The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1897-09-16

io' tie io5ilcts Jia human besrt 70 ssrtE
deep ssd tste dfm held. Mfs bssroa
tAiatIag this So ste walked stoun,
The yard IN the issl pme She stoppe,
tys trsnebias msple and Is,i csrossinI
bad upub t
We pltbtcd tbi. tree the hrs, sprins
sbe ssli softly 10 betselt. II ussDt mot
thsn loot htsh aod weve srosu herr
together ever since. Ah me- It's bard II
transplant oli trees
Bot there wAs DO bcIp for It sh'
kuss that Wheu Colonel Bssoom died
Il became sbfolu.tly neoefssfy TO breat
up tie home. John, the only 500, lived
near. bat be could not give up bis nice
new house 10 90 back to the old place.
Sally. the daughter lived 10 St Louis.
her husband was prosperous merchant
and, of coarse, moored. So there vas
no,hing leh for MIS-. BAseom but to bresk
up and live with her children.
The question OF where Sally had settled
10 her own decisive fashion
OF course mother will live With me, she
said The daughter not the daughter il
law is the proper one 10 have the care Of
the parents vhen they are old.
Mrs Bascom shrsnk avowsl OF Glisl obi
CATION. She was 80 setive woman isiIty
She had not thought TO need earring for"
for ten yesrs OF more
Her daughter 10 law was sitting neI. to
her sbe took the withered hand 10 hers
snd stroked it gently,
A. Sally says, 3 daughter has the first
claim. she said tenderly; but | sm sure
mother knows that we should be glad to
have her. And some how Mrs Bsscom
left comiotted.
Sally sett ed the details Of the breaking
up the same summary msnner, 1t was
her way OF doing things.
Wen i1st make a clean sweep. mother.
she said There's nothing worth saving
and we'll sell them all
Mrs, Bsscom was taking things out Of
the bureau drawers,
Don't you think Id better take the
bureau with me, dsughter' she asked lit
tie sb1iously, 1t was mahogany chest
OF drawers without casters.
Oh my, no, mother | wouldn't have
that numbering ole thing around for any
thing. have a handsome snhque oak
dresser in your room and chiflonier to
match Yon'l have oil The drawer SPACE
you can possibly use.
Mrs Biscom WAS opening and shutting |
the empty drawers simlessly.
I've bad this buresn forty years, she
said, as il to herself We bought it when
We went to bouse keeping. | suppose it
s little old fashioned - there was touch
OF rounded feeling in her voice but it
was considered q fne piece OF furniture 10
ts day. The top drawer Was fsthers; and
the second drawer was the one | kept my
baby clothes 10. | can Just see Johns lit
tie linen csmbric shirts, trimmed with
thread edgng. nowl Sally, il seems like
would hate TO sell this buresul
I'll take ii, mother, and keep it for you
you, said Lizzie, quietly.
Why, Lizzie, demonstrated her sister 10
law, You haven't any room for it.
III make room, said Mrs. John Bsscom.
a little curtly.
The old lady was not much help.
Every article 10 the house was full OF ten
der memories 10 her; and as she went
from one to another, sitting a moment 10
father g chair and touching this thing and
that, she was clearly giving a good by to
them ell. Suoh hold ihsuimate things
will get upon the atisctionsl
You wouldn't have any use for this new
rag carpet, would you, dsughterf
None in the world, mother,
didn't know but you might put 1t 10
the back part OF the house. took heap
Of pains with this carpet and nearly the
last thing father did Was TO bring it home
ftom the weavers. He took such 90
interest 10 it when was making II, father
did. Yon don't think you better put it
down iu my room, do you, Silly2
Oh DO, mother, ii wouldn't be 10 keep
ing with anything 10 the room. And
then JUS, put down new body Bras
sells. don't feel that there is anything
too good for my mother, shectionstely.
Mr. Bsscom smiled b ok brsvely, bat
she looked wistiuIly at the carpet, after
III.
Aad so il went
The things were ell sold; and when Mrs.
Bsscom started for St. Louis With her
earthly belongings packed 10 new trunk,
she was as stripped and desol,te old
Womsn a. ever swallowed her tears and
smiled, 1t was n II grape vine bad
been prepared Tor ltsnsplsntiog by care
fully shaking the earth from its roots and
clipping its tendnls neslly away.
They did not hear from b.r often. Sal
ly had said she would have oil the time
there Was now 10 write letters; but letter
writing for pleasure bad bee crowded .
ost Of her busy country life, and when
leisure csme che vas too cid to form
rev usbit
Mrs. John Bssoom vent dosn to 81 /
Louis .t the time OF the fair. nearly
year after the breaking up, She stayed /
three veeks,
The night she came back she bad
plain tAlt With her husband.
John, she said IN snsset 10 bic ioqalr .
lee, Mother is dying OF nouesicEntss
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