St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-11-04

she would be a givin' me bimeby, and
what a stidy hincOme she would be for
the missionaries and one day man
rode up to the door, and jumped down
from his horse.
"Wall, my husband he took him all
over the ranch, and they looked at the
wheat and the vineyard and the fruit
and the stock, and they looked at Park
lie a long time, and seemed to be talkin'
her over; and was awful proud (gre't
fool y, cause | thought they was ad-
mirin' her. Then the man he staid
outside, and my husband he came in,
and went through the kitchen where l
was, and says he, careless like I'm
thinkin' of sellin' the young heifer.'
Says l, jumping up, never thinkin' of
nothin', What, my calf p and says he,
mighty scornful, your calf y It's my
calf, I'd have you know ; and then he
went out to the man again.
81 sOt down and bust out cryin. My
husband is awful sot when he is sOt,
and know it wasn't no use to say
nothin', and l just cried like great
baby; and with tears all runnin' down,
| watched the man drive my Parkie,
and she hangin' back, and he a whip
her life. And just then my husband
came in, and says he, as if he was a
maxim up for all, 'You can have ten
dollars of the money, if you want it ,
and that made me mad. l didn't say
nothin', but | just looked at him and
he didn't have no call to stay in that
kitchen the rest of that day, l tell you.
And l took on two or three days all by
myself. and got mad every time he
spoke or came a'near. And one day as
L sot by the kitchen-ta with my
work done up and a clean apron on,
he walked in and threw ten-dOllar
piece into my lap, and says he, There
is the money | promised you : when |
caught it and threw it right back at
him, Just as hard as | could, and it hit
him and fell on the floor and he
laughed and went out milkin'.
'EBy that time | had got to be awful
wicked, and l sot thinkin' to myself
about Paul, and how he says Sarah
obeyed Abraham, calling him lord.
But we get the other side of that story
in the Old Testament, which it is pret-
ty easy seen how Abraham had to give
up to Sarah, and let her have her own
way and what would she have said
if he had gone and sold her pet camel,
| would like to know
"Wall, the money laid on the floor
three days, and me sweepin' around
it, and it seemed as if | couldn't tech
it. Which at last | made myself 60
and pick it up, and put it with the rest
of my parquisite money, and me
blubberin' while | did it. And may
be it won't do no good to the mission
aries, on account of so behavin which
| did ask the Lords pardon for gettin
mad over it, and hope to be forgiven.
"'And here is the money she said
suddenly producing her purse 'and
hope you won't refuse it because l act
ed so. And if you have a mind tC
make me lifemember with it, there
will be some to spare And she placed
in my hand thirty dollars, in three
shining gold-pieces- fruit of mucL
toll and self-denial. And said she
sinking her voice, and swiftly lifting
up and uncovering her basket, Il wan
to know whether missionaries likt
hard billed eggsP have brought some
down, and if you you think them three
lady missionaries would like 'em,
want you to send 'em to 'em. They'll
keep, for 1 billed 'em myself tifteeI
minutes by the clock. And it would
please Jap and Turkey most particlllal
if they could understand, and | shall
tell 'em, and they're all I've got nov
to talk to, butter not bein' alive like
and Parkie bein' took away. And if
should tell 'em that their own egg
which they've cackled over is hare
billed and sent to the lady missionaries
it would encourage 'em like, maybe
Which, if you can't send 'em to heather
lands, p'r'aps the Board would like ZEN
-leastways the yolks, as many doe
who won't eat the whites"
AS she spoke she rapidly emptied he
basket on the table near, and hurried
away, leaving me gazing i'll half
dazed condition at the pile of hard
boiled eggs, while | uncOnsciously hell
the shining eagles, her generous dona
, ton, clasped closely in my hand.-[Th
Pacific.