Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1888-11-23

doesn't oh ect, and we may DC ieeoAS
friepdless ourselves some day.
Frank don't know what he's unue,
takin', said Aunt Rhoda. II nam ~
much patience with the old creetur as
should hev had, ef she hadn't squahu.o,.
away all her money, buyin' lottery
tickets She wouldn't hear to no ohe
advice. Barbara Babcock was
obstinate as mule.
But Susie starkey nodded approVai 10
her friend. ,..n
Il think you are doing right, dear'
she whispered. -.
So they all ate their Thanksgiving
dinner, with many compliments 10 M
zie's housewifely achievements; ana lus'
as thev were sitting around the hre'
cracking nuts and drinking home
brewed cider, Uncle Lemuel uttered
cry Of terror
iIook at Barbara Babcockw said he
"She's got another stroke" =,
1t was true The poor little ola
woman had sunk down, all in heap IN |
her chair, with pleading look IN her
/ distorted face, and the words "khzaOeth
Ann" quivering on her lips.
And the Thanksgiving party was
broken up in dire confusion ana as
may.
|Ef she was to die mysteriously
whispered Aunt khoda, cit would pe
the best thing that could happen to her
an all her relations
But Miss Barbara Babcock dld not
die She lived on all winter, into the
time when crocuses began to bloom anu
the maple blossoms blushed rediy along
the edges Of the swamps.
All this time she was quite helpless,
and her sole pleasure was IN looking at
the balls of vivid colored silk rags that
Lizzie ranged daily at the foot oil her
bed, to amuse and quiet her.
9TH make a dreadful pretty sort
curtains" She sad, in the strange
tongue-tied way common to paralytlcs,;;
! "Fl finish 'em when I'm better. III
finish 'em and Elizaberh Ann shall have
( 'em for her own
The night before she died she suddenly
d, opened her eyes.
= Aunt Rhoda was sitting, needle-work
in hand, 10y her side
. "Mind. 81 said she, 'them silk balls is
. Elizabeth AIMS. I've given 'em to her,
signed and sealed in the paper under
:. my pillow. Mind you don't forget .,
!. ~ "Oh, I'll not forget SAID piaclu
u Aunt Rhoda
With the early dawn poor Miss Barby
le went to the home where, let us nope.
she was more welcome than she woulo
L have been in earthly habitations. =.
ia lo, Il don't want the silk rags, sale
= izzie, when she heard of her quaint IN
le heritance. poor thing They were
comfort to her, but of what use coulC
~ they be to meP'
=, 6Youd better take 'em, " said Uncl
, Lemuel. "Sell 'em to the rag man, j
X you can't make no better use OF EN-"
ss ''No" said Lizzie. "pll have then
woven into silk curtains, as she wante
'e' them TO be. can hire Melinda Pros
~ and her loom for month. And Mellnd
s,,, needs the work"
aSd olS But when the balls of silk were III
and Sonnd-there were hundred Of them
sss "a svssy IS s'ss ss,'si ~ ~ V ia'i'
zie's ton ashe didn't spend it all for lott
how tickets, it seems" observed Tn
pGte ph Lemuel.
INC =
20 . 'Iittle girl, what are you ponder
yed aboutt" SAID the captain to Lizzie, v
I-up s'ooo silently looAiuS ou' upo"
yes, gfeehih8 WOODS. .,r. ar,
nose was thinking, salu LIZZIE, ot
Thanksgiving Day. How thankful
are lhaJ you "ouluh let me seho Pooi
lber Aunt barbara PACK 10 hooe lsla
nee NOT ohiy because ol the lnoney, puV
tch- | was able to take care of her all t
min, dreary winter when she was 50 helpl'
aI- and had no friend but me-"
" The captain patted Lizzie's bri
i ID head.
err $50 you're keeping your Thanksg
.ond ing Day YETI said he tenderly.
INV ''Yes, " Lizzie answered, Pm keep
and my Thanksgiving Day yeti"