The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-05-27
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forget anything again, "but said simply

Put on your cloak ant, hat, Minnie,
want you to carry the basket"
Once at Mrs. Rop,s and Minnieopene,
her eyes wide with astonishment. TIL
baby of two years was crying loudly an,
tugging at his mother, whom they fount
too sick tospsy~ any attention to him
She had grown much worse since Mrs
\ Wheldon saw her The day before, anS
minnie heard her tell her auntie how
thankful she would have felt for a candle
To have given little light during the
leng night, or for the bread and meat fol
| the children, who cried so long before
they couldsforget their hunger sufficient
ly to go TO sleep.
minnie, do you know the way to DR.
Metfords!" asr~
Yes, ma'am. Shall j go for himg' q
Yes, and ask him to come here as
soon as he CAM 2F7
Minnie went swiftly over the half -doz.
en- squares to the doctors office, found
him in and told him her errand, and her
face grew very red as she heard him
say, half to himself and half to her:
81 guess the medicine l gave your
auntie for her couldn't have had the
effect thought il would"
Minnie tried so hard to tell him that
she forgot to take the basket with the
medicine, but she could not gather the
courage to do so, so she walked along by
the side of the doctor, who wondered
what made her SO unusually quiet.
Arrived at Mrs, Rop's he found her
very ill indeed, and Minnie. heard him
say: Sorry, sorry she did not have the
| medicine last night; think it might have
| saved a run of fever
Mrs. Wheldon stayed nearly all day,
tr-it hnr a1l
she could to make the poor woman com
Portable. Toward night a woman came,
saying DR.. Metford had sent her to nurse
Mrs. Rop, and then Mrs. Wheldon went
home, taking with her the Oldest boy,
Willie, who could do but little, if any
thing, to help in the care of either his
mother or his brother
All this time she had said nothing to
Minnie about her last great failure in
doing what she had been told to do. She
trusted more in letting her know just all
the evil that had resulted from her care
lessness
Every day, for week, she took Minnie |
to see the sick woman, and then one |
bright morning they went to find the |
house all darkened, and the nurse woman |
told them she had been dead "since four |
o'clock"
Minnie was shocked enough Do what |
she could, she could not shut away from
the ears of her memory the words OF DR..
Metford:
"Sorryl sorry! think if she had had
the medicine last night she might have
been saved run of fever And some
thing kept telling her that but for her
own negligence Mrs. Rop. might still
have been living. She kept hearing the
words of her auntie calling out to her
that afternoon, as she started of for her
cloak and hat:
"Put the basket in the hall, dear. and
then you'll not forget to take it; and she
how she had hated Just to
go across into the dining room for the
basket, feeling so sure she would not for
get it, and it would do just as well where
it was.
but, oh! l did forget it! and she
died because | did not do as auntie told
mep'
She cried herself to sleep that night
and dreamed that she was murderess,
hat all the people in Maysville followed
her about, pointing at her, and SAYING,
: rfsayI killed vnnr anntie's washYoman,n
we're 50 cold! and then she put her colo
lips close to one of her ears and whls-
pered:
You wouldn't bring me. my medicine
and so ! had to die, and now am going
to sleep with you always" "a Il,
When Minnie wakened with sore am,
which her auntie heard away down IN her
room, and which caused her to go quick
ly ND to Minnie's room, whereehe found
her sitting on the floor close 10 the door,
Minnie told her dreams and sobbed 50
piteously that Mrs. Wheldon felt sorry
for her and sure that this must certainly
cure her of this bad habit OF hers.
And Minnie was better for long, long
time, but as the time grew long and the
remembrance of Mrs. Reps death grew
fainter she again relaxed into the old
way, which did almost seem to have
been a part of her nature. SheswaS now
almost fifteen, a good student, though I
very often she was obliged to remain
and learn her lessons when other OF her |
mates were at play because in this TOO |
she was prone to Pit off getting her les |
sons until absolutely obliged to do So |
The day of which i am writing now |
she had been kept in through every re-
cess, and besides this had been publicly
reproved by her teacher, ana as usual
under such extreme cases she was mucn
mortified and had resolyei dtt Ht her o!oh
stre,aqth that it should never be SO again.
n
and had retired early, leaving her niece
and William Rep lwhom they had kept
with them during the five years that had
| interyened since his mothers deatht TO
| study their lessons for the next day be-
| fore they too should go to bed. &E
| Hardly had her auntie gone ur to her
room when Rilda opened the door ana
| said: s.a ysesass q
Miss Minnie, havcs TO go up-street
awhile with Mrs. Deans girl; the work
is all done up, but l put some kindlings
| for the morning fires into the stove oven
| to dry; will you look in at them once IN
a while until the fire gets down and see
that they don't catch fire and burn the
house down." H 10
Eyes, Rilda, all right! l will watch
! them" a1f ~ 81
Rida went out, put on her things,
| looked into the oven, turned over the
kindlings, and then opened the sitting
room door again.
I" Miss Minnie, you are sure you'll not
forget the kindlings?" =
''Of course, Rilda! do go long and not
bother so muchw .,.-- -
/ Minnie was busy trying to learn her
algebra lesson for the next day, and In
| minute had forgotten the kindllngs.
Presently Willie finished his lessons, and,
yawning in p manner that was more en-
ioyable than graceful, said he /" guessed
he'd 90 to bed if Minnie wasn't 'fraid.
"'Fraid, Willie! OF course m not
afraid. Uncle Rob will be home in twen-
ty minutes, anyway" .---.-...--.-
So Willie went TO bed, and Minnie
went on with her lessons She had I'M
ished her algebra, but was getting les
son in her geometry now, and was study
, ing aloud after the fashion of school
, girls when committing their lessons al
? home.
ITO find the solidity of a cone or pyr
f amid, whether round, square or trian
( gular. .-ross,,tFv. a
r er round, SD"
. She stopped and listened! Had Rild'
! come back?" For the first time since sb'
had gone Minnie now thought OF tn
kindling- wood.
5 "Mercy to me! what If they've a.
4 burnt upl Won't Rilda be mads"
A She sin listened, there was some nois
4 in the kltcheni +" 1t must be RiLdai !"
She would peep in and see. Sh
= stopped first to glance at the rule, an
went to the door repeating, Square
> round, oblong OF triangular, by some -
J. pa-a-ughw k# &x -,
Il 1t was smoke, heavy, dense, bhc
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