Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-06-15


.-ss@Ss I'm ever going to
~ = get through with all
my spring work
cleaning and everything If didn't
have to keep one eye on gran'p l
could do more. Seems as if he grew
worse and worse
She paused with a sigh. Her hus-
band waited silently for more.
"When the peddler called yesterday
stove, with the cat in his lap, kind of
playing with her, so 1 ventured to go
mp garret and pick over the rags-it
makes such litter down here-and
when got back gran'pa was still set
ting there and fast asleep. 1 thought
everything was all right, but come to
make my fire for dinner few minutes
after, there was an awful towsing and
mewing in the oven. | opened the
door and ont jumped the cat If
there'd been n hot fire he'd done just
the same l suppose !"
Abner, who was sitting by the table
looking over lot of garden-seeds for
the spring sowing, laughed shortly and
shrugged his shoulders.
"You know what I think about
gran pas doings," he said; "you know
where think folks had ought to go
when they lose their faculties and are
no good to themselves nor anybody
else. !"
"Now, Abner," said his wife, re-
proachfully, ''don't say you'd send
gran'pa to the poorhouse Think
what good man he's been, and what
smart man. How can you be so un-
feelingl You wouldn't want your
children to do so by you, in your old
age"
81 sha'n't probably outlive my use
fulness, answered Abner, coldly. "My
father worked till the very day of his
death-more' n paid his keep till the
last"
"And father Pinney has already
more than paid his keep, if he lives to
be hundred, and you know it !" re-
turned his wife, Indignantly. ''You
always lay out to forget that he's give
us the old place /"
"Well," said Abner, 81 sha'n't hire
help at present; we can't afford to,
not while we have such an expense
a-going on in the family.
Her father, when he came to live
with them, had made over to Abner
the old homestead, the "Pinney
Place" as it was called. 1t was IA good
farm lying adjacent to theirs, but the
house was old and of little value. So,
also, was the house they now occupied,
and the plan was to sell the ''Pinney
Place" and with the money build
new house where their own now stood.
But Abner seldom chose to remem-
Der the ample provision grandpa had
made for his support, and on this oc-
casion, instead of replying to his
wifes reminder, he picked up pack
age of early lettuce seed, and started
off. At the door he turned, however,
and said, perhaps with some idea of
encouraging her.
"Ain't it about time for gran pas
May-moying? He won't be round un-
derfoot SO much when he gets up in
his tree"
~ hope he won't go. l hope he's
forgot all about it, she said, anxious
ly. Il tell you, Abner, il isn't safe
and it isn't respectable for an old man
like father to sleep outdoors in tree I
Seems as if couldn't have him do it
again.
She dashed the tears away from her
eyes as her husband went out.
81 do wish ! could ever learn 10
hold my tongue, complaining 10 Alb
ner she exclaimed. bitterly. "'lIe
always blames everything of on to
grAn'pa and that's all tho good il
does. It's burning shame | can't
have help through house-elcanin' ; but
II gran pa III only give up his May
moving this year | won't say another
word not II | work my fingers to tho
bone e.
Two years before, when the spring
came round, Grandpa Pinney hal
takea queer freak into his head. A
Abner expressed IL. ''he got cranky
GA aiT. ' Mhen the weather grew
warm, ahd tbs trees lcafesl oat aud the
birdie began l. sing IA their branches,
the oil man heoama strangely restless
aud uneasy, talked ineoherently about
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