The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11
phng that the future might be near
a ,heRds Nheet Dan twepld leave, her ).

IF N944 VI A1cD lAIe1 iNQPldsi leaVel ner );
fpr he was very ILL., Z r,ni! .1.i!y,.:~.:s =
. Like many apother woman and
man; | 'teo; ahe; never knew how she
leyeda him him: till the, thought Of hi.
, lbas came, home to her, and now she
.alqm1ost ! 1...s neglected her: children in herz
eageEne's to serve and: save her, hps,s
I hang, ! I'll: she &, worked: . day and
night At the wash TUB, in her inter:
yals Of nursing, 70 get food and fuel :;
the neighbors were all good to her,
but they were few and far between,
and poor the ttlheemeelves;: tho doctor pit
led her: and petted the children, and
the doctors wife sent them. many
pail Of milk, but still they fretted for
care and food ~ and Mary Ann
thought twenty times q day of the
creamy milk in her mothers dairy,
the 2! big loavese Of bread, the fresh
eggs. the curds, the generous treside,
the E great turf. rick, and the full, po-
tatq '.,b bins of her cd homo, and: how
the as|Eitk shiilkdrsn t'a! would y grov and flourish
7 there. 81 a.: 1n tie midsst il1s of. Al came .
letteF from home, Her father was
dead; EHer mother wrote; :, ,.,.,s
| tn"Oh, Mary, Ann alaua! sure. yer
poaQr dear fathers dead an gone all at
:vanst of : sudden, its appieplexy he
had Docthor D6noyan SCI an It'll.
ynesdN don't know how he'd have
tlhat5 aqryway, for eor1a IN apple
there s is on the farm save AM Iexcept
!eeny little green ones an he'd be
|the fool O. the wurrld to ate thin
which he didh't 1t all, only just bein'
afhsr atsn1, q good big dinner oovs
poork an: cahbidge an cheese an .
|jqg g. potsaqn, ptaq an,l Mick j.; Rafferty,. : a.
dhrinkin that way, that the father
KEEP up with him to ret lis share O.
the dhrop 3an' IL g: thei will o'oGod
which sure we'll all have to come, to
an, the tundhertaker:med 4 good Job
tqe, Heayen rest his sovl poor man
ias niver thought he'd have th,m black
ffathers over his head this daY t,wsely-
month Is liver was, which now I write
deer Mary Ann to say he2 wouldn't
hear to me spakinsto, yez afore an
d oW come home you an Dan an if
there's babies which. the saints: sind
! ye fetch 'em all for there's but Jack
little Davy an ME an the bit an
sup ready for yez an Dan q crate
help on. the hrmointirely 50 no more
at <prisint from yer. lovin' mother :.
-. ;,... '"'MoYNA BLAKE"
And here was Dan could not lift
hand or foot! But it was an outlook
Of hope to Mary Ann, and she lived
ON the promise Of that letter even
more: than on her daily bread, She
wrote =, long and loving answer
back, painted her babies, as they
| 8 eemed to her, pair of cherubs in a
I hovel, and promising as soon as Dan
was well and they could raise money
that they would ;sll come home. But
Dan did not get we'll fast, though the
Isnext!nail brought over the money
IF pr'their paasags, which ''the mother
1had saved up this long while fo1
! THEM. .}2j j4l.:>,::., :. / = I.:.i,..,I T.:
The doctor shook his head daily
over Dam The fever had left him.
but not all pain i; he was stiff; aching
feeble. But this was. not all a swell
ing appeared on his throat that de
fed the doctors skill and puzzled hi.
knowledge. He wished Dan would
80 to a hospital in New York; and Al
hast, aftez much persuasion, Mar,
Ann resolved to go there with him
to establish herself somewhere uea,
by and take in washing till bis cur
could be effected, and they could al
go "home" together.
| But the New York doctors shoo1
their heads too. The swelling was
tumor, and in difficult place; per
haps it could be removed, perhsp
not; At any rate, It. must develop
+ further. It be six months, it nigh
bea;year, before they could operate
and at any rate the result would b
+ doubtful. >nt 1:s;~.'. = =. y >
/ "Mary Ann, DEAR" said Dan, in ,
+ weak, patient voice, when the doctor
had told him their opinion, "sur<
I've an idaya in me head. It's lonl
I'm sure. to be lyip' here, an it's hart
for to get work in =, big CITY like this
where ye haven't a friend to spak.
to; an I'm thinkin' it's betther 70
I ye to 60 home wid the childher, an
'flave me till I'll be me own man agi,
an come to yez." ..~.
| Mary Ann threw herself on hi
bed in a passion Of tears "Oh
Dan Dan is it lawn ye here in tn
hospittle all alone wid thin docthor,
an, you me own ould mani Sur
whin I do that same l won't be Mar,
J. Ann Doyle at ALI" -. -; -:
'."But yell have the childher, dear;
was his quiet answer. .}: :
I His wife felt as if he had strucl
her and she deserved the blow. .'YiI
oh yis, I'll have the childher; bu
will I have me husband? Tell m
that, Dan Doyle" she sobbed.
Il Dan smiled. He liked to know q
Y last that his own children had nj
u quite superseded him in his beautift
wife's heart. He was a man, if h
was, an Irish laborer; and "huma
natur'," as Mr.. Weller remarks, "is
rum thing -, viz.
I However, he persisted in his pr
ject, and At last poor Mary Ann r
I luctantly consented to take her Chi
F dren over, and, leaving them in hi
II ...:.t., ,la,,.. 4. al. IN Dan; =;