The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-08-27
A MODERN SAMARITAN.

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He had been fairly bubbling over with
good humor for two weeks. and every
day added to his cheerfulness. Only
ten days more. and then for 1.-The
states"
We OF the IL bar. +" who had known
him for two years almost were at a
loss to account for this sudden rise In
Hens mental temperature and proba-
bly, showed it. Indeed. there were sew
eral OF the boys who limited that an
explanation from him would be CRATE
fully received by his curiosity beset
co-laborers; but Hen would merely
grin broad. broad grin. and say
nothing. But just ten days before
Thanksgiving he let the secret out
That night however in the boss
room, he told the story to a select au-
dience consisting OF the boss and the
scribe.
Il ben kinder holdin' of. We see.
cause Teller hain't no ways cert'n
bout savin' is milk til he gifts the
pail out FIN under the caow; but now.
bein's I've it 0. X. l mays we'll tell
ye on'y / don't want tn boys t
knaow.
.'Ye see twas this away: Bout
five years ago back in Maine. /
c'ncluded t come out hyar an grow
up wi tn kentry hull lot 'Twan't
cause ! wanted I dew it but ye see
! sort o he'd tub"
'Ah yes observed the boss dry
ly. Il believe the late Mr. Sites be-
gan his brilliant career in somewhat
the same way. Was your difficulty
about horse toop'
Hens laugh over, he proceeded,
somewhat blushingly:
NO 'Twan't that hardly. But
want no chance thar for poor cuss
an SO / pulled out. Ye see. me-
Molly Hopkins he'd bout made up aour
minis t git spliced az ev'rythiu'
was goin' on smooth's smooth. wen
in steps oil George Hopkins an takes
han hisself. or Hop was high.
toned oil duck. an put on heaps O.
airs, cause he was tn best fixed man
In taown an he'd ben s'lectman an
member OF tn legislator vile l was
on'y carpenter an hadn't airy red.
TIL OIL egiot might've saw haow things
was goin' on-I reckon he debut
he never let on til one night he come
home I'm taown an heerd men Molly
talkin' in tn settin'-room.
Then he jes' waded in brash.
Gosh! how he did go fer me. Went
on t. give me tn devil fer my dacity
in persoomin' T. tn ham o. his George
Hopkins. darter. 'Th' idee! I want
ye t undenstan', young man. says he.
th't / hey better plans fer her thin
lettin' 'er marry penniless carpen-
teri IN he went on an tore aron' fer
awhile tibet style; but / stood my
groun' I'll fn'lly he says: Young
man. when you en- show a bank
count O ten thousan' dollars She
your'n. an not bfore Then he
grins hull lot thinkin' haow I've t
hustle constable spell fore got it.
"Wa-al. men Molly talked it over
a lot n finally concluded tht I'd hev
. go summers else, ef ever got fore.
handed; so. one day. we says good-by.
daown in the medder lot an pulled
out fer Californy.
.Sence then I've ben knockin'
'raound all over tn kentry tryip' one
thing n mother. Purity hard luck.
most O. tn time tew:-but jes' fore I
come hyar l located a claim. me n
mother Teller over in Colorado an
worked it some 1t didn't pan out
none so we he'd { try somethin' else.
an hyar come, leavin' Peters Z keep
up work on tn claim him havin' a
job clus by. Wa-aL tn other day.
Peters he sold aout tew Boston CON-
p'ny fer twenty-five thaousan' an my
half's what went T. Brownsville fer.
That's all"
Hen filed his pipe said Good
night" and went out whistling
softly.
There wasn't man on the ranch
who didn't hate to see Hen go and
who wasn't honestly glad at his good
fortune. Even the misanthropic
Posey evinced not little regret as he
said good-by to him, when. the morn
ing after Thanksgiving. Hen sat on
his bronco all ready to start for
Jersey the railroad town to the east
OF us.
1t was beautiful morning almost
like spring and Hen couldn't have
wished for a better day to start on.
The last good-by said he straight
ened up shifted the cool breeze
looked to see that everything was all
right and with all 'Adios boys"
was of, waving his hand in acknowl-
edgment OF the rousing cheer we
gave him as he reached the top OF
the hill across the creek.
Going home Home! How sweet
the word sounded! Five years-only
FIVE but they seemed twice as many.
He wondered how he had ever man.
aged to live through them. The first
two had not been so hard. He had
been full OF hope and vigor and had
told himself it was only little while
only n lutte while. Then when the
reward for all his toll seemed to be
no less distant than at first It was
hard. Sometimes he had thought he
would give it up and go home to con-
fess himself beaten; then the picture
OF the little brown-eyed girl who had
,rfol co \ 81 that Iau In, thu p,oa1nw