Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-02-09
MISS BECKY'S HOME.

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/ fact. but there was nothing else for
/ her to do, il seemed. Who would think
/ of Offering any other home TO a poor,
almost helpless old woman, who had
outllved her usefulness? Having pass
/ cd her days in other peoples houses,
I so to speak, she might not mind it as
much, perhaps. as a more fortunate
/ being.
Yes, =" she said ''there's vacancy
/ in the Old Lad 'es' Home, and the hun
/ bred dollars that Parson Amory left
me will pay my way in, butt wouldn t
I last long If began to spend it, you
/ kno aud ! shall have warm bed
aud my regular meals Wit out worry
/ inc about where the next ones COM ng
I from. I'm most tired worrying about
1 WAYS aud means Seems as though 1
/ had been about it all my life; ever SINCE
! father was taken with heart disease
1 hearing the class in algebra. Now
that the rheumat SIN has got the better
/ Of me, 50 that ! can't ork in cold
" Gather, and the doctor says it'll draw
my fingers SO that | can't use them
/ soon, ii doesn't seem a. if there was
1 anything left for me in this world but
/ the Homeland | ought to be thankful
4 for at.
Miss Becky had had other eIpecta-
/ tious in her heydav. IS hen young Larry
1 Rogers met her and carried her basket;
! when his strong arm padded her down
/ the broad river TO church on Sunday
/ mornings: when they sang together in
/ the choir from the same hymn book;
when they lo.jered homeward in the
! fragrant summer dusk, and heard the
whip-poor-w complain and startled
/ the lire-nes in the edges as they
/ brushed by. 1t sometimes seemed to
/ Miss Becky as if all thus had happened
/ In another planet She Was young
/ then, with bloom on uer check; but,
although the rheumatism had bent her
figure aud rendered her more or less
/ hopeless at times, yet err dark, vel
/ vcty ewes looked out like soft stars,
( ami the y ost of dimpe still fl cker-
i ed on her cheek aud chin in sp te of
/ her sixty odd years Miss Becky S
/ father had been the district school
/ teacher in those far-off days of her
I Q rlhood He ad taught her the sim
( pie lore at has command, but II was
/ Llrry Rogers o had taught her MUS
/ ic hour after hour in the empty school
house; they had practIced together
/ bn.rd
Bnt.Il this had not snfired IN enable
bn,.. A., ...rp.., I,aIiI,aol Hnr educ,-
lion uu.,,.,I ,nd ~ a,,,isa had stnn-
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