Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-13

bringin' him his daughter, if she asked
me to do it; so says to her: Now, IL
take you home TO your pop will you
promise, on your word an honor, that
YOU won't say nothin' about my carryin'
you off in bag, and say that you seed
me wallzin' along the road and liked my
looks, and told me you were sufferin',
and asked me to take you home to your
kind parents, where you might be took
proper care of; and that l said wasn't
goin' that way, but I'd do it out OF
pure Christian charity, and nothln'
moro nor less,sand here you was? And
then, of course, you can tell him he
ought to do the handsome thing by me-
ri do that says she, and I'll tell how
YOU talked to me awful kind for more
| than an hour tryin' to keep me to stay
at the school, and it wasn't till got
down on my knees and weeped that you
agreed to take me to my kind father
'All right says /, Il might as well take
you along, but we'll have to go back by
| the railroad and foot it at least two
miles to the station, and | don't know
about wallxin' across the country with
little girl dressed as fine as you are. l
might get myself suspicioned.' That's
So says she; we might meet somebody
that'd know me, and then she wriggled
up her little forehead and began to
| think. never did see such
little gal as sharp as that one
was; needles was nothing to her. In about
a minute she says: where's that bag
of yourn? Here it is says l, and then
she took it and looked at it up and down,
with her head cooked on one side. II
I'd somethin' to cut that bag WITH says
she, Il could Ak myself up so that no.
body'd know me, don't care who 1T was
Il don't want that bag cut says 1; its
an extry good bag; it was made for a
particular purpose and cost money
pop will pay expenses says she, how
much did it cost?' 1T was four dollars,
cash. said 1. They cheated you like
every thing says she; you could get a
bag like that any day for dollar and
seventy five cents. viii youlet 1t go at
thatP All right says l, for l was
tickled to see how sharp that little jew
gal was, and ten to one I'd throwed
away the bag before we got to town; SO
She pulls a little book out OF her
pocket, with a pencil stuck in 1t,
and turnin' over to blank page
she put down bag, one dollar
and seventy-fve; then she borrows
my big knife, and holdin' the top of the
bag up agin her belt, she made me stick
a pin in it about a hands breadth from
the floor; then she took the knife and
cut the bag clean across, me a-holdin'
one side of it; then she took the top end
of that bag and slipped it on her, over
her head. and shoulders, and tied the
DRAWN strings in 1t round her waist,
and 1t hung around her just like skirt,
nearly touchin' tho ground; then she
split open the rest of the bag and made
kind Of shawl out of it, putin 1T into
shape with lot o. pins, and pinnin' Il
on herself real clever. She had lots OF
pins in her belt, and she told me that
she never passed a pin in that school
without piclxin' it up, and that she had
four hundred and fifty-nine OF then
now in her room, which she was mighty
sorry to leave behind, and that these
she had now was this days picHin' up.
''When she got done workin' at her
self you couldn't see not ribbon nor
hem of her fine clothes; it was all blacl
skirt and shawl, and she'd put up hei
sleeve, so that when her arm stuck GU
it was bare. Then she took all the rib
bons and flowers off her hat and
crumpled it up, and when she tied it OF
what guy she was. Now, says she, z
can go barefoot (which you won't,
says /, for you'll get your feet all cut
but you can muddy your shoes, which
she did, l pumpin' on 'em, so that thu
dust in the back yard would stick. TheI
we starts off across the country, anC
upon my word l was pretty nigl
ashamed to be seen walkin' with such
little scarecrow. When / bought thu
tickets at the station she asked me hov
much they was, and put it down in he
book. When we got into the cars thu
people all looked hard at her, and
reckon they thought some kind Of
home had been burnt down, ant
this was one of the orphans that hat
been saved. But they didn't say moth
. in, and she fixed herself as comfortable
: as YOU please; and before long DO,
come through the car with fruit in
7 basket, and then says she to me: i wan
two apples The boy had gone past us
but 1 got up and followed him ant
bought her two apples. How much dit
you give for them?' says she when
, come back. They was two for fiv
cents, says l. Well, says she, they d
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