The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-12-18
TRAINING

tell you about it.
You know Daniel left me pretty
poorly off, had two little children,
and what Ia do | didn': know. The
mortgage wills To run out III about a
wear aud q LA + after he died. l had
sent the childlea down IT, brother Johns
to go to school. Brother John wanted
me to give them to him and he'd do
we'll by them. and [ WAS meaitating
on it, awful 10th to do it. But what
else could / 10 with them when the old
farm was took away!
One day. when the time was near
out, | was Il hoeing the beans side OF
the fence near Caleb's corHtield. Id
always lived and worked on a farm.
and couldn't DO no othe: kind of work
So Wgll.at VS. +, e beseeAwye of me | didn't
know.
"Pretty good hoeing fol a s~reepsorn,,
says somebody over the fence.
Eyes. I've done enough f i si-erI
was lett alone. Practice makes pc,
feet we used to write iii our cory
books when we we're Children | an
swercd. and | couldn't help heaying 4
sigh.
"Well Emmerliue," says he. "yon
and | seem to be in the ann fix. You
need Il man to do your hoeing and SIGH,
and | need Il woman to see to my
house ; and if you're agreed We'll hitch
horses and work in double iha'ness. |
can't find no help 'hat1l do as Nancy
did. So what do you say, Emmerline !"
Perhaps | didn't think of nothing for
next few minutes. It all flashed yer
me in a second, what M unfeeling man
he'd always heen. Poor Nancy had
had to do all the homework and a good
deal belonging to him to do, and he
was stinsier than au old mi>-r, too.
I knew he was a smart man to work,
was forehanded and was able to live in
a good deal better shape than he did,
and you know poor Daniel was just
the opposite. HIS was an awful clever
man, was Daniel, but kind Of shiftless
and easy, aud it always worried me to
have things going to slack. Says [ to
myself, a body can't have everything /;
there's always some outs, and a poor
mans better than none So l says:
"Caleb we've been neighbors for
many a year. l know your failings
and l suppose You know mine. and so,
if you say so, all right, perhaps we
might do worse
Well. to make a long story short, we
agreed to have the business done right
off. Caleb said it was stylish to 60 on
q wedding tour, and as he wanted to
60 to Bangor to see abont selling his
wool, aud as Sarah Jane Curtis-who
used to work for him-lived about hall
way there, and we could stop there
both ways and not cost us anything,
he thought we'd better go. Brother
John lives there too. and I made ~
my mind I'd just bring home the chi
dren.
And so l did. but Caleb was awfu
sot agin it. but said 1of course they
could come and make q visit" and
let him think $50, because l WASH
quite ready to have words with him.
We stayed about a week, and go
home along in the afternoon. Thu
next morning | woke up pretty early
aud l says to myself:
"courage, Emerlinc, now or never.
/ kept still, for Caleb was still sn'
ring. but soon he fetched an unearthl,
snort. that walked himself up, and whe,
he seen it was. getting day light, he says
"Wake up. Emmerline it's broa,
daylight. Come. come, get up! W
shan't hare any breakfast to-day"
/ was awful lla:d to wake, hut afte
> while l managed to, and while / va
rubbing my eyes, J says:
"Got a good fire, ain't you, Caleb I
.'Fire. No. ! never build any fire.
Nancy always built the 6re.," he says
"Did she 7 So did Daniel" says ]
cool NJ a cucumber.
turned over and went to slee
arafn-nr at leaat he fl,su,~hk d;A