The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-04-20

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then said:
"Lend me your knife and I'll give
you half"
She set the apple upon top of the
gatepost, savagely jammed the knife
through it, wiped the blade on her shawl
and returned the knife with the larger
part of the apple.
"Thank you" said l.
" What is your name, boyY
"George Hartman. What is yours?"
Hannah Ann Farley. You going to
live in that house"
"I expect to-"
"Tm glad of it, There's been q dis
agreeable, stuck-up little girl living
over there. / thought when first saw
you, you were going to be just like her"
This took as Hannah's apology for
her reception. 1t was satisfactory, and
we might then and there have become
friends, but at that moment Mary Sulli-
van came to our front door and called
me home. She said the brass-headed
tacks were all gone, and. 1 must go to
the store for more. When / returned
Hannah Ann was nowhere to be seen.
The next morning was fortunate
enough to find fve-cent piece in
crack of q bureau drawer, and promptly
started for store wherein to spend it.
The streets were so muddy / thought l
would go across and leap the neigh
bor's fences. 1 was in neighbor Far
ley's yard when l was sharply hailed
from little window high up in the end
of the house.
" Boy, come up here !"
How am going to get upg"
eco around to the kitchen, and ask
my mother to show you the way"
1 hunted up the kitchen, and found
Hannah's mother. Prior to this time
when I wished to represent female
! figure upon my slate 1 had triangle
! turn finished by small circle; here
after, with Mrs. Farley in mind, drew
cylindrical figure with small circle
on the upper end, and a slight depres-
sion representing the waist-line. After
once seeing Mrs. Farley could never
wonder that Hannah was forever bor-
rowing a pin to fasten something on
with There could never be a more de-
hghtful garret than Mrs. Farley's, for
never could there be a woman who could
excel her in the celebrity with which she
would use up furniture. Such col
lection ofmirrors with shattered glasses,
bottomless chairs, dismantled bureaus,
and tables standing upon three legs is
seldom met
"What do you want to play?" asked
Hannah.
Pirate"
0What's n rirate?"
+ explained, and Hannah forthwith
became the most bloodthirsty of pirates.
1t was in my heart to spare the women
and children, but she refused to listen
to such a proposition, and felled he1
victims left and right without regard to
age or sex. Once she pierced me
through the heart, and 1 fell bleeding
dying, hitting my head against the
chimney, and yelling out in unfeigned
agony.
Afterward, we were riding peacefully
along over the green fields, and beneath
the calm blue sky, on two-legged and
very dusty sofa, when party of bri
gands swooped down upon us, and bor'
us off to O loathsome dungeon behind
dismantled bureau. We fattened our
J selves and crawled out, beheaded tn
brigands, appropriated their spoils, anC
returned triumphant to our own homes
? We we're very dusty and covered witt
, cobwebs when L remembered my five
r cent piece and said 1 must go.
I "Give me half of what you're goin
to buy, and Til go with you," sal
3 Hannah.
f couldn't very well refuse this geneI
; Gus offer; so she put on her hood an
shawl, at my suggestion tied up her shoe
e strings, and we started. She expresse
d a preference for black hcorice, and
s expended my money upon that luxury
S and shared it Literally. We came HON
$ hand in hand, and though Hannah wen
g over-shoe in mud and water three time
IS she bore it with inimitable good-natur'
s From that morning our friendshi
n matured rapidly. Sometimes Hanna
q was at our house; sometimes played i
the Farley garnet; and sometimes whe
she had a sore throat, and wore prepl
a ration of lard and camphor-gum aroun
it, we had permission to play in Mr.
d Farley's parlor. Whenever Hanna
r stole cookies and ginger-snaps for he
le self, she always laid in for me; whe
d Mary Sullivan made tea-saucer pies I,
q. me, / carried them red-hot from IL
N oven to neighbor Farley's, and Hanna
e. and / watched them cool with hear
+" that beat as one. Then while one-ha
Il the juice drizzled over my jacket Il
IN corresponding half dripped on Hannah
m apron. Hannah was passionately for
to of "jooce!"
When school opened, Hannah and
a went hand in hand, and stood by o.
in another in days of adversely as well
ly days Of prosperity Hannah being
nd miserable scholar, her days were most
,ol of adversity.
I'M The months slipped away, and {
IS. years grew apace. My father petition
nd the town authorities to fill up that m
M puddle in front of our house. I
at town authorities gave every encourae
3 a ment that the "whole board" would