Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-06-14
HOW | BECAME AN AUTHOR
The Story of that Five Hundred
Dollar Prize.
BY BELLE V. CHISHOLM.

sugar in your tea, Elsie. Mind. sugar
has riz half cent on the pound said
my Aunt Phillis, sharply, as she NOV
ed the yellow, cracked sugar bowl out
of my reach.
"Growiu' girls do eat an amazin'
sight" Joined in Uncle Reuben. from
the other side of the table. ut was
mighty incOnsderate for Robert to
drop of so sudden-like and leave you
unprOvidcd for. With his five hundred
year he ought 10 have laid away a
sight O money. But he was no mana
ger, never was. 1t was not in him to
say no when people came a Begin,
and he religiOusly laid by his tenth for
the Lord, no matter how poor the
harvest Now. my doctrine is. If the
Almighty stiuts the crops. it's his own
lookout if ho has TO take short toll |
reckon | will be oblceged to give you
home, but you must jump round spry
and try to pay your keepin'. Now, #
Providence could only have seen far
boy, it would have been more to my
hk.n'. Then you could have built
fence, fixed the cellar wall ami SIGH,
whch I've got to pay for, seem you
are Il g.ri If you could have taken
hold OF the piOw-handles and followed
the tUrrOws, | needn't have hired
Jacob to help with clcarin' or grubbm'
but, pshuw! what does girls work
amount to, any how? What signifies
rubhiu' out Il few cloths. sweepin the
house over once Il day or washin' n
dozen dishes now and thenP Cry in !
1t l., auuUyiu' how easy women do cry.
Sale, alive, they laugh and cry in one
breath. NJ power on earth can control
en- when they want to be contrary.
"Aud that reminds me, Elsie, that
yOuy uncle has took the schoolmaster
to board. and it is high time his room
wa put to rights. | am suro | don
Know what possessed you. Reuben, for
IhcM huuk-larncd people are all wool
gWhrru' set OF course, four dollars
Il week is q c rrum,tance not to be over
luoh.d, Tut If he has not an appel ite
like Il saw-milI. miss NV guess.
Aunt PbHIi>' steel gray eyes were
still upon me, though her clos nc
word, were addressed to uncle. who
WIS too intent upon the business before
him to grant her an answer. Though
trembling violently, ventured to IN
Qu.rr:
"Cau't ! go to school, Aunt Phil.
LISP"
Hhc turned upon mo SNYagcly, fairly
scr aiming
''lio to school. Elsie Do you reckon
thai me aud YOUR uncle are Il gon' tC
keep Won mp lady, ami cit nothln' for
our pains? You re II better scholar
now tudH even our John. better than
any man or woman in the neighbour
hood unless it m Cht be the minister
himself You'll not sit here mopn'
ike o,Uu Il Il at home when your father
WAS vim, | assure YOU.
"Iuu see what book larnin' did fol
YOUR fathcr,' put in Uncle Reuben
lie Vas Il SIGHT better of than ! was
when we -lartcd in life. for Uncle
Robert CHrrri left him five hundred
dollars for his name. If he had in.
vested ihat mono, in land. instead o.
putin it in his head YOU would not be
on my hands puupcr to-day. Too
mu, cI!culion is not good for men.
aud j, ru1us women.
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words by "A decided nod; Il lab he ha,
when recuiiarly well pleased witt
himself.
A. we arose from tho table. amt re
turned to the subject uppermost in he,
miI,i. by hurryinr me of to arranv,
the master, room.
"Iuch 'ru br pillows into The ches,
that stands in the corner. Goodnes
knows. these collcre chaps carr thci
hcuLs bj~h ruou"h without poppin
'em uu with four pillows and mind
Else. 10 take of that new blanket
You can sim ON thai old comfort il
iha Ghost n,,n nrvrr know the DIFF
Corrurr
wa. clad to e.c,pe from the SOM,
of her harsh vnirc Int more formid
oIIn tnn .w,iIrI mo in lI,r n,ssnc.
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