The Princeton union., 1879-08-20
THE "UNFORTINITS."

iC 0Ouln verona JUNCTION us allSHtcu
from the Ashuckum express. ''The Bos-
ton train has gone. It's the new range
ment made to accommodate the tunnel
line ut Greenvillc, and there's been some
body left over here every day since it
took effect: it amt goin' ter do,n he went
on in a voice Of chagrin, as If he was
personally responsible for the company's
miscalculations.
''Now you've got tour mortal hours ter
wait, and it 5 terrible dull place for a
stranger Ter wait in. This ere haVin'
passengers left over at South Vcrony is
new busineSs-but." with Il little start of
recollection and in deprecatory tone,
''There's swamp honey y-sucklcs out here
Just leettle way, lots on 'em. Ladies
come up here from the city on purpose ter
pick 'em-but perhaps you don't care
nothin' about EN-, eh?"
so thank you for speaking OF t'cm,' l
said, ''they are my especial delight DO
you think you can direct me so that l can
find here they grew"
:'i'll send that leettle unfortinit along
with YOU; she'll be glad ter go. Where
is the child? She's ginerally som 'ers
Ill SlSllU cl 1lcttI1u hlllO" tllC1C,
unfurtinit.." he shouted III a voice which
was lauehabe imitation Of a low piched
locomotive whistle.
Directly in response to the call, yell
low, bushy head, folio ed by plump,
square little body, appeared from a half
open doorway OF a neighborlng shanty,
and, in a moment, a nondescr pit, wee
creature stood beside us, nodding her
round head shrewdly in eager contirma-
ton Of the directions the Cd natured
station agent gave me.
''What is your namc:" asked looking
down into the square little girls face and
shy blue eyes, as we went out of the sta
ton together along the edge of the shad-
ed bank.
''Och sure an don't you know be
Brislin's girl?" she answered III a dialect
which was a curious mixture Of irish and
Yankee. Il be the wun what was left
when Brislin's house was burnt up-last
year 'tAas now-an' all the Brislins,
'cept me, was burnt up in it. crawled
out the windy; don't ye know? It tolc
all about it in the papers. hain't any
home since that day; but they all be
good to me in the shanty village, an
get enough to eat mostly. I stays any.
where where there bees chllder to look
after. 1 was used to that; but our chill
dren - there was load of 'em was
burnt in the fire. an Uncle Sammy:
wife took to calm me the unfortinit, an
now that bees what I'm called mostly
though some Of them says, kinder sof
like 1T be Brislin girl Uncle Sam
my, it was he that sint me with ye-l.l
wife and all Of em calls him Uncle Sam
my-he says it's dreffel strange how 81
many o the unfortinit sort happens 'roun(
here. There be tree O. them up here IL
tie Willers. OF four, countin' the baby,
pointing with the short forefnger of be
brown, fat. grimy hand. "Ugh!' as tn
long, 1.-THE, swaying branches of the tai
willow tree near by whipped about in tn
treshening breeze, turning the white un
dersides of their tender leaves to tn
light: Ugh! do you believe that to be
ghost?'
"Why should It bc?' I asked, shivel
ing in spite of myself at such a sepulchra
tone coming from the dcminutivc bod
Of nv guide.
'Why: bekase there be graves in til
little yard that he little willows fence il
The big willow be the shady tree. Uncl
Sammy knows al about it. He'll tell Y
the tree stories if We ask him, and they b
curis stories. | mese'f reminder whc
the ole man lay in the freight house yor
der, dead as hammer. Jake, the lool
over, said he was, and Freeman's viii
said the ghOosts O. the young man al
the young Woman an the baby watchc
wild the body all night. l went wild Bri
lin, that was my father and looked in
windy, but we couldn't see nothin'. Bl
Freeman S Wife, she lives nigh the freigh
hOuse, she seed them there, an she see
them now every little while, an they,
seen in her very bed room, but not latel,
She has ghost-seein' ewes, Uncle Samm
grows Just beyond the Willers over ther
but we childer be afeared to stay the,
an pick 'em. I will be after goin' wit
you, though if ye don't mind my TAXI
hold o. your dress"
I reached down and clasped the lit
fat fingers, feeling we'll paid for the slig
act of protection by the eloquent look
surprise midgled with gratitude cast I
in my face from the sky-blue eyes.
"We chi der, to keep em quiet, p
little punches of Il overs on the gray
most every day lii the warm weathe
We runs an throws 'em over an whee
IN runs back wild our eyes shut for fe
we shall see suthin' ,-uyA' as anoth
gust Of wind sewpt the long slend
branches Of the willows, disclosing the
shimmering CLEANS Of white, "do you s.
EN-, lady? If they be ghoosts, an the
mag be, they be lovely ones"
After our hands were filled with tt
wonderful wild, sweet azalea blossoms,
went up and looked through the hedg
at the three lonely, grass grown grave
over which were scattered nosegays
wild flowers in various stages Of deca
offered by the simple children Of Il
"shanty village" for the quie.lng of Il
supposed restless spirits.
,''I guess, as long as I be here now,
trow over Il few; said the little girl