The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-03-09
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

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Cur lives, etc. was disappointed.
aud 50 was Adam. but he seemed 70
find heap Of comfort In repcatin'
about once IN every Eve minutes that
Tom was too good ioolsin'--for a boy.
I'll ncves forget how felt when
first set eyes on her--neyer Size
looked for all the world like a picture,
swectfaccd. brown-eycd an wonder
fully dainty. thought Of most hun.
drcd things III that FIRST minute; of the
work crowdin' on. Of my shattered Wis.,
Tim scheme nm Of hoinely Eliza Jane
Jones' Daisy. Toms Daisy, was 50
pretty. an all at once felt wrinkled,
an brown, an misshapcn an jealous
oh, how jcalousi OF course embraced
her, Toms eyes we're on me. and !
couldn't help myself But later got
Tim IL my room an bad II out with him
Ia the old. ontspolsen way. When
can1e 10 Eliza Jane the boy looked hor.
rified Heaven forbidf' he cried, and
then. Ike the crafty fellow he was, he
s'noothcd my face an declared that he
loved tho two incest women In Tho
world MS II was.
''But your wifc's no worker, can
see,n ! went on. AN | know Just
how Il will be--shciIl want lot 81
machinery 10 fool away time an money
on. won't have no new-fangled ar.
rangcments here, Tom, not az all. J
wouldn't say II TO a neighbor, Sor even
10 your father, not for money. but I'm
afraid you've made mistake Tom
didn't seem bit frightened, AN
Tom, IL course she's nearest 70 yor
now; It's right she should be, but yop
mustn't expect me to wait on her day
after day an take my pay III hifalutin'
talk m airs, never will" He was
holdiu' me SO close that couldn't ge
on. but when he looscned his arm J
continued II was hard work. though.
with that boy loolfin' down at me as
though was the very incest mother
alive.
"liy an by there'li be new carcs,r ]
said boldly, though my checks burned,
IAN III be expected to take. charge ~
the babies. Now, I'm too old to begin
II, an ] ,coaf begin it, not for you moi
Daisy nor anybody on earth Thercr
How that boy laugliedl
lie made everything Jingle mn.
Adams shears, which no kept hangin
st tile bead 81 the bed in case Of burg
lars, went to the floor with noist
enough to scare Il whole family
laughed too, couldn't help 1t, an III
we went downstairs arm in arm, he
said:
aYou shall not be abused, not II
ltave to do tile homework an mind the
babies myself Only, mother mine.
only don't throw Eliza Jane at me. .
How long ago was that do yon
think? just fonr years an two months
to day The place looks better thar
IL ever did, nm the house seems nicer
every way There's books an papers
an flowers every where, an piano II
the parlor adam and | bought II last
Christmas) an stout girl In the
kitchen, I'M attendin' to it all Is my
danghterin-law. II say it myself
you can't find better housclkecpcI
nor better woman anyway you take
her. Only I hope Toms forgot ten what
| vowed about machinery, for !
declare there's enough of. IL stowe6
away to start hardware store An
the funniest thing is that like the
labor-savin things an take pride in
them. J like somethin' elseI like the
baby 70 come creepin' up my gown
holdin' outfits hands an loolxin' at mc
with It's fathers tender blue eyes I'm
foolish over livery, ! lecture Adam
sometimes about bein' such a slave L
the three -year-old Jima good child
but homcly--yery. Loolsin' through
the window can see them no wdcwr
in the orchard Neighbor Jones is with
them an I can just tell by the salts
fed smirk on my partners face that he
has been listenip' to some such re.
mark as: well, I'll be blessed Ii
that youngster doesn't grow more the
image of his grand-dad every hour IL
the day.
Its true, too, an often think Il
myself that Adam need never complain
that Jim is too good lookin'- for a boy
Jean Blewctt, in Banner Of Gold.