Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-06-15
GRANDPA PINNEY's MOVING
By BELLE C. GREENE.

By BELLE C. GREENE.
Oh dear. AbueIw exclaimed
MIS- Rodgers 70 her husband one
/ May morning rs she bdSjl,d about
the litchen, L DON'T see how in
tbi> world In ever going to get
through wi b all my SprIng work
! cleaning and everything! Ii |
didn't have to keep one eye on
gran'pa l coald DO more. Seems
as if he grew worse and worse"
She paused with a sigh. Her
husband waited silently for more.
"When The peddlcr called ye>.
terday he WAS setting quiet as a
lamb by The stoYe, with the cat in
his lap, kind Of Playing with her,
so I veutured to go mp garret aud
/ pick over the ragS-lt makes such
y litter down here ana whca l
got back grain'pa was sill setting
there au0 fast asleep. l thought
everything was all right, but come
to make @ Y fire for dinner a few
inmates after, there was an awful
tOA sing aud mewing IN the oven.
l opened the door and ont jan
ped tie cat! If thert'd been hot
fire hti done ilst the same !
suppost!'
Abner, WHO vas sitting b. tho
table looking oyer a lot Of garden
seeds for the sowing, laughed
shortly and shrugged his shoal-
ders.
you know What l think aboat
grah'pa's doings," le said; "y0u
kaow where | think folks hal
ought to 90 when they lose their
faculties aud are no good to them
selves nor anybody else"
"N0w, Abuer,' slli his wife, re
prOac fu ", "don'C say you'd send
grau'ra to the poorhouse. Think
what a good man he's been, ana
what a smart man. How can YOU
be so untteling. You wolldA't
want yJur children to do so by
you, in your old age"
81 sha'u'C probably oltline my
usefulness,' answered Abner,
coldlr. my father worked till
the very day OF his death-mOre'n
paid his keep till the last"
"Aad father Pinney has already
more than pad his keep, if he hv-
es to be a hundred, AMI You know
il| returned his wife, Indignantly.
"Y0u always lay out to forget that
he's give US the old place."
"Well," sail Abner, 81 sha'n't
hire help at present; we cau't af
fO'd t., not while we have such an
expense a.gong on in the fimiIy."
Her father, when he came to
i've with them, had made over to.
Abner the O!d homestead, the
"Piane, Place." as it was called.
1t vas a goo farm ll ing adj jlcent
to theirs, bat the house was Old
and of little value. So, also, was
the house they now occupied, and
the plan was to sell the "Pianey
Place" and with the money build a
new house where their own now
stood.
Bat Abner seldom chose to rd
member the amp'e provision ]
grandpa had made for his support,
aud on this occasion; Instead Of
reply ing TO bis wifts remirder, he
picked up package Of early let
tuce seed, aud started of. At the
door he turned, however, and said,
perhaps with some idea of en-
coaraging her
"Alu'C it about time for gran'pa's
May-mOvipl? He won't be round
UuderfoOt so much when he gets mp
in his rec"
81 hope he won't go. hope he's
forgot all about it," she said anx-
iouelY. 81 tell you, Abner, it
isn't safe and it isn't respectable
for an old man Ike father to sleep
out doors in a t,ee! Seems as if |
couldn't have him do it again"
She dashed the tears away from
her eyes rs her husband went out.
{: [ do wish could ever learn to
hold my tongue, complaining to
AbneIl' she exclaimed, bitterly.
Gle always blames everything of
on to gran'pa, and that's all the
good it does. Its burning shame
I can'C haye help through house
cleaning; bat il gren'pa'll ouly
give up his May moving this year