The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-07-31
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many beds, and great deal Of water
was needed However. she did not
give up her plan for that Every
evening found her at the place, and
after q while she found that the task
seemed easier.
The very first night she bad heard q
great miaouling, and had seen O poor
little cat running about the porch
evidently it was hungry. She had
nothing to give It, however, but the
next evening she asked the matron for
some crusts, which she soaked IN
water and put into q little tin can.
Puss was glad to get it, aud every
night Maggie took something for the
cat 20 eat
This went on for a month, until one
morning O lady walked up TO the poop
house door and asked if there was q
little girl there named Maggie. Mag
gle was sent for. The lady was Miss
Billings. Miss Billings gave her a
kind smile, and said:
"My dear child, Mr.. Brown, my
milkman, tells me that oil the while
I've been gone you have watered my
flowers. Is that SO ?"
"Yes, ma'am," said Maggie. 81
heard you say they would die for want
Of it, and that seemed q shame; so I
did it evenings"
"And my catl" said Miss Billings.
"Some one has fed my cat 1 carried
her to friend, but she ran away
home again, as cats will, and she'd
have starved but for you / an SO
much obliged to you, and want to
give you something for it."
"Ob, 1 don't want anything,
ma'am," Maggie said.
But Miss Billings made her 60 with
her to the store, and gave her a nice
pink frock, q nice straw hat and other
useful and pretty thinga
A few days later she came back and
had talk with the matron. She said
she needed little girl to help about
the house, and would take Maggie if
she liked to come.
~ have had some money leftto me,
and can afford to do well by her." she
said.
Maggie has been well educated, and
is as healthy and happy as q girl can
be, and not a week passes but she
comes to the poorhouse with some
nice things that Miss Billings has sent
to the old ladies, In fact, they have
made it so much the fashion to be
kind to the pOorhouse folk that the
authorities have resolved to put up q
porch for them to sit under in sunny
weather, and to lay out grass-plots be-
fore the house, and a contribution
has been taken up in the village for
rocking-chairs, and the poor old souls
never had SO much comfort before.
"And our Maggie started it all with
the blackberry picking, 1.-THE old ladies
say to each other; which is quite
true, for if Maggie had just gone
about selfshly picking as many berries
as she could eat, and forgetting thai
the poor old ladies might like some,
too, the good grocer would not have
thought about them and sent the
sugar and dried fruit. If the grocer hat
not been generous, the dry goods PEG
pie might not have remembered wha
they could give away, and SO on. She
certainly set the ball rolling, As fol
Maggie's own self, if she had not beer
good-natured enough to water tn,
flowers and feed the poor little cat
Miss Billings would never have known
that there was little girl at the poor
house to whom she could be friend
When one person does good deed i
generally puts it into another person
7 heart to do another. NY Ledger.
The Center of Population.
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