The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-05


hard, sometimes, for poor human mater
to tell what is marcies and what hain't.
haln't sayin' but what every thing
that comes from the hands of the Lord
is marcies, IN q gi'aerGI aoay''-and here
the Deacon looked somewhat perplexed,
and scratched his head little-s'but
It's just as well not to give thanks for
no pertickler thing, till you've waited
spell to see hoao IT'S agoias' to turn out.
"Well, If | didn't get down on my
Knees then, my heart riz up in thank
fulness for the joy that was acomin' to
them three-the old folks and Garafely.
sot by Garafely, and so does folks GIN
orally. We never calkilated there was
no great heft to her. She want never
one to git up and tear round, like a
house fire, and fetch things to pass.
She's may be what you'd call q soft
sperited, clingin' kind OF a woman, but
then she chung most dretful strong to
what she had her heart sot on.
"These things was runnln' through
my mind, how they'd all take it and
whether or no the old folks wouldn't be
pretty well upset, and l didn't say
much.
"' You don't seem to be very glad to
see me, says he, lookin' kinder hurt.
: | 'spose was a scamp, when | was a
youngster, and annoyed folks a good
deal with my capers, says he, but I've
had plenty of trouble to stiddy me
down.
"'I never found no fault with your
capers, Bart, says 1, mo more'n I
would with young colts llickin' up his
heels. There WANT never no real wick
edness in 'em.'
"AnG then he told me all about what
had befell him; how the Dirigo had
been wrecked, and all hands lost but
him and another teller, who was picked
off'n raft and kerried to Australy. He
got into trouble there right off, along o.
this Teller bein' poorly wild, and got into
Jail. After that he was kinder shamed
to come home, and he went to sheep
farmin', and made considerable money
and all of sudden he was took with a
longin' to see his folks and his home.
He'd been nigh upon year comm
home, along o. hevin' his plans upset in
all kinds o. ways.
"He had plenty o. time to tell me all
the perticklers, for the wind was con-
trary, and | had to tack six or eight
times runnin' over. We walked across
the parster to Dead Mans Pint, and
straight into the old Cap'n's house.
was little afeard, but [ remember
hearin' that JOY never killed nobody, so
l thought I'd resk it.
"Mis' Aminidab, she was standin' in
the settin' room door when we walked
in.
"'Mother!' says he, turnin' red and
white all in minute, and his lip trem-
blin'. 'Mother'
She fetched a screech, Mis- Amini-
dab did, that they might heard over
to Porkerpine. She throwed her arms
around his neck, and tainted clear
away.
"The old Cap'n he was nigh about
crazy. He was dretful apt to git things
mixed up at his best, and now he seemed
to know one minute that twas Bart, and
the next he'd think twas little Elbridge,
his first wife's boy, that died when he
was three years old, more'n fifty years
back.
"But Mis- Aminidah! We fetched
her to in a few minutes, and didn't she
stand up straight and harnsome, and
color come out on her cheeks that l
hadn't seen there since she was a Gal.
She grew ten years younger in the ten
minutes that see her.
sit came over me, all to once, that
my room was better'n my company at
SIGH meetin' as that, and was startin'
to 60, when see Garafcly comm. l
couldn't help stayin' to see how she'd
take it. If | be an old bachelor like to
see young folks set by one another, and
KNOWN as | did how that gals heart
had been sot on Bart Ramsdell's memo
ry all these years, wanted to see how
happy she'd be to see him alive and
well. She come along into the sittin'-
room, lookin' jest as kinder droopin' and
patient as ever.
"When she see him she looked
straight at him, and she turned kinder
pale.
"'Garry,' says he, jest as he'd spoke
to his mother. Garry, don't YOU
know mep' And he held his arm out to
her.
"She kept CROWN whittier and whittier,
but she stood stock-still, and she looked
straight at him. Them near-sighted
eyes of hern seem as eff they'd look
straight through you sometimes.
"O, Garry, you amt got mothers
hearth says Mis- Aminidab, kinder re-
proachful.
"'He looks like Bart-but he isn't
Bart!' says Garafely, and she spoke up
pretty decided.
$50 Garry, 1 didn't think you would
forget mel says he, terrible kinder sad
and reproachful. 'Don'tyou remember
once when 1 dressed up in Gran'ther
Bartlett's clothes and put on white
wig and beard you knew me right off,
though none of the others didn't, and
you said nothin' couldn't never change
me so as you wouldn't know me?'
"That kinder seemed to convince her,
as well it might.
"Is it really you, Bart?' she says,
trenholm all over jest like a leaf. II
can't make it seem so. l feel as eff l
was dreamin'.' But she kinder drawed
a little nearer to him, and he Rugged
her up, and gin her kiss. She laid
her head on his shoulder, and bust out
a cryin', and calkilated I'd better come
away.
" Before night every bodv on tho Tel