Connecticut western news., 1880-10-20

ago, and he's never been back since, but he'll come some day, won't he, Patty ?"
 Certainly he will. I should know him in minute, though I never saw him. Let's see, he had lovely curly hair"
 ''And beautiful blue eyes"
 "And was six feet tall"
 ''And the best-hearted boy that ever lived"
 "Yes, that's Uncle John; how long to see him! Now let me move your chair up to the table, and you and I'll drink his health in a cup of tea"
 So this harmless pair ate their SUD- per, and laughed and chatted, and were altogether merrier party than that in the dining-room.
 "Where are grandma and Patty ?" whispered MT. Black to his wife at the first opportunity.
 "Oh, grandma wasn't able to come to the table" (which was true in one sense), 'tand Patty chose to stay with her. There was no sort of need of it it is only one of her odd freaks"
 MT. Black, who, although possessing many good qualities, lacked his wife's resolution, said no more. a....
 ''The next time have company I do hope I shall have a larger dining remarked Mrs. Black, the following morning, while engaged in putting away her cake and preserves, the remains of l the evenings festivity.
 ''Tm sure you might if you'd only say SO" said Rosie; 'there's no earthly reason why grandma should have one of the best rooms in the house, when we want it every day."
 eff it comes to that, there is no req son why she should be here at all. I'm sure no one could blame your father if i he should refuse to take care of her any longer - only 8 step-mother so he's done more for her now than most peo- pie would"
 'It's very good of papa," said Belle, "but then he ought to consider his own family; and she really is no rela- tion to any of us.
 'tNone at all, and so I've told your father over and over again, but he has a notion he owes her something because she took care of him when he was small of course, she'd take care of him if she married his father how could she help it ?"
 | Mrs. Black did not mention what was also true, that what little property grandma had brought with her, had been freely given for the use of her husbands family.
 GAS told your father, nobody could expect him to stand by her when her own son ran off and left her. We'll, there I hope I shall be able to bring him to reason some time."
 And bring him to reason she did, for Q constant dropping will wear away even stone, and MT. Black was not stone, but 6 very ductile kind of clay. Hence it happened that he at last consented, not without some bangs of conscience, that his aged step-mother should be banished from the roof which had shell tered her so long.
 One day Patty returned from an er- rand on which she had been dispatched, to find grandma's chair vacant. She had heard the plan spoken of, but had never believed it would be accomplished, and now her grief and indignation knew no bounds.
 "Grandma gone to the poor-house P cried she. "Why, it's horrible ; Inever heard of anything so dreadful p
 "The county farm" corrected Mrs. Black "a most excellent institution, where she will have the best of care.''
 "You may call it what you please it's the poor-house-that's what it is. But one thing know, she shall never stay there; I'll go and get her out my self."
 "And pray what will you do with her after you get her out?" asked Mrs. Black.
 } "Tl take care of her; I can find something to do, know" , "Its pity you hadn't thought of il before," said Mrs. Black; Git would AhfO otfOO JOu OA Ou1 3 charity some dozen years." "Charityl I've had nothing that haven't earned twice over," said Patty.
 "You'd better take care of that t tongue of yours, or I'll pack you off, ! next" said her aunt.
 Patty accepted her aunt's advice an6 t said no more, but she sobbed herself tc sleep that night, and the next day sci !. out on her quest for employment. Il q was not so easily found as she expected :, and night after night as she returned h unsuccessful, she saw look of triumph in her aunt's' eyes-of triumph 'whicl ? sometimes expressed itself in words. d At length, in answer to Mrs. Black's j, usual inquiry, "Well, what luck ?" sht
 was able to answer, "Good; MT. Grey :, son has engaged me to run one of his = stitchingmachines.
 Now Mrs. Black did not wish Patty tt :, leave her, partly on account of th' d speech of people, and partly because sh' r. had made herself almost indispensable l. in the household, so having exhausted
 every argument to overturn her resolu 7. tion, but in vain, she wound up with n "Patty Moran, you're 8 disgrace t. Il the family p
 70 "Some people have queer ideas O u what constitutes disgrace" said Patty ,s The next Monday she began her work ,t and in few weeks had the great happi ness of taking grandma from the count .4 farm to the two small rooms she ha, 0' hired in 8 tenement house.