San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-17

day the Games padding over from Smutty
Nose to watch tn progress of their new hutS
and never word to us-to our red faced
DANES high and loud displeasure
Soc, as twas plain my mother was thought
piece of i'll luck and dreaded upon tn Shoals
we came again into tn white curve of Hamp-
ton Bay, this time gearleSs as we'll as house
less, but by favor of tn Toppans getting into
our small home again IN tn calm inland. Me
thinks | never knew how swete "A picture is
the country till saw it then, after soc much
paine Tn sun shown with yellow light on
tn mOwn grass and men were threshing the
nut trees and children and women were put
ting the nuts into baskets And Mistress
Toppan sent in honey i the comb and bread
hot o tn oven to our supper. She sent it,
Good wife nor maiden came much to us then
nor thereafter.
Sis" saith Robert one day, stretched out
like wild beast along tn limb of our apple
tree, "doSt know that tn court in Portsmouth
are to find "a true bill against mother.'
what true billI' l cried feeling frozen
"For th'-th' baby, "stammered my brother.
"And, oh! to think / am strong; and my
poore mother, soc littel and weak, to hangm
and he stopped, choking.
Thee need'st not fear that, lad," said Mr..
1OppdllS ultllpN, IL NOlCc lcuILl us.
We started, and Robert tried to hide S tears.
Il saw to verify thy poore mother was dis
tracted before she left US" saith he, "and l
am much to blame that eer | allowed her
out o my wife's sight"
Robert looked at him with a glance of as
dark eyes like a cares. Sweet words were
seldom on Roberts lps-they were hidden
treasure for our mother alwaies-but the
darting glance was thanks.
81 know. lad, | known saith Mr.. TOppan,
signing. And again softly: Il know
People did not gossip of us long neither,
leaving us TO our shrinking selves by reason
of grand new arrival in HamptOn-an Off
Ger from south, with band o black foot
men, and beginning the finest wooden house
o. tn land around set on a hill and visible,
white and statelie from tn sea Twas paint
ed white; the Onlie painted house inne allie
New England. Gen. MoultOn loitered about
Hampton as his house built, spending doub-
looms. He never bargained, twas said. Did
he have need of aniething, twas bought
and no questions of price. These things would
Robert and hear when out at work in barn
and kitchen; soc few came to sit by mother
on our settle, where she sat all day long all
ing. Not forty, and yet with streaks in her
hair, and with look in her faded eyes not to
be worded.
A day i'll May, while mother and l were
sprinklng tn dark, i'll smelling linen on our
bleaching ground, there rides up the general
in black velvet. AS lips were thick and as
nostrils wide, but a was comely.
Art thou the dame who makes linen sheet
ingN saith he Il do desire a web
My mother was Overjoyed at so great an
Order-wc had none too much i the cupboard
and a hurried around as web on tn grass,
patting and praising it and babbling with
more liveiness than for a yeare of its merits
and its defects But the gentleman was 81
lent, looking at me instead o the linen.
And as we sat in the cleaning came a
black with Curds and Creame neatip layd
upon a silver dish for Mistress Rose Moody"
| cared more for tn favre dish than tn
curds, and even mother liked to try little
off tn embossed side Of the platter, Robert
finishing all, with a boy, greednesS.
Twas thus the next day and next and by
tn next the old wives i all Hampton grew
naybourly, but tn maids did seem thrice dis
tant and cold to me.
Til next was wild weather; the ram that
tn wind drove asIant our lattice freezing i
the falling Robert had been forth, and did
sit steamnG on tn hearth, mendng S fork
as he dried. And our mother upon tn settle
in a thick coverlet. Twas dull i tn room,
and not over warm neither. And | at tn
loom.
There came tn sound Of a horses feet and
knock, and Gen. Moulton in our porch
bowling low, Cobwebby, soaked lace falling
down over S strong white hands as he DOTTED
his hat to me- But Robert was SQUIRE, and
looked not from the fork teeth
"Sweethoart," SAYS the general, follow
ing to til loom across tn uneven floor, wilt
we'd with me: Thou thirst 90 with thy linen
My dry tongue let me talk not, but love
and loyalty to our mother stirred Robert
Gen. MoultOn,' said he, with a flaming
face, "dost know who thOu'rt asking? Hamp-
ton doth set us apart" saith he bitterle.
And why:' said the general fiercely
"Thy mother could not hurt a flea common.
lie. Who can say what he will doe in a fear
full peril! She will be my mother and she
will come and see us happy; it may tend to
make her soc. Ay,' saith he, "sweet Rose
wilt come upon the hill, thou and tn mother
and Roberto
Robert looked at me jealousy. II shall
earn mans wage the year." he muttered
TREMENDOUSLY. Twas not moment! and yet
we did read each tn other i that glance.
lie dropped his eyes.
Rose is good" came quietly, yet to start
one, from tn settle where my mother sat in a
strange, unmannerlie silence And thou art
good to love our poore Rose-my girl that
hath no gear but a mothers shame!" and she
hid her thin face, trembling and tearlesse.
It's nine years have been Gen. Moulton's
DANA From m ~ rraot noon, 7 I,cI-