Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-10-22
LITTLE DICK.

LII IL II hIths
Poor Old Widow Loring, A hard time she
bad IT it. Hes hasha.s,i, :. rowdy ai'd the
bully OF lie settlement, hal given up the
ghost some years prior 10 the breaking OFT Of
the war, and left her with five sons and one
fraii daughter 10 the nercies Of cold AID
cruel world.
Aunt Nina we were taught TO call her,
was a gaunt and grizziei specimen Of a
cracker walnan, uncoIlth in dress, TN -ultured
in speech, but truer, drawer heart never up
held the honest dignity u motherhood than
the scared and Oft grief stricken heart Of
Aunt Nina Loring.
She hal had trouble when her husband was
alive She had spent many sleeplt-ss night
when her neglectful lord was indulging Ia the
wild orgls, Of the crossroads grocery's biggest
carousal. Every time the great owl would
boot from his perch in the great pine tree IN
the lonely woods her heart would leap ami
she would expect to hear the rough hello"
at the gate from some half drunken COM
panion come to tell her that Ebenezer was
killed or badly hurt.
OF the boy. there was young Eben, hale
and hearty the image Of his father. when
fl,t Aunt Nina danced with him at the
party aittr tho quitting ana ioS f"iihS nay,
80 long as" MACK came heft, a STOUT, c"hsy
lad, very much reserved ana almost ifdus-
tfl'uS' A.ey was taii am s''i.ic'' hAe his
mother III FORM out i'Ae ms iat,er' WI"
s"f' oi reno" III 'i7i's'''on' ii''nP ei,"c
ioh'' ''','le 'ie "'5S' pul De''f vas ''r
t4h'A u. 'ai''p was piorAnt'l,u' Nt"iii
N'.' 90 ''i Iona Oh tripping i"r r'ios an
h'l'"s III oian' oay a. ,'e "'s' 'iAA
swamp ha'k Oh .ne mute phneaeion' was
eai.ea' Ana 'iieh tnere was Ln'is pick,
" hei' 'hc wa '"'io i-'F''', H'a'A am i.i'ey
had all grown up 10 f'ahi""N' ana hlgh'
haNe supporter tneif iii"tner handsomely
but Their fathers shi'ti-sS career seemed to
initiate against 'hcm' ana they generally
came out at the end of the year with scarce
hnhhih corn enough Tor bread AMI the
yellow COW peas ana tine stringy p"tatotS
were hardly equal 10 the emergency OF
stiaifhtehils out tue lean hanks OF the Few
bundles OF bon ana hristle, known as "piney
"''9 '"'''''' "''' SUM 'i''''' '''''""'" IN
hogs
NeVertheleNs, by uhe am OF the good
mo'her, anu the scrawhY LOOKING sip oil n
sister, they managed to live Then came the
war. Aunt Nina and Betty spun and wovc
the cloth from which Ebens first uniform OF
gray mixed cloth was made, aud the strong,
sturdy fellow was not sorry that he had n
nance of 'Giitin cut o henSratch o the
hoaf MS he expressed IT. Riley and Mack
soon followed, aud the beams Of the old loom
tfcnibeTl a- the shuttle few back and forth
turning its strokes to the rhythmic drnne of
the busy spinning wheel They were busy.
Aunt Nina and Betty, weaving slGt for
lamp, and all too soon the call came. The
hungry call for more troop The blood
More meui More men" And when the
men were torn and rent asunder. the last.
most heartrending demand came. Give us
your boys, Give ns your boys"
An. the war the war, Not satisfied with
the blood of un,ir. the tender form. of her
isllp,l hovhood -ali-al TINS, 90 Not con
tent with the yellow grain t,ic tri,d..r stalk
while vet in the milk. mus, he ,rt down
Tho flower of the south was plur'-.l md
trarnped nn,ler the iro, hael of rclantless
vor nnd nav tbe ,y,pnt blno,iv Loul ,vas
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