Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1895-01-19

"A Auss ner pretty quick.
"Why don't his wife go ef it's so baG
as MI ,hat:' pm. in James.
Mother baby" gruf1y replied
Henry.
Goodness me- said his brother,
jumping up; here we've set talkin'
anil its ten minits past our usual time
fer goin' ter bed. Good night, Mary.
Henry, don't set there starin' like an
owl, at which the other arose and the
two went above and were lost in
dreams long before poor, tired, little
Mrs. Muggins had finished tidying up
the kitchen
The brothers would not have slept
50 peacefully if they had known that
mp IN Mrs. Muggins's room the single
candle was s?luttering along until
close on to midnight aud the former
meek little sister in its feeble light
was busiv engaged in putting some
OF her belongings into the capaeious
carpet bag that she had brought out
West ten years before "It's downright
hcathenish, that S what it is, she said
p herself as she patted down an extra
nightcap. 'If they want to go before
their Maker with that girls death on
their conscience i: IS more than I do,
and even though they turn me out OF
doors, I'm going to go and do my duty
by Phcebe-poor girl; many time
she's given me a helping hand when
was ready to drop, and she knew right
well, too, she couldn't expect any paw
for it. I've got my $1,000 and its &C.
cunlulatcd interest, and if the worst
comes to the worst III just pack up,
and when Phoebe gets we'll she and I'll
so East and see if we can't make &
living somehow. Land knows l
couldn't work any harder than l have
in the last ten years if I had to go
into factory
Thus it was that in the morning
when the brothers came downstairs
they found note on the table ex-
planning the absence of the household
drudge, whose loss they already keenly
felt, the cold stove and unprepered
breakfast teaching them very con-
clus,vcIy that they needed woman
around
"otrange Mary never showed nc
nctieil- of klck1n over the traces
afore,' said Henry, as he tried to
drink a cup Of very muddy coffee pre-
pared by James. 'Wimmen is all
queer, an You kin never tell when
they S goin' to break out. / must say,
however, I'm disappointed in Mary
it amt decent nor material like togo
off nussin workhus' girl and leavin
her own ki,h and kin to git along a.
best they kin.
"It's soap maxim time, too.
| CrOaneu Henry.
i YES, and there's oil them pertater
as neel sortin', and the applesll 70
ot some TN don't can en- or suthin' an
tie feather beds TO be picked over
, an the socks, an al oh, Lor, wha
Will We do
''Do without her replied Henry
sho by this time had plucked up BIT
# grim courage as he ssw how rapidly
ais brother was losing that com
noditv.
But as the days went on they founl
they could not do without her. Th'
S acighbors, who had always been il
. sympathy with kind-hearted little
Mrs Mucgins. now absolutely refused
, to come to the aid OF the h-lples
lespots, who saw their pretty. It'd.
homo assuming Al uncomfortable
slovenly appearance that had not beer
there for years
Mrs Angglns. on her eide, was
her elenent She hal found poo
Phnbe lar on tie road TO the othe
: world when she stepped into the littl
. cabin IN the wee sma' hours OF tbs
: morning when she hal erept from he
" brothers house like thief. Goo
t nursing, however, had done ~onde.
c for the girl. who was now able 10 &
up. The plan TO go East became no:
Ie AMI more delightful prospect as sh
Y thought 0: il, until so full OF il VS.
she that she coaadel in the n;nis.e,
who n turn told James ail about
when next he passed hy the tiel
l. where the old man was a. work. T.
y information was the climax Of /:
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