The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-18
A BREAKFAST STORY.

$50 yer don't remember me? Wal, I
amt surprised; bein's my names what
tits now; but when | tell yer-Lemme
see; sixteen an ten an four-you've bin
gone fifteen years
Yes, it was fifteen years ago this
month that went West"
"You an my Emily was bout of an
age. She died when she was sixteen;
father died ten year arter, jest four year
ago mex week; and you went off the
year afore Emily died. Yes, she'd bin
thirty this fall. Law, Pm CROWN old F!
butt
"You must refer to Emily Benham;
strange | did not recall you,"
The last speaker was tall young man
of thirty, with large, black, searching
eyes, a full beard, and hair of that indie
scribable tint, neither red nor brown,
but with rich golden sheen. auburn,
perhaps it would be called, curling tight
ly about well-shaped head; dainty
mustache, half Concealing a finely-cut
upper lip; and withal such bearing of
dignity and self possession that one I'M
acquainted with his early life would have
little suspected that his boyhood had been
passed amid the surroundings IN which
we now find him.
Il thought yer'd remember Emily.
Beg yer pardin, but didn't know one
spell but you two'd make match Fool
ish | know twas tew;-w'y you was
nuthin' but children; but most ev'ry
day you'd leave Their boys down't Their
corner an come up 'roun' ther bridge by
Their mill an go cross-lots, you'n Emily
ter school. Father n 1 used to talk
'bout it some, an your folks liked Emily,
few; but you got Uneasy, an wanted ter
see more O. the world afore yer settled
down, an then Their mex year Emily
took sick an died; s'pose she studied
rather hard, or somethin'. Some brain
trouble, Their doctor called it,
80, yes, l well remember Emily
She was a good scholar, and often helped
me solve knotty problem. In fact,
believe she was the only girl in the
school that could count up more head
marks than l. The last year, while
studying botany, we often went 'cross
lots, as you have said, and gathered
specimens for the class"
oval, four years ago father died.
allus called him father an he called
me mother, cause EN- ly did, s'pose
= and when Mister Meachem come over
here, a year or so arter, an told as how
he b'lieyed he an me could make good
Twin together-yer see, l had a good
place here, an he had about ten thou
san in money, an had bin in the hotel
biznis down to Portsm th-w'y without
&c IL
we fixed Their house all up, an built
new barn, an there's lots o. city folks
comes over ter Their Cap'n Sanders
place ev'ry year, an good many on
'em comes out here, an with Their pos
office we've made conf BILE Twin but
/ dunno how til be now, sence the
, Cap'n's places foun' an. owner; p'r'aps
nobody'll come this summer.
'But yer mus want yer breakfast. Bin
up ter the buryin' -groun', did yer say?
Wal, it's a nice mornin' fur a walk
Spose yer see the greet monument on
Cap'n Sanders lot, an the stun fur
James, who was killed in the war?
hain't seen EN- yit, but l hear they're
dretful nice, only they say that James
stun don't say nuthin' bout his bein'
rebel. Some folks think he want, an
b'lieve Their message he sent ter Their
Cap'n was true, an others don't b'lieve
word ont. Fur my part, don't see
how man can be made ter fight 'nless
he's a mine ter; leastwise, he needn't
shoot at nobody; an l dunno as James
did.
"Now, come, set light up ter Their
table an help yersef; yer oughter have
an appetite; yer must a. walked four
or five mile this mornin'. Husban' said
yer went out jest as he was a-lightin'
Their fire-'bout four o'clock, 1 spose
twas. .'.
''Of course you remember Cap'n San
ders, an how his son went off an got
married ag'in his will, an how he dis
owned him an told him never ter darken
his door ag'in."
Eyes, do remember some things about
the Captain, but was only boy, you
know, and seldom went up on the hill.
If remember rightly he kept himself
shut up nearly all the time for two or
three years before he died. Repented,
didn't he, when it was too lateP He died
the year before | went away, and left all
his property toJames or any of his heirs,
provided they were found in fifteen years;
If not, it was all to go to the town. Am
i rightp"
oval, yer do remember perty we'll; but
forgot how fast time slips away. Yer
don't remember JamesP He went off
some time afore Their war; yer couldn't
"a bin more'n seven or eight year old,
AM
'Now, do help yourself, won't yer? I'll
warrant yer don't fine any better blue
fish nowhar; an if them Graham rolls
ant good | dunno whar yer'n fine
better, if did make 'em. Have more