Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1878-03-19

that we got pretty well used to her; bu
mostly after she begun to drink and alter
like the rest. 1t don't take long. Theil
own mothers wouldn't know 'em mostly
in three years or so; less, maybe, as il
happens.
Well, yes. Our rule is: come fort
night and you 60 When one comes
steady for two weeks every night then il
is a case OF vagrancy, and We can send
'em to the aims house. But Doh5rty she
was pretty careful. She grew smart ss
she grew worse. If she got taken up, it
wastt TT long time. And when she
come TO ye, she steered pretty clear OF
the law-cUming Tor q few nights, you
see. and then Il again on her own ways.
They're more afraid of the aims house
than they are OF hell, these folks.
So she got to be pretty Old customer
always come TO this station. | don't
know but that was my fault. Once give
her pair OF my wite's shoes. 1t was
one January morning. twelve below zero.
She had no stockings, only pair OF old
rubbers, and her bare feet came through
on 10 the pavement, and it was pretty
icy. suppose nigh, have lost my
place Tor il. En-! Cap'n? Blu, don't
think Dohcr'y ever told OF me.
She grew to be Il pretty tough case,
Doherty dii. And yet there was alway :
something liked about Doherty. You
see she used to sing. Sometimes they
b.. AID once or twice I've had chap
here who could draw portraits OF the rest d.
Scraw the walls al! over, il he wasn't
watched. Oae OF the worS, cases we
over had on these books, his name was
Gafirey-Aeter Gaffroy. Killed IN Off.
Ger, finally, with horse shoe. He used
to talk Latin when he was drunk, and
some other language. thought it vas
Dutch; but the chief heard him, aad said
be guessed il was Greek. The fellow
used to get the rest ali ranged round like
an audience, aud then 20 st it. But gen.
erally they talk religion lis more pop
ular. This Doheriy that | sneak OF she
had beautiful voice. Time and again
I've set up here looking over the books
At dead Of night. alone along with an
officer or 50, aud heard the call 60 up
from man somewhere down below:
"Doheriy Sing Us 20 sleep, Doherty
Sing US to sleep'"
Aud then Doher;y from The women 5
ce. would hear them, through the wall,
and she would begin And the fighting
and the swearing and all me hoTrid noise
would quiet down; and, true enough, |
think they sl,p,. had q Newfoundland
dog that wen. to sleep whom nv wife
played the cabine, organ. Sometimes
that woman would sing enough TO make
your flesh creep. Shed los; all her looks
by that time. But she never sang so
when she VAS sober. And sometimes
she'd strike up pretty Ihing as clear
and sweet as the bush-a-oy my own baby
hears mahm, trom m7 own wite's lips.
Sometimes she sang. "Alld Lang Syne"
or Home, SSee, Home and once that
woman picked up q song called the
"Three Fishers" Maybe You know il
You could hear her all over this great
baiIding:-
For men must work ana women must weep,
- And women must weep --'
Don't you ever sing any ny mus, Do
herty ?n says TO her one nightmare to
see what she would say, you know. But
she looked st me and made no answer,
and passed on. Doherty never lost her
ways. ike o,her women, when she was
/ her sell. Sometimes she was quite man
ageabie aud gentle in her ways. That
night sue didn't sing at all. The men
kept ii up, of aud on, ali night. is
Doher,y ia tonight Hasn't DohertY
come p Sing Us to sleep, Doherty
sing US to Sleep
Bu, she wouldn't open her lips; and
when morning came-i, was snowy
morning-and lei her out; she tuggeC
little. this way, on my sleeve. as she
went out, and said: Good 6y lieuten-
ant Ike a lady. Sho didn't show her.
sell again for loug while alter that.
This winter she's come pretty often
la December she come nigh her tort
nights term; but she cleared out just IL
time. Tnen again this month. Is been
= pretty cold wiuter, and ,he woman
seemed sickly. lelt sorry tor her. She
grown unpleasant lookiul. and she
coughed. | don't ihiuk she had any place
OF her own this season. any where. We
couldn't find ou.. Toe CAp'n aud telt {
kind OF interest, you see, she'd been or
our books so long. Ii WAS oaly natural
But | do assure you, mt'Sm. there il
nothing to be done for such a case. Moth
ing whatever. ! wouldn't look like ths
ii l were you. You cant help it. Hin
that permits 'em He strikes 'em off oul
books, now and then, into His, madam
and best for Him and III, N and US, | tax,
it, when it happens.
Now Hast night, the % OF February
that woman, she'd just made on. her tour
tseu,h night consecutive; aud had i
planned 10 send her 10 Tewksbury 10