Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-04


who viii tell ms-and n you come cut of
Rub0' country - l think, no doubt you
know everything, Of remember IL"
He smiled
The frss pas 10 Rube' country iies In
booAA, pretty onA Shall give you somei-
nay. lend them, ] mean, ance giving you
are TOO wfllful 10 hear Of without olIensa
You can rsad, you saidr
Bebees eycs glowed - they lifted them
selves 10 hiA
n can rsad--not very fast, but that would
como with doing u moro and more, I think,
Just o. spinning docs-ono knots tho thread
and breaks u about million TINES before
one learns 10 spin - dne - cobweb& have
Catherine, and of 81 Luvsn fifty tiruea but
they arc ail the books that Father Francis
has and no one slss has any among ua~
every we'll You shail have booAn Of
mine, easy ones nrst; and then those that
arc moro seriouA But what time win you
havcI You do % much; you are like a littls
golden beAS
Bebcs laughed happily.
"Oht give mo the books and viii ilnd the
Tina Il b light 20 carly now. That gives
ono 20 many hourA In winter ono has 70
fcw one must lie In bed, becausc to buy
candle you know one cannot afford except Of
course taper now and then, a. oncs duty Il,
for our Lady or for tho dead And you viii
really, really. lend mo booksr'
"Rcally-I will Yea win bring you
ono 10 the 0rande Place tomorrow, or meet
you on your road thcro with Il DO you
know what poetry b. Bebeor
"No"
"But your flowers talk to YOUR
"Ahi alwayx But thcn no ono clse hcars
them cvor but mo; and % no ono elss ever
bclieveaw
"well-pocts arc folks who hear tho flow.
crs talk a. yoo do. and tho trees, and tho
scas. and the boasts, and even tho stones;
but no one elso ever hears these things, and
%, when tho pocts write thcm out, the rest Of
tho world say, That b worry ilne, no doubt,
but only good for drcamers; Il win bake no
broad win Qtvo you somo poctry-for ]
think you care moro about dreams than
about broad"
II do not know" said Betee; and she did
not know, for her dreams, like her youth, and
her innocence, and her simplicity, and her
strength, wcro all unconscious OF themselves,
as such things must bo 10 be puro and true at
all.
Bebco had grown up straight, and clean,
and fragrant, and Joyous a. ono Of her own
carnations, but sho know herself no moro
than tho carnation knows its color and its
root
No: you oo no' know, saiu ncs WIN
sors .. ply sna .nougnt ~'tnln ninseif'
"o,n wu.'V 70 e' uer khowI
~ .ne QUO uos know, .nc:o vague esPua
.aons % ~" I'm ,I"ae eaa''o"s s woua drop on uom
@ ncs WIN 1. ysan o. ncl eaL'y you!e, - tos
umo uo~, uIoP uo~" WIN tne sum-
.,,% r Ien ,,.,. suS .,," .'1 s .oos ~ .nsm aney
wou'o 'lng@ ntuo N ner nead, and pernapss
always wake ~ son:o sunset hour or s9ms an
mako hor cradle song little sadder and
softer than most womcns was Unfed, they
would sink away and boar no blossom
sho would grow into simple, hardy, hard
working. God fearing Flemish woman like
tho rest. Ehe would marry, no doubt, soma
time. and rear her children honestly and we'll;
and at In tho market stall every day, and
spin and SOW, and dig and wash, and sweep,
and brave bad weather, and be content with
poor food. 10 tho end Of her harmless and
laborious days-poor little Bebcei
He saw her 20 clearly ~ shs would be-if
ho lot her aloue.
A llttlo taller, . little broader, Q little
browner, less sweet Of voice, len soft Of akin.
les flower like In faco; having learned to
think only a. her neighbop thought, Of price
Of wood and cost Of bread, laboring checrily
but hardly from daybreak to nightfall TO al
hungry mouths; forgetting al things except
tho little curly heads e!ustsred round hsr
soup pot. and the ycar-old lips sucking at hss
brcastA
A bla,ncloD life, IN eventlem life, life q
clear A. tho dewdrop, and a. colorlon; life
opening, passing, ending In tho little green
wooded lane, by tho BIT Of water whore the
swans mnde their nests under tho Willows;
llfe like tho life Of millions; little pursr, .
little brighter, q little more tender, pcrhapA
than those lives usually arc, but otherwise -
like them aa ono car of harley n liks nnothcr