The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1874-03-26


need yon I5a haa better say hcpdui
81 going tu town iu school and iben you
would BIZ 50 about richf J do inst hope
and piay something wi.l tun urto secp
yoa at home. il ~ been uag hipy hut
that for year, aai ior mr part haye
bad ali want oi IT, NOW, raH oyef 10
Mrs. Cruuis' AID gvl Hose egss sA1
promised me from her Brahmas, want
TO set old yellow tonight, aud had lse %
forgotten il Will 20 many mI ,iOu ,hug
20 worry me. don't stop 10 taIk' Do
you bears
Ies'm, 30 hear, answered baok Eta,
aud away she went cross-lots to Mrs.
Cruuis fast a. she could for her aching
brad and the pain in her ide which aad
not ieii yet, bul Il was only a lille way,
lu,t a few yards tbnty or forty may be,
and ,be got the ezg. aud wa, home again
just a. her father aud ne men from the
deld went nto the supper room followed
I by her mother who, seeing he, turned 10
say:
Wei, you did 20 quick once in your
life, must say. Now, child take thai
crock Of cream out % tide cave 50 it Won't
get warm, aad then come TO your supper
hurry nov! don't keep u, waiting for
4 YOU.
Eta Took lie crock rull Of cream, aud
staggered at first under it- weight, but
-he oilen carries heavier things than thai
--bui what something should happen
as ma hope, there will 10 keep me from
going away from home 10 school. on,
dear; seems Is me had raiher lie man
to-
She did not finish her sentence, not
then nor ever, guess She was hurry
ing SO, Vii the lime. because she knew
that whenever her mother was in the
mood she was in lhat night she always
had flther wait Tor her to be at the table
before the blessing was asked, and she
did not want to provoke her uother any
more.
She set her crock down 10 open tie
door of the cave, q sort OF trap door il
was always heavy TO open, aud heavy TO
hold while she let it down, which her
mother always babe her do carefully so
as not to slam it all to pieces, it was
dreadfuIly heavy tonight, bat it was
now open; and she stopped down TO raise
her crock of cream, stepping dogn one
step as she did 50, By way Of lifting it
more easily, and also to gain time when
what does all my head? she thought, aud
splash, went the cream; crash, went the
crock, aud into one and on the other fell
our Eta hcadong into the cave, where
she lay perfectly quiet.
In the house at the table they sat, Mr.
Stebbins looking at his wife little aux-
iously TO see whether tile indications
there were to proceed On wait; they
seemed to his practical eye TO be TO wait.
So they sat silently waiting one full min
ute, then another, then Mrs Stebbins
hdgeted in her chair and exclaimed Qhot-
fully for once): That girl can'thurry 10
save her life, don't wait fer her, Mr.
Stebbins, il you are in hurry.
SO the good man said grace revcrcltly !;
after which Mrs. Stebbins poured the tea
and thought she would set it on the stove
TO keep hot, and just see what could keep
Henrietta. She looked out toward the
cave no one there. So she stepped
quickly out along the path, in a stealthy
sort of a way, wondering the while what
can the child be doing, not eating sour
cream, hope!
Goodness lnel what next? III Ike to
ask, If she hain't fallen in and split my
cream aud broke the crock all to smid.
gems, the awkward hussyl Henrietta! -
/ Henrietta!
/ Henrietta did not even so much as stir.
/ aud her mother drew her skirts up about
her instinclively to keep them from the
cream.bespattered wall, and stepped eau
tions|y down into the cave. She tbeu
proceeded 70 litt npher child, and tnrued
lup wEite face with b'node.. lips, the
sight Of which .omcway took the strength
away from her arms md kucc. qntIit
was a full minute before she ioupd
enough Ia her voice with which 10 shout:
I Father! Fatherr-.
When father and he maH wbo helped
/ him laid tee Iimpsy form tu lha lounge
I (from which Mr., sleDb!us bgl hastily
taken Is great armtui of dry e.eaH clo,he.)
Eta sighed, opeue her eyes aud moaned
20 pitmlg theu tainted again, dead'r'n
ever, Mr. stebblu. said;
I The men went back aui finished lboir
supper "a. bot father; ha and molhcr ate
10 supper lhsl night
! When lbe doctor came ANA niade come
examinations, he fouud her leit leg brJk.
en- in two places be- Tong time 'f1te
she, round again, Mrs. ,icb5iH, month.
anyway III she ever gets weii twill egip.
ple her for life HE a. not, terrible ftlbits
that broken crock has done H.. Some
ding like sob ehokea Mrs Stsbbin,, IS
she thought Of y has she had ,aid not an
hour before, bat indeed ! d.i not really
me4n II, that arl thing woald tut3 up TO
keep hcr iron going 70 town 10 school.
IN the wceks % watching ihsf fallowed
when Eua'. iife huug il were ep5u ihe
i tiuic,t Afrad, when iu lue dt'uum OF
( fever, her chili--ihe only one God bad
e.er eHifns,el 70 her care, sUuld throw
her aru. uiWiy -t-agi sul er OHi
mother 3ou1 srola nies size ~fabiHa
had anple lima 70 repeut ot I.Nl o Ha.
perfection walsh certainly aeEG h.r aam