The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-04-02

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cleansing dashes on her dress skirt and
then said:
Lend me your knife and I'll give
you half"
She set the apple upon top of the
4 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 /.
g What is your name, boy?"
George Hartman. What is yours 2"
Hannah Ann Farley. You going to
live in that house,"
81 expect to-"
I'm glad of it. There's been a dis
agreeable, stuck-up little girl living
over there. thought when first I saw
you, you were going to be just like her."
I This 1 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
lacks were all gone, and l must go to
the store for more. When I returned
The next morning / was fortunate
enough to find five-cent piece in
crack of bureau drawer, and promptly
! started for store wherein to spend it.
The streets were SO muddy I thought 1
would go across and leap the neigh
boris fences. was in neighbor Far
ley's yard when l was sharply hailed
! from a little window high up in the end
of the house.
=" Boy, come up here p
/ " How am going to get up"
"Go around to the kitchen, and ask
my mother to show you the way"
hunted up the kitchen, and found
Hannah's mother. Prior to this time
when I wished to represent female
figure upon my slate [ had a triangle
surmounted by an eclipse, and this in
turn finished by small circle; here
after, with Mrs. Farley in mind, drew
a cylindrical figure with a small circle
on the upper end, and slight depres-
sion representing the waist-line. After
once seeing Mrs. Farley I could never
wonder that Hannah was forever bor-
rowing pin to fasten something on
with. There could never be a more de-
lightful garnet than Mrs. Farley's, for
never could there be woman who could
excel her in the celebrity with which she
would use up furniture. Such a 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"
"What's pirate?"
[ explained, and Hannah forthwith
became the most bloodthirsty of pirates.
It was in my heart to spare the women
and children, but she refused to listen
to such a proposition, and felled her
victims left and right without regard to
age or sex. Once she pierced me
through the heart, and I 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 q two-legged and
very dusty sofa, when party of bri-
gands swooped down upon us, and bore
us off to loathsome dungeon behind a
dismantled bureau. We fattened our
selves and crawled out, beheaded the
brigands, appropriated their spoils, and
returned triumphant to our own homes
We were very dusty and covered with
cobwebs when [ remembered my five
cent piece and said must CO.
"Give me half of what you're going
to buy, and I'll go with you," said
Hannah
couldn't very well refuse this gener-
Gus offer; so she put on her hood and
shawl, at my suggestion tied up her shoe
strings, and we started She expressed
a preference for black licorice. and
expended my money upon that luxury:
and shared it literally. We came home
hand in hand, and though Hannah went
over-shoe in mud and water three times,
she bore it with inimitable good-nature
From that morning our friendship
matured rapidly. Sometimes Hannah
was at our house; sometimes played in
the Farley garret; and sometimes when
she had sore throat, and wore prepa-
ration of lard and camphor-gum around
it, we had permission to play in Mrs.
Farley's parlor. Whenever Hannah
stole cookies and ginger-snaps for her
self, she always laid in for me; when
Mary Sullivan made tea-saucer pies for
me, / carried them red-hot from. the
oven to neighbor Farley's, and Hannah
and watched them cool with hearts
that beat as one. Then while one-half
the Juice drizz1ed over my jacket the
corresponding half dripped on Hannah's
apron. Hannah was passionately fond
of "iooce!"
When school opened, Hannah and l
went hand in hand, and stood by one
another in days of adversely as well as
days of prosperity. Hannah being a
miserable scholar, her days were mostly
of adversely.
The months slipped away, and the
years grew apace. Ny father petitioned
the town authorities to fill up that mud
puddle in front Of our house. The
town authorities gave every encourage
ment that the "whole board" would be
on the spot at an early day, but we
looked for them in vain. Ny father
made second and third imnort1nitv