The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-01-14

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: shed be hoarse OF a sudden when he'd
E IAed hcr part to read out OF Shakes
L peare. Reading Shakespeare was one
{ OF the new things Jcroboa,u Introduced
i In the district. 80
w. was only a younEstar then, but
had a notion, that, The trouble was that
ne thought too much OF Sis, fori before
y sne,d been many months there It was
plaiHyenough who was I his fayorite
AMONGST the Older. ones. anyway. 1;
We'll. one stormy December might,
not long before Christmas, two or three
= OF uslwcre lingering after; school when
n shabby little girl named Grace Bush
x stole up to the desk. I can see her nov
= with her poor plaid Dress pinned down
j the back. her front teeth missing, ana
her. big. round eyes. As say, she went
z straight up to Jeroboan,. and smuggling
her hand Into his and looking unsin,o
his face, says she hardly abovea whis-
per: s 4 ~ " y 4. ,tS'
You're coming TO our house. you
Know, next. teacher. Mother suys she'l
3 eSpec, you in time for supper to -morrer
night - e, n -, y go, :.
Is The kind OF arttess pride and import
ance with which she delivered this mes
sage, as IL our house was nspaluce,
made even Andrew Weeks, the rich
.SItore.&eencr's son, smile pityingly. But
Jeroooam held the poor little chapped
hand In both his and answered cheer
fully: s.aT s.. ..'Is - s.
Thank you. Oracle; so lis ,o-mor-
row. ct supper time. Is II? Tell your
mother won't forget. and we'll have n
Say ttme While I'm staying with you,
wc WILL. $50 u x 49, = ~
.s&Gayn exclaimed Andrew. as We
started along together. IT'S n shame 10
mako any mnn board ut Bush's-at
midwinter, too, whGm fellow; wants
plenty 10 eat; or all the shIftlcss peo-
pie and run down places In town! You'll
come out or there rs scrawncy looking
as II March woodrhuel;' =.
AT least they'll afford me. food for
reflection answered Jeroboam. with his
qniet smile. Homely and awkward as
the man was. YOU couldn't understand
HIN sometimes. and suspected that he
might be Ouizzing you.
res true they send three children
hcre-llttle whlte-haIrel codgers.' OBJ
served Andrew, and wen, IN to describe
the Bush mansion. unTainted and shut
terless, standing on lonely cross-road,
IN the mldat of n t'urd adorned with old
wagons. rags. feathers, pieces o. rust
eaten sto1e-rfne and broken crockerg,
whIlc behind the barn lay d, cornHeid
where cTows,camc down nj New Tears
( to. breakfast, on The weather-bleaohel
stocks And andrews picture was no.
nScrarawn. Mrs. Rush was n large,
ohsy-gclnG. casy-te,nppred woman. who
found the vote OF. housC- keeping limit
or than thistlc-dowa, and her husband,
'Delbcrt Eush. was OF her own strlpe,
Grace wns only eight, and there were
Two little boys about seven and Ave,
while a baby IN arms completed the
sam!r. Oh, well. every neIghb3rhood.
YAH Know. has ifs black shcept;' the
Pushes. were ours. and we used 10 hold
&, trp our hands In holy horror at their go
e !ngs-on. {.
4. 2E334ss"When the schoolmaster first went
Brc. he was treated as one OF them
3 SECS. but In two days he rose to the
81:'on OF a sort OF little tin god 60
>SFsl heathen expression). His profess
NM dignity didn't stand In the way oil
splitting findings, hanging out
oaS!l cleaning the lamp. milking
~ f1t8 mixing up johnnycake.ant
n fellow actually enjoyed tt
Ism. feel as II some one wa,
\Shim..
)aman shrugged his shoulder
Is 10 saf, Don't ask me TO nc,
st., and then continued, ate,
use. THAT was terrDl,
ftridgewatcr. One storm attel
Apt down from the lakes
he after another raced Il
and there wasn't q brooi