Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-01-25

found anything OF value. No Wills, no
bank notes, no trace of my lost family
nothiag that people iu my bu,iucss are
always finding in storios." aud as no
said this his black ego foil upon name
written Ia chi.d's struggling hand on
tho back of ono of tho papers ho hold
Ruth Sands Norris" and underneath,
In tho teachers writing. Ivory good,
indeed. for littlo girl of TOM
Tho old man hastily uu tied tho ribbon
with trembling hands, and with q
strange light breaking over his wriuklod
face, unrollcd tho paper, turning hi,
blue oyO upon it, began 10 roaI. Aud
this is what no read:
Some gitls-most girls well, uyhow
good many girls-do not like to writo
compositions. l do.
When grow up hope to bo au au-
thor and write stories aud porhnp,
PONIES for all tho great maggizinos and
papers, and somo day may be whole
book.
My mama says my grandfather. tho
one L hayo never sccn, was very fond Of
litcraychure.
L!terAychuro means things that aro
mado up out Of peoples heads and then
printed. lido not mean all peoples
heads for hundred, and hundreds havo
not that kind of head, but smart p,o-
plo's heads.
He used to be always talking rimes
and it is about him my story i, to be.
Lilo was very good man, but very fun
ny. Not tho funny to make folks
laugh, but tho other funny. lilo had
ono black oyo and ono blue ono, and
no wa' always falling into rofcroc.
Roferoos arc when you think so hard
you do not know anything ut all. Well,
whom my mamma was littlo littlor
than me, her fathcr-that is my grand.
father, of courso-wont one day to 500
an old friend of his of TO n loren coun-
try, and after ho said good by to his
friend in Tho cabin, no went up on ccl:
and fell into AWFUL 70 oroe aud tho
ship carried him OIL too.
Thcro was dreadful timo when no
did not come homo, and grandma shut
up tho bookstoro-ho kept second
hand bookstorc-for thrco whole days
and nights, and then she could not get
along that way, so shc oponed it agnin.
In II long timo they got a letter from
Grandfather Sands, and it begun: ooh!
do not DO distressed for me, Iainst my
will borno off to sen, for think good
luck will conc of it," and the rost was
that ho was in Ostraylcr and was going
to stay there year or so unit! he made
lot OF money. cause there was lots Of
money thcrc ald monkeys and parrots
Il wish had onc-and savagos.
Grandma sent an answer, but shc
mover got letter from him again. And
then after five years somo ono came
back from there and said thu savagcs
had killed him. Savages do not caro-
Tor rimos and iteryturo AID grand
mother sold all her books and furniture
'cept somo feather beds and wont 10
America-wc lived in England first
no did not for i was not OH Garth yet
not till good while aftor. but tho othor
members OF tho family did. And my
mamma grew up hero TO DO lovely
maiden and got married but sho was
not worry happy, for somebody drank.
1t IL awful thing to drink. lido not
AAS"A SSuJ VI SOiiOSt VI iNIOudQc, UT
milk, or likoris water, or plain water,
but other things, and often wish tho
savagcs had lot grand Iather alone, and
thcn no would hnvc como homo and
mamma would havo mnrriod some othor
person and would not have boon dcs-
olate widow with two girls aud one
boy.
The momont the old man had finished
reading thi, story no seized his hat,
flung it upon his head and rushed into
Mrs. DolI's--thc kid glove eleanor
without oven stopping to knock at tho
door, which was such an uau,ual thing
for him to do that Mrs. Dolf started up
from her work in tho greatest astonish-
mcnt, dropping tho bottle sho was hold
ing in ono hand on the floor, where it
lrolSe and mado tho room smell like
--wcll, two hundred pairs of cleaned
kid gloves.
'Whero docs-if you please, ma'am
Mr.. Dolf buy his clothosl' asked he.
"Groat gricil what has happened
Can it BIO possible that tho old fellow is
going to buy some new clothes for him
sclia' said Mr.. Dolf to herself, and
then sho answered. out loud, 'Ha hasn't
bought any for year or go, Mr.. Waste
Paper, but when no does buy 'om he
goes to Mr.. Lucky's, right around tho
next corner, two blocks down. Lucky's
dead now and Gutter & Son have tho
place."
''Thank you, ma am" said Mr..
Waste Paper, throwing two bright sill
yer quarters into tho lap of littlo
Cherry, who was sitting on tho door
sill, with her kitten in hor arms, and
hurrying away.
Aad tho old man, dressed Ia a new
gray suit sad nico straw hat, who
called that nftora Don, first on Miss
Aboccy, tho school mistress, where no
obtained tho address of Ruth Sands
Morris, who had loft school about a
ucar beforo IN live - fho WILL. = g