Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1885-04-04
The GrenShawe Girls.

tNlitlfStS paul, anu VIC iIhO, UiiCi
was found TO be just three hundred
dollars to divide among the three
girls. There was the household
furniture, to be sure, but that did
not amount to much.
II dunno what they're agoin' to
do" said Uncle Peter Deldock
their mothers brother. 81 dunno
what they are agoin' TO do now,
Luray. A hundred dollars apiece
won't keep 'em long. Mebbe we
might ask one of 'em to come
lerc.n
"Ask one of 'em here, indeed!
BE you quite tuck leave o. your
senses, DeIdock7 OF course we
wont do no sich Il thing. Let 'em
go to work, as other gals do. They
amt no better III their neighbors,
l reckon, if they he your nieces."
"Well, well, don't take on so about
it," SAID Uncle Peter, pacifically.-
of you wun't have lem here yon
wun't, / reckon, an that's the hull
amount. of it. thought mebbe
AlmirA and Rosamond mout go out
to work, but there's Dory, she allus
been kind o. plndin' am peaked
like. l thought we might kind er
give her a home till'she could look
round Il SPELL"
"Shucks!' shifted his energetic
better-or "worSer"-half. "She'd
only be a-gctting sick am mebbc
dying on our hands," And as Gym
thia Deldocll, a tall, trcckle-faced
girl of sixteen, sided with her
mother, there was nothing for I'm
Gle Peter to dc bat leave his nieces
to their fate, though he confined to
shake his head anXiously. mutter-
ing to himself, "Idunno what they'll
do, Shore"
And. indeed, half the goSsips in
the little village of Peachville were
puzzling their heads over the same
question, though nobody was found
to offer a helping hand.
In the meantime the Grenshawe
girls had settled the problem for
themselves.
81 have decided what I will do, /"
said Almira, the eldest, a strong,
energetic girl of twenty-one. 81
shall hire out. Not around here,
though, where 7 wouldn't get more
than dollar and Il half a week, at
the most. [ see plenty of adver-
tisemcnts in the ST. Louis papers;
where they offer eight or ten dol
lars for a good girl, and | mean to
60 there. You'd better go too,
girls, "sie added, "though, ofcourse,
Dora couldn't do hard work. She
might get situation as chamber
maid Or nurse.girl, though"
Dora said nothing, but Rosa
mond, the second sister, shook her
head.
"No servant girls place for me-
she declared, decidedly. 81 shall
go to some place. don't know
where exactly, yet-and buy sew
ing machine-you can get them
tolerably cheap now-and go to
dressmaking. l always did have
a knack Of making things fit. I'll
rent a room and board myself, and
you'd better go with me, Dora,'
she added "you can do the house
work while l sew"
But Dora shook her head with
its brown curls decidedly, this
time. cit will be all you can do to
support yourself, Rosamond," she
returned. "And, besides, you will
go to some city or town, Of course,
and that would not suit me, for !
like the country best"
sBut you can't earn your living
in the country" interrupted the ell
der sisters.
II think I can," said Dora, quiet
ly. "I'm going to raise Chickens
sRaise chickensr' cried her sis
tiers, skeptically.
eyes," declared Dora, "I'm going
to raise chickens for living. Now
listen to my plan: / shall rent that
little two-room cabin of the widow
Lees. 1t has four or five acres oil
ground around, and that will be
simply sufficient for as many fowls
as l will want to keep"
"pshaw, nonsensew cried Almira
"You won't earn your salt that
way"
"Why won't II" asked Dora
"Grapny Cook buys all her grocer
les with her eggs and chickens
she told me SO herself-and VIII!
can't | do the sanie9 1t isn't hare
woi k, and I'm sure l shall like tt
take care of the dear little chick
ens.n
"And live all by YOURSELF" asked
Rosamond, doubtfully.
mo. L forgot 10 say Shali rcn
che of the rooms to some nice ole
lady. There's Aunt Betsy Crime
her son died lately, you know
.. and she don't get along with hi
widow and children. [ heard som
one say she wanted to rent a roou
somewhere, and Iii go and see he
about it,"
And so it was settled, thong
much to the dissatisfaction Of tn
elder sisters.