The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-31
THE POOR HUNCHBACK.
A Pitiful Story of French Peasant
Life.

The Poor Hunchback" was what
they called her, although she had a
family name and three or four Chris
tan names besides. selected some fifty
years before from the almanac or given
at the me of her christening.
She had received all the sacraments
except one--that of marriage; for the
simple reason that during her youth
she had not been able to find a hus-
band to her liking. Still, it is true, she
was quite hard to please in this respect,
although one who is deformed can not
generally afford to be so fastid Gus.
She was not born a hunchback. Her
misfortune was the result of an acct
dent which occurred when she was
scarcely ten years old. One day when
she was about to get whipping she
tried to escape by going under the bed.
Her grandmother had tired to pull her
out by the arm. and her shoulder, shik-
ing against a sharp angle of the heavy
bed post, was fractured.
They took her to the village bone
scftcr1o wonon-wbo afta7' boyino,
felt the hurt place, pulled the Joint I'M
til it cracked, ordered a siX-to-the-
pound candle to be melted over glass
IF ,vatr, yavo tbn noront nocto2a; of
dry herbs TO make a Hsnne With and
for all her trouble asked only a remun-
of butter wv F''-'''7
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that if bnrt her great deal whon che
STONED TO nluck mn weeds or whom
she bent down over her washing As
she GREW older If was noticed that one
of her shoulders GREW round and re-
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that folks declared her bunchbacked
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