The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-03-14

dear old combination washstand that looks
like card-table, and can be made to repre-
sent q bookcase, a sideboard, refrigerator
or a sewing machine, according to which
room you have it in, and opens and makes
child's cradle at night"
Eyes, Spencer, many's the night l have
rocked you in that wash-stand."
"Can you still see that broken brick half
way down the side of the north air-shaft ?"
asked Spencer.
yes answered his mother, "and you can
the front window"
Some children were now pounding play
fully on the hall door with hammer and
Spencer heard two men pushing the sale OF
their CLAIMS in the street.
"Come and see the rest of the old house"
said his mother .H..f
"Ah, here is the old dining room, sure
enough" said Spencer. "Many time have
I set up at that old table and eaten bowls of
bakers bread and condensed milk. well re-
member the day made myself sick eating the
artificial green corn. There is my old high
chair, which opens out and makes clothes
bars"
Eyes, and do you remember how we used
to put up the window shade when we had
company, so as to make more room ?"
"Yes, yes, remember all" murmured
Spencer. "Ah, here is the dear old kitchen"
YES" answered his mother. "Maggy,
she continued, addressing the domestic,
come out so my son can get in and see the
dear old kitchen"
Eyes, this is the old kitchen, sure enough.
How natural that old white brick wall of the
fiat house in the other street looks. / used
to reach out our window and scratch matches
on it when l lit the gas. All, what tender
associations cling around that brick WALL
He heard man soliciting anything in the
way of old clothes on the other street, and
backed out. sr-I far ' -4- ,
lE"Come, you must see the other rooms,
Spencer" continued his mother. "There is
the large bedroom with the piano bedstead,
and here is the large guest chamber, and"
"But tie guest chamber doesn't look
natural, mOther-it seems smaller"
yes, your father put me up shelf in it
for some books-it makes it much smBller.-
We take the guest around and put him
through the window from the air-shaft now.
But here is your own little old room"
+ so it is, 80 it is. Islept in it for fifteen
years, but was smaller then" i1u ...
Necessarily" returned his mother. "We.
don't use it for bedroom now, but a sort of
clothes press. Your father keeps his hat and
overcoat in it when there isn't much of any,
thing in the pockets of the coat But come
into the front room and sit down Maggie,
change the hat rack into u chair and pass it
in" f,s..
Some men were selling new potatoes in the
street and fire company was going past
Spencer Crane scarcely noticed it, however,
as the elevated trains, which ran under the
window, made so much noise that the fire
company seemed far off. .... ... &c.,
ooh, a question | want to ask" said
Spencer, "wbat became of little blue eyed
Lillian Clover whom used to meet and talk
with on the second landing? All, used to
think loved that girl and believe l did.
Poor Lillian, went away and left her."
ooh, she married an artist named Crowley
who had studio in the Eighth Ward. He
painted black eyes, restoring them to their
natural color. He was killed by friend, but
she hired an assistant and continues the bust
ness at the old stand"
Thunder Then Lillian amt dead?"
mo, no she's all right. The janitor can
give you her number if you want to see her"
A week later Perry Martin gIasped the
hand of his old friend Spencer Crane in
California.
And did you go back to the old home,
with lhe old scenes oil your childhood and the
thousand tender associations which must
ever hover round the haunts of ones YOUTH"
asked Perry.
NO." answered Spencer, and he looked
him ia the eye and never faltered mo
stopped liz Kansas. | couldn't bear to do it
and thus not have the pleasure visiting the
old scenes would give me to look forward to-
No, think I'll go next year. 1Gawell say,
Perry, dear old home of ones childhood"