The Farmington times. [volume] (Farmington, Mo.) 1874-1902, 1899-08-10
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A Cuban Beggar Girl !
by John n. Mcmahon.

| eyer were brown. her checks just
| plump enough, her bare liitlc legs and
/ arms well pruportioncd. her face al.
ways bore an expression uf cheerful
seriousness. gucsa she was about
eight years old.
At first when Good-by came 60 camp
I she was quite shy. aud stood silently
I near the refuse barrels with her nipple.
/ mthts Of collection. when some uf the
4 kindcr.hrartcd men would scrapc out
the lcayiugs ON their plate into the to-
1 mnto-can and throw pieces Of bread and
/ hnrdtack into the little girls baF, AT
/ rrwnrds she acquired confidence, and
I seven days "A week visited Our ,ents at
noon mess call, starting OF the head Of
| the company street. SonF days there
would be- such a surplus OF rations TINT
I shc would M her cen aud bag before
/ he got halfway down the line, and
/ then she would trot away. and. fup.
( pose, notify her little companions, ut
/ he child-hcgpnrs' rendezvous under a
/ big tree outside Of camp that company
u had a fine lot ~ dinner left.
Anita WAS Goud-hy'- right name, but
! everybody called her by the other, he
cause that was all the English she knew
! lt first. and because OF the WAY she had
NJ walking into your tent md smillngly
saying "Good.by!" ns she held out her
/ little hand. She meant: "Iluw do you
! du?"
! "Scnnrita Gupd.hy." ] said to her one
I day, what terrible cater you arr for
/ y small body. Here you've got two
4 quarts OF ola pudr,da iu Your can
soup. meat, potatoes. aud ! know not
[ what else besides that large bagful
/ u bread that you rpgurr under Uo
I you eat II all? Surely YOU Z, nut weigh
more than three times as much us your
/ booty"
"uh. Srri-uto." cried IA, little rrca.
/ iurr. Ina Distress. do ru, think il, /
nuly eat 40, share. There are five
/ ,thrrs"
/ "Nou have family. 'l-tu?"
"Wrll. it Is ms uuut'- family" said
Good -hv. rlapsing her lluds "Nn hny
/ 20 padre nj uudrc"-I have no father
'r mother.
II seemed that she vus an orphan
from earliest remembrance. Her aunt
. WINS Cuban soldier widow, with four
Young children. GuuG-b, vHa the chief
support of the house.
Now. among nav trui-m1trs WINS
nIuudr.huirrI giant. rather reckless,
lu' uarm-hrari.I. whose maine WINS
George lmt,.lr E,mr,. be- enlisted la
.hr volunteer urut tp nrnt cualn thu,
p never no. d rlnurr. fur .nrr>rrri Of nIlr
.,riyr. wa. rlrrI.pn drr.t lu ruhal hi.
business was ih,i. % ra.fr,..d ,ng,urcr
\ bright. whulr-,Dnlrd follow. but
little reckless. us said: "a frtH,. too fpud
. II ,ln,niaIt;y. Wr had Ir,r prpmot,d
rurr iu e srrurlni,.,. but % glass too
mnrh nc the wrong time caused his r..
lurliun in tn. ranks. IT, wa. always
iulh. prrlorur ed IN. most disucrcrablr
'uty win iukr. and was the best.
liked man iu our company.
The miIg,t Cppd.hy and H.. ,,inpt
llut, ia, J,.r,YfrI a struuy fri,rI.biu
for each uth,r t,rnd.I,y ms sb, f,.,pll,.
.umr .N-,1pr uri,atc- tbnt Hrvrr of
the -plrrf.,l rnrruf Nmrricaro.. How
EASY" she said. rrHrrtiysly Ia w,. ppr
Iay. III would be- Tor SENIOR Chorrr 10
crush .r with one hand, What "a bir
NAV, am sure there is no one In the
unrI could resist IA. STRENGTH II,l,
Mother, he II so guod.luukiug. too"
Ilr. on hi, side. grew yer, fond ~
hi- uHll udmirrr. with whom. how
oyer, he could converse only frar-
mruiarily Sometimes ! would act In
Interpreter for the two. when she
made her daily call, he always shook
hands with her. pattrd her on the head. !
and put half his dinner into her can.
sls ing he could pet more which
wasn't always 90. UrrasigpuIly grprpr
would PLAY .Inscph's trick ON his !
brethren. stralthily SHINING "A Spanish
'ilNcr piece into the child'S bar. and |
urNl day enjoying her report of an MS. |
tuuishiug lucky find. Orcr she brnugbt |
him "a rose. and was very much rmbor.
-assrd because She had 10 urrsrpt !, In |
full sight of ull uf us. We were eating.
aud snmrhody started TO make fun ~ 4
the poor little girls gift. George ad. |
monishcd him that " he cared 10 pre-. |
serve the integrity of his countruancc
he would not laugh al Good.by; M
Houtele he might crack Jokes as much |
as he pleased.
One day some cnses Of yellow fAyrr
broke out IN the lowest aunrter n, tb,. !
town. and In copscrurnce ,lI C,,,,,n.
were ounrnutlpc,i from o,.r cnu,, mi. |
meant that the i'm. hcgc,r-chil,lr.n
also couldn't enter rnmu INV NOR. M, |
were likewise ordered NOT IN c,,cr
';unpaiov and IN, oe,cc,s lelii.d =.
pretty severely. both TO keen ms occu.
pied and In the best condition 10 resist
the dreaded fever. There was M .p,.
dcmic. however. and az the end of n
fortnight the quarantine was removed
rNccpt that for some reasnp mo Il,,lc ma
tive food-collcctors were to be allowed
In camp. Thus We saw no more Of Good
by In our tents, nor had seen her at all
IN the last two weeks.
Boulellc aud went To town Together