Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-04-30
HOW EPH GOT EVEN.

''Where are you going, EllaT asked
Judge Lawton, and then, without
waiting for an answer, he went on in
agrumbling tone: II suppose YOU'RE
going 10 take something to that lazy
yagabond Eph's wife. Well, go if you
want to, but mark me, Ella, you'll be
agreeing with me before long, that
the more you do for people like that,
the more they will impose upon your
good nature"
The judge, having made his little
speech with all the pomposity of man.
g which was a part of himself,
turned on his heel with much DELHI
ention, and rubbing his fat white
hands together, as though TO wash
them free from all participation in
his daughter Elias deed Of charity,
marched into his study, and closed
the door with a bang.
Mr.. Lawton, who was generally
called judge by his neighbors, because
he was not only the richest but the
most dignifed man in the little Long
Island village Of Shoreport, was a
widower, with but one child, Ella,
whose birth had cost her mother her
life, and who was a fair haired, blue
eyed child of about Is.
Until she was 10 years old she was
known as one of the most thorough
tomboys the neighborhood possessed.
There was not a horse on the place
ON whose back she had not tasted the
forbidden pleasure of a bare back ride,
and there was scarcely a tree in the
woods at the rear of the house she had
not climbed, to the destruction of
frocks and the terror of her old nurse.
Nothing, therefore, could well have
been o distressing TO a girl of her
disposition than TO be debarred entire
fy from exercise. And yet that is
what befell her some five years before
the time of which ! write.
Swinging one day on a lower limb
Of the old gnarled pear tree which
overshadowed the orchard fence, the
hanch, already decayed, gave way
under the vibrations, and Ella fell
heavily TO the ground.
At first she thought nothing of il,
but day by day the aching in her back
continued, and grew worse, until at
length her father, noticing the pain
shs evidently suffered, sent for old
DR.. Hart.
The doctor made a careful examina-
ton, softly whistling TO himself as he
did 30, according to his habit.
-Iassie," he said, you must lie
down and not move for a long, long
while If you want TO get we'll" And
fhe long while proved TO be months
md months.
At first the girl rebelled at the con-
finement, and many were the peevish
ordinations which escaped her. Then
change crept over her, and the irri-
liability by degrees departed, TO be sue
coeded by a sweetness and gentleness
which caused her TO be still more be
loved by the household.
When at length she could sit up,
and the good old doctor, holding her
wasted little hand in his old wrinkled
paw, which still had a touch as ten
der as a woman's, told her the bitter
truth, she received il without tear or
murmur.
'.Ella." said the doctor, you'll be
able 10 use your arms, and you'll soon
feel as strong and well as you ever
were, but | fear me, lassie, that you'll
never walk again"
And so il was. A cleverly con.
stucted chair was procured for her
beneft, and in this she was wheeled
about the village by faithful old Isaac,
who had been in the judges employ
since he was a lad.
A year OF two later her father
bought her q little phaeton, with O
pair of well matched dainty ponies,
and in this she was able TO drive her
self about without assistance, till
there was not a read for miles around
that had not echoed under the beat OF
tho ponies hoofs.
But her measures were not all self
in She delighted in looking after
The needs OF her poorer neighbors, and
Ind, brought sunshine and hope into
many a dark and cherries cottage in
ShoreIart.
"a was q il:.e spring day when her
tax1er impaired 20 her tho valuable
n nortion Of his stock Of worldly wisdom
! have quoted, and Ella was sitting in
' hor wheeled chair in the great square
nall of the old fashioned house which
fqr generations had belonged TO the
lAwton family. On her lap lay a lit
Ito covered basket, from beneath the
Idol which peeped out the white folds
a. . spotless napkin. As her father
spoke, she merely smiled, and turning
todd Isaac, said,
Don't believe papa when he talks
:iks that, Isaac. Ho doesn't mean 0
wo.1 OF IT, Now, take me down 10
i1phs cottage, for I'm afraid that poor
si6s Of his Is laid up again, and needs
whet I have here for her."
There was no doubt but that Epl
was q cad rascal, and though, as Ella
ncsnarifed, her father did not mean al
10 mid, for, with all bis pomposity,
tiss Judge was generous, there was MOI
. little truth In il so Ear as VI hrwa,
sonoerned.
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