The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-10-14

CHI hiA CIoC L III w Z you w AZ,
an be glad to-"
mo; that's all. Tell him to come as
quick as he KIN, Sam"
"Yes, l will. But you ort to have
somebody to stay with you, Ike. Some
body to help bout nussin' an''tendin' on
Mis- Burton"
Il know that" Isaac replied, with a
sigh and a slow shaking of his head.
''Td give a heap to have somebody
here, but l can't git nobody now"
For a moment Sam was silent, casting
a glance first at Isaac, then at the
house on the ridge to the west. Isaac
saw the action and understood.
mo, SAM" he said. half sadly. half
vindictively, "Ill never go there for a
favor. never"
I'm a case like this things ought to
be different" Sam suggested. people
| ought to forgive and forget, Ike"
"Mebby SO, Sam, mebby so; but they
wouldn't feel that way. All that's been
said an done in thirty years can't be
forgot in a day"
1t was a little while before Sam
| spoke again. He wished to proceed just
right in his kindly purpose-that Of
reconciling two long estranged families
and for a time he was at a loss how
to do it. Finally he said:
like, if Mis- Martin felt inclined to
come you wouldn't object, would you"
Isaac shook his head.
'She won't feel so inclined, Sam 1t
amt natural that she should"
81 don't know" Sam replied. "Mis'
Martin has a kind heart, an she is
sympathizin' with the sick an the
needy. She's a good woman, Ike"
"She may be, but 1 amt ready to say
so. It's been thirty years since my
family an the Martins nave neigh
bored. an in all that time not a word
has passed between us. It's hard to
forget an forgive after so long, Sam,
an l low Mis- Martin can't do it. She
may be a good woman, but she amt
good enough to do that"
Sam said no more. but went on up
the road toward the mill, while Isaac
returned to his seat on the doorstep.
Lindy still slept. and, as her husband
sat listening to her breathing, his
thoughts ran over the conversation he
had just had with Sam Gross.
I'D be glad to have Mis- Martin here"
he thought, but l amt no right to ex-
pect her to come, even if she was Chris
tian enough to forgive an forgit. Three
!, months ago, when Martin lay sick, ]
never went about him, an even
when he died 1 kept away from the
: house, not SO much as SEEM him buried.
l 1 amt no right tc expect her to be more
forgivin' than myself"
When Sam Gross arrived at Mrs. Mar
TINS house he went in and asked for
drink of water. She gave it to him,
5 then asked him to stop awhile to rest
E I'D be glad enough to-" Sam replied
: hopping the perspiration from hi.
brow, ''but I'm in too much of a hur
l ry. Comm by Buttons just now, Ik'
he comes out an says Indy is bad tuck
a an that he's afeared she's goin' off, an
e he asks me to send the doctor up, 81
8 I'll have to git long as peart as / kin
Poor Indy" Sam went on, after
r short pause, II low that doctors ar
medicine an SIGH likes amt agoin' t.
!, do her much good 'less'n she has prope
nussin'. Ike can't tend on her wutl
9 shucks, no matter how hard he tries
an if he goes bout in sight of 'er Wit
t that ~forlorn, sad look he wears. shell
C die shore, jest O. that alone. She need
a a good, cheerful woman nuss, Mis- MAJ
e tin, sech as you'd be, now"
e Sam stopped and waited, as if for
e reply from Mrs. Martin, but she did no
It speak, and he went on:
it I'm cases like that" he said, cts
great pity folks amt got no neighbour
fer good neighbors is a power O. CON
20 fort to the sick n them as is related
y the sick. There's no KNOWN wha
n good nussin' would do fer Mis- Burton
a ner how consolin' a word o. sympath
IS would be to poor old Ike in his lionel
d ness. l feel fer them poor critters, Mi
Martin. an l do wish somebody woul
c. be neighborly with EN-"
20 Again Sam paused, but Mrs. Marti
e, said nothing. and he saw that he mu:
E. speak palmer in order to make the in
& preston he desired.
"Mls' Martin" he continued, ''life
n powerful short. an if people expect
d, prepare fer eternity they amt got r
L time to waste in useless bickerin'
Them as expects TO be happy in tt
l next world can't afford to spend the
1t time here in contentious. Fer my par
p Mis- Martin, I'd hate to let a GRO
g fence atween two farms stand betwi1
me an my neighbors, much less betwi!
10 me an Heaven. Now fer thirty yea
m that cross fence up there has kept ye
uns an the Burtons apart, maxim We
enemies when you ought to "a bee
m friends an neighbors, an it was all
ne account of contentiousness. Eth
DIX family would a made up in a mimi
&C il the other would "a tuck~the fu