The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-04-16
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please, sir, take me over the cross
ing" said a little faint voice, as | was
leisurely taking my morning walk.
The strange request reused HE from
my reverie; and looking imploringly in
my face stood a thinIy-clad, shivering
little girl, who carried small bundle,
which she held in her hand with IA SIN
gular tenacity. gave searching look
into the child's face, while she implor-
ingly repeated:
''WHI you take me over the crossing
quick, I'm in such hurry"
Tossing her in my arms bounded over
the muddy pathway and just as | set
down my little charge, the bundle slip
ped from her grasp, or rather its con
tents, leaving the empty paper in her
hands, and an embroidered vest on the
sidewalk. picked up the vest, and in
doing so unrolled the same, when lining,
sewing silk and padding We're all olsen
gagged, so that the nimble fingers of The
poor child picked up, and ir;islIed, and
pack them together again with >cru
uulous care; and tying them firu-y, >lir
gave me a sweet smile and bounded
along. She would soon have PASSED
from my sight had | not again called
after her, and intrrrngatcd her why >lr,
made such haste.
80 SIR she replied, because my
mother must have expected nIe lm hour
ago. | have been waiting for the young
gentleman at the tailor's shop to decide
which color he preferred, and then the
tailor told me to stop while he cut it,
and then he gave me such a beautiful
pattern for my mother to embroidrr it
by-but it's a sight of work t0 do il. sir,
and T'm afraid size will set up a;l the
long nights TO sew, while am sleeping,
for the man said lac must have it com
pleied by next Tuesday; the young gen
tlrmau is To lie married then, and will
want it aud If it ISN'T done mayI = he
would never give mother another stitch
of work, and tEen what would become
Of u.s."
Aud us the clIild hurried on, | caught
the same hurried footsteps, and followed
on until we came to another crossing,
when agair came the beSeeching tone
''WiIl you take me over tl.s er,s>ing
too, sirl.'
IL was duue ia a trice, and my interest
in the child increased ~ her prattIe con
tinued:
Mamma is to have dollar FOR this
We, k, and she means To buy me Il new
frock with a part of the money, and
then We shall have a great loaf of bread
and a cup Of milk, and mother will find
time TO eat with me-If there is any
money left, she says shall have IA little
open-work straw bonnet, and go to sun
day school with Susy Niles, -
Aud her little feet scarcely touched
the walk, so light and fairy like was her
tread.
And does your mother work for one
man all the time, little girl.' | inquired.
80, no, sir; it is only now and then
she gets such Il nice job. Most OF the
time she has to sew for sIop shops. where
she earns but about twenty-five cents a
day, and then she LAS hardly enough to
pay her rent, and 1t isn't al. the time we
get enough TO eat-but then mother al
ways gives me the big slice when there
is one big and one little one; sometimes
she cries and don't eat hers at all"
\ coach was passing-the child looked
toward it and remarked:
Il know the lady in that pretty ear
riage-she is the very one that is going
to marry the young gentleman who is to
wear this embroidered vest. She came
TO my home yesterday 10 get my mother
to spaBgle the wreath round her white
satin dress, and it's just the same pat
tern that is to Se Lut on the vest; bnt
she could not do 1t, cause her eyesight
is so poor. and the spangles shined so. "
My tongue was silent Could it be
| that these We're to be the very articles
that were TO be worn at my Elias we'd
ding2 For did | not pay for spangles
yesterday, and what was 1t that vexed
Ellen, but because she could not find
anybody to sew them on when she re-
turnedg She said Mrs Taggard was al
most blind.
My little girl, said l. rs your name
TaggardY
"fes, sir, 'Gusta Taggard, and We live
down in Sullivan court. Are you going
home with mel"
It was a sensible conjecture; for why
else should follow on:
Il am going to see you safely at the
door, and to help you over all the cross