The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-11-15

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Mary, look At the bread, wont yoa :
It's most dohe. / guess, ," said Mrs, Hey
worth to her daughter.
A foOt-steP sounded upon the we'll
beaten yard, And both mother aud daugh-
ter started nerveusly, the latter slipping
her book uddenly out Of sight, starting
toward the saove.
las only Willie and Mrs. Heyworth
resumed her patching with sigh Of re-
lief
The boy who entered threw himself de-
jectedly upon the long, high-backed set
tee, and buried his face for = moment in
his hands, then, starting up suddenly ex-
claimed:
al May just as well give up first as last,
/ suppose"
''Oh, Willie, did father say yOu couldn't
got"
"Of course he did! might have
known il, he added, in choked voice /;
4" but did think that surely he would
consent when he knew how much
wanted to go to college, and how hard I
had tried I'd prepare for entering this
Fall"
. do think it is too bad, and father is
just as mean as he can be /! don't care r
she exclaimed, de6Antly, turning deter
minedly away from her mothers admOni-
tory Mary Maryr" @I don't care! If
father wanted as to hate him he couIdn't
try harder than he is now doing al the
time to bring it abOutt''
well, grieving won't do my work, !"
said the boy, with . pitiful attempt At
cheerfulness. I'Il have 20 quit thinking
about It, that's all. /"
A whittier look came over the mothers
careworn face, and the lines about her
mouth settled into tense Figidity - her
eyes followed her son. Was It jassIright
that her chi ildren's lives could thas be
cramped and narrowed down 70 the stand
ard of one little soul? I?
So well she knew Of her children's
troubles that she could not 1t heart blame
her daugbtef for the sudden outbnrse that
had just ocSurred-theEe was too much
trnth in the girls rapid words Poor
Williel How hard he had stadied every
moment that be could snatch from work
preparing himself for examination-hoP
ing against hope, TO enter college.
sanhehns slowly lengthened, creep
ing up and pver her fses, hsr work, ard
her folded hhnda, until they Aashed upen
her eyes With suddea bliidneaA
@Come, Mary, it's most time for sup-
per, and fatheF'n soon Be in from the
feldr" and she gathered up her work
With weaEy sigh.
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she:.thoaght. half apologetiealIy, ,aoaIy hes
50 set"
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done long hgo, and be -, - nsuAl, IL
his eaey chair. With hin iset apou ~
Sender.
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deacon laid aside his paper; Mn Hey-
uosth's opporsunity had come = iArt,
the moment she had waited for % aax-
ioasly.
@Fs1her, she eomnenoed, desper.ssly.
college begins next wsek-
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