New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-12-17
ONLY FIFTEEN.

ONLY FIFTEEN.
THAT was q rather cruel, unfeeline
remark of Mr.. Earle to his daupbtei
Sadie, or Sarah as she now wished &c
be called. because. $ at least she WASH,
= babyv'
"No, sis. you're neither q little qiri
nor woman; but Just between Ra>
and grass, a. ouex nsyssay. B
Sarah gave an extra push to her al
ceady we'll tied back muslin overskirt.
and started for school with q smolder.
ing spark in her eye.
''lts true what father says,' she
Soliloquized, as she walked along. "Pm
too old to wear my dresses short, and
too young to wear them long; too old
to let my hair 60 loose and comforta,
BILE. and too young for frizzles, puff,
and coils. And as the cows in the
spring, when the hay is gone and the
grass not we'll. grown, have to put ur
with odds and ends, so I have to take
all Hats and Jen's cast-off dresses and
hats; or, if there is anything awful,
unbecoming to them l get that, whether
l like it or not. Then in the work.
what have is just what everybody else
hates to do, like washing dishes and
cleaning lamps-just what nobody gets
credit for either. only blame for no,
doing we'll"
BY this time this ambitious girl of
ours had reached the school-hous but
the teacher had an engagement, SO the
card attached to the dOOr-handle told
the scholars. Sarah started at once to
retrace her steps; for it was two mile
walk, with only here and there a few
old apple-trees to shield her from the
SUMS glare.
As she walked her thoughts reverted
to the mornings conversation. partly,
perhaps, because the scent of new
mown hay greeted her. Like any girl
of her age It struck her as a queer,
backward sort of comparison to speak
of childhood as the time of hay.
20, yes!' she exclaimed aloud, as a
thought struck her, ~ see how it ISL
and she al once resolved TO write thu
coming weeks composition on tina,
very subject.
"rll say" she soliloquized, "tha,
childhood is cared for by the garnered
love of father and mother. That's thu
hay, you see! But, at last, the youth
goes out into the world and gather,
love for himself. And shall give it
moral turn; for, somehow, think
young people ought not to be selfish.
even If l am so-but ought to gather
love by loving.
What's the use of talking, thought
II I really wanted to be useful !
couldn't. Who'd ask me to sit up and
watch with sick people, for instancep
1 couldn't even keep awake all night.
l wish l could be sure I'd be the right
sort of woman, and then, seems to me,
it might be beautiful to be wriukled or
gray; for, by that time. one is sure Of
ones self"
Then she suddenly stepped dow
from h0r mount of moral enthusiast
"a feat, alas! so easily accomplished
90 hard to account for, often.
" Before get to be good and gray
I'd like some nice times aud some nic.
things. This muslin overskirt an
waist are pretty enough and for ace
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kuessed the truth, which was that
Squire Wait himself had received, at
the hands of one of his laundering
severe cut in the leg from
scytne while moving.
The bright arterial blood was pour
ing from the wound, deathlike pallor
had overspread the sufferers face, and
bis eyes were already half-closed.
Sarah whisked the muslin overskirt
over her head like q flash.
'.Help me tear broad bandsge out
II this!' she cried.
The men were dull-looking, plodding
aborers; but one of them seemed en-
outraged by her air of determination,
md, in . moment, from the back of
he skirt q breadth was torn. Without
my words Sarah tied strong knot in
his breadth. Then she stopped down,
md, with one great heart-sinkinQ. one