The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-11-02
Wanted Work.

w ny uOn you go 10 WOTk! dsh-
ed the lady to whom he preferred his
Petition.
Work. he calculated. "Work!
And what have l been doing since
the middle of May but hunting work?
Who will give me work? When did
ever refuse work?'
"Well," said the woman, al guess
can give you some employment,
What can you do?'
"Anything!' he shouted in a kind
of delicious JOY. anything that
man can. I'm sick for something to
fly at. Why, only yesterday / work
ed all day, carrying water in an old
sieve from Flint river and emptying
it into the Mississippi, just because
was so tired of having nothing to
do that / had to do something or |
would have gone rayin' crazy. I'll
do anything from cleaning house to
building y steamboat. Just give me
work, ma'am, an you'll never hear
me ask for bread agin."
The lady was pleased at the will.
ingness and anxiety of this indus
triou8 man to do something, and she
led him to the wood pile.
"Hcre," she said, "you can saw and
split this wood, and if you are a good
industrious worker, | will find work
for you to do nearly all winter"
"Well, now" said the tramp, while
a look of disappointment stole over
his face, "thats just my luck. Only
three days ago was pulling blind
COW out of a well for a poor widow
woman who had nothing in the
world but that COW to support her,
and | spraint my right wrist till |
hyin't been able to lift pound with
it since. You kin jest put your hand
on it now and feel it throb, it's so
painful and inhamed. l could jest
cry of disappointment, but it's a BIZ
bic fact, ma'am, that l couldn't lift
that AK above my head eff | died fur
it, and I'd just as lief let you pull
my arm out by the roots as to try to
pull that saw through lath. Just
set me ut something kin do, though
you want to see the dust fly"
Every WE'LL" said the lady, "thcn
you can take these flower beds,
which have been very much neglect
ed, and weed them very carefully for
me. You can do that with your well
hand, but | want you to be very par
ticular with them, and get them very
clean, andnot injure nyofthe plants
for they are all very choice, and lam
very proud of them"
The disappointed look had been
chased away from the industrious
mans face when he saw the prospect
of something else to do, came back
deeper than ever as the lady dcscrib
ed the new job, and when she con-
cluded, he had to remain quiet mo-
mcnt before he could control his emo
ton sufficiently to speak.
"If amt the most unfotnit man
in Amoriky," he sighed "I'm jest
dyin' for work, crazy to get some
thin to do, and I'm blocked out of
work at every turn. l jest love to
work among flowers and dig in the
ground, but | never dassent do it for
I'm jest blue ruin among the posies
Nobody ever cared to teach me any
thin about flowers, and it's gospel
truth, ma'am, ! can't tell a violet
from q sunnowcr nor q red rose from
dog fennel. Last place | tried to
get work at, the woman of the house
set me to work weCdin' the garden,
an | worked about 4 couple of hours,
monstrous glad to get to work, now
you bet, an l pulled up every last
Twin green thing in that yard.
Hope l may die if I didn't. Pulled
up all the grass, every blade of it..
Fact. Pulled up vine with seven
ty.fvc dollars, that had roots rcachin'
CLAIR under the cellar and into the
cistern, and l yankod EN- right up,
every fiber of EN-, The lady was so
hcart-broken when she come out and
seen the yard just as bare as the floor
of Il brick-yard that they had to put
her to bed, Bibles truth they did,
ma'am; and ! had to work for that
house three months for nothin' and
find my board, to pay fur the damage