The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-06-28

beS VI Neth' Anu M aWlul sorry ain
got EN- in.
Indeed you deserved them" returned
Mrs. Sovereign. But don't concern
yourself about it / shouldn't know that
you were without them If you had not told
me.
"0h yes, you would, begging your par
don, If you wus onst to see them in"
You are dropping piece of steak
from your paper" observed Mrs. Sover-
eign.
Lor! | wouldn't mind losing the whole
of it, I'm that glad at seeing you, only
Liza Ann would raise sich rumpus she
wouldn't take no excuses; and it couldn't
be made up ter her noway! | s'pose she's
a-scolding now, cause amt at home fry
ing this ere but | left the table all sot,
and the water a-biling fur the tea.
And who is Liza Ann?"
Goodness thought everybody knew
Liza Ann-leastways, she thinks they do.
Why, she's my Toms widder; an he left
word on his dying-bed that she was ter
peryide fur me as long as | lived an some
times think she's trying ter see how
soon she can get rid of me"
!" And do you still live in joys Court ?"
pursued Mrs. Sovereign.
Sakes alive didn't you know that We d
left there these ten year? / s'posed that
wus town talk. / wish ter goodness 1 he'd
my teeth in, and I'd walk along with you
bit, ter hey little chat, and not keep
you waiting"
"Oh, never mind your teeth" Another
woman might have limited that she had her
tongue left.
Now that's downright Christian in you.
| take it, Liza Ann herself would not be
seen outdoors with me in this old gown
and it want but yesterday as met Miss
Deacon Merit, and stopped ter ask after
the deacons numbpalsy, and she jest
makes as though she wasn't looking my
way, and wakes straight on. | tell ye
what, Miss Sovereign, it ye want ter lind
out the natur Of folks, what virtuer theyre
made OF, and what air hung onto EN- like
their clothes, jest lose your worldly pros
perity and good looks, and wear out YOU
store clothes But that Cashmere shaw
is ter blame fur it all-plaguc take 1t y
What do you mean asked Mrs
Sovereign.
oh, like as not you never see Iae weal
it. | never he'd It on my back more'I
twice. felt as If | was carrying OF
Christians burden every time put it on
Liza Ann don't know I've got it--she' {
take it away IT she did. keep it sewe'
up in towel in my straw bed-ther
want nowhere else out of the way of Liz
AIMS prying eyes. can't bear the sigh
Of that shawl, it makes my eyes smart te
look at it, and the tears jest come of thei
own accord. Sometimes I've been min,
ter sell it; but, sakes alive you can
never get the vally of thing like that J
And how much did you give for it ?
asked her listener.
A hundred dollars silver ones |
blisters my tongue ter tell it! A hundre'
dollars, if I'm sinner; and I've wore
twice, and he'd more wretchedness out o
it than there air threads wove into it r
cob! OH sighed Mrs Sovereign
wondering it her companion was in he
right mind.
" Yes, l hev. Sometimes I've though
if / could git a hundred dollars fur it agi
though, Of course, couldn't-it woul
be jest enough ter take me into the Oh,
Ladies' Home-that's one Of my castles i
the air-sot I'd be out Of Liza Ann
reach. I've thought maybe the grav
couldn't be so bad if Liza Ann wusn'
there tool
Dear, dear But you were telling m
about the shawl
" Lor, yes I've got habit Of wan
dering onto me like my old grandmother
Shed begin a-telling how the children go
the measles, aid she'd let ye into the pr
yate history Of half the family by the way
and wind up, like as not, with forti
somebody was expecting from England
Waal, dunno as you remember the wid
der Niles son that went a-voyaging ter tn
worlds end? They do say how he WI
rich as Croysus, but she never got n
more'n his cheest after he wus lost oyel
board. You see, she was expecting Of hiI
home, and his cheest came instead.
Wal Miss Niles; she didn't so much q
open il fur six months; and then sh
found this ere shawl in it, which | spos
he wus a-bringing home ter her. l somC
times wish she never he'd opened it y
Howsomever, the minute | clapped m
eyes on the shawl | was coyetous of it, an
/ never rested till got it. / thought
was the most bcautifulest thing Id eve
sot eyes on. Ii looked as If it wus a
woye of rubies and precious stones, and
: wus most all border, savinga bit of scarl'
!. about as big as bandana handkerchief
Now, you see, I'd never owneda shawl b,
). this ere robroy that I've got on; an
d though it want 50 nigh used up as it
& now, it he'd lost considerable of its bloom
v and so, one day, when Miss Niles droppe
W in, and said she hedn't no heart fur notl
u ing sence james death, and she shouldn
n never wear nothing but black clothes Il
n rest of her life, and how her only desil
,e now wus ter go ont ter Indy fur a mission
arv aud ;f she could only rn;se n hundrf