The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-12-13


q must FIRST know what she has learned
already. How do you communicate with
herr Then showed him. and she wrote
IN printed writing many names OF tiFlngs
and SO forth, snds we held some sprigntly
conversation, Sophy and me, about
little story in Il book which the gentle
nan showed her. and which s. ie was able
t read This Is most extraordinary.
says the gentlenan;, SIS it possible that
you have been her only teachers'' Il
have been her only teacher, sir. SAYS.
'sbesides herself. Then, SAYS the
gentleman. and more acceptable words
was never spoke to me. you're clever
fellow and good fellow. This he
makes known to Sophy. who kisses his
hands, claps her own and laughs and
cries upon it.
We saw the gentleman four times IN
all, and when he took down my name
and asked how in the world it ever
CHANGED to be doctor, it come out that
he was my own nephew by the SISTERS
side, if you'll believe me, to the very
doctor that was called after. This
made our footing still easier and be SAYS
to me:
Now, Marigold, tell me what more
do you want your adopted daughter to
know
Il want her, sir, to be cut Of from tho
world as little as can be, CONSIDERING hcr
deprivations. and therefore to be able to
read whatever is wrote with perfeet ease
and pleasure
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man. opening his eyes wide. 'swhy,
can't do that myself"
took his joke and gave him a laugh
Qknowing by experience how Hat you fall
without it) and | rnended my words ac-
cordingly.
What do you mean to do with her
afterward?' asks the gentleman with a
sort of doubtful eye. "To take her about
the country
I'm the cart, sir, but only in the cart !.
She will live private life. you under
of bringing her infirnlities before the
public. wouldn't make show for any
money"
The gentleman nodded and seemed to
approve.
well" says he, team you part with
her for two years."
ITO do her that good? Yes. sir
There's another question" says the
gentleman. looking toward her team sh9
part with you for two years.
| don't know that it was a harder mat
ter of itself (for the other was hard
enough to me), but it was harder TO get
over. However, she was pacifed to it
at last, and the separation twixt us was
settled. How it cut up both of us when
it took place, and when left her at tho
door in the dark Of an evening, | don't
tell. But | know this, remembering
that night. shall never pass that same
establishment without heartache and
a swelling in the throat; and | couldn't
put you up the best of lots in sight Of it
with my usual spirit-no, not even tho
gun nor the pair of spectacles- FIVE
hundred pound reward from the secre-
tary of state for the home department.
and throw in the honor of putting my
legs under his mahogany afterward.
Still the loneliness chat followed in
the cart was not the old loneliness. be-
ever long to look forward %; and
cause | could think. when | was an
ways down, that she belonged to me an
belonged to her. Always planning fofj
her coming back, bought in a fewl
months time another cart. and what do
you think / planned to do with it? I'll
tell you, | planned to fit it up with
shelves and books for her reading. and
to have seat in it where | could sit and
see her read, and think that | had been
her first teacher. Not hurrying over the
job. had the fittings knocked together
in contriving ways under my own in
spection, and here was her bed in
berth with curtains, and there was her
reading table, and here was her writing
desk, and elsewhere was her books in
rows upon rows, picters and no picters,
bindings and no bindings. gilt edged
and plain, just as could pick 'em up
for her in lots up and down the country,
North and south and west and east,
Winds liked best and winds liked least,
Here and there and gone astray. Over
hills and far away. And when | had
got together pretty well MS many books
as the cart would neatly hold, new
scheme came into my head, which, as 1t
turned out, kept my time and attention
a good deal employed and helped me
over the two years stile.
Without being OF an awaricious tenn
per. like to be the owner Of things. !
shouldn't wish, for instance. to go part
ners with myself in the Cheap Jack cart !,
It's not that mistrust you. but that I'd
rather know it was mine. Similarly,
very likely you'd rather. know It was
yours. Welt A kind Of . jealousy be-
gan to creep into my mind when ! re-
Elected that all those books would have
been read by other people long before
they was read by her. Il seemed to take
away from her being the owner OF EN-
like. In this way the question got into
my head, Couldn't have book new
made expressly for her. which she should
be the first to read2
1t pleased me, that thought did; and
as never was man to let q thought
sleep lyon must wake up the whole fains-
iy of thoughts you've got and burn their
nightcaps or you won't do in the Cheap
Jack line), set to work at it. Consider
ing that was in the habit of changing
SO fnlIch ahont fha fof,uffv and that