Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1878-07-16

to learn their letters. And Ephie called
himself one of the big boys and helped
his sister more than she knew. Miss
Moss was so much liked by both parents
and pupils, she was engaged to teach a
second term. and did it well, studying
hard meanwhile herself.
Father said Baberry, one night,
when he came to walk home with her "l
must go TO town for littlo while and at
tend school think can manage il if
you will let me-"
"All right, Berry. Do as you please" :"
said be. "If you want to be scholar,
| am glad of it; but don't see hsw |
can help you"
Berry had little colt of her own,
which she had petted and trained. And
one day about this time he went away,
aud in his place her father brought her
one hundred dollars, which she put 10 the
bank. And when the second term was
over Berry added more 10 It. aud made
one or two dresses for herself and more
for the children. No one but her father
and mother knew Berry's plans-nol even
the old minister, who loved the girl. and
said over and over again to her father t:
"She will make her mark in the world, "
or, you will hear of that gIrl yet. =
When everything was in order at home,
Berry packed little brown trunk of her
mothers and went TO the city 70 attend
normal school; while stout young
Swede girl took her place and helped the
little mother.
1t was sorrowful morning when she
went, and hardest OF all TO the young
girl, who left all she loved behind to
work for al she hoped for. a low room
in an old friends attic in town was not to
be compared 10 her own neat bed cham
Der at home and Berry often sighed as
she carried her books up so many flights
OF stairs.
Mrs. Harrison was good TO let me
como anyway" said the girl, when her
ress-making takes up so much OF her
house and all OF her time; but Lean
work out OF school enough to pay her,
and send something home every week to
pay Christina with"
Sometimes when her fourth story room
was very cold, Berry drew on her miItens
to keep her fingers warm. for she could
not study down stairs, in the noise. At
night, when every one had gone to bed,
she would slip softly down aud sit by the
register in the work room. 10 get her les
sons. always taking with her, her little
candle, although Mrs. Harrison told her
1.-The bit of gas she used would never be
found on her bill and II il were, SHE was
quite welcome" With her own hngers,
Baberry made kind OF easel 10 hold her
book while she knit and studied, or
the seams OF dresses. She
often earned ten or fifteen cents by doing
such work tor Mrs. Harrison, while she
was learning her Latin rules or commit
ting something TO memory.
Such odd little housekeeping you never
saw; for she lived all alone. because it
was cheaper and she could work harder.
In one corner of her room was q little
wooden closet, which had once been in
the basement but was not needed there
now. This Berry scrubbed until 1t was
clean, and shining, and deposited the lit
10 stores there which her father brought
her from home, or she bought with her
own money. Berry's tea-psrtles were
funny little affairs, and always came oil
on Monday or Saturday, when her lather
came in town and climbed the stairs, to
find his little girl hard at work with her
needle or books and sometimes with both.
Her mother never tailed 70 send her a
pot of butter and some homemade
bread, or now and then some boiled ham
or pressed beef. If Berry's supply was
pretty short, no one knew il but herself
and the "scrimpings," as she called her
little savings, were used 10 buy some
standard work which she would require
in obtaining her education. Tes-party
nights never failed to bring her iaiher
and one OF the children. or sometimes
mother and the baby. On such occasions
Berry would run down stairs to the great
kitchen and coax cook to let her steep a
pot OF tea. Cook was never hard TO
coax, however, and often sent it up her.
self. or begged "Miss Moss to try plate
of her cookies. although they were not
as good as common
Everybody was very kind TO Berry.
She told her father "she did not know
why;" bat he seemed to understand it,
and never forgot those who were civil to
his little girl.
"If can pull through, without being
q dollar in debt, father, then | can come
home and hand you my diploma with a
liph. heart said she. But Berry could
not get through, for trouble came to Bush
Cottage-sickness and bad luck. So
Berry said goodbye one day to her class
mates, and went home TO help them out
of their worries. She had just found out
that all these years her father had been
burdened with mortgage, and it took
every cent he could get to support his
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