The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-03-08
RH0DA TARRAND.

- - M OF tnooe Centennial days.
How she proved herself IN that time Of strife.
W0tcny o. being patr1Oco wife.
4 littse woman she was-.pot young.
ooe q KID q Wish so 70 sonf sOd;
SETTING their price above rubtee and gold.
A1e10ry brsye clings around her names
Twas hhoda EArrand and worthy Of fames
Though scarce she dreamed : would be woven
In sssss-sss srand-aausAser,. daughters
Just out Of the clamor Of wars alarms,
Lay " tranquil quiet the jersey farms;
And all Of tho produce In barn and shed
6y the lads and girls was harvested.
For the winds Of winter with storm and chill
SSxePs bitterly over Zach aeld and hill.
Mes LETT on the farm ct Pnrsippany.
when she heard the sound Of horses fest.
Ana Marssai Doty rsde UP the street;
4 ettsr Tor Rhoda from lorristown.
"a 1er hnsnenA's hand-how she seized ths
he children came running with eager feet
There were Nate and Betty, Hannah and Dan,
70 list to the letter, and thus It ran,
A ..n BET greeting to children and wife: :,
read from the paper. wrinkled and brown,
We are here for the winter In MOrristown,
Ana sorry sisht are .s men to-day.
~ we marched to camp. II man looked
~ the dropping blood he could trace our
For scarcely man has decent shoe,
And there's not stocking the army through
20 send US STOCKINGS AZ quick Is you can.
And every man Is = ncighbor lad;
Tell III. to their mothers; asev need them
Then, II never before, beat Rhoda,s heart,
Twas time to be doing q woman's part.
cne turned to her daughters, Hannah and
s.ci~is a. a. -. .r~.., ....x,<. .x..A
Get my cloak and hood; as for you, son Dan.
Yoke up the steers just as quick as you can
Put CHAIR IN the wagon, as you re alive,
they :sse 81 an So a1d rosa
she Knitting away while he held the goad.
A. whiPpany village she stopped TO cali
On the sisters Prudence and Mary Ball.
She would not go In, she sat In her chair
And read to the girls her letter from there.
That was enough, for their brothers three
Were In Lieutenant Farrands company.
Then on Rhoda went, stopping here and
there,
To rouse the neighbors from her old chair.
s ~ while while. she was riding her fingers few,
Across the country, 80 withered and brown
They drove till they came to Hanover town.
There, mellow and rich, lay the Smiths broad
with them she took dinner and warmed her
Next toward Hanover Neck Dan turned the
where her cousins. the Kitchels. had lived for
With the Kitchels she supped. whom home
While above her the stars IKE lanterns
burned.
And she stepped from her chair. helped by her
With her FIRST days work and her stockings
done.
The brown leaf skins in the fall of the year
Around through the hills 1t curves like an
arm.
And holds in its clasp more than one bright
Through Rockaway valley next day drove
Boy though he was vet he worked like man
His mother behind him sat in her chair,
stu knitting, but knitting another pair,
They reused the valley, then drove through
And stopped for a minute at Compton s forge.
Then on to Boonton, and there they were fed,
While the letter was passed around and read
Send the stockings to me, and my son Dan
The first of next week will drive me down,
And III take the stockings to Morristown."
She entered her house scith her stockings done
On Thursday they knit from the morn till
She and the girls with all their might.
when the yarn gave out they carded and
And every day more stockings were done.
When the wool was gone, then they killed a
A cosset-but nobody stopped to weep.
They pulled the fleece, and they carded away,
IL ali the country nd woman could rest t way
But they knitted on like people sspOesessed":
And Parson Condit expounded his views
On the sabbath day unto empty pews,
Except for few stray lads who came
And sat in the gallery, to save the name.
On Monday morn at an early hour
A shower that lasted until the night;
BLACK, brown and gray ones and mixed blue