The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-06-16

glaAses t0'fhe church taIF. ana tney 500
Eve 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 well nightsy'
Il guess she sleeps good deal moron
she thinlIs she does. Sometimes she'll
say she hasn't shst an eye all night: but
I've my own opinion about that. There's
some that can nap considerable when
they think their eyelids are pinned
apart. But | must say l mover knew
such hearin as hers. After dark u cat
can't jump anywhere In the street but
she knows it,
Don't you think, Ann. she could ex.
ert herself more II she triedr
Ann closed her lips like steel spring
and opened them with q show Of TO
luctAnce. She was battered by Mrs
Martha's attentions. but still In her
breast there was stanch, grim kind Of
loyalty to her mistress. She had taken
her broom now TO brush up some Invisi-
BILE dust upon the floor, and she leaned
on the handle and looked at her visitor
with her pebble gray eyes.
Sometimes ! think she could, Mis-
Whitcumb, and sometimes | think she
couldn't When the neighbors coax her
up to take ride with soapstones and hot
water bottles and something strength.
enin to take on the way. she Ia generally
in bed day or two afterward; the bones
Of her legs seem TO be soft-Rll gristle. or
whatsomdever you call Il. When she
tries to walk she sinks right down Ike
empty bags Only once q year she
comes into the gartling. Wher see the
dandelions spottin the grass and the
plulnblows white up agin the sky know
she II come out. and mebbe tOtter twice
GrC and to look up under the old trees
and notice the laylocks in bloom. There's
q pair OF blue birds that's come q good
many years runnin to build In the crutch
Of the bough apple tree. She wouldn't
have them disturbed for the world and
she stops and looks at the nest u long
time. and at the old ones bringing bita
Of grass and straw to build with hev
to bring her In mostly In my arms and
put her down on tho couch and kiver her
up warm, and revive her with the smell
in salts."
well. 1t beats all" said Mrs. Martini.
The MHyhews. all ! ever knew. were
strong folkB-never had hipo or megrimR
or no kind Of nerves. GOod. sensible.
tolid people can't make it out What
does she do. Ann, there all day long by
the settin room Window
"She likes to see the folks go by, and
to nod and mile to the school children
She knows all them little ones by sight
even IL she don't ketch their names
And when one Of them is sick and KEEP
home from school seems Is Il the very
witches told her Then hev to post OF
with some Jam or jelly to black haired
Mary or yeller haired Jim, and to say ~
how Miss Mayhem sent me. and hopes
the Jelly will help him to swallow the
doctors nasty stuff When it's summer
she sends flowers. makes up the little
lunches Of sweet peas and other thingn
that has u nice smell and tiea EN- with
bit OF white or blue ribbin She keeps
bolts Of that narrer kind in her work
basket to tie her little bOkHys And this
year past she's took to crochettln and
knittin baby things-littlecaps and socks
and sacks and baby blankets she's
fitted most every baby in town, and
while she's doin Of 'ein seems as u she
jest dotes. She'll hold the little socks
on her hand half hour together. them
blue and pink ones. and look kind Of
wasn't there. Now she's maxim white
blanket, and workin In roSebuds all over
it, and slIe's reul happy lOOkIn when she's
absorbed in that work I've told her
she might sell them things for 4 hand
some little sum. but she allus shakes her
head II she couldn't give EN- away u
wouldn't do her q mite Of good. You
see it don't cost herAnything for clothes
and she puts that money she saves In
wool and ribbinS for the babies."
"ls the capn ut home uOwS asked
Mrs. Martha suddenly. IN she ceased
sucking the core Of the pear,
Yes; he's at home Don't you zee
the smoke goin up from his kitchen
chilnbly. Got shipwrcked last v'yHge
of the Banks and come home with
nOthin hut tine clothes ne WAS a-Standin
in. u deinijohn NJ old brandy and his
Testament But it didn't matter much
to him 40 long u he come of with his
life" continued Ann. Us she squattsd
down BY her shining stove to see how
the little cakes were browning in the
patty pans The capn is pretty well
fixed IS to airthly goods, He's got more
property now than he knows what n d.
with. and him not chick or child
any near kin"
"Does he ever go past this house,
asked Mrs. Whitcumb renectively.
II guess he does" said Ann with de
cisiou. he amt the man to 20 an inch
out Of his way for nobody
"And does she eco him Ann. settiI
there at her windowG-
II guess she does MEs. Whitcumb. o,
she hears him every time. even wheI
she's in bed with the cnrtings drawed.'
"And does the cap'u look this WI,
when he's passing?
"Haint turned his head or looked tins
way. Miss Whitcumb, for the PAST Ct.
teen year. not even when the laylocks
and seringys are out in the yard, and
them sweet scented rose pineys she had
me buy at the fiowerist's to take the
place Of the old fashioned red kind"
ut beats all how contrary some folks
can be, Ann. But ri tell you what.
she needs shock; 1t would do her
sight Of good. You don't know but Eve
brought some dynamite along in my
trunk"