The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-01-14

. Minty spoke to 'em in her pooty wav
ana begged on EN- to remember we was
ladies, and be quiet.
iney simmered down to once then;
ana Minty went to the little teller and
says kindly, says she: Haven't YOU eft
enough? What makes you fill your
pockets? The rest don't do so, Won
see.n ~"
he looked sheepish for mint, but he
spanked up, and says he, Eyes, marin,
re had enough myself; l thank We
kindly; but l thought as how 'twouldn't
De no harm ter carry some ter Jim-Jim
Kasher-he's sick, We know; and he hahn
got nobody but me ter look out for him,
he hain't.''
" course we was interested to once:
ana we asked good many questions
and Minty told the boy to wait till the
others was gone, and she put up a
basket of things for him to take along to
his sick friend.
While she was talkin' 1 was a-thinkin'
and says ter myself: you'd better 90
and see this sick man; mebby it'll. ease
yer mind to do something for some coal
man, if you can't for the. right one"
So run up stairs and put on my bun
nit and clapped my purse into my
pocket and was ready and waitin' when
he come out with his basket. So we
went along together, and-wall, might
as well tell ye fust as last found my
coal man,
he was sick. sure enough; and he lay
in mis- able room on a mis- able
bed, and the flies was eatin' on him up,
and-ttere want no air in the room fit
for q human bein' to breathe, and he
was tossin' and moanin', burnt up with
fever.
Sonethin' told me I had found him
afore Isee his face, and when went up
to him and laid my cool hand on his
head h, knew me, too. He looked at
me for aminnit in that stupid, stunned
kind of way O his nj remembered it
perfeckl but he knew me, and his
great hottest eyes kinder smiled, though
his moutl was so solemn, and he says:
"Old lady is it youP'
| couldl't speak to once if I'd died,
but | opened the basket and got him out
some Craps and Civ him, and sent the
boy for some cool water; then | bathed
his head, and by N by l asked him if
there VAIN no one to take care on him,
Nobody but Sam, he said the little teller
that come with me; and he lived some
ways off and was as poor as himself.
There seemed ter be somethin' more he
wanted tosay, but he couldn't seem to
git it out; so went on talkin'. l told
him how felt when found I'd forgot
his address, and how l had worried ever
sence; AMI all how I'd hunted for him,
and about the free lunch, and every
thing.
''And now," says I, 81 want We to
cheer right up, for I'm goin' ter send
youa doctor, and will have we well and
ridin' on your coal cart in no time. Is
the old white boss alive and well?n
says 1.
Upon this he smiled as bright as but
ton.
Yes marm," says he, ''the old mare S
all right, thank ye.''
WALL" says l poorly soon, 81 must
leave we now. You try and think if
there amt some body we can git ter come
and stay with We spell"
He picked at the bed-cloes and colored
up; and finally l managed to make out
on EN- both that there was girl he was
goin' ter marry, and she'd be glad to
come, but she didn't even know he was
sick yet.
So the little teller and I, we went away
together, and we hunted up the girl and
her mother The girl name was Ber-
Indy, and they promised to go and take
care on him, and paid 'em some in adj
vance, and fixed things all right, and
went home to Minty.
Minty was wonderful excited over it.
"Our free lunch was a success arter
air. says she; and we went to bed that
night two happy women, if we was tuck
cred out.
Wall, the rest is soon told. We KEEP
an eye on Jim Rasher, and arter while
Jack give him place in his own store,
and Minty took Berlindy into the house
as servant.
When they was married, we helped ter
fit 'em out, and among other things, l
Civ Jim the twenty-dollar gold piece and
the mans message along of it.
He looked more stupid and stunned
than / ever see him afore. But his girl
Berlindy-she swallered it all, and more,
too; for she tossed up her head, and says
she:
81 should like ter see the man that can
come up to James in good looks, if he is
a millingnairr' says she.
Minty and Jack both say that my
brought us all some good.
But | don't never want another one; and
in the future, l intend ter pay all mig
bills as 1 Godey's Lady's Book.