The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-03-07
WINNING A LOVER.
BY AMY RANDOLPH.

Five dollars! Oh Bridget, wish
I knew of any way by which could
earn five dollars.
Our scene was no silk-lined bourdoir,
no picturesque wooden ravine fringed
with ferns and musical with the ripple
of moss-brown waters, but only an un-
derground city kitchen, with a gloomy
range of washtubs on one side, and a
scantily furnished dresser on the other.
And Minnie Akerly, a beautiful young
girl of seventeen, sat peached on the
aforesaid tubs, swinging her pretty little
feet to ane fro, while a stout Irish wo-
man, with a basket on her arm. stood
opposite.
"You. Miss, dearl' echoed Bridget
Maloney. "But sure, that's a different
timing altogether.
We need money so badly" said
Minnie soberIv. "And now that Papa
is i'll, and has lost his Office, we have so
little And Sarah. advertised for a
place as a nursery governess, but no
one answered the advertisement. /
could teach, I think, but every place Is
filed, and Mr. Russell says there are
ten applicants to at least every va
cancy."
The pity of it, sighed the sympa
thizing Bridget, when the likes of
me gets more work than she can do.
For thcre is a jintleman sent a dozen
shirts last night to be done up, and it's
mesiH viii have to send them back. "
How much to you have apiece?
A shilling Miss"
" That would be twelve shillings-a
dollar and a half, said Minnie medita-
lively, " Bridget, would you let me do
them ?"
You, Miss Minnie I! -
"Do," coaxed the girl. "I know
could. 1 did papa's last week, and he
never knew they were not ironed by a
regular Iaundress. I should so like to
earn q little money all of my own. I
could buy mamma some wine, and Sarah
a new winter dress, and-Oh, " with a
low sigh, CT could do so many nice
things, if only had little money"
Well, 1 declare" said honest
Bridget, rubbing her nose. ''And you
Judge Akerly's daughter p
Won't you let me, Bridget j.
Minnie had jumped off the wash tubs
and come close to the good natured
Irish woman, with sparkling eyes and
cheeks deep dyed with The deep earn
estness of her pleading. '' Please,
could come to your house this afternoon
and papa would think was walking in
! the Park"
Sure, you'd be kindly welcome,
Miss, acceeded Bridget. ''Only-"
Away ran Minnie in great glee, to
make all necessary preparations for the
afternoons work.
6 won't tell Sarah, she thought,
nor mamma, because they'd be sure
to cry and make fuss over it. I'll
inst steal quietly away, after I've made
the omelette for papa's lunch. Only il
Mr.. Russell should call-"and the
/ lovely face fell for second-''But per-
haps he won't. Any way, this is one of
the opportunities to help myself that ]
have sighed for 50 long, and it viii only
be throwing luck away to neglect it.
And SO Minnie Akerly stole away at
two o'clock, much to the displeasure OF
her elder sister Sarah.
g think she might have stayed and
read to papa" said she, &" instead OF
leaving it always to me"
Ny dear" said conciliatory Mrs.
Akerly, YOU must remember that she is
very young, and needs more relaxation
than we DO"
Relaxation !'' If they could only
have seen Minnie at that moment, with
flushed cheeks and sleeves rolled up tc
the fair round shoulders, working as Il
her life depended on it, they might
have taken different view Of the mat.
ters and things IN general
An the next day she went again tc
iron the shirts she had washed SC
daintily.
"Sure, Miss you're making them
look like white satin, cried the admir-.