Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1890-06-12

she would go and nurse them, and tidy
up the poor cabins little, and berate
the husbands with shrewd tongue for
their appropriateness.
"S0ry enough am for Jack Purdy's
wife," she would say to her mother,
upon coming home from such an Grand.
"She wanted him 50 bad. Never rested
till she had him fast. Wouldn't speak to
me for months when Jack was worrying
me to marry him. And now he spends
the money that he earns at the fishing
for liquor and lets her want. All! if he
were my man, now, he'd be different, l
warrant you"
"Better wait till you get man of your
own before you tell so fast what you
would do with some ones else. If you
had taken Jack Purdy, now don't you
think he would be drinking just the
same?n
'Indeed he would not, mother. It's
not | would let him take the bread out of
my chidren's mouths: and | think no
man would ever beat a woman if it wasn't
for the liquor"
"Ah. Jane. You're a bit daft on that.
Don't be always thinking of the same
thing, my girl"
''Indeed, | am not always thinking of
it, another. And | am never sorry. If a
man don't care enough for u woman to
give up his drink. he don't care much,
that's all. Then why should She"
"a bit of drink is not always hurting
man, Jane. Its rough life they
have. And 1t is not good thing that a
woman should be growing old here alone.
| won't last much longer
II am better Off than some of the other
silly creatures, as it is, mother.
IT.. n ,ic l,I
trying to comfort herself with the belief
that she was ''better OIL as it was. She
had not wanted any of those rough, roy
STEERING young fellows who had dangled
after her awhile. and then solaced them
selves with some other girl. She had felt
above them; she had been above them in
fact, for she knew little of the world be-
You'd the coast. Not that she had ever
ioufneyed away from it--eXcept as a
book now and then, or paper, OF mag
| azine nad helpeo nef TO 90 SO. she might,
! perhaps, have gone away from all these
things that were so distasteful to her.
and seen something of that outside
world. but she had given her promise to
wait lust there.
Willie Treior had been the lkeliest lad
| i, +l,a y;ll,rn. cvarv ono had coid tbot Of
hin, Even ne how he had hann mas
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swer red Vile .and Ne Nell hut cries and
looks scared when he comes home about
her. You could have made something
even of SAM he continued. admiringly.
ssbut Nell never could.''
''He should make some of himself"
Jane replied flushing ga man should
/ NV Oucl W udhC CtIC VI NOllldu. anu
expect her first to make man of him.
Il don't look TO you to do that for me,
Jane. can do that for myself, l think
and, if you will marry me, l swear to
you will let drink alone, though it's lit
tie enough harm it has ever done me;
and it's good thing, l can tell you, girl,
in a rough sea on wet night
eff you stop drink, | will marry you
when the boats come home again; but
not unless you swear to me then that you
have drunk no drop from this night till
that; and if you cannot come and tell me
it then, | will wait until you can tell me
that you have stopped; for | do love
you dearly. Willie, and | will be the wife
of no man but you.''
And Jane Somers had laid her small,
firm hand in his huge one, and had lifted
up her brown face to be kissed. and with
the kiss had registered a vow that she
would wait till the end of time, if need
be.
Then Trejor had gone away to the
boats with sulky, honest purpose in
/ hi, hoo IT, would cto,,I +l,o ,r;l,,, ,>e