The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-06-01
WHAT ON ARrn ARE You AFrER?'

am really sorry for you, slid Daisy,
ready to cry.
Sorry won't put clothes on my bach and
food in my mouth, lean tell you, snapped
the old woman tmpatiently.
You ought to have a pension. and | am
sure if the President kRtW Row badly off
you are, he would give you one, yentured
Ipta not knowing just how a pension
could be obtained.
a pension! the price of blood. Girl,
what do you mean? Would take money
for the life Ofmy boy9' cried the infurIated
creature, raising her cane in { threatening
manner.
NO, no! we did not mean that, but is
there nothing we can do to help yUu?' eX-
planned Daisy.
Yes, you can take yourselves off and let
me alone, was the sharp IejOiner.
No sooner had they turned away than
the door was shut with a bang, and the
bolt slipped back TO It's place.
Julia was grateful to be out in the free
air NICE more, but Daisy's tender heart
tempted her to plead the cause OF the
lonely old woman with so much ]eloquence
as to enlist the sympathies Of the villagers;
and that night a do girls, headed by
julia and herself, knocked for admittance
again at Aunt Placidia 5 door.
After considerable grumbling, the old
woman hobbled across the room and de-
handed what they meant uy disturbing
her. If you've come thinking to tease
me out o them roses you'd better be off,
she began; but Daisy assured her that
they had not come for that purpose, and
asked If they might not go In.
Aunt Piaeidia granted the desired perz
mission, muttering that she wished their
call TO be short, for 1t was near her bed
time; but when she saw the contents of
their baskets, and knew that food and
clothing to last her a long time were be-
fore her, the fountains Of her heart were
opened, and the grateful tears streamed
down her withered cheeks. As soon as
she could speak she asked: 'fWhy did
you do all this for the. cross old creature
who had only words of abuse for you?''
Because you did so much for us in
giving your son for our dtar country, =
cried Daisy. Father says we owe all
this and a great deal more to you, and to
all the mothers wa0se sons ell soldier $
graves.
s.And we want to be your friends and
come to see you, too, sometimes, = faltered
Julia, feeling that it was her duty to say
something, and not knowing just what she
ought 10 say.
'sCome when you can, my dears, and
right glad viii the old crone DO TO see your
bright faces. But ! can't give you Tom
my 5 roses, for / could not bear to break
EN- OF, because he was to have the first
one that bloored, and 1t would break my
old heart to have his flowers ~a-coyerin'
other soldiers graves, and his'n all grown
up to weeds. 4 said the old woman, as she
opened the door fer them to file out.
We Will not ask them, ch0rused the
girls, too well pleased with their victory
to trouble about her treasures.
After her visitors had gone, and she had
fully satisfied her hunger, the old woman
could not realize that the strange ocenr-
enc had actually taken place, and more
than once she raised the covering on the
table, and feasted her eyes on the album
dance spread out before her there. to con-.
vince herself that she was not laboring
under q delusion.