The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-08-23


The joys aId sorrows the faith through ali,
That God sets all things right;
Ihough the wheels of commerce must never
:. But turu' and turn through the weary years,
Tho tired toilCrs will find release,
Up!-whcrC there e no tears
-hD71tJ Shcs5Raii ~ Amehiedh 4cc0uRtaht'
'" 1.-THE RUNAWAY fEfSGS.
r.aw-, "a .. Mary Gray's story. To-.
O dear, the old man IS out! Why,
grandma, don you know what | mean?
I mean The rain-man! He always comes
-oUt-of tle-sveather-hoHse- the
mantcl, and looks around, YOU know,
Before ID fbegiRs 10 rain And there,
siist see, it's pouring- this minute, and
tliere ;tre lots Of people going by with
umbrellas, IL makcsne think of that
time lust winter, when it rained so hard
and 1 lost those rings. Do you want to
hear about itp Wen, You lust lie still,
and III tell you, and wen have a beau
atiful time. Isn't it a perfect state of
bliss to think I've got home and can
take care of yon?
But did ike to be Mt Washington.
It. didn't seem like winter, with the rain
a-laining and the sun a-shining, and no
ever. and the streets just
as Ulgan as a floor.
Besides ] love Auntic Bradford; she S
splendid, there are SO MANY children in
it Only they're not all alike. Some
are ever SO nice. and some tCOuid be
nice if they didn't have temper.
Now there was Cora GriSwold; she
had temper like this; see me walk
across the loor, grandma, with my
head thrown back-so. That was the
kind of temper she. had. But She
didn't. have it very -often.-and l liked
.GorR; J. mean. almost always l did.
E ncvcrsayva girl with so many rings an
-cararfrtrs and gold bracelets and-things
Did you ever see an honest true dia-
mond, granny, hard enough to scratch
on the window-pane aud bright enough
TO put your eyes out almost? Well,
one of Cora's rings was a diamond;
suppose it came out of u mine. And
one of her rings was red; i forget the
name ofit fiery, rosy red, and all of a
twinkle.-yvith a row OF pearls around it,
like little white currants. IH
Well, \ Wscd 10 borrow Cora's rings
and bracelets sometimes, and she used
to borrow my Old silver bangles II don't
see what she wanted of them; Just bands
Tof silver with fve-cenU pieces dangling
tlownl But Auntie Bradford didn't APP
prove of my wearing Cora's things 81
Little Mary, | don't approve of Dor
rowed lincry," said she. ta.It..
q So she wunted me to take them back
and 1 always did take them back; but
somcthuesI forgot ard borrowed them
again. l don't remember how I hap
pcncd to- forget. 90
But Q, I'm not telling the story right.
We lived up, up, up, away mp on the
fourth tloor-auntie and I--and always
went up and down in an elevator. Our
-sroom was large and ever SO pretty, with
"a II
right ont on the avenue. And there was
fireman used to come in and fix the
fire in the CRATE.
I slept with auntie, and sometimes ]
wouldn't wake in the TSorning till ever
SO late, and she would go down Il
breakfast without me- But she DIM
care; she said she didn't expect me t.
get up when 1 was asleep, for how
could /. YOU know? And bv and bv,
she always came back and curled my
hair andl1et me 60 down to breakfast
with Cora and her mamma and the
baby. r T ~ Z
auntie' de.come back and while Ia be
asleep, the fireman would como in Will
his bucket and fin the fret ought tc
tell about this, so You'll understand
better when I get TO the rings. You
never knew whether therevas coal-dust
on his face or.not for he was always a,
black as he could be, and couldn't be
any blacker. His name was Liar. Jus,
as if he came out of the Bible, but some.
bowl didn't think he was very pious
No, I seemed to think he was rather
aR-pious, because he rolled his eve,
around 50 much and kept laughing tc
himself And there I'd be fast asleep
.ou the bed; but sometimes Id Just
peep ont under my eyelashes,
j. and he'd be taking down some of the
pretty things from the mantel and look.
ing at them and laughing to himself
/ Thought it was very impolite, He
z oughtn't to have touched a single thing
now ought he, with his hands rs blacl
& as coal? But / never once thought oi
his stealin9-g0t btea.
Wen. one night after I'd borrowed
those rings back again-the diamond
r;ny and the red one with white cur
rants around ii put both the rings il
n blue boN--Ur thought I did-and SCI
tAe hon on the bureau right under the
IsaJi,lp-qlasS And Lena STOOL st tlU
door aud saw me
Nhv..I forgot TO tel you about Lena
SFc MAS the phambcrmaid that wen
er,ird aIl dgy with pink handkcr