as she stays"
But wishing was useless Uncle
Elliott had written that Eda was
not well and needed a change of
air, and of course father wrote to
him to send her at once,
eff she is at all like sister Elliott,
Pm sure you will love herr said
mother, but some way none of US
felt very cheerful about it. Broth
er Fred was to go to the depot to
meet her, and we had hard work to
coax him to take his farm clothes
off and make himself look tidy.
"Oh, fudgeF' said Fred, who was
generally very careful about his
dress when he went to town, ''if she
thinks we've been fixing up for her
she'll just go to putting on airs. -
But he yielded so far as to take off
his overalls and change his coat.
There's the trainT called Ellie,
from her perch on the window sill,
half an hour later, and presently
Fred drew up at the hOrse-block and
handed out a delicate looking girl
in a gypsy hat and gray travelling
suit.
81 suppose she thinks she'll as
tonish the natives" said Frank
spitefully; but no one stopped to
answer her, for mother had hasten
ed down the garden to meet Eda,
and Ellie and / followed at a digni-
fed distance If we had not pref
udice it did not take us long TO feel
at home with her.
"Isn't she nice?" said 1 enthusi-
asticaIly after Frank and I had gone
to our room.
"Oh, yes, 1 suppose so,' Frank
admitted, 'but she is stuck up as
Sarah Ann says, for all that; you
can see it by the way she tosses her
curls." And so we both went to
sleep only halfpersuaded that cous-
in Eda was ''nice."
Mother" said Fred next day,
throwing his coat on the table, Il
shall have to have a new pocket in
that" Mother had headache that
morning and by the time the pock-
ct was cut out she had to put by
her work and lie down. One Of US
girls might just as well have done
it, but it seemed so natural to leave
the mending for mother that we
never thought of it. Scarcely had
she left the room, however, when
cousin Eda seated herself at the
workbasket, and when after dinner
mother took up her needle again
she found the coat as neatly mend
ed as if she had done it herself.
celia, dear, do you know any
thing of my glasses?" asked grand
father, cropping about as if blind.
81 haven't seen them, grandfath
er," said Ella, going on with her
reading, but Eda was up in an in
slant to help in the search and did
not sit down till the glasses were
found.
"Thank you, darling, You are so
like your mother" said the old man,
stroking her hair. And so it was
| every day. One morning we found
her down on her knees lacing grand
fathers shoes. Poor old grandfa-
ther might have tugged at his shoe
string by the hour before one ofus
would have thought of offering to
lace them for him, but cousin Eda
seemed to know intuitively when
/ any one needed help, If we were
going out it was Eda who helped
mother on with her shawl and tied
her bonnet strings; if grandfather
had TO stay at home from church it
was Eda who always stopped to
give him a comfortable little kiss
that left a warm place in his heart
and made the long hours far less
lonely.
About three weeks after Eda
came the young folks at the village
decided to have picnic and we all
were invited.