Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1890-01-23
THE PINKNEY GIRLS.
They Were All Accomplished Ex-
cepting Lucy.

'-Five % era said Or Pinkney with
compliment ewes All fine. well-<ruSu
girls. a straight a. an arrow. and IN
derssaniIn' themselves we'll Except
Iury- And she's IA odd Que. not bis
like the rvst- I don't understand il.
Never did II IL Nas the Old days %
evil fairiss I should most think she'd
been CHANGED IN her cradle. ha- IA ha--
The four Miss PSnkneys laughed
aloud. A. in duty bound they laughed a.
all their fathers jokes4 They were
exactly ike the Doctor. all excepting
hundred extra pounds or so 0f avotrtiu-
peis. hristiy beard. and masculine
habilImeuts. Their laugh was the very
echo q his. their complexion was SINH
lar. they even walked and carried their
heats like him Bg. LHcy Pinkney
eulorvd a. red a. a Glove pink. and
shruak into her CORNER a. the ieerinx
laughter
There amt one Of en- but could sup
pgrt herself j1sr A. well as any nan
going II u ws-e necessary sensOa the
doetor- Exrept Lazy She never haei
any faculty that could Hn1 cut In.
~has's the uasters Lary-L1ry. where
are sou gu5n-a-'
la. pa Les her 90, said Ms. Pink-
ney- I don't see why yoG a-e always
saee-inx A. pocr Lucy She do.su' tax.
any eoulfgrt Of her life
->nesriny- replied the dossor. I'm
emily speaking the truth
Miss EIiza Plnkney bad n studio in
the north chamber AMI painted The
doctor. in his Pasernll partiaIisy. com
pared her pictures with those OF Turner
Just look az those reds AMI pur-
PIES said he ~Don-s il remind vou
Of the Save ship There1s no eaIca-
1atin- what that girl will arc mplish
before she's thirty Miss Rosina taught
school. and dabhlei IN Darwin and Her
bert spencer IF Rosy ever writes a
book said the dortor. I'D like a
chance 10 read il. A girl with that
shaped head i bound 10 have intellect
Sophy stenographed when she could get
any member OF the family To read aloud
with sufficient sIOwness> ANY rapitity
efspeeeh threw her OF her equilibrium.
but. as the doctor said. time would i'm
prove that. I'm told that some Of the
rours stenographers in New York get
$4,000 4 year" observed he. WHY
shouldn't SOphy?" And Sarah Pinknev
WAS taking lessons in music she has
sumner Of \ voice" said Dr.. Pinknev.
And the big bugs in New York pay aay
price for parlor singers. shall get her
zither when 90 10 town next But
a. for Lucy. bless me. don't know how
that child does al up her time
Lucy a slender, dark-fa,ed little girl.
heard all these comments in silence.
Mr. Pathield. the village rector. could.
perhaps have told Of the kindly visits
she made 20 sick families. the sewing
she did for Poor. OverwOrked mothers in
the factory houses down By the river.
The weak-eyed old druggist could have
borne witness to the prescriptions she
copied for him 80 that no frighsfuI mis-
take should cloud his later years. As
for Mrs Pinkrey, she boldly asserted
that she couldn't keep house without
Lucy The other girls never have any
lime 70 help ne. said she bat Lucy
l. always ready"
Jack 1t all trades and good AZ rome
said the doctor Now. see here. wife
N my opinion every woman ought %
have trade TO support herself She
ought 10 excel in something. No~.
what can Lucy Gos-
Don't worry. pa, - said Mrs. Pinkney.
III risk Lacy..
Bat one day bonb Of misfortune fell
into the camp Of the Pinkneys- Ane'er
do-Wen brother of the doctor. sou.ewhere
out IN Kansas, for whom he had in
dOrsed to considerable anaos.nt. disap-
peared suddenly. and from comfortable
competence the Pinkneys were plunged
into poverty
This place must CO. said the doctor.
who had grown old and haggard within
the last twenty-f0ur hours Wen have