Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-09-28

manage without her-hoW Jack would
ever manage without her, should she
take notion TO grow restless and hail
another stage coach for that school
among the bills. N
.3s .5 Aunt Prim need mot have bothered.
& for the girl was a gay, self Statistic ed little
creature, liked things that came ia her
way, and among them Jack and his dim.
pie. AS TO- Aunt Prim she simply
adored Aunt Prim. & & Nh .7',s
a% Young and pink and velyetry-that
was Miss Paulina Davis - with braids and
braids OF copper-tilt hair, and q fresh:
fearless voice that loved to hear itself
sing. She was singing aa she sat there
in the twilight singing in q low, confden-
tial fashion that ought to have put Aunt
Prim to sleep as usual, except for-What
was it that shocked her into conscious.
ness again? I. *.ss 555sSsa 3,
"A-saiHng, a-sailing, my love has gone
t.Don't, my DEAR" cried Aunt Prim,
wistfully. lit sounds pretty, but they
never do come back, and it seems SO
useless to expect them"
Meaning ships?" Intercepted Miss
Davis, vaguely. "
:'ships-and Sailors" answered Aunt
Prim with the mournful experience Of
one who knows. =
"Bless you, Miss Print" she laughed
out with sudden interest. You noun
tain folks here get your horrors from the
papers. You just ought to 90 down to
as plentiful as shrimps! You see, can't
help knowing all about it, because my
father was sailor once, and many's the
time we used to stroll down the sands
with the waves booming in and all the
I would sing and he would reel off his
dear pa! We had our squat some.
times" she went on, with q regretful
sigh, land down to the very last never
would give in to pa about. Ofcourse,
7 didn't blame him for marrying my
mother in squirt of hurry like he did,
because his luck was blowing dead
against him; but to send word home
that he was drowned, just to get rid of
the girl he was engaged to-now you
know that wasn't right, and up and
told pa so over and over again."
Aunt Prim, remembered the hero who
would not have acted so for kingdoms,
shook her head and softly sighed in re
pose.
"Once pa told me to consider the cir
cumstances and look at ma, and did
consider; and the more I blamed bin
for allowing her to wait and hone and
mourn at last for the lover WHO had
gone down honored to the grave. That's
what told pa, and at last-to show YOU
how 1t was only pas thoughtfulness. af-
ter all-he said to me one night. Par
mel1e, my DEAR"
Par what?" gasped Aunt Pr;m. "a
she turned around blankly on Miss d.
Wis: -! thought your name was-o
ANY,, 80 1t IS" she answered. laughinelv.
,Ihat was just notion of pas. noor
gear! and 81 when went to bis bedside
ne never got up out oft, poor love-he
sala, 'farmelie, my dear, YOU were
r'ent, and here's your father at deaths
DOOR wishing to God he had gone down
honest and true on the Sea Shell
But Aunt Prim had not spoken q sim
gie word. She had moved her chair a
olt, that was all; and Jacks tram .,ings
up the path Just then sent Miss Davis to
me door with such glad, careless haste
tnke she quite forgot to finish the rest of
When at last they entered the room
SoseIi'eI I1ey lOund Aunt Prim waiting
ior them, and this is what she said-said
IT with such broken up, old womanish
quaver IN her voice that it went to Jacks
heart like chill. ~ '''SA>
because | can't help loving you"
she said, putting her hand on his shout
der, and because you were sorry for the
girl who waited and hoped and mourned
her lover in bis honest grave, I forgive
you both. liam going to bed now;
good night, John! Good night, Polly!p'
And to save their lives they never
could guess how Aunt Prim had found
out about the dancing Jack irom Shanty-
vile, and of course she never told them