The National tribune., 1890-12-18

bag. The bag you thought was Perry's
these two girls picked. Here is Perry's own
bag. We kept it back to see if there was
one real mean fellow in the party"
| The Chestnuts were measured and the
pool was awarded 10 Perry.
But Pennyheart had only gained another
meTcenary idea from his discontinue. He
watched a favorable chance and took the
girl aside.
You're n very industrious girl" said he.
They don't pay you no wages, do they, at
/ the SemeeneTy? Come and keep house fur
me this Winter and I'll give you dollar
week"
She felt the temptation, and did not resent
Pennyheart's meanness.
40, thank yOu!" she replied, 81 would
come, but
I AM GETTING SOME EDUCATION
at the Seminary / already knOw-my
! eiinbet'
The shining of those large gray, black
| fringed eyes into his nature awOke another
miserly idea in Pennyheart
she would make me good wife, he
thought, and bile and bake fur me, too
That evening ne bought at the village store
dark wool dress and sent it to Perry at the
| Seminary.
She had gained the dollar and n mourning
dress.
! But the dollar went to the village store
| to buy coffee for Grandfather TuTtle-fOr
coffee, that is the labOrer's Dclilah and Sam
son, taking his cash wages, exchanging not
with his productions drawing him ever and
ever into the storckeepers account book,
which never balances on the customers
side
a hard Winter followed, and the school
collected little cash on scholars account, and
! paid away much cash for coal, TO be hauled
over the abominable roads, which were called
Pennyhearts pikes.p
Pennyheart himself came around the Sem
mary 10 suggest 10 It's shifty proprietor that
| he had better not feed any free mouths
IN such threatening times, while he held the
matrimonial proposition dangling before
Perry, partly from his sensibilities and
partly from rejecting how much she could
save the farm with her long, strong arms and
willing hack.
Just TO think Of it!D exclaimed Penny
heart shTewdly to Perry. Folks will be
saying, she was born in the meanest hut,
j reckon, along the mOuntain-side, and now
she's mistress of five FARMS"
The wonder OF the Seminary was that
Creeper Turtles hut cOuld have been the
birthplace OF anybody, much less of the two
| finest girls IN the Ca;octin Valley. The
dominic at the spired Luthern church could
not understand IT. though he was perfectly
clear about Jesus having been born in the
cOw-stall.
As the girls progressed from letters to
spelling, and could read and write, COOrOO
would read 10 Perry, who could now take it
down in shorthand. sitting IN the shiyering
hut beneath the mountains every sundown,
and the sisters ielt that their good name and
Tespectability, not less than their grand
fathers comfort, depended upon obliterating
the hut of such evil mention and building
another house.
Everybody who passed through that coun-
try would have old Creepers sty pointed out
TO him and the question put:
What do you think lives theTe?"
~ dog or a c0w?"
"No, man; and he has had children and
grandchildren born there!"
Great cOrnstalks!"
As beauty and talent grow and are recog-
nized, ugliness and cOmmOnness have no re-
lief from jealousy but TO point out former
humility in merits and with sneering tri-
umph.
The idea spread among few of the merely
prosperous anu unlEOkIcsslNt DultH lOihS
that here were poor women putting on
airs and seeking to escape from the slavery
OF ignorance and condition.
Pennyheart felt that his only hope TO get
Perry was 10 pen her up in poverty and
tighten the outlets ill she would drop into
his lap, like another Ruth, for want of barley
TO eat and q blanket 10 keep warm.
Don't spile that gall" his warning went.
Shes n bad example TO our help, Citing
eijekation. School taxes will 90 up. Our
laboring men must git healthy wives like
them Turtle gals and bring up the breed"
The mean conspiracy took the form at
last of setting watch on old Turtle, that
he should not get stick of wood out OF any
mans patch on the mountain.
He burnt the barn beams several years
ago. Along in February he'll make fuel ont
of them ole house beams too. That'll pre-
went any fine house going up for many a day
on the Turtle estate Hal hal"
IL was cold in the hut Coffee had not
been seen there for a month. Fire was a
mere flashing up of brush and dried weeds
once a day, when the girls arrived.
"Shall burn my house beams for fuel
again. thought old Creeper Turtle. or
shall / hang my crooked frame TO my ridge
pole, and make my next habitation a mar
row house six feet in the grouId?"
ITO BE- rOHtinuedl