Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1879-01-09
BrOOms and Eeaux.

! OF cur smaller NJ Massachusetts, cities
| hailed horse-car, settled mysel
in corner, and looked out on thr
shifting scenes on the streets. Two
young men, evidently book keepers
or clerks, followed me in, and tool
seats near me. They were friends
it seemed, and this was their con
versatfon.
"Who are you gong to take tc
the Walter Scott Society, tins win
ter, Joseph asked the older and
taller OF the two.
81 had intended to do myself the
honor of inviting Miss Nellie Slough
to 90 with me, but yesterday
changed my nind.o
GLOW came that about ?"
~ on will call me whimsical if
tell YOU
"What # [ do (! The wisest of
men have Their whims. Out with
it,"
We'll, then, Yesterday, man
from III" country drove in town
with = Io:''. "t bruoms, which he
hap..'i r. dispose of at the house
furnishing stores hut not finding a
marker f. them. and the roads be-
ln@ s. ".,|, ~ determined not to
Tx f.'en -" again He drew
up AZ tns "rnrf curb>tone near our
>t"re, Hid commenced selling his
lock from the sleigh about the
tim ihc people were going for their
tx" ."'cl,rit mail.
'STnry were very good bro"ns.
I'" price was low, and they went
like the first hot chestnuts OF the
season. Quite a grcupe gathereG
around hlm, and it seemed that al
most every preventative of tami.
ly b"ugh one or more. Ever SO
many woultn took enc and walked
along natnra;l< and independently
with it.
'Mr. jam ) one Of the partners
of the house where | II employed,
and who is Il batchelor, stood by my
side looking out Of the window /;
with very evident enjoyment of
the scene. All at once he lodged
out at the doorway, and as the
south wind blew his gray hair In
every direction he ran across the
sidewalk TO the cart, saying They
are dirt cheap give me halt a
dozen They were handed out
lie paid for them hastily, and turn
ing round, gave one t. Bidd Flyn,
who sweeps the store, two to par
son Potter, and one to All old lame
man who lives with his wife IN the
alley back Of the store. Just then,
Nellie and Jane Stoughton and
Kate Holt came along. Mr.. James
knows them all well, and he now
greeted them cordially, and in a few
of the pleasant, pat words which
are always at his tongues end, sent
a broom TO mother Holt, and one
to mother Sfoughton They are
both widows, you know.
Kate Holt took the one rendered
her, saying, 4 thank you, gratefully;
we were just needing a new broom
sadly Mother will be glad, bn: l !
shall appreciate it the most, because
you see, do all the sweeping, and
she tripped gracefully up the street,
carrying the broom as indifferently
as If it had been a silk umbrella or
a roll of music.
"The Misses Stoughton, however;
hesitated about accepting the gift.
Neither of them offered TO talle it,
but as if was held to Nellie, and She /
dared not offend Mr.. James, who is
the superintendent of her Sabbath
school, hy refusing it, she carried it
a little distance, looking exactly as
# she had never seen a broom be-
tore aud supposed II to be an insiy-
Itia "t otlah"nur
"A q jus as the two gitls Turned |
th c''ae ~. t rrrrd down FEEDER !
II 'r , ar ,und To another
t"t:l II look at them.
i a. just come in,
:. after me, and |
lhn closed shut
iav would do
\ :, obnoxious arti-
= x ~ lamp y ST, and was
i..fs.,,usti. d To leave it til. re. Bnt
} , 'uId nor allow that, and they
I ear. d about it until some pco-
.'i<. came mp, TO whom they made /
s>ct'see, Jane laughing, and nearly
hesdIrg herself double, and cover
ing at face with her hands in a
parpXistn of merrinent. aud Nellie /
gigiing, aud holoing that dreadful
broom gingerly III ter band.
"After "a while they compromised
the matter nv iockiny arms. takinQ
the dospisgd sr;tcie between them. /
roverlng 'hc crush with their drap-
cry, and mincing slowly away.
"Little things test the character. -
Mr.. James s.The wife
of poor man who has pot his WOW