The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-11-14
plunkett'S letter
Eor The Constitution.

For The Constitution.
If an old man wants to t@s1 lonesome.
just let him visit old graveyard, where
be knew people in the long ago, and read
the inscriptions upon the tombs and study
over the people that these will call to
mind.
Brown and ] went back to our old homo
with the fun intention of staying week.
hut everything was SO changed that We
were glad to leave in d day. AS we passed
along the roads we used to travel it was
I but natural TO ask for the folks we had
known. and we found so often that they
were dead that tho night the best place
for us to see anything we had ever known
was in the graveyard, and there we went.
Familiar names there end were
about all We saw our trip that was
familiar These names stirred up many
memOrcS-SOme pleasant and some bad.
The good old people whom we had known
and who caused no surprise at hndlng
dead these were remembered with feelings
sadly sweet and fingered at their
graves the longest. In some OF the names
we found those whom we had known as
Young and rompnG youths. and now and
then we would come to a bahy's grave
where we knew that all It's kin had moved
away and left Il al too lonely. We had
fingered for n long while among these
graves and were inst fixing to leave whom
We saw upon a newly erected stone tho
name
"TUCY DAWSON"
We knew Lucy and felt what q mock
c~y there might be sometimes in the gilt
ter Of these tombstoncs. We know her
when she was baptized in the old pool AZ
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but we knew her ending, and as We read.
directed by her husband We both at
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! ~ Ti4+ra .iro tooly notice Of II and re
,,[,,-,l t.,.t cine could s+,, if r. she could
Tobr nroroiso1 at once Ia break off from
! these ro,y.}>. fellows when Lucy made men
| t,on ,e II ana H., took hen, on his knee and
| ,,teead nor strol,od her pretty hair and
| Ia,,cbo4 NJ nor for being scared
| ,hat aver h, wonl5 have anything to do
| XXI, i,;,I,f,,, whisky or of forming any
! t,it.. +ro, Womb cause him to forget
| ,,alIs,t his Young wife and really John did
| Inlia,a everything that he said. for he was
| n rood fellow. and this should the more
| impress nay young readers with the d@l"or
| that IurI<. In evil associations.
| Moro ,raD a month had passed since
! roh,, had made these promises to Lucy
| ;,1 she looked happicr and Sweeter than
| eha 1,ad ..vn,, looked before. ana new gates
| ami nretty ornaments around his place
| soolz. well in favor Of Johns new ways,
| 49,. ..- 1,.e,, nc ha called if 6ut
! cursed he the ties which o"ld TO eVH way