Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-04-23

GENE tor it. 'Pge ben hid there six
hours. Come, hustle round, OLE
lady, and fetch il ont. or | shall
have to get it myself
i know better
Know betteIP
Yes. know you amt no secf
kind of a man as to steal from al
old w0man like me. You are toe
much of a man.
Il be. be II Wall, que s not
You won't meyer Mrs it, and II
aud it would be the making OF me
'HOw long You s'pOse me and
Josiah's brn gitlin' that together
to lltt he mortg 'gep
Il don't know. Aiu't you place
paid forf'
NO and we've ben twenty years
a scrapln' together two hundred
aud thirty three dollars and one
cent. You see Josiah's lame aud
can't earn much, and | ain't &c
smart | was once, and We hat 10
i've. The times got bard jest the
wrong tim9 for us. We used to
bave enough, and so we used IL
take cllld from the pOorhouse
every FIVE years aud fetch him ap.
Four OF 'em We got started aud all
smart children, every one, and
dreadful good to NE and Josiah
why don't they help youP
They're ! st beginniU' to do for
lheirselvps, aud We don't want
'em to. J ,m-sis IN Chinpy, Eb-n's
workin' his wy through col eg",
PhiltstrI', Gle kin' DOM o tn
Corner, ana Horac ,. u marrl'd
and come in brb for little plhcr
of his own. Can't Non LET 10 wOi ki
No, | cut Pve tried for weeks,
aud tramped miIrs; but n"b'dy
wants Il tramp when there's them
they know ready Ia work.
'Tha's 81. ser now It's Wish
[ could do tor vOu, hut don't See
how | Can s'po~e | NIGH lead
yru our sick mOnrN.'
Sick monrrT
Yes, We've always kept laid
ava, ffts dollars To hnr, us wlth'
whic ever gors first, Josiah or mt;
but W. don't like TO speak it right
out, aud 30 We call il 'slck money.
couil len you that
Tue mdn did not reply At mrs ,
but after awhile said III d strangely
altprated tone:
DO YOU really mean that 'on
would lend me that money with
the expectation OF getting 1t bAcEi
Yes, l would. | thluk yOn can
get work you will pa, it back
snre.'
MAY be you'd like Il note for it
OF course! ] most forgot that,
Here's the ink bottle aud J0sah's
pen and \ half sheet OF pap !
that's scarcely got a mark On''.
Set right here And the old lady
pushed the dishes back into the
middle of the table to give him a
better chance to write.
you know, dou't you, that ]
could take the whole of that money
you've got hid between the straw
bed and feather bed if l want-dY
'Yrs bnt yOn won't because yOu
are too much of a mau to stea
from two poor Old creatures when
yOn can borry it'
That's so, 1 be Yo1 shall haze
that money back il live, old lady
and int'rest too, | promise We.
feel like a man ag'iD, aud it's 20.
that made me-
'Oh. mol. You was a man atore
but kinder unfortunate, that's all.
Well, here's your note. Nv
wrote it to pay in a years time, j
Il will do.'
1t will 'l-ss one Of us shoulI lie
AMI then 'twouIdd't be as II We
hadn't got that note to shaw
The mtn la lghed 4 laugh Ofamnst
ment aud reliet. wtch Il nin
as be went to the door, aud thu,
time his uead was up aud his ShOu
ders were square. In listening {,
the cOiIhqIy hal 'itirAIy brG)'
:rn or Nv .rlJJkAI - fic; tiT
had constituted myself she gnardia
Of the old la1y'S slender fortune
WHAT to do | did not know. Tn,
man seemed anxious to pay th
borrowed money, and she wa
ready to trust him. p ~hsps
would better let the matte rest a
liz was and IN case he did not re
turn to pay it in year pay 1t NJ.
sell as a fine for my negll gene,
which would then have been pro-
ed culpable.
| When l descended, which I di