Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-07-12

Ease Den you won't tell no lie, nuther,
kase you does wanter know jis 'kase,
oes'n you, honey"'
"Deys folks en- people, 'roun' dat would
teal all dat money from me, honey, ef de
Inow'd | had 1t. Den what yo' po' ole
Aun' juicy Ann gwlnter do wen dey
omes 'roun' to pack off dat pc little in
locen' Archibald Nick'las? Do muffin |
nut lis lay down en- die. En- you d0an |
vanter see yo' POI ole Auh' juicy Ann
lie, does you honey"
| assured her that it would break my
neart to see her die, or to see Archie car
ried away, either, and l promised to get
the information and be very careful OF
her secret.
When my uncle came that evening l
embraced the first opportunity to lay be
fore him my question, and sure enough
he asked me what had put a cut-nine-
pence into my head and why | wanted to
know. | promptly responded lust
cause" and ignored the other part of 1t.
He did not press me, but gave me the in
formation as to both the cut ninepence
and the shilling, and when | went 10 my
room that night, | kept saying TO myself,
"a shilling is sixteen and two-thirds
cents, and cut-ninepence is twelve and
a half cents, which added together m IKE
twenty nine and sixth cents"
My sister Sue, who was eight years old,
while | was nearly ten, had better
memory than |; at least had been fire.
quently told so by my father, and as we
roomed together, | got her to help me re-
member that sixteen and wo-thirds
added to twelve and one hall, made
twenty nine and one-sixth," and she
pressed me so hard to tell her why |
wanted to remember that and what it
was all about, that |, knowing my little
sis ter was an angel II there ever was one
on earth, told her all about Aunt juicy
secret, and she would have kept the
secret too, far better than |. Yet | had
| no intention of betraying confidence when
/ | told Susie, for | thought we were just
one anyway, and we were, as near as
/ little sister and brother possibly could be.
Zillah was a mulatto girl nearly grown,
who was supposed to be sort OF nurse
| for us but il there ever was trlfilng,
lazy, pilfering wretch, OF her age, more
/ utterly useless for anything else than pill
| fering and laZlness, 1t was that same
] Zillah. She had a habit of coming into
our room and hiding under bed in order
| TO loaf thinking she would evade our
elders by pretense OF being with us, ana
eyade us by pretence OF being IN attend
ance upon our elders.
When / told Susie that secret, the trifl-
| ing, pilfering Zillah was under the bed in
our room listening to every word we said,
and before morning she had stolen Aunt
Juley's money and had placed the shilling
and the cut ninepence in the pocket OF my
roundabout.
juicy discovered her loss and her dear old
heart was nearly broken. She bewailed
her loss until everybody on the place had
| learned the secret, and when she told me
/ of il, cried with her and promised TO
work to help her get that much money
back But her philosophy taught her
that II she could get another like sum,
] Il gr1f tsypnlA no lost and A
Il in her words: EFF | had what you's
gwineter hep me git, still | wouldn' have
'tother. en- den eff | had 'tother | would
have both, en- dat would be sompen like
Zillah'S theft found her out In due time
however, and the result was OF mos
fortunate character. More thieves have
been discovered by their zeal in pre-
tended assistance to catch the thief thar
by any other means. Zillah sought t.
make me appear as the guilty one, ant
she discovered the shilling and the cut
ninepence in my pocket, when she was
: with unusual promptitude, assisting m
] to undreSs the following night. or course
she raised the household, leaving Susi
Z and CRYING together while she brough
/ my parents and Uncle Jack and Aun
- juicy to the room to expose the culpri
/, having carefully taken my roundabout
and the coins with her when she went {
G call the witnesses to my exposure. Mis-
Zillah had reckOned without her hos
e however. My mother declared she kne
e it impossible for me to steal; my faith
d looked somewhat serious and Aunt Jul,
n was about declaring that she never had
ri shilling or a cut ninepence, when Unc
sr Jack interposed. He was indignant tn
,r such a thing as theft should ever
sr charged against one Of the Shelby bloc
:, and Democratic blood at that, and L
r, father fell into uproarous laughter. I'd
IL hot / la raari
V, lick my Uncle Jack, and also that | won
D. take into consideration the propriety
r. becoming a Democrat sometime. I'm,
TO Jack declared that Zillah was the tn
en- and made the accusation in such ma
n ner that the mulatto girl was appall
at and shortly confessed the crime and
he stored the money.
III Aunt Juley's scheme for saving Arc
an bald Nicholas was afterward discus
m and my far-seeing and practical uncle
fl once evolved plan to reward virtue {
NY punish vice in the way that all g
stories should end. He took it upon h
ion self to arrange with his sister, my A
cry Bessie, that she should take Zillah
ore once, who was then an able bodied :
XII want and one who could be made OF
nus mediate use to her In the household,
I've relinuuish all claim to Archie, who
avs then child and would not be of as m
value when he was ten years old as III
in was then. Thus Zillah went down
ion rivah," aud great load was lifted f
EST Aunt Juley's heart.
the Years afterward, when the war betv
and the North and the South came along,
was Inheritance Of Whiggery and Clay
'ere from my father, and the patriotic ties
lei ings of Harry of the West" and
,uld quent Webster, whose Union speech
ser had often acclaimed at school, mad
ney me q Union soldier, when my coul
old called, and, as captain of a gallant /
son lucky company, | went to war,
er's Archibald Nicholas went with me
ears servant, with his mothers full cons
yest for he was a grown man, and as ! ros
we'd rank Archibald rose in self-acqu
learning and self-importance, and is
ties. well do citizen Of Cincinnati, W
,eo- his mother died, years ago, in his C
lwn Portable home, ministered to by her gri
lem children, the daughters OF Arch
gful Nicholas.
and NY uncle went into the Confede
lust army and became brigadier genera
asst. happened to be in command of
per, brigade that his brigade surrendered
had when Joe johnson gave his sworC
men William Tecumseh Sherman. Wht
and met my gallant old uncle, taught
was told him Of the ambition had had,
dus boy, to lick him when ! became a |
hat His jolly reply was:
hat well sab, you should feel sati
of now. sab, for you have licked me at
hat and | congratulate you, sab, upon ha
the performed in good style very din
up task. sab.
ext. FAIRHAvEN, Wash, March 2, 1891.
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