Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-04-19
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and supposed that would cost so that
had to give in"
.'Well. never!' the neighbor said
under her breath.
Don't say any thing about it the
widow whispered. He wants the birds
eye set and Jennie wanted the bureau
But he said might have that yellow
bedstead that Abram and me used in
Our room, and the pine light-stand and
mothers old chest and feather bed.
suppose its all need"
"And you have worked, and worked
hard, too, all the neighbors will own to
that, for forty years, and for it all you
get one thousand dollars?
"And the bed and stand" corrected
the widow, quietly.
"Humph! you mean the bed and
stand was all that the ungrateful
wretches didn't steal from the things
that your mother gave you. "
Il would like my bureau" sighed
the weary woman; Il priced it so, and
thought l should always have it for my
! own"
II suppose there amt no help for 1t,
but it don't seem just right Where
will you so to live after the estate is
| settled?"
Mrs. Daley locked her thin hands to-
gether, and pressed them down on her
knees The neighbor noticed how
swollen were the iinger-ioints and how
work-hardened the hands.
81 don't quite know, she answered.
MARY said l might go there. She's
got a good many COWS, and the baby is
small. ! told her / was afraid i
couldn't work butter, for | have got
the rheumatism into my finger-joints
SO bad, a-washing so much butter She
said she'd get me worker, for | could
save her the cost of girl"
"Aint We most too old to 60 into
heavy work again P" queried Mrs.
Pryy
"Oh, no; Pm only sixty, and |
heard Jennie's husband tell Mary that
there was ten good years of work in
me yet
"Sho! That's the way my William
speaks about a horse! /"
| But the widow held up her hand as
though she could bear no more.
II allow that can earn my board
for some time, and there'll be money
enough left to bury me, suppose,
though l would like to get Abram
stone"
| II reckon Abram'll rest peaceful
enough without stone" snapped Mrs.
Pryy. "But the bare ideo of woman
workin' for forty year., hard, too, and
gettin only twenty-five dollars a year
above her board and clothes. Less
than fifty cents week her hull life
through. It's a shame!'
swell, Betsy" said the widow.
meekly, ''what provision have you
madeP Has William got willp"
Mrs. Pryy started to her feet. con-
sternation depicted on her thin face.
mo, he haint! I'll 60 this very mint.
| anu nave one nlHuc III never snail Dc
said of me that there's ten years of
: good work in her yet When woman
has raised her family. done her share
of hard work, and life begins to break
up all about her, nobody haint got any
business to callate on what they can
get out on her. / tell We what it's.
when women make laws we won have
no one-sided ones of this sort When
a woman dies, man has what he has
helped earn, keeps his home together,
and the children can't farm him out
for what he is worth; but when a
woman's left she's all shattered to
pieces, no money, an no home, an
nothin' to do in her old age but jog
about, and mebby be abused. say
faint justice. and I'll have William
make awill."
Eyes, l would il l was you, Betsy"
the widew said, as she wipes: away away :,
stray tear on the corner of her gingham
apron. -Maade Meredith, in Woman $
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