The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-08
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JUST AFTER THE WAR,
A STORY OF TEIE SOUTH
Weekly Sentinel by Eleanor u
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months, and it will lose its interest.
When he haG finished he looked
around to see the effect.
There was a solemn. pause, which
Archie broke by saying i" Priscilla is
the richest person in this house Mr..
Scroggs.'
And Belle she chimed in, Yes;
! she's got lots of money stored away in
: her trunk upstairs.
This was too much for me, I'm easy
to get ruffied, so | blurted right out,
$ If | have, its not for Mr.. Scroggs,
nor his Missionaries, nor his Indians
either and ] got up, with q very red
face, az father said g leave the table, !"
and walked out of the room. | went
to my usual seat on the trough, near
the well, under our great oak tree,
anu with ali my friends, geese, ducks,
chickens, turkies, &c, around me, sat
down to think.
I'm always better by myself. [
reckon I'd be Christian if I was a
hermit | was real sorry | had said
what did about the poor Indians.
They couldn't help Mr.. Scroggs beg
ging for them, and they can't help
the way Belle and Archie act. I felt
II | ever owned that dress now. it
wouldn't be one bit of comfort to me.
felt that I'd see bows and arrows.
and all sorts of things q suppose
those Indians are like ours all over
it, so | wished I'd gone and got some
OF the money and given it to him,
I've great mind to do it yet, for he's
IN town to-day. | saw him and ran a
square to keep from meeting him. 1t
would please Belle and Archie too
much for me to give away my money,
80 | don't think I'd do it.
While [ was sitting on the trough.
brooding over my trials, 1 heard a
soft whistle behind me. / knew who
it was, bless his heart, it was Jack,
and az he came up, he slipped a slice
OF apple pie into my hand I'd got
ten cut-out of my desert, and he knows
how L do love pies. It was awfully
squashed. but it was all the nicer for
that
Il say Cilla.'' he began, sdon't YOU
feel bad" and he threw one arm over
nay shoulder US he sat down by me,
Il gnve:old man Scroggs, my, what
would father say some money for
you and me, and told him we were
partners; that you were going to give
some more, but Belle and Archie
made you mad" he said that Mr..
Scroggs told-him, he believed it. as I'd
always done my part.
Jack, somehow, always gets folks
set right, and rs / Rugged and shank.
ed him, wished there were more peo-
pie in the world like him, for / knew
it would be happier to live in.
l asked him how he could tell that
story about the partnership, and he !
replied, "why don't you know about
The chair for mother" and then 1 did !
remember, butI'ys been so taken I'D,
thinking about my dress, that Pm
ashamed to own it, had forgotten all |
about it, and haven't laid by one cont |
for it. |
| know that dress can't be bought
now certainly; it would surely bring
bad luck, 50 | went to school yester-
day afternoon with very respondent
heart, feeling that whoever said
money Was the root of all evil" knew
what he Was talking about, and wish
ing had none at all to-day, or had
been generous enough to give some
away to Mr.. Scroggs I'm resolved on
one thing; the sixteenth is Jacks
birthday, and I intend to get those
boots for him then, if its a possible
thing, so after school is out l 90 with
Ada Hazlitt (another friend Of mine
that mother objects to, because she
believes Mr.. Hazlett is an adventurer;
they We rented house and live in
grand style, aEd Mr.. Hazlitt keeps a
store) to her fathers new store; they
are sort OF foreign people, and Ada
brags much about her rich kin people
in Europe. Her mother is real nice,
but her father isn't: he always smells
Of whiskey, and looks suspicious and
prylng. Her mother looks very sad.
Ada is the only child.
Mr.. Hazlitt shows me some boots
Jacks number, and say, 'they are !:
worth six dollars but seeing me look !
disappointed he says 'as you are Ada's
friend, | will let you have them for
i've, but they cost five and half"
So | tell him ''to lay them aside, ;
and I'll come and get them,' you see
have only three dollars and half,
so l have to get another half to make
four, and another dollar besides. Tell I
Jamie my secret, and get him to look
1T them. he says they are very good" !
and wants to give me the rest of the
money, but | want to earn it, SO / sell !
ny little black pig to Peggy for two
dollars, she wanted it a long time, but
hated to sell it, it loved me so. Then ]
had fifty cents extra, so when the
fifteenth comes, march down, as big
as life, and pay Mr.. Hazlitt for the
boots, and no king ever felt more i'm