San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-05-19


had not as yet condescended to turn
around. and was just now spooning out
the rich yellow paste into the patty pans,
measuring the quantity accurately with
her eye.
Elbows, indeed" laughed Mrs. Mar
tina. Eyes, that's the best kind, as
keep a-tellin Jane Steel, trying to ding
it into her head. should Just like to
have Jane see that stove and them tins,
SO bright you can see your face in them.
| guess it would put notion or two
into her head of how work ought to be
DONE"
AIMS bony back quivered. sign to
Mrs. Martha's sharp eyes that the ice
had begun to thaw. you've been get
tin in your pears, see, Ann" she went
on, turning to big basket of fruit
standing on kitchen chair They're
Duchess Danglemens, amt they? Mel
Ter enough to melt in your mouth"
She took one and proceeded deliber-
ately to put her teeth into the soft, juicy
pulps
"My tree bore uncommon well this
year." saids Ann, after depositing the
patty pans. in the oven. "Made jelly last
week." and she opened a cupboard door
and displayed neat row of jelly glasses
pasted up carefully and marked in
AIMS peculiar handwriting. Mrs.
Martha looked at them'for moment in
mute admiration, still munching away
at the pear.
"Well, never saw such jelly as that,
| Ann: clear as window glass and stiff as
steelyards. It's just beautiful to look
at Does she eat such things, Anng'
Sometimes she does and sometimes
she doesn't. Her appetite Is kinder
skittish. You can't tell how it will be
with her from one day to another
| When she feels like it she'll take hold
| real smart But it don't seem to make
no difference what she eats, she allus
looks the same. I've seen all kinds OF
folks-big eaters and little eaters: I've
seen heshy folks that eat ike birds and
lean folks that seemed to be boiler all
the way down.
AYES" said Mrs. Martha briskly. and
contemplating the closet shelves: ut
does seem to me you've got sight OF
fruit put 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, to send round to sick folks
especially them poor kind that hasn't a
good crab tree like mine, or ounce
| n tgSrs
of jelly or preserve comes in as rarity
Last spring she had me send dozer
glasses to the church fair, and they solo
five cents the glass higher than some
other folks"
"Of course they did, Ann. There's M
other jelly or preserves like yours made
in this village But tell me, does she
sleep well nights
Il guess she sleeps a good deal more'r
she thinks she does. Sometimes shell
say she hasn't shet an eye all night; bu
I've my own opinion about that. There
some that can nap considerable wher
they think their eyelids are pinned
apart. But | must say | never knew
such hearin us hers. After dark ca
can't Jump anywhere in the street bu
she knows it" rE
Don't you think, Ann, she could ex
ert herself more if she tried?"
Ann closed her lips like steel sprins
and opened them with show of re
luctance She was fiattered by Mrs
Marthas attentions, but still in he
breast there was stanch, grim kind o
LOYALTY to her mistress. She had takel
her broom now to brush up some invisi
BILE dust upon the floor, and she leane,
on the handle and looked at her visito
, with her pebble gray eyes.
Sometimes | think she could, Mi:
Whitcrmb, and sometimes think sh
couldn't. When the neighbors coax he
/. up 10 take ride with soapstones and he
water bottles and something strength
cnin Ia fake on the way, she is general
: in bed day or two afterward; the bone
of her legs seem to be soft-all gristle, @
: whatsomdever you call it. When sh
!. tries to walk she sinks right down lik
: empty bags. Only once a year sh
!, comes into the garding Wher see th
; dandelions spottin the grass and til
: plumblows white up agin the sky kno'
she'll come out, and mebbe totter twit
! around to look up under the old tre'
and notice the laylocks in bloom. There
y pair of blue birds that's come goo
many years runnin to build in the crutc
} of the bough apple tree. She wouldn
have them disturbed for the world al
she stops and looks at the nest ior
Il time. and at the old ones bringing bi
u of grass and straw to build with he
u to bring her in mostly in my arms al