Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-11-23


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Nary a whistle, nary an idea, my
hearty. We II .ust BE- drifting along o
the tide. F"
And the tide carried them around the
CO ner and landed them In launory.
The woman back of the counter-Aunt
Rosy, as Nhe was commonly caled-looked
up from the paper she was reading and
over the rims of he. 81 yer bowed spectacles
at he ,ueer pair. Touching his tarpaulin,
Jack sheeplshly, il must be confessed,
salt:
=" ood'eyening 10 on, mum.
Aunt Rosy was often too kind-hearted
for her own good finding out too late that
she had again been imposed upon. Con-
scious of a weakness for salors-her own
husl and had been a sal 'or-she assumed q
frown which disguised her real nature
about as poorly as label OF poison dis
guises a bottle of col gne.
'N'el ," in would le severe tone.
AYE, mum. CUTE well, mum"
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'Noo ense. Moo ~ense, mum, only
guessed as may he, seeing as o-morrow
would be a Thanksgiving, you'd do her up,
mum, y stammered Jack, ve.y red In the
face. and pointing 10 the child. who was
eagerly breath ng in great whias OF the
warm, lineny air.
This be laundry, sir. F"
AYE! That's why we re here, amt Il,
little un? She do need rigging up mum. =
ii say, now, where them dolls"
Bang went the door. whose bell kept
up merry tinkle behind another Jack,
a bright-eyed newsboy.
Fetch on them dolls, Aunt Rosy"
cried the boy, as he swung himself on to
the counter-drawing forth red-cheeked
apple, which he ate to the accompaniment
of bone play ing and foot tattooing on the
counters side while curiously regarding
Aunt osys quaint customers.
The apple was too much for the waif,
and she began 10 cry for l..
''My eye, but YOU re a howler.' said he,
handing her the core
"Souse her good, commanded Young
America who, after hearing Jack 5
story, turned champion of the soap and
water cause, for the sake of getting the
women folks" out of the wa, so he could
make friends with the sailor.
"Bide your tears. dearie, bide bit, and
shall have peep at lacks dous, so
you shall, coaXei Auns Rosy, in the back
room.
he cry sub ided into a " himper while
Aunt Rosy washed and then dressed her
! in some clothes that ha once belon ed to
her own little one. instinct told the
child lat dolls were something 10 eat.
Give EN- 10 ne, give EN- TO me, she
h,iekrd, when Jack was about to replace
the go er of his basket where the fra
grant eaut es lay in their snowy napkins.
| Jack ldn't won ,er she cried for them.
| he wanted some himself. but when he
tlered to buy. he was told 'along OF their
being regulars, | can t sell EN-.
lie means. explained Aunt Rosy,
tia hey Is orde s sir that he's 10 de-
| Ii en- sir. now aJ the pape.s he sold.
! You see, 5 r, his mother and me be Wid-
ows what come from the same town, ST.,
though she b. young AMI were old.
took to the laundry, and she turned muf-
fin woman; and though | say 1t, as
Dug int. she be a, famous for
! her mullins and gin ger-brca dolls as
he for my shirt-bosoms
Here the WAR atdcd dancing 10 her
shrieks.
one Jack, in desperation, started for the
| pastry cooks, and the othe' promised 10
fetch her some dolls IN the morning. How
| he divine that Aunt l,oSy was going ia
keep her over night is one of many
mysteries.
Perhaps there WAS no divinat!on In it.
! 1t may have been a stra e ,ic move towards
seeing the sailor again.
| Wei, She did keep the child. bidding
Jack call tor her early in the morning, "a
she Aunt posyI always went to church
on Thanksday.
The morning dawned clear and cold.
On his way 10 the laundry Jack wondered
why he was going for the child.
| Thank Sgying.' brightly smiled the
! liza
bells. "Thanksg wing" .oysusly criei tae
people TO each other.
Ii was Thanksgiving day he had first
seen / eggy.
When Jack and his mother stopped in
on the way 10 church TO ca 'e the ginger
bread dol 5, they were gone. lie took
her to see The Is ~, explained Aunt
Rosy to Jack, who was greatly disappont-
ed not o see the sailor, for many reasons.
/ One was that he wanted the sailor to see
! his mother, for Mrs. Nicer was his best
! girl and a mother any lad might be prou
o.
"Ain't she a clipper, eh?' asked Jack.
turning her round for Aunt Rosy's APP
proyal, while Aunt Rosy hersef-wel
she was Just Aunt Rosy Intensified, with
her new bonnet tied with purple ribbons.
As they walked along, they woman fash
ion discussed the strangers
- he do look like my Annie" said
Aunt Rosy, with a mist in her eyes;
and this morning when he asked OF me
to take dinner along Of 'em aboard The
Is IT,. / didn't have the heart TO say him
nay"
Now she always went home with Jack
and his mother after church on Sundays
and holidays. Thanksgiving wouldn't be
THANKSGIVING W ,thout her.
5 netting had TO be done, but 5vko/was
not decided until after service. Then
Mrs. Miller and Jack hurried home and
Aunt. Rosy went down to The 3 IT,.
Jack and the oh Id were waiting on the
dock for her.
You're to come along with me. !" said
she AS soon as she could get her breath
Its Just gone the bel, mum, "objee ed
Jack
'Tut-tut now, man; you must come -
And Aunt osy was deaf 10 further OBJ
.ections AMI ore dions
less ;he mast. BIT she's got us la tow,