Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-10

1t almost frightened the taliOr's wife.
The gaunt hand stretched itself out
and a voice said family:
Madame, [ know you have a kind
heart, I am so hungry. It's three
days since I ate anything and I-don't
want to die. !"
CLAW! [ should think not" said the
woman. "Why, law me, I'm 50 sorry
And [ suppose you can't get a job
Law! why do take it. I amt got moth
. ing else You see we're pretty poor
es-and-there-O, law." She
was trembling, she did not know why
She was thinking to herself
It's like play 1t makes me want
5oscry."
There he took, the warm bread she
had given him in his hands, tearing bits
from it and eating it.
He backed away, still eating He
came back and stretched his hands to-
wards her
"I didn't thank you," he said.
Thank you! thank you! !" and went
away.
Sally sat down, trembling still
To be out of a job, to be hungry,
were no rare things, and no tragic
things in her experience. but this man
had stirred her soul somehow fright
ened her, she said. 81 hadn't any
business to give away loaf of bread, "
but there now, couldn't help it
Then Sally went to bed, and slept
and dreamt of the hollow checked, fam
lshed lodger of the attic.
There was more bread to make next
i day, and [ am not sure, but that the
faI PC 10 IL,
pectation of another call from her
neighbor, but he did not come, and in
the course of time Sally had enough to
think of without leaving her own floor.
Matters did not prosper with the fam
lily. Little Lena had the scarlet fever,
and lay for long time at deaths door,
and the work with which the mother
helped to fill the family purse was ne
cessarily neglected, and her customers
grew angry and left her. Then the
baby died. Poor little baby! The
mother wept bitterly. The father also
lOnged to weep, although children were
expensive luxuries in that poor house
hold. Finally the last affiiction fell
upon the tailor-a felon on his right
thumb
There was an end to it all, it seemed
to both. Nothing but the hospital and
the aims house lay before them The
rent was quite unpaid at last, and the
tObacconist was in a fury. He called
to give him warning and piece of his
/ mind. On the morrow out he should
] go neck and crop. The tailor said
nothing. The wife, womanlike, had her
4 word
"Where shall we go2" she asked.
] "We haven't penny in the world"
sc It's nothing to me where you 60"
said the landlord, $50 that [ get you
out of my rooms. [ WANT them for
honest people"
We're unfortunate, but we never
mean tta be be dishonest, Il erred the wife.
Then the husband in az angry word
bade her hold her tongue
cts all the same, " ne said, "we1l
go tomorrow. And now you go, Mr..
Landlord.
Then they were left alone bemoaning
their hard fate. There was absolutely
nothing to eat in the house.
Sally looked at her empty -four bar
rel and at her wretched family, and
burst into tears.
"It's no use trying any longer" she
said. " If the Lord would only take us.
That's all [ ask -
She put the children to bed, and sat
down upon a chair, drawn by force of
habit to the hearth of the empty stove.
Her husband, between pain and ankle
ty, was less sane than mailman. He
paced the floor like tiger; talking to
himself The bit of tallow candle
burnt low; the bitter wind ratified the
easement, the rain beat against it.
We shall be out IN all that to NOR
row." said the man. "We1l have no
place to hide our heads. We've not
got friend in the world"
" We've got one friend, I hope, said
the wife
"Who is he? asked the tailor.
Good, said the woman. May be
he'll find way to help us. We haven't
been very bad, Sam.
'FBetter than us have starved before
now,' said the tailor. We havn't any
particular right to expect miracles, that
[ know of. Hark what's that?n
G A knock, said his wife and tremb-
ling lest her landlord should have re-
turned, opened the door, Without
stood the tail, gaunt figure of the lodg-
er in the attic.
+. ''He's come for bread" thought the
woman, and amidst her own trouble
she grieved over the thought of refus-
ing his appeal.
He made none, however.
This is what he said:
Madam, a while ago took the lib
erty of asking you for bread, allow me
to return the loaf with thanks.''
So he vanished. A whole fresh loaf
lay in the woman's hands. She carried
it il.
! I" This is more than I expected to
night, she said. g You see God is
good. p"
She LIFTED the side of the candlestick
a little. The light fared up.
g Now, mother, cried Il child's voice
from the bed, :" I'm hungry"
Sally broke the loaf in two. 1t part
ed with singular ease. She gave a lit
tie cry. 1t had evidently been cut be-
tore and joined together, and from the
heart handful of crumbs had been
scooped, and in it lay little white
packet.
L" It's fairy bread" cried Sally, re-
member ng some old country legend.
''Look at it before the Ii ght goes"
cried the tailor.
Sally obeyed. She opened the pack
ct and found two enyelops. In one
was this note:
MADAM Your loaf of bread saved
my llfe. l know your in trouble, and
yesterday my luck turned. To-day
am worth fifty thousand dollars, having
won law suit that has been pending
Tor years. Please accept the inclosure,
ana believe me your ever obliged
ATTIC LoDGERn
There was five hundred dollar note
IN the envelope, and when she saw it,
sally thought herself the happiest wo-
man in Christendom.
Inc gilt was the saving of the family.
sally had cast her bread upon the wa
ters, to lind it again in very truth. And
when the tailor's hand was well again,