The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-06-11
A GIRLS WAY.
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.

By HELEN I.biN iNEol NINA ! ID.
won't declared Matty Mills.
Martha, hush! reproved Mrs. Mills,
holding up yellow t3letinger of
chiding Is tina. The way 10 speak
TO your mother7 Remember the
Glth commandment, Martha!
Well, can't help ii! sputted
Matty. We are cramped and cor
nered and hard worked enough
already, aren't we, without taking
boarders tor INVENTION week? And
it is bad enough to have pieced car
pet and mended curtains and broken
edged crockery without other people
tindjg t out. No l wont!
Martha, hush! reiterated MIS-
Mills. We don't get a chance to
earn money every day. -Four seni!e-
men. at three dollars Z week apiece,
makes twelve dollars. And twelve
daI'.fs is twelve dollars. rs just rs
| ,eIl you. M,rtha. You must give
NJ vour room
My room isn't fl; Tor squirrel to
sleep in.
And 60 to Aunt Betsy Billings $
to sleep while Mr. Belford is here.
Mattv tossed a pretty head, all
a glitter with short-cr; auburn curls.
won't! she repeated. won't! |
WON'T
Iexpect, composedly went on Mrs
Mills, they'll be here to morrow
morning. Doctor Pounce and Mr..
Laseilc vi have the parlor, Mr..
Gushing viii occupy the big bedroom
and Mr.. Belford will have your
room. They'll probably arrive
before breakfast l want you to
catch half dozen broiIers and shut
'em up in the three cornered coop,
so they'll be handy 10 kill first thing
in the morning. I'll mix up some
biscuit, and there's the blackberry
jam. I'm told the city fo.ks like
jam with their breakfast
But, motaer, cried Mattv, there's
lin! We're expecting i'm every
day-and what IS roor Jim to do?
Jim can make out most any way,
said Mrs. Mills, inditferentiy.
Ny only brotherl pleaded Matty.
And ,he only son you've sot! And
he's been ont West a year!
I'll risk Jim, observed Mrs Mills.
P laps h won't come. And if he
does, he'll manage somehow. l
don't feel As il | d oughter lose this
chance Of making little money.
M,ther-
Now, Martha, yon hush. an do
tests tell YOU. My minds made
nm an don't calculate to change
~
NJ t. Nils went down 70 GER
tan favorite nook OF hers behind the
bara, where the little brook gurgled
away un !sr the branches ot a superb
old butte,nut lesd, aad INDUCED
hers if in hcar;y crr.
As it, she sobbed, ii wasn't bad
enough TO be poor, without expos
ing our poverty 10 all the cd minis
ters in the country! | wish there
wasn't amy convention. | wish it
met Somewhere els;! | wish | bad
succeeded in getting Graythorn
scnooI 10 teach! | wish mother
hadn't put all her money in the
Grazier's Bank the week before it
broke! l Wish l was man like Jim
and could go out to seek my fortune
instead f Saving al home and econ
orizino coDpers and washing dishes
and nuttino matches on old gar
menlsy One thing I'm etermined
on won't 90 near the house all
the time those boarders are there.
r. r,,ctter ,-;n take ,en, she must
:, ait =, ,an herself And neither
will 7 consent to use 4 cent of the
wre,ched money tbev uav. And as
fo,. oo;ro, +, s}e,.., at Ami Betsy's 7
s;o,,Iv won',l
1vb., he noo,.r,sa orange yo,d
o,1 ,,,;,tar;n,, ,br,,,g, +ba branctes
ot .ba bu,+o,n,,f tree, Maftv WAS still
s;,,;no there her elbows restin,, on
,.,oo. ,,d+ +n.o hr;rb+ roar, -,
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