Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-12-02

walk and happiness had made her hungry.
/ and she decided To cook them all
j But where did size put these choTs-she
was getting SO forgetful-sho could hay.
sworn she put them on the shelf Could
/ she have left them in the basket after all
Her pcrplcxcd eyes fell from the shelf to
the floor, and there, just pccping from be
hind the wood box, was the plate, and
two small. very small, bits Of bone. gnaw
ed quite clean and white.
Ungratcful Tommy Barnes, lying there
in peaceful slumbcr, with those precious
CHOPS rounding out your yellow sides, II
justice had beiallcn you then and there
you might not have lived to steal again
But into the midst Of Miss Matte : right
eous wrath came the reflection that Tom
my must have been hungry and the fault.
after all. Was partly her own for putting
tenn ia1ion in his way, though how any
thin. old have bcln farther out of his
way ,tau that shelf | don't really zee
she addrd duietully
At That minute Tommy Barnes walked
from Ia, Lap, transformed himself into n
carmel. yaW ned Ia trighituily tigerish
fashion and ru.gCJcd to sharpen hi claw :
on til. rHs.. The .,irN,d rug. into which had
hra ht..l--Es! ~o34c precious old garments
n t. Be-, 4tatties heart II was Il
straE 'or uuh - have insult added to
l. jay bEd Swinging troHi her chair. she
cUrv tuHlay IA such EoroUs fashion
ti,+G tls.v ec or htarty blows found their
n.ar=. b er. de a~tuLisLcd sinner eouid
N.t=,-gssN H.s l5..ks and i8Und Out al tEe
b.. ar. h.t ayar In tie scar.h Tor the
c!oE- ~ t...f instant a r,~auudtus
knuan on the front door sent Miss Mat
tic'9 heart to her thruat with a sudden
leap. a> A. Justice were already coming to
take her In hand for Unreasonable cruelty
When MIS-, Matte WAS peacefully Iat,lr-
ing about, unconscious of the cruel trick
fate and Tommy Barnes had played her
Mrs Deacon Giles was surveying her HUI,
band with a disturbed and fearful face
You don't mean TO tell me she re
peated, that the minister folks ain I
comm at all. and you and me has got 10
eat this big dinner alone; Herr, staid
home from church To tend to il Oh you
nccdn 7 to look rs If you thought il was "A
judgment, Josiah wouldn't be such a
hiprercrit Is to pertend to be thinkin OF
spiritooal things when was wonderin II
sarah Ellen would remember 10 haste the
turkey seems TO me they might let US
know SOONER
bul lOid you, mother, IL was a telc-
gram come just before church You can t
rcgerlatc kilograms like the weekly news
raier' or stoq felix's from dyin unexpect
ID. -
Then WY didn't you rush round and
get somebody else Merry sakcs 'Twon I
seem like l hanksgivin al ali =
Didn seem 10 Dc anybody To ask but
old Mis- Morrison and Aarthy Ellison
drove round by the Morrisous, but the old
lady WAS just hayin somcthin rclishin
Miss Matte had fetched in They said
they invited her TO dinner, but she had
comp ny-one OF them Barneses next
door
Fiddlesticks, said the deacon's vile
IN very dlsrspecttul tone You lust
drive straight back and bring Mar. liz III
lI>on up here To dinner 1cll her don
take any excuse. and Il she can come
otherways shc can bring hor comp uy
along. though the way them shil' lasS
Earneses impose or her Is morlal
sha q
Good Deacon Cites had '"ar,..s' do"iiity
in IN - year ~ peri' nee and the dou.
tie -, ~ Rt We Matt - door followed