South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-11-27


Gray, when, the next year. the songs
OF Thanksgiving and praise came
from grateful besrts She dreaded
each return ~ he day. fe ,riug lest i,
should bring her some na~ aorrow.
She looked at the flushed checks vi
her little boy with q sharp pain.
What IL she we're tn lose her only de.
Eight and j,y on her fa'eiul day? But
when he opened his eyes and dcclar-
ed himself ~ bungry rs bear het
fears vanished
l cav. mamma. he cried. let's be-
gin Thanksgiving Tonight. Lers
have nice supper. I'm SO hungry.
Then let. have some popcorn aud -
be paused asif trying to orr INNATE
some new dissipation let's make
i some candy. You know. mamm. i,
We haven't made any on the new
stove yet. and m ,ybe We can't do tn st.
m 50 tired OF DOT doing sny,hiAs
nice Amt your
Yes. dear, I'm more tirei than I
can tell, and sudden tears dimmed
her ewes.
Dom, cry; oh, don't cry. mamma I
Please don't. resliy think, adde I
the wise little fellow. that you need a
little more fun--dont your
] think do You are wiser than
you know. my dear.
Then let's. have som, molasses
candy.
Roth laughed al the chili's logic.
She needed fun, therefore she needed
molases candy: Teen she resolved
that the dear child who found bis
suoshins or shade in her eyes should
have his fan, though memories heavy
and dark were througing upon her.
So they m.dc q jolly super. The
wonderful st,ve baked the sweet DO
tatoes To a turn; they made no de.
mand upon it to which It dill no, re-
spond.
Then the Ian p shone with unusual
briiiiaDce mamma had brushed her
pretty hair ii the little sunny rings
lay all around the fair white forehead
and she had, just to please Nod, put
ON the pretty cardinal wrapper, and
Ned declared there wasn't q prettier
lady in the land.
| Then came the candy making and
corn poppiHg. Again the little stove
proved itself O success.
| How jolly 1t is. isn't it mammal
cried the child.
Very jolly dear. said the brave
little mother. remem1 ering an even
Ing ten. years sgone.,a las gay as heart
could wish, followedsby a day the
h.sEHksssst ys abe had ever know. >, 9
NE hour. when she bal sent away
from her the s;rong arm and the
strong. true heart.
but In spite Of the heartache. she
told over the stories she had told a
thousand times before, and sang the
little songs Ned liked to hear. until,
as the clock struck, she said: Do you
know my dear. that IL il 8 O'Clock
and | must run down to Mr.. Green's
with her dress. She couldn't keep
Thanksgiving without II; half her
praises wou d he left out il she could
not sing them in velvet gown.
So,you just sit right here in this
chair. will not be gone more than
twenty minutes; you can stay alone
that little bit OF awhile. Cant yo.2
IL was brave lit lie voice that an.
swered OF Course en-. I'll jus,
think abont tho farm and the horses.
| think I'll have gray hors 8. any.
way.
Ruth threw q long black cloak evel
her bright gown. 1t covered up hel
shabbiness, did this friendly wrap
when from her work she had to run
TO market. and now il covered bel
unnoniej gay attire. She had {
passion for color rich, warm hues
ihiiiicd her like music. She said she
felt like another woman when dress.
ed in the Clio wing, rich, warm car
dinsl wrapper with its flowing folds
Always when Mad wished some In
diligence which she felt Obliged to de
ny Tin, he would say know you'C
say yes, mamms, If you had on
pretty dress OF pretty ribbon a.
. your throat.
IS shs Fastened down tho stree
"itL her bundle. IN the face of tn
keen November wind, she thought o
, all her broken dreams, of the wear
F, years passed by the side OF the mat
= who made every hour q torture. o
bis Hre' ched life and more wretchot
, death, OF the one who somewhere II
, the wOrld-in a world widely differen
from her own--lived forgeiful OF her
4 She thought of the years to com
: weary. lonely years sbe though
they must be, yet che WsDted 10 liv
them. For the sake of the child sb
prayed to,live. She prayed, too. tbs
:, her trials might not make her bar
= or bitter.
= On the way home she stopped 9
= the grocer's aud made Vari.us it'll
additions TO their prospective Thsnkl
q giving dinner. The fresh sir iuvig
Grated and exhilarafed her, and b
- the time she rosched her own ga,
- she raised grateful eyes to she star
that sbone so brightly above her
"a They are always there, she said rev
; emily, however dark u seems. Go
!, is good. His tender mercies are ov,
: all his works, aud what is best for n
: be will not withhold.
IL The room looked very pleasant
y her IS she opened tue doof--tt
q bright light. the brighter fire, an
n sweetest. fairest sight OF all, her bc
curled up Ia the rocker fast asleel