Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-11-09
DERORA'S IDEA.

down III tncr SOCK Tor al rstlllN day. How sunIcvCr, thcr little i'll tlcr snck cumi- la;cd fust straight. an We made thCr fU~t payment OH this place. An Ey thCr tins, we'd saved up nigh on tO CT life time we paid thCr last cent on it, an thcr place was ours. We fixed it up SC: :n,. givin II a tucil when We could, -, inst thing We knowcl we he'd a mighty fine place. All il lacked was tli"r house. an We lowed to hcv thCt if We lived long enough. An thinkin of thtt We holt up our heads pruudlikc an worked o:l. every now an then hauiin out thCr Su.'l- an droppin somcthin thCt chiukcd into it.
 We wouldn't count what We he'd not for months. cause We wanted it to Cumilatc unhckuOwllSt tO Us, but last spring VIC got so cur us ahOut 1t We looked to sec how much was thcr an found most enough to start on our house. An ju-t then hard times set i'll an smashed thut idCc fiat. Times got worse &n worsvr. 1 couldn't sell my fish IT nuthin. People said times was too halrl to buy such things as duckS. spring chickens an eggs, SO thcr warn't no use for me to fetch 'em round But I kept Eo:n m kept not scllin too.
 From then on for about seven months Fl" :.. Dcbora didn't make as much as bits. An all the time rent he'd to be pail. ;ln We he'd to have somcthin to eat So down i'll thct sock We he'd to go every month. At them times we wouldn't book at one mother nor say q word. We kruwrl how hard we'd worked for ii ;ln what il waS for. SO we'd just II~,. il slow an hide our feel inS h.~t WAY v-r could. Now. not far from where We lived thcr was a purity fair l"nlin house. It waS built after WIG moved tO IkIr Pint an w;lS Standin ther jus like it was when thcr carpenters finished il. Nobody he'd ever lived in it. cause it Was h.. nty,I. Everybody said So. an it wL<. t.r'. .n nn mistake about it. We, D,hurI an 1Ir. knowed 1t.
 We lived closer tu 1t an anybody elSe an he'd seen an heard 'nough to know thCt huu>, was aS full of ha mt; aS one generally cits. but thvr house We lived in bclunG,d tn thcr man who owned thvr ha'ntyd house. <o it didn't ln for uS tO air all We l,nuwcd about it. But this k th"r way the ha 'ntS got ill it:
 liner carpenters was two young .nen, cnnSiderrd well behaved an gen Iccl. Tom was thcr best l's,kin-h" waS most purty. Ed w,lS ugly IS sin. How oumcvcr. they Was both well liked ly ,.vcrybody. They buar,lc.l up at Miss Bi~com'>. but it Was S" fur from th"r house thvt tn keep from l,s>in time Miss Bi<com would send their dinner. She didn't have no little children. but had T grown daughter. Jessie. an every day when thcr 12 o'clock whistles would l blow Jessie Bi~com would come down 1 with thrr young mems dinner. They d | spread it out on q pile of lumber, an | while they'd hc catin Jessie would be l laughin an talkin tn 'cm. An then when 1 thcr turnout whistles would blow she'd ] gather up thcr dishes an gn on home. an thcr hov> back tu work Jessie was l purty girl-plump aS any partridge you | ever seen an as rosy aS a apple
 'Thcr boys hcl only been tn Miss | Bi>cnIn'S two days when they said no money could mall,. 'cm leave thcr. not Ions. lS Jessie staid with her ma Their ] likin for her WAS plain aS daylight. They would watch for her at mu,nn an watch her clear out of sight when she wcnt back home An i'll thcr cvcnin' thc'd hurry up thcr ;IS fast aS they could gu. just to bc with Jessie. The bows Was i good friends when the Y fust come to thcr Pint but thct purity face of Jessie Bis com come between 'cm. Dcbura an ne could see thet before they could see 1t themselves. We lived sO close We could tell by their looks, first at her. then at themselves an mOrc'n once DcbOra said ther was trouble ahc'd for them very same young people.
 Every Sunday ther three went out walkin together. Jessie i'll thcr middle, Ed on one side. Tom on thcr other. Thct was all right, but when q dance come crlOng one was sure tO get left, an thct was generally Ed Tom kept his cars open for everything come along an would ask Jessie to go with him, an of course she'd say yes to the first one thct asked her. So things went on, an by the time thCr house was done things was gcttin Scri us with thcr boys, Spe- cially with E1. They was up to their pars i'll love with Jessie. an she liked Tom ther best. Thct made Ed mad 'nouch tocat upC~erybOdy Twin on thc1 Pint
 One night thcr boys didn't hurry uI , hon,. to Miss BiScom' 'S as they he'd beeI doin right straight along. They heG been quarrelin most all day an 'peareG . like they was goin to hev it out then aI | thcr Ed was doin most of ther fussin, an Tom tryin to make him hush. Me aI DcbOra sat still an listened. Ther boyi got madder an maddCr, an presently WI heard big slap i'll thCr face an Ed say
 '' Take thct, sir"
 We knowcd he he'd hit Tom. an in { ' minute more Tom hit him back. TheI such a noise you never hearn- They. fit fit. fit All over ther room they scram , bled an whacked one mother. I go scared they was murderin an rushed owe to save 'em, but got there too late. A teched ther door Ed stuck his knife il ' Toms heart. an ther poor boy staggere'
 across-ther room an fell dead. Ed slippe'
 through ther door, an before I coult
 catch him or even say word he ha'
 gone.
 He left ther place for good the
 night, an nobody round ther Pint ain
 laid eyes on him since. Of course i
 went hard with Jessie, cause she like, Tom an was by natur' a mighty feelil
 girl. She's Twin down there yet, an the Pint people say she's talzin care O he
 ma an ain't no notion of ever gittin maI
 ried-
 "well, since thet night nobody woul
 move into thet house. Mir. Haclne | ,,rt *l,ar raDt doxxu 1oxv-rui ghfv lox