Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-08-03
DELAWARE GAZETTE AND STATE JOURNAL-wIIMI


And pop / M willin to say il wasn't lady
like, but Just give him one right between |
the eyes, and by that time Tommy was up |
to me an he give him another for insulun'
his lady friend, an then there was fight!
An in the midst of the scrimmage We
dragged her out
kitty, she helped us ms far down as her
house, an Tom an me brought her the
rest of the way. Pop. 'spose that was me? "
There was a dead silence and all you
could hear was the breathing of granny
and the ticking of the clock wound up TO
ring its alarm at q.
Then Maddy continued Pop, when
NANNY died, and granny an you an me
was left alone, you used to tell me about
the little sister that died when | was kid,
she'd be just as about as old as this yere
un. Pop and here the voice grew very
pleading "she may be little fool, but
let's give her a chance; let's share what
we've got with her, an I'll see if | can't
get them to take her in the factory an
put her next to me. Pop. let's make her
feel she's got home an people. That's
what keeps girl straight, and when
some good honest man like my Tommy
| comes and wants to keep company with
her, why she'd be doing what was
right an this one mistake wouldn't count.
| Pop, tell you. il might have been me if
| it hadn't been for granny an you, SO let's
give her the chance"
AN ADDITION TO THEIR FAMILY.
| Pop looked doubtful and Tommy said
something about not likin' girls who'd
done what wasn't right to be so close to
his Maddy. IL looks could have killed
him, Tommy would have been struck dead.
1 And Muddy continued: AN what's the
use of dom what's right, if it don't mean
givin' helpin' hand to whoever needs it;
as for Tommy, if he is goin' to say any
nonsense to me about helpin' poor thing
| in trouble maxim me worse, why, lie
knows where the door is, an the sooner he
gets out of it and stays out, the better. "
Then Tommy dissolved into tears, and
Madeline settled the question by saying
well, pop, nov you've got two girls to
look after an one of EN- is like the little
colt you used to train in lreland--a bit
skittish, but you can manage her Just as
you used to manage the colts, not by whip
pin them, but by persuadin' them, so
both You men go long in the other room
an III come in directly"
After they were gone. Madeline brushed
back the tangled hair, and then she knelt
down and said little prayer or two
smoothed the covers over the sleeping CIR
and went in to her father and her sweet
heart. Both were smoking, and for little
while nobody spoke; then Tommy said
'Look here, Maddy, don't think I'm toe
dam blind not TO see how mighty gOoC
, you are an ! want to do my share; yol
, know I've got a little money III the dlm'
. bank, an If pops new girl needs any
thing why YOU can have it; I'll bring til,
book around to you tomorrow There
were no thanks spoken, but Maddy tirs
kissed Tommy and then pop, and Tomm.
| went away. Pop took to his bed, ant
Maddy undressed and sat in a chair DesidI
J the other girls bed. so that she might no
J be frightened when she Weakened up. Sht
{ stayed ut home the next day from the fac
! tory, and that meant a big hole in he
| weeks wages, but she got that girl wei
J and talked to her, and made her under
! stand exactly what had happened; hoy
q dreadful it was, and how, against her vii
!. she had been adopted US pops girl.
t ALI GOD ALMlGHrY's CHILDREN.
How do | know it all? | know it, BIZ
T cause | was told il by pops girl, who, o
5 the day that Maddy was married t
Z Tommy, walked Just behind, and promise
1 10 love, honor and obey pop himself; an
V to-day, down there ON the east side, ther
p are couple of little boys that belong t
e pop and his girl; and granny, who ough
i by every law of right, love Maddy's chi
u dren the best, feels her heart going t
" those blue.eyed babies, that belong to th
}, stranger girl, whose blot upon III
o escutGheon she never knew.
2, Pops girl is going to make men out {
d her boys; she is going TO teach them no
TO treat women, though they would
gentlemen by inheritance from pop; bu
~ whenever Maddy comes, there is a look
Is pops girls eye such as have seen in Il
er face OF only u few women-a look tn
v, means God bless you, and God love you
" out of the factories and shops at
ir o'clock the girls are pouring by the hu
OF dreds and the thousands. each one has h.
Id own life's story. 1t may not, madame
Of bound in white and gold, AS is that of yot
m daughter, but it is none the less story
lie heart-throbs and joy, and of sorrow. Loo
m at them all as they come out. Don't as
he us it my daughterT' Don't say, 1T is ii
n daughter OF the people," but, gazing fro
&, the gutter TO the sky, just remember tn
ea it is God Almightys child. Think it {
Y, over. This story OF two girls, as it was to
I'd by pops girl to BAB.
ne