The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1884-02-22

the mOurnerS would be ready. lie
thought / was tOoling, but showed
my IOll OF bills aud that settled
hlm. He would have turued 0ut
six horses tor me, when he saw 1
had the wealth 10 put up. l yent
down and told the little girl how |
had arranged IhiagS, and she said
she wasn't fixed tor uo such turn
ont as thar. She hadn't any
clothes, aud the toes of cEe foot
we're all cut oil the shoe, aud the
heel was oil one, 80 she had 10 walk
SOFT OF iidlic like. told her not
to borrow aUy trouble, and | would
r,g her out 50 sue would do credit
t0a regular avenue funeral, with
piumes on ,be healse, aud / went
home aud hunted through the
closets and got u lot OF clothes MA
were years ago, when my little
brother died, and u pair of her
shoes, and Il long veil, and every.
thing complete. was going TO
jump over the back fence With the
bundle when pa got sight of me
aud called me back. lelt guilty
and didn't want to explain, aud pa
opened the bundle aud when ho
saw the mourning clothes hat he
had not seen before since we buried
oar litile baby, great tears came 10
pals eyes, aud he broke down and
wept like a child, and it made me
weaken some, too. Then pa want.
ed TO know what it all meant, why
was stealing them clothes out
the back way, and | told him all,
how bad pawned things to see
that little girl through her trouble,
aud had taken the black clothes
cause | thought pa would 80 back
on it and tell me to let people run
tbeirOwu'funerals. i expected pa
wOuld thump mr, hut he said he
would 80 his bottom dollar on me,
aud DO you know the old daisy
went with me to the house, and
paIted the little girl on the bead,
and said lOr her TO keep q stiff up.
per lip, and when the funeral came
uif pa and three other old buffers
that are pas cbums, they acted as
bearers. | had tried II couple of
ministers to get them TO 20 along
and say grace, bat | guess they
couldn't see any money or glory in
| il, tor they turued me away with a
soft answer, aud | had about closed
4 contract with 4 sort Ot amateur
preacher that goes around to couu.
try school houses preaching for
his board, but pa kicked on that,
aud said we should have the best
there was, aud he sent word to cur
minister that be had got use for
him. and he was on deck, and did
bis duty just rs well as though a
millionaire was dead. Well, |
rode with the little girl rs as
sistaut mourner and tried to keep
her from crying, bat when we pass.
ed the house of correction, where
her father is working ont II sen.
teuce for being drunk aud disorder.
IL, she broke down, aud | told hcl
| would be her father and mother,
and grandmother ,and the whole fam.
ily, and she putherhandou mineand
said how good | was, and that
broke me up, and | had to beller.
| don't want 70 be called good. II
people will keep on considering me
bad, and let we do what good
want to on the sly, it is all right
, But when she put that little hand
, on niue, and it was so clean and
| plump, something went all ovel
me, like when you step on a carpet
tack, or hit your funny bone against
gas bracket, aud | felt as though
, | would stand by that Girl till sh'
| gets big enough to wear lons
) dresses. Everything passed Q!
r splendid, and as Il paper funera
/. passed us OF the road, the drive
e smoking a clay pipe, aud the coilll
| jumping around, | coaldn't hell
| noticing the difference, aud | wal
9 proud that | pawned my bicycle
. aud got up funeral that no persol
!. need be ashamed Of, and when
! arranged with the wash woman
Z to take the girl home with her auC
! be her mother till | could max
0 different arrangements, | felt wha
!. q great responsibility rests Oh
, family boy, and when | dismlsse,
(. the hearse aud carriage, and wen
G home, and pa took me in his arm
3 aud said he wouldn't take a mllIol
|. dollars for me, and that this day
| experience had shown hiu
/. that | was worth my weigh
!. in solid gold, aud that he had stop
0 ped at the pawn shop and got IN,
Q watch aud bicycle, | never telt $
= happy in my life. Say, don't yol
, think there is a heap of solid coInfor
4 indoiug something kind ofunexpect
0 to make other people happy, 0
i didn't you ever try itF
t "Of course there is" said tn
| grocery man, as he passed the DO
o glass of cider. ~ remember Que
G aud the look of gratitude she gay
Il me, as she asked me to trust he
d for halfa peck OF potatoes, kept NJ
u awake two nights just thinkin
e how much happiness man ca
Ie cause through one rusty mackere
p But she never came back to pa
ID for the potatoes. suppose 20
| will be marrying that apple pc,
a.