Evening journal., 1892-09-22

lean folks that seemed TO be holler all
the way down.
Yes, said Mrs Martha brisl,ly, and
contemplating the closet shelves; it
does seem 20 mo you've got "a sight OF
fruit pat up for your family There's
ounces and peaches and blackberries
and grapes.
"She wants It.. said Ann, nodding TO. |
ward the sitting room. Its handy |
you know, 10 send round 20 sick FOLKS |
especially them poor kind that hasn't a
good crab tree like mine, OF ounce |
bushes that bear regular Then a taste |
of Jelly or preserve comes IN as rarity
Last spring she had me send u dozen
glasses TO the church fair, and they sold |
Ave cents the glass higher than some
other folks
"Of course they did, Ann. There's no
other jelly or preserves like yours made
IN this village But tell me, does she
sleep we'll nightsy'
II guess she sleeps a good deal moron
she thinks she docs. Sometimes shoU
say she hasn't shot an eye all night; but
Two my own opinion about that There's
some that can nap considerable when
they think their eyelids are pinned
apart But ! must say / never knew
such hearin u.s. fNrs After dark a cat
can't jump anywhere in the street hui
she knows II
Don't you think. Ann. she could OK
ert herself more II she triedY
Ann closed her lips like steel spring
and opened them with show of re
luctanca She was battered by Mrs
Marthas attentions, but still in her
breast there was a stanch, grim kind OF
loyalty to her mistress She had taken
her broom now 90 brush mp some invisi
BILE dust upon the floor, and she leaned
on the handle and looked ut her visitor
with her pebble gray eyes
Sometimes / think she could, Mis-
Whitcumb, and sometimes / think she
couldn't When the noighbors coax her
mp to take n ride with soapstones and hot
water bottles and something strength
enin 70 take on the way. she is generally
in bed day or two nfterward. the bones
Of her legs seem 20 be soft--an gristle, or
whatsomdover yon call it. When she
tries 70 walk she sinks right down like
empty bags. Only enco a year she
comes into the garding, When ] see the
dandelona spottin the grass and the
plumblows white M agin the sky know
she'll come out. and mebbe tottor twice
around to look up under tho old trees
and notice the laylocks IN bloom. There's
a pair Of blue birds that's come a good
many years runnin 10 build in the crutch
Of The bough apple tree She wouldn't
have thom disturbed for the world and
she stops and looks at the nest n long
time, and ut the old ones bringing bits
Of grass and straw 20 build with / be,
10 bring hor in mostly in my arms anC
put her down on tho couch and kiver he
up warm. and rovivo her with the smell
in salts.
"Wen. it beats al. said Mrs Martha
THE Mayhews, all ever knew weri
strong folks-never had hipo or Inegrimi
or no kind Of nerves Good, sensible
solid peopla cant make Il ont Wha
does she DO. ANN. there all day long b,
the settin room Window
~Sho likes TO see the folks 90 By, an,
10 nod and smile TO the school children
She knows all them little ones by sigh
even II sho don't ketch their names
And when one OF them Is sick and kep
home from school seems as II the yer,
witches told her Then hev 70 post of
with some Jam or Jelly to black haire,
Mary OF yeller haired Jim. and 70 say "a
how Miss MAYHEM sent me. and hope
the jolly will help him 20 swallow TN
doctors nasty stuff. Wien it's sunlme
she sends flowers, makes mp the littl
lunches Of sweet peas and other thing
that has nice smell and ties EN- with
bit of white or blue ribbin She keep
bolts of that narrer kind in her work
basket 20 tie her little boSays, And Thu
year past she's took TO crochettin anl
knittin baby things lttlecaps and sock
and sacks and baby blankets She
3 fitted most every baby In town, an
] while she's doin Of 'em seems as IT sh
Jest dotes. She'll held the little sock
e on her hand half hour together, then
; blue and pink ones, and look kind q
b smilin as IT she was seein somethin tina
b wasn't there. Now she's maxim a whit
I blanket, and worhin in rosebuds all owe
it, ana she's real happy loolun when she
! absorbed in that work, I've told be
o she might sell them things for hant
5 some little sum. but she allus shakes he
). head. II she couldn't give 'ein away
). wouldn't do her a mite Of good. 70
I see it don't cost heranythiug for clothes
1 and she puts that money she saves
wool aud ribbins for the babies.
v as the cap'n at home now" aske
G Mrs. Martha suddenly, as she cease
n sucking the core Of the pear.
L Eyes; he's at home. Don't you Sc
3. the smoke gein up from his kitche
h chimbly? Got shipwrecked last v'yag
off the Banks and come home wit
r nothin but the clothes he was a-standi
! in. q demijohn Of old brandy and h
. Testament But it didn't matter niue
o TO him so long as he come of with h
!. life" continued Ann, as she squatte
down By her shining stove to see no
o the little cakes were browning in Il
V patty pans 1.-THE cap'n is pretty we
fixed as to airthly goods Hos got mol
% property now than he knows what IN q
e with, and him not a chick or child {
t. any near kin"
n "Does he ever go past this house