Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1889-09-12
Aunt Lefty Wouldn't Die.
THE QUAINT CHARACTER FOUND IN sULII-
VAN, ME-, BY A NEWSPAPER WRITER.

| SULLIVAN hARBoR Me-, Aug. yl.-Auut
Lefty is old and worn and wrinkled, writes
correspondent Of the Boston Transcript
life of toll aud hard rubs with q cold
unsympathetic world has left its trace on,
face and form 1t is not apt to give one q
happy, genial nature to force ones daily
maintenance from a wash-tub. And Aunt
Letty's crustiness and ill-temper at times
are overlooked when we realize the rough
road she has been obliged to travel for
many, many weary years. Her eccentricity
and originality nave won her many friends.
No one will say of her one word of Ill, and
all will humor her bad habits and listen to
her wild talk ,interlarded as it Is with saths
and vulgarisms, which In younger person
would be disgusting. Just how old she is
no one can positively say, as there Is no
one else In town old enough 10 know.
When interviewed on the subject herself,
she answered, LA, sis, don't know
just how old be, nfty-nine or sixty,
guess. Anyhow, Use born In 1906" All
her employers are aunt to her as soon as
they reach certain age, before that she
calls them isis" Her American ndepcud-
Ice of spirit she asserts on all possible
occasions and her crustiness shows itself
when this is interfercd with
Before beginning her daily toll at the
house Of her employer she never fails TO
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