The morning times., 1895-08-29
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An Old Maids Sacrifice.
(Continuedfrom yesterday Evening Times

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teaching music then at the old coiIege-the
old college, child, that stood behind the
church by the laboratory well before your
day-but it warn't long before that burned.
/ remember how / cried the night OF the
fire, but it was all because OF the piano,
the poor battered tuneIess old thing thatf
had practiced oDI''
Surely Miss Lefty wiped tear from her
eye this time with the corner of her work.
well, after the college was gone, there
was no school OF any kind in Mt. Lebanonf for
long time, and there was nothing for me
but sewing. don't mean 10 complain, tho,
child, for I've always had plenty TO do, and
made up my mind at the sta rt that would
lay by little every year till had saved
enough TO buy a piano. 1t seems long
time to you, child. doesn't it? But God has
been very good 10 me, and feel sure shall
| get the piano some day
We younger ones could not remember
whom Miss Lefty had not made our Sun
day dresses for US, and this, think, most
of us accepted as a special favor, youch-
safed to us just as we did the sugar plums
| or tea-cake. which We sometimes found
in the pocket OF a new Lindsey" frock
at its first outing. comfortably stored away
|
dunn OF Sundays sermon. 1 can distinctly
| recall more than one occasion, " hen, as
sat in my pew corner discreetly munching-
my pockets treasure tYoVe to the tune Of
Am 1 a Soldier OF the Crosse 1 was
fired by the martial strains to the strong
determination that / would buy a piano
myself and present it TO Miss Lefty when
| | grew up.
Consumed with this devout desire, got
DO further in my retrospect when heard
the little front gate creak on its hinges, and
| Miss Lefty, who had left the room moment
before, returned. bringing Mary Ann Perry
in with her.
Everybody in the village called her Mary
Ann, and we younger ones were no eXcep-
ton, elsewhere than before bar very face,
whose thin, sharp features, beneath her
flapping suubounet, We're the butt OF per
eunial Jest among US.
Don't you think your fire is mighty
brisk for this time O. year. Letitia,'' said
Mary Ann, taking a halfway seat on the
edge OF her chair and flaming herself wen
her sunbOunet.
Il don't know as thought Of it, Mary
Ann. Does the room seem close to yOu?'
asked Lefty, rising TO lift window.
''Ob, it waTn't that l meaut," interpOsed
Mary Ann. Il guess I can stand as much
heat as anybody, seem I've been used to
good fires all my life. l was only thinking
times was mighty hard for so much wood
TO be wasted"
We'll, maybe you are right, Mary Ann, ''
answered Miss Lefty, taking her seat
and folding her hands on her lap placidly
Hard times has been tae cry ever EirCe
can remember, but / don't know as they
seem 10 get any harder now. However
father always told me ] didnt I have a saw
ing bone in me AS he said-pOur father
burnt off my candle double at one enc
what 1 saved at the other"
We'll, of course you are free 10 do as vol
please, Letitia," said Mary Ann; ''yCJ
are Just one to yourself. an when you ar
gone, you'll leave none behind 10 suffer
But as for times beiu 10 harder, w3ateye
are YOU thinkin' Of? Maybe YOU Just ain
had il brought home To you, but there's n,
telln' how soon it may come. AS for nee
now, / can't hep fCm feehn' sorry 70
them as do suffer, even if m spared myse'f
which, thank God, l have been so faI
There's Bob Taylor, frinstauce. S'pus
you We heard tell O. his trouble?
Yes, there's Rob an his folks gOin' TO b
turned out into the big road come the 14th
they say. Reckon fI go hard on em all
him an his Wife both gittin' along in years
an with their big household O. girls, toe
Somehow though, l can't seem to hep ron
feehn' it's kinder Judgment sent on OF
atn1 never got over the way ne done you
Lefty goin' off that away, without a WORD
an you never kearin' nothin' tell news com
tnat he was married to Lou Abercrombi,
over there to Already. 'Twarn't right {
L oh. an / for one always said so.'
Il think most of you have been too har
on Rob, maybe, Mary Ann SAID Mis-
Lefty, gently His word was not given t
me ever and he had a right to marry VIII
he pleased" The words came a little trent
lOuSly toward the end, but she finishe
= them quite bravely
We'll, that's as you're a mind 70 look a
it," Mary Ann replied. Rob was as goo
i as boun' TO you, word or no word, al
2; KEEP away more than one man as migt
: have made you a good husband. You can
{ hep rom bAowin' that now, Lefty, for q
i you say. An that's why l say 1t seen
v like a Judgment sent on Rob. Not that
> think you've missed anything by nc
- marryin' him, for he never was no gree
y shakes nohow, an it just shO ws how lo'
- down he's got when he's gOin' To be sol
- out to satisfy claim for $500
"wen. that's as you're a mind 10 look a
it," Mary Ann replied. Rob was as goo,
n as boun' TO you, word or no word, an keI
?. away more than one man as might hay
made you good husband. You Can'the'
4 rom KNOWN that, now, Lefty, for all yo
II say. An that's why l say it seems like
- judgment sent on Rob- Not that thin
you've missed anything by notmarryin hin
for he never was no great shakes nohoN
an it just shows how low down he's e
- when he's goin' TO be sold out to satisfy
e; claim for five hundred dollars"
l, Five hundred doIlarsi" Miss Lefty fair
:. - gasped. Five hundred dollars, did "
say, Mary ANN"
= Yes, that's ALL an it do seem pitif
; sum, now, don't it, when You think of Il
: fortune he's got by Lou Abercrombie? Tn;
proves this is a punishment for him eve
Il marryin' of her.
m Five hundred doIlarsi Just five hu
Z, dred?'' Miss Lefty said over and ov