News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-06-01
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SOrter wrapped-up Onairthly look on
her face that almost scairt me. 1t
WANT her fingers that played; it was
somethin' inside of her 1t was gen
yus; and genyus for anything, |
don't care what, makes the labor o.
dewin' ont light.
But if a child haint no material
hankerin' after music-no genyus for
it-I say it's cruelty to animals to tie
him down to a pianner or fiddle,
and its sure ter ruin his disposishun,
if it don't the spine o. his back. Why
not let him have somethin' that will
give him solid comfort, instid o. tor
ture? Perhaps he can draw or paint
picters, or, better still, work with
tools, like carpenterin' or so, if he's a
boy. If he can't dew nothin but saw
wood and hoe petaters, if he loves it,
in the name of humanity let him do
it, and feel the bliss o. dewin' some
thin well
In my 'pinion there two things in
partick lar that nobody should un-
dertake ter dew unless they can'tpos-
sibly help it, viz, namely: ter write
stories and play music. So, now,
when Car'line began ter talk pianner
| says: Child, do you love music bet
tern you love to eat?" and she
answers all eager and trembly: Eyes
mar, | believe | do" and | says,
"All right you shall sartinly have n
pianner."
Then | proposed that we take a
boarder for the summer, and so help
earn it. We hadn't work enough ter
hurt any one of us, and the house was
plenty big to 'commodate another.
Car'line seemed pleased with the
idee, but her par put it down at first.
Said how he wa INT goin' ter have his
wimmin folks takin' ia work and so
on, but finally he gave in, and we ad
verified in a Boston paper. We had
a good many letters from different
folks and among 'em was one from
young man who signed his name as
Richard Gordon. We thought it
would be as well to take him as any
| body; so he came.
He was fine 'pearin' young man as
one could wish to see, an he had a
way with him that told us to once he
hadn't t never been used to plain coun-
try folks and country livin' before.
He didn't seem ter feel big exactly,
hut he was different from the rest on
us, We know. He said how he was an
orphan, and that drawed me tew
him; but when he said he'd been dissi-
patin' a little tew much, and his
physician recommended quiet life
for a while, felt like death.
"Oh, dear" thinks |, "what an ex-
ample for Hannibal" | felt sorry
for the young man, and l says real
kind:
mister Gordon, hope you'll find
Punkinvlle a good place to reform
in. If you'll go to the temperance
meetin's and sign the pledge, We'll
help you all we can. Only you must
be in 'arnest yourself, and fight and
wrastle against your appetite. But
we'll 'sist you-depend ont, says !,
encouragin'.
He smiled at this and says:
"Dear Mrs Hawkins, your sympa-
thy and 'sistance would be received
most grateful, indeed, but you mis-
understand my meaning. My dissi-
patton has only been in going to tew
many balls and parties and that sort
of thing. My habits in respect ter
drinkin' is all right, l asshure you"
And guess he spoke the truth, for
he haint never drinked a drop to my
knowledge; but felt relieved to hear
him say it, and told him so, and we
was the best o friends to once. And
after that found out all about him
by writin' to Jemima Curtis, Hanni-
balls second cousin, that lives in Bos-
| ton.
But about that pianner. You
know we was goin' ter help buy it
with the board money. Wall, we
never paid cent towards it, for the
very day our boarder rived, long
came the pianner tew. Mr.. Hawkins
done it ter surprise us, and surprised
enough we was.
And it did beat all, how fast Car
line learned to play. 1t want but a
few weeks before she could play the
Moody and Sankey pieces in No. l
and 2, and the fust time she sung and
played of Sunday night TO her par,
he wiped his eyes and said he ''reck-
oned the pianner was all paid for"
Car'line's voice wa'n'tpowerful, but
it was sweet as an angels. Let any
body-l don't care who 'tis, nor what
he believes, whuther he swal'ers the
Andover creed hull, or haint got none
at all-let him hear our Car'line sing
81 Need Thee Every Hour" and he
will feel a longing in his soul, a reach
inc out after Coo, if he never did be-
fore.
think it was Car'line's singing
more'n her beauty that made Mr..
| Gordon fall in love with her. Any
way, he took to her at fust, though
we didn't think OF sech a thing as
love between them. But it was more
than month before begun to realize
how things was going on between
them. Wall, he stayed all summer
and long inter the fall, and by that
time ali Punkinville knew what he
was up tew. He'd give her ring for
a iIipeen present and asked her if she
would wear a diamond one bimeby.
"Jest think, mar" says Carline, |
shall have the first diamond ring in
Punkinville."
One day Mr.. Gordon went fishing
and got ketched in a shower and
came home wet as n drownded rat.
And said how he hadn't got no more
clothes as thick as them he had been
wearing and he was afraid he might
git cold changing from thick ter thin.
Car'line happened ter think of that
trunk and saws she:
"Mar, there's Jest the thing among
them clothes and | think Richard and
Mr.. Rig might be about of a size
She went and got the clothes and
carried them to his door, and pretty
soon he came down with them on,
and we exclaimed ter once that they
fitted on to him for all the world as
if tbey's made for him.
Where did you get these clothes ?"
he asked. And | told him in trunk
thatcome tew us by mistake. "And,"
says l, "there's a lot more, and 9th
things besides"
Lets see them" says he. So we
took him into the spare chamber and
the minute he set eyes on the trunk
he slaps his hand on to his knee and
says:
"My trunk, by Jove."
"Oh, is it, says Car'line. "Then
you're Mr. Rig. Mar, he's Mr.. Rig.
"Mr. Rig" he repeats over after
her loolin from one to the other on
us inquirin'.
"Why, yes; don't you see?" and
she points to the letters r. |. g. But
what does the |. stand for?'
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