Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-09-18

/. TO you when you were TO our place
asst summer. and knew | couldn't suit
'-or better than to bring her right along
-4ioe sociable day of it She
n. rest anyway. after sittin' up
; re nights with Granny Hunt whom
7ngos so bad"
3 the de grandmother that SAW" asked
e watGed.
pa 9h, dear, no, child All tho neigh
call her so, but she amt anybody's
aldma in particular. That's where
trouble was, you see. But itsluclky
all them stray ones Of the Lord's
lily in our town that they've got
Wy just across the fields from them
adopts the whole of 'em, and does
EN- till you'd think she was clean
sd out with it. But Sylvy thinks
seekin' and savin' go together; she's
about the patientest gospel | ever
acrost And she's thought every
of what you told them at Sunday
\ il that day; she has been wantin'
AXE you visit ever since. haven't
Sylvy?"
this direct appeal, the unprepos-
Seing girl at the window turned with
'h a sweet, surprising smile, that
'ldred found herself saying with all
Q honesty in the world: 81 am so glad
GU did"
There comes your ma up the walk"
Mrs. Perkins went on. 81 guess I'll
AXE my work and go talk to her awhile.
nd leave you girls together. It'll be
lore sociable for you. and p'raps you'll
nd more to say"
Tell me about Granny Hunt and
our other friends" said Mildred. 81
hould love 10 hear about them"
There isn't much to TELL" Sylvy an.
wered, and the rich, deep voice was
unexpected as her smile. "You
mustn't believe all that mother says;
know mothers always think that
very thing their own folks do is some
= worv fire. 1t wouldn't seem nat
ural =. -..,.y $780, :. -. strangers have
to count quite good deal off of what
they tell 1 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
EcSbtu anu dbOub IL
Mildred did not like 20 confess that
she had forgotten all about the lesson.
and so she tried to murmur something.
she did not quite know what.
1T 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
fuss and bother. The work didn't ever
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 II ever a boy
needed Sunday-school it was Dean. So
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 GO
ing on all the time, with them in the way
of every thing. until there was another
Sunday come, and Dean off 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 off, 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 a 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 of always, no matter
who we were or where we lived There
were interruptions for everybody, times
when we'd set our heart on a 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"
Yes, quite right.
"And SO when work piles up and there's
good deal Of work on farm, 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-
yond the rheumatism, why, just think
of that; and think Of it when Deans
lessons run short, owing to 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 the
fresh air fund children at the neigh
bors' 1t makes things a great deal
easier and quieter to look at them so.
have always wanted to thank you for
teaching me that lesson.
And must thank you for teaching It
to me-" said Mildred.
Sylvy looked at her uncertainty for a
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