The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1890-04-02
LANBERTvILLE, \. j. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 2 1890

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The dame did not heed him or his
words, but set to work with all speed to
get something ready for her husbands
supper.
'sShivery shakeryr said Dame Bar
barer to Goodman Paul when he came
II am very cold"
"Put more clothes on, he answered.
So he gave her his coat, and she put
that on and her thickest cloak, and her
hood and pair of mittens, and two
pairs of stockings
"Shivery shakeryl Shakery shiveryr"
cried the old woman; 81 am colder than
ever"
''Put more clothes on" said Paul.
So she put on veil and her husbands
boots and his Sunday cravat and pair
Of earrings and walking stick.
''Shivery shakeryl Shakery shiveryi
shiver and shakep she cried. ~ am
colder than before"
"Put more clothes on" said her hus-
band.
So she put on blanket and a bosom
pin, and necklace that she had not
worn since she was a young girl, and q
collar and her husbands watch chain.
"Shivery shakeryi Shakery shiveryi
l SILVER and shakei Ishakc and shiver"
she cried. ~ am colder than ever"
"Put more clothes on" once more said
her husband. Here. take my thick
waistcoat."
She took the waistcoat, but in order to
get it on twas necessary to take off some
Of the many things she was already
wearing; and, as fast as she took Off the
things in which she was wrapped, she
began at once to get warmer, and she re-
membered the words of the red beggar,
and how he had wished that she might
grow colder tho more she put on; and
Dame Barbarer knew that a spell had
been laid upon her because she had
spoken harshly to the vagabond when he
wished to come in and warm himself by
her fire. She therefore made herself
warm by taking off her wrappings until
she had as little on as it was at all re-
spectacle to wear. and thereafter she
went in cold weather SO thinly clad that
her reighbors declared that she had lost
her wits.
It was well nigh year that this state
of things continued, and one day Just as
the sun was near setting. and the dame
was every moment expecting her hus-
band home from the field where he had
been at work all day, when strange old
woman came puttering along the road.
The poor old creature was bent we'll nigh
double, and one could SEQ that her back
was not straight, hump standing out
where her shoulders were stopped over.
The old woman, indeed, was SO bent over
that it was not possible to SEQ her face,
and it was only by her dress that one
could have known her again.
But 1t was this dress which made Dame
Barbarer stare; for 1t was all of faded
red, tattered and stained and weather
beaten, and patched here and there, but
despite the fact that 1t was the dress of
q woman and not Of a man, there was
something about 1t that brought the red
beggar Of the year before up so wildly
to the dame that she began, all of a
tremble, to put supper on a plate for
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be asked. The old red woman sat down
on the doorstep, painting and chuckling.
"You are dressed strangely, Dame,"
she said, "for the time of year"
'The time of year has nothing TO do
with what l wear" answered poor Dame
Barbarer; "the colder it gets the less l
wear, and In summer have to put on
the thickest things have to keep cool"
The old red woman chuckled.
"Perhaps my brother has been here"
she observed, eating away with hearty
appetite.
"Is he your brother?" asked Barbarer
piteously; ''oh, II you would only ask
him TO undo the charm and make me
like other people, there isn't anything !
wouldn't do for YOU"
"Humphl Perhaps you weren't polite
to him. He is very payticular about
that"
II am sure" tho Dame answered, II
tried to be kind to him until he was
saucy to me"
The red woman. chncIsied more than
ever.
''Well," she said, finishing her supper,
and rising with more agility than one
would have expected Of her; "you are on
the whole a good sort, and dare say on
the whole you have been punished
enough"
''Oh, indeed / have,' poor Barbarer
answered. with tears in her eyes. "More
than enough"
well, them" the old woman said, "it
shall not be said that have not made
amends for what my brother did more
than you deserved, and you shall have
your hearts DESIRE"
She looked into Barbarer's face, and
the dame would have sworn for her life
that 1t was the red heggar who cursed
her into whose face she was gazing. Then
she bent over again with one Of her sim
lister chuckles. ald went hobbling down
the road.
And before the summer came around
again the storks had brought little son
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