The Irish standard., 1890-08-23

@ ..Oh, dear, no, childl IL the neigh
borsS Gall her 50, but she ain ybody'a
grandma in parti ar. That's where
the trouble was, you see. But lucky
for all them stray ones Sof the Lords
family IN our town that they've got
sSylyY just across the fields from them.
She adopts the whole Of 'em, and does
for 'em till you'd think she was clean
tired out with it. But Sylvy thinks
that seekin' and savin' go together; she's
got about the patientest gospel ever
came aorost And she's thought every
thing Of what you told them ct Sunday
school that day; she has been Wantin'
to make you visit ever since, haven't
you, Sylvy?" 5
At this direct appeal, the unprepos.
/, sessing girl at the window turned with.
such a sweet, surprising smile, that
Mildred found herself saying with all
the honesty in the world: y am so glad
you did" L.
There comes your ma UP the walk, !
Mrs, Perkins went on. Il guess III
take my work and 60 talk to her awhile.
and leave you girls together It'll be
more sociable for you, and p'raps you'll
find more to say" H..
Tell me about Granny Hunt and
your other friends said Mildred. :!
should love to hear about them"
There isn't much to tell SylvY an
swered, and the rich, deep voice was
as unexpected as her smile. "You
mustn't believe all that mother says,
you know mothers always think tina.
every thing their own folks do is some
thing very fine. 1t wouldn't seem nat
ural if they didn't, but strangers have
to count quite a good deal off of what
they tell. l used to worry and worry
that didn't have time to do more Of
the good work. but since you taught
our class last summer I've felt more
rested and con tent about it,"
Mildred did not like to confess that
she had forgotten all about the lesson,
| and so she tried to murmur something,
she did not quite know what
| cit was along in that wet spell, Sylvy
went on, when the field work was so
hindered, and the hands sat around in
the kitchen, and nearly drove mother
| and me out of our minds with all their
ks
seem to get done, and was just about
| crazy for a chance to help Dean Coke
| some at his reading. Dean is bound
boy, on the next farm to us, and as proud
as If he owned million; he declared he
wouldn't go to Sunday-school a step till
he could read so that the other boys
wouldn't laugh*at him, and If ever boy
needed Sunday school it was Dean. So
i undertook to help him; but, dear me,
there was one rainy day after another,
the men would go out for an hour, and
then back in the kitchen again; and all
that extra cooking and dishwashing 60
| ing on allsJhe time, with them in the way
of every thing, until there was another
Sunday come, and Dean of at the creek
| fishing. Well. pretty near cried that
morning, and when | went to Sunday
school there you were to teach us. The
Lord sent me a teacher that day. !
knew it right of, for you began, first
! thing, on the weather, and how it was
! keeping every thing back, how the farm
ers were all complaining, and the con-
tractor on building near you was los
ing money every day on account OF SO
much slack work. You said we'd all find
it just SO, on and off always, no matter
who we were or where we lived. There
were Interruptions for every body, times
when we'd set our heart on certain
| thing, and there'd be another that
would have to be done. But you said
there was just one thing that nothing
need ever hinder or put back, and that
was religion, whatever happened that
could keep right on. Any Interruptions
! to it we made ourselves, God didn't
send any; and the more we got OF it, if
| it was real and true, the more we gave
| TO other people, even if it didn't seem
so. It's very comforting. I've remem-
bered it right, haven't II"
Eyes, quite right"
"And 80 when work piles up and there's
| good deal of work on tarm, and can't
get down to Granny Hunts as often as
I'd like to read the Bible to her, and get
her to set her mind on something be-
You'd the rheumatism, why, just think
of that; and I think Of it when Deans
lessons run short, owing to q big churn-
ing, and when the fire won't burn, and
when we can't get supper till the hands
say it's too late to dress for prayer-meet-
ing, and when have to darn the boys
jackets instead Of making cakes for tho
fresh air fund children at the neigh
bors. 1t makes things . great deal
easier and quieter to look 1T them so. I
have always wanted t6 thank you for
teaching me that lesson"
'And must thank you for teachingit
to me-" said Mildred.
Sylvy looked at her uncertainty for
moment, then, evidently putting the
speech aside as something not to be un-
derstood, she said: ''Then, besides, I'd
like to ask you what you think would
be nice book to get for Dean. He's
studied real hard and guess it would
encourage him quite . good deal to have
a fresh, new history, or something Of his
own to read out Of; and Granny Hunt
didn't get any present Christmas, 50
don't you think shawl would be good
for hero"
In the course Of the day Joe waylaid
Mildred in the hall and said, severely:
g. A..