New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-06-22
NEW-ENGLAND SKETCHES.
LITTLE SADIE" MAKES THINGS PLEASANi l.

siblc in New-Engand, but it is very confusing
10 ,.orr bired man does not feel like chopplng
wood or cleaning the stables the very fact that
be ;s q gentleman makes it difficult for you 10
On ont and swear at him and ask him why under
the sun he is lounging around in that way. Ana
he presumes upon his place while your WORK re-
mains undone. His manners are so 1ne that you
feel convinced that you ought to go OUT ana
fork over that manure-lneap rather than let him
do IT, Only he won't do it, He saunters round
the farm, and, If he can get any one to listen 70
him. he tells about his ancestors, who were once
great guns in Nantucket. You were long ago
convinced that there are no ancestors worth
having unless they lived at Nantucket. You have
often heard OF lady help and wonder IL that
kind OF help is as great obstruction to work
as gentleman help.
We have now parted with our hired man. We
felt that as a companion he not all we desired,
and not anything wished as servant.
It is three weeks since he went We decided
that we would do deed of charity which at the
same time should be convenience TO vs. sup
pose that is the way charity is usually accom-
plished.
We told each other that II we could find
little orphan girl who was lovely to look at. and
was amiabe, and spoke the truth, and would
not steal, and always obeyed the first time she
was told to do a thing, and never sighted her
work behind backs, and who just longcd to
work, and would rather wash dishes any time
than play with her dolls: if we could find girl
like that, we would be charitable, and take her
and give her food and clothing. Gertrude said
that as for her. she felt that she had washed dishes
three times day for so long that she would take
girl even if she morally certain she would
set the house on fire after few weeks No price
was too great she thought, 70 pay for vacation
from that branch of labor. After discussing the
subject for several days drew lots to which
of us should go to the Chardon-st. Home and
select an orphan for eventual adoption. The lot
fell to Gertrude. The next morning she started
Oft in the stage TO Farnham TO meet the Boston
train passed very exciting day, for it was,
as our ncighbors had repeatedly told u.s. quite
piece of business for us 10 think of adopting
child, We were advised 10 take whose
parents we knew nice folks. Mrs. Joyce
said :" she did hope that we shouldn't git no dark
Completed critter" She limited obscurely, but
| strongly that she wouldn't he surprised at any
! thing in the way Of evil which should emanate
| from a dark Completed human being. Her iudg-
| mcnt may have been biased by the fact that she
and her six daughters were so light as almost
10 he abinos ! tried not TO LET her words influ-
ence me, but by the time the stage was due
/
be bringing out something dark Completed. /
stood at the turnstile which gave egress to the
road, and braced myself for disappointment when
| tho stage stopped. There were only two people
! besides the driver in It. One of these was Ger
! trude The other was little girl in a white
| dress. with a broad hat on the top OF great
deal OF long, crimped ligh' hair that pulled out
! profdseiy over her shoulders She had on I'M
dressed kid gloves, and carried paper parcel,
from which she unremittingly eating cherries
! so you didn't get one, after ALL said, as
| Gertrude descended the steps.
! She answered that she did get one, too: AMI
she helped ont the child Nhom had supposed
/ had come from Commonweslth-aye. somewhere
here for her health
Here she is said my friend.
The child looked me all over. / Immediately
had feeling that she did not regard me Us
stylish at all and | wanted TO shrink away into
some corner But she shifted her cherries into
the other hand, and let me shake the limp ends
of her fingers. thereby staining my own fingers
with cherry juice.
| When she removed her eyes from me she LET
! them examine the house quite cyhaustivcly She
! then informed me in the most deliberate draWl
that she had expected we would have had piazza
| Perhaps you haven't been accustomed to Nv
ing without piazza ! said, sharply.
She ate cherries and did not reply.
glanced at Gertrude who would not look
AZ me- The stage went down the road
inquired for the child's lugcnge. and found that
she had none. Our first duty would be 10 get
acr some clothes | began 10 despond. | had
expected we should provide her with wardrobe.
but / certainly had not expected She would come
from the home in array too fine 10 work IN.
led the way dejectedly round TO the back door.
,bo, tio,tlar pha-
would not approve of the shabby ocloth on the
kitchen floor, and that | should not be able TO
support myself under her disapproval
She sat down on the chair nearest the door
and ate cherries I tried to divert her attention
from the worn condition of the carpet by asking
her name,
Sadie Andcrs" With cherry between her
| thumb and finger and her large blue eyes fixed
on me Sadie said il real funny that we
hadn't water brought into the kitchen, and no set
tubs nuthcr.'
wanted TO tell her that people who were not
waits and strays, living on charity had to put
up with rather poor accommodations sometimes
| as,o wanted Ia walk up to her and Gun her
ears until she looked less supercilious. Then l
| bethought me that she was poor creature.
though she did not seem so. When we came 10
cross-eXamine her. after an a!armlngy coplous
supper. she acknow lodged that she nao oeeh
used to washing dishes. scrubblng floors ana DO
ing most everything According to heE own
report she was proficient IN every klnd oil iapor'
She could 40 the washing for dozen people o"'
She wished lis to understand that she should con-
slider herself degraded If she should wash WITHOUT
Sc, tubs.nnd hot and cold water out Of fasSets .
! When we told her she would not be ophged 10
wash clothes, she responded that that would ne
real bullv,n but that she was up TO I.
Time developed the fact that she was up to
other things also: to so many things, III truth,
that the day came when almost our only hope lay
in the knowledge that she was light-complectcd'
After she had gone to bed that night we went
| nyer 10 Mrs InYce's and begged cnst-on frOCk