Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-11-02

old chairs, battered aud patched
up old bedstead, little pine table
aud an old red cupboard, and that's
ey'ry stick of furnlture they have
excepting what that girl, Fan, has
made out of some old boxes. She's
a terror, that Fan is!'
"One must allow good deal
for her surroundings and the in
fuence she has probably been un-
der all her life" said my mother.
"Well, sue ueedu't be so saucy,
anyhow. She jnst as good AS told
me that she DIDN'T thank me fol
coming around, aud | 20 ng there
With the kindest motives! Aud
when | asked her if she didn't
have broom to keep the place
clean with. she had the impudenct
to ask me If | couldn't lend her
mine, as probably had no use for
it, or l wouldn't have so much
time to attend tn other folks door.
yards-the saucy thing"
"Did yOn see the little bOyP
Yes, and he had better man
ners. He sat back III a cOrnea on
a box and kept as quiet as a mouse.
He's a pale, .sickly-lOOking little
fellow, and he walks y little lame.
Tye seen him out IN the timber
picking up sticks to burn. Fve
heard Of them 'bOrro wing things
all over the ucighbOrhood, but |
haven't heard of their paylug any
thing back
However. tue next day Fan came
up to our house and retVrned the
sugar she bad borrowed the week
before, aud asked for some more
-four. Ny mother who was frying
doughnuts, gave Fan three or four
of these IN addition TO the flour, 10
carry home to her little brother.
ooh. Pm ever 30 much Obllgr
Mis- Harlepw Fan exclaimed, With
toars in her eyes. ''Carry'll be 80
pleased! / was trying to make up
my mind to ask you for oneOf them
but was ashamed. Dad don't earn
scarcely anything, but he's hus'
king corn now for a farmer, and
hope he'll have steady work for
awhlle.p
But the next evening We heard
that dad" hod been at J;m FifeI'r
saloon all day, and we knew that
Fans hopes had come to nauRht
At ten O'clock that sane evening
my father, rs be was preparing to
90 to bed, heard what seemed to
him a light, tImid knock on the
front door.
Itwss q dark. cold aud stormy
night; the wind blew with such
force that my father could not bt
sure that what he beard vas q
knock at the door. He listened
aud when the knock VAS repeated
be opened the door. Faa aud Garry
Tracy stood there in the cold,
bareheAded aud Eithout wraps
They had been crying, and Carey
lips were quivering still.
"Will you let us come in out o
the storm, Mr., Harle - SAID Fan,
with bitterness in her voice
We've no place to go, and
/, wouldo'C ask for any place for my
! se!f-ld crrvl into = hsJstack oI
stay IN the woods all night, but
don't dare to with Carey. He ISM
stroug and l wish you'd pleas
49,. n.,, hoo -
q "COme in, both of you," replie'
g my father. "Eby are you out thl
time of the nisht"
Fan hesitated.
e HI'll have to tell y6G the homes
= TRUTH che said, presently. "Fathe
came home from that Ferry saloo
' about an hour ago and turned q
; out. He never would have done
2 If be hadn't been drinking. II
v isn't mean TO us when he's sober
Irs the fault of lhe saloon that b
It acts so, and Pll-Piltea dosu ths
t saloon to the groundI Ij0st will
It "Bnt that would be breaking th
lax, and another saloon woul
Y probably be built in its place." sal
# father. "Perhaps II you spoke I
& the ssloonkeeper it might"
is II have been to him." interrup
u ed FAa. "I've coaxed and begge
. hin not to let father have drinl
d but what good did 1t do! Not
il bit.r
ID She put sn arm around Care
1t protectlngly, and the little fello