The herald., 1894-05-04
DEBORA'S IDEA.

Al
se, fitting his chair back and giving
cessant puffs at the stem of his old
Iby pipe. 81 hev found thet out for
4 Ee. Now, for more years an ! can re.
ymber, we lived down on ther Pint,
Fbora an me.
1--WE iished, raised chickens, ducks an
ese, an between 'em all, with Their
rs, We made putty toierabul fair
i'll an he'd a little mite over. But
er mite over went mostly for house
lht. SO mighty little was left to so
" wn in ther sock for rainy day. How
nevey, Their little in Their sock ourni-
FED fpst straight, an we made Their
BIT payment On this place. An by Their
ne we'd saved up nigh on to or life
|ne we paid tier last cent on it, an
,sr place was ours. We fixed it up
5ne, giyin it q tuch when we could,
fust thing we knowed we he'd
lightly flne PLACE. All ID lacked was
pr house, an we lowed TO hev thet II
lived long enough. An thinkin of
BIT we holt up cur heads proudlike an
kSrked ON, every now an then haulin
Their sock an droppin somethin tibet
linked into il.
wouldn't count what we he'd
" for months, cause we wanted it to
nilate unbeknownst to us, but last
/ ring we got SO GURUS about 1t we
ked to see how much was Their an
Ind most enough to start on our
use An just then hard times set in
smashed tibet idee fiat Times got
} rise an worser / couldn't sell my fish
| nuthin. People said times was too
I'd to buy such things as ducks, spring
ckens an eggs so ther warn't no use
me to fetch EN- round. But I kept
n an kept not scllin too.
From then on for about seven months
an Debora didn't make as much as
Its. An all the time rent he'd to be
| Y, an we he'd to have somethin to
| So down in thet sock we he'd to go
Try month. AT them times we
| hldn't look at one mother nor say
I'D We knowed how hard we'd
Fixed for it an what it was for, SO
N I'd just use it slow an hide our feel
best way we could. Now, not far
\ Va where we lived ther was purity
loolkin house 1t was built after we
4 tved to Their Pint an was standin ther
|IlE like it was when ther carpenters
II shed it. Nobody he'd ever lived in it,
MISE it was ha'nted. Everybody said
an it was, too, an no mistake about
Debora an me, knowed it.
1--WE lived closer to it AN anybody
b an he'd seen an heard 'nough to
wv tibet house was as full of ha'nts as
generally gifts, but ther house we
id in belonged to Their man who
Jed Their ha'nted house. SO it didn't
or us to air all we knowed about it.
this is ther way the ha 'nts got in it:
fher carpenters was two young
considered we'll behaved an gen.
Tom was ther best lookin-he was
purity. Ed was ugly as sin. How
ever, they was both we'll liked by
vbedy. They boarded mp at Miss
om's, but it was SO far from Their
se tibet to keep from losin time Miss
ON would send their dinner. She
1T have no little children, but had
ewn daughter, Jessie, an every day
IN Their 10 o'clock whistles would
Jessie Biscom would come down
Their young mems dinner. They'd
lad it out ON pile of lumber, an
H. l..
hin an tallin to 'em. An then when
turnout whistles would blew she'd
tr up Their dishes an go on home,
fer boys back to work. Jessie was a
girl--plump as any partridge you
seen an as rosy as apple.
her boys bed only been to Miss
ms two days when they said no
Y could make 'em leave .her, not
rs Jessie staid with her ma. Their
for her was plain as daylight. They
i watch for her at noon an watch
lear out Of sight when she went
nome An in Their evenin's the'd
up ther as fast as they could go,
10 be with jessie. The boys was
friends when they fust come to Their
but thet purity face of Jessie Bis
ONE between 'em. Debora an me
500 tibet before they could see it
elves. We lived so close we could
their looks, first at her, then at
selves, an 1nore'n once Debora said
WAS trouble ahe'd for them very
young people.
very Sunday ther three went out
IL together, Jessie in Their middle,
IN ono side, Tom on ther other.
was all right, but when a dance
criong one was sure to get left, an
vas generally Ed. Tom kept his
bpen for everything come along an
1 ask Jessie to 60 with him, an Of
p she'd say yes to tho first one tibet
her. So things went ON, an by
lime Their house was done things
getSin ssri'us with ther boys, spe-
with Ed. They was up to their
n love with Jessie, an she liked
Their best. Tibet made Ed mad
ia to eat up everybody hvin on Their
pne night Their boys didn' hurry up
to Miss Biscomss as they he'd been
right straight along They he'd
quaErolin NEST all day an 'peared
they WIGS gain to hev 1t out then an
Ed was doin most Of Their fussin,
oxa txFih TO make him hush. he an
ra sat soil an listened Their boys
bladder an madden, an presently we
q big slap in ther face an Ed say:
yFalte tbek sipl'
2zHlEnew s4 shaJtsds hit Tom. an. in .