The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-23

laughing.
"YOu came alone"
"Ouite alone. ! hired a little rool
over a bakers shop on Pine street, Inc
are a very decent couple, the baker an
his wife. ! board myself and send on
my manuscripts, They Away. com
. back 10 me-
Where do you send them?"
"Oh, everywhere, ] can show yor
printed forms Of rejection from ever,
magazine and literary newspaper IN th'
country" opening and shutting again {
black .aLchcI ON her lap, :" have writ
ten three novels, and sent them 20 III,
- and II. They sent them bach
70, unavailable, But they never rcal
them. ! trick them this away, ! put
n lOosebluc thread between the third and
lyArth pages Of the manuscripts, and II
il always there when it comes back. VI
Her voice broke u little, but she winkcd
her brown eyes and laughed braycIy,
How long have you been hcrc?'
"Thrco years.
"ImpOssibIc, You are but Il child"
81 ain twenty. had IN article pub
Iiyhcd once in Sunday paper" prOduc-
ing n slip about two inches long.
Three years, and only that little grain
Of success! She had supported herself
meanwhile, as | learned aitcrward, by
sewing mem socks for Il firm in Gcrman'
town.
You are ready 10 give up now?'
no; not il it were ten instead Of
three"
Yet, can swear there was not n drop
Of New England blood in her little body,
one wa certain, against all reason, that
she would succeed, When even such
puny creatures rs this take the world by
the throat in that fashion, they are sure
to cOnqucril,
Her books aud poems must, ! think,
have seemed unique 10 amy editor, The
lowest pupil in our public schools would
have detected her Ignorance on the first
page, There was, too, in all she said or
wrote an occasional gro,, Iudcccncy, such
"a a child might show her life IN the
platform explained IT,. Like Juliet, She
spoke the language Of her nurse. But
even Shak-pcarc's nurse and Juliet
"o"'' ,IS W. H'''"'' "''lI w. ,,"'-
zine
h,'II III an loI ignorance, i~'''Iahc7' al''
weakness there was no trace OF imIta-
ton. She pIuriarizcd nobody, There
was none OF ino "al'aI 'aE o. u
c.sc-, heather, larks, emotions Of which
she knew NOTHING. The paiutrl over
ana over again hcr own nome on INC
! woo lh" not SIM sunshine, the 81
Icncc oI noon, the swamp, the Shiny Ilv-
ing things in the sla"nant ponds, the semi.
tropical forest, the housc and negro quar-
lcrs, with all their dirt and drcary mo.
nolony. 1t wnsa picture which remain
"d IN the mInd strong ana vivid rs Il DIES
crl by ticrOmc or a moor by l%ioughtOu.
'neIc Go'll' pc "l, Que h'n' oI a'yIr'
~. t ~ Pn' "I'5 !'T "1'' I"N'
anu W. ''"'v 9'l'' "''"'' "'''''' W
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wv: w., v. W HU," ,'"'Nr'' 'n' PoI'"'' J."
'I'' III tIIc wings o. genius, Whlc' can
curry ''oIor nara work ana aII '''cH OBJ
,,''',, ~. '''"l''r ", E''',"''" vi 'E'I
VIZ sP'I'''9 W'oE, IouIo III "'I u h'"'N''
,N'"'I''' W"lE was IGf common place
r"in,'C IoV io' V'o'r "ho' VEINS were
'"I,'' we I''','' 'eOoI'
H'a"w"I''' Enc went ON sewing SOCKS,
aH,' S'no'"Soi' n't grcaI SoIl"w ENVELOPES,
WV" a''"'P7 ", p'''H '''0' ''''",
'"'!n D. '''' lE'ier c"''ls up Ii'l' hlo
s'';L WV" Il ''u8", I'''o "I'L'' naI grown
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