Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-06-25

BEEl SSio w Hcl uuobliu
Etls%t1. \ one May morning as
a-3cY$.- Y she hustled about
VL-S,sEX the kitchen, Fl doil't
SnHSs% see how i'll this world
.s.a:1:a1 stsS5s1,>ro> sz;t,s55ss1,> I'm ever going to
.~eSs& = get through With I'LL
my spring Nork4 !
cleaning and ovcrythingl If Ididn't
have to keep one eye on graz pa l
could do more. Seems us if lie grew
worse and worse" {
She pnuscd with a sirh. Her hus.
band waited silently for more.
"When the peddler called yesterday
he was setting quiet as lamb by tie
stove, with the cat in his lap, kind pf
playing with her, so vontured to 80
up garret and pick over the rags-t
makes such n litter down here and
when got bacls gran pm was still Sc.
ting there and fast asleep. thought
everything was all right, but come 70
make my fire for dinner few minutCs
after, there was IN awful towsing an |
mewing in the oven. | opened tn,
door and cut jumped the cat II
there'd been a hot fire he'd done just
the same l supposed"
Abner, who was sitting by the table
looking over n lot of garden-seeds for
the spring sowing, laughed shortly and
shrugged his shoulders.
you know what l think about
gran pas dolngs, he said; "you know
where l think folks had ought to g.
when they lose their faculties and arc
no good to themselves nor anybody
else.
Now, Abner," said his wife, re
proechfully' don't say you'd senj
gran pa to the poorhouse Thipl
what II good man he's been, and what
smart man. How can you be SO un.
teeilng You wouldn't want yqul
children to do SO by you, in your Old
age.
II sha'n't probably outlive my use-
iulness, answered Abner, coldly. 'My
father worked till the very day of his
leath-more' II paid his keep till the
last.
And father Pinney has already
moro 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 tne oid 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-Soing on IN the family"
ier 1ather, when he came to live
with them, had made over to Abner
the old homestead, the "Pinney
Place, as 1t was called. 1t was 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 a
new house where their own now stood.
But Abner seldom chose to renem
Der the ample provision grandpa had
made for his support, and on this oc-
casion, instead of replying to his
wife's reminder, he picked up q rack
age of early lettuce seed, and started
off. At the door he turned. bowever
and said, perhaps with some idea OF
encouraging her
"Ain't it about time for gran'pa's
May-moving? He won't be round un-
derfoot so much when he gets up in
his tree"
81 hope he won't go. I hone he's
forgot all about it, she said, anxious
ly. 81 tell you, Abner, it isn't safe
and it isn't respectable for an old man
like father to sleep outdoors in tree
Seems as if l couldn't have him 90 it
again"
She dashed the tears away from her
eyes as her husband went out.
81 do wish | could ever learn to
hold my tongue, complaining to Alb
ner !" she exclaimed, bitterly. Gle
always blames everything off on to
gran'pa, and that's all tho good it
does. It's burning shame / can't
have help through house-cleanin' but
II granpa III only give up his May
moving TINS year L won't say another
wordmnot II work my fingers to the
bone
Two years before, when the spring