The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-09-11

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doctors, yet, the doctors / suppose It is, e.
hadn't then cone to the-the conci!- n
sion" ri
%, Well, he knew he'll gone wrong te
moren once, an might again. But, good Of
ness me, it don't matter, for SALIVA g
ruther not. What's that you got, Math- v
er?' II
Salt. Humphrey give it to me to put Il
on tie birds tails TO catch them. lie
done it up in paper for me if I'd be good Z
an not miss school. But I'm goin' to "
give it to Dave. 'Tain't no good - c
whats the reason you're goi1' 20 give h
it to Davy?' G
You can't get near enough, you know. Q
said the rosy urchin, looking up in q t
wondering simplicity, and opening his rcd, r
pudgy fist that, with ali its hC- moisture
and CRIME, Ann could have kissed, al I
ways ashamed though, she was Of he pas |
sion Of tenderness in her heart and hid :
ing it under a tart tongue. !
You never do" said Try, rather SOL l
EMMY. You amt the first one, my SON
h'nl-to find cut that you never do-as ii
were-get quite near enough to your
birds to-to catch them. HIM"
I'D like TO, though" said Mather. "An'
you might get a tail-feather, you know.
"Ycu might" said his father, with the
little dry cough again. And as Ann
80 ~ootS NttA4A 9bIpN IN Gt SIN
knew not what. the honeysuckle doors
coming in the window, the smell of the
smoke from the pine kindlings she had a
vague feeling that Try had not realized all
his ideals, and she pat some more short
ening into the biscuit.
But Ann was right about Sally. For
her own sake, Sally had not a regret. IN
her sacrificial spirit it would have seemed
a hardship had any ether guarded Hum
nbray-opo who rnipbt hara bpan lorc tor |
der with him. one who might have made
the shame and trouble and poverty a re
proach to him-one who might have done
as Try Hodge had wanted, and nave put
him away to lonely misery in a maahouse.
Although Sally had soothed him in lis
wild moods, and now that the flames were
ashes tended h1n in his half-ianbecile
ones, yet in some ineXplicable way her
5 mother-yearning was still her wifely love;
| he was the husband of her youth; and
e she Jared along patiently, as if expecting
that one day he should be released from
r the spell, come out from the disguise he
2 wore and be again the splendid being he
t once lad seemed to her. AT any rate,
t he will be-" she said once to Ann, IN
J.: that other country when We get there
t And you can't wonder at me looking 1ol-
3 ward to tan lesS'n nothin here!N
Sometimes Humphrey had long, heavy
Ii SUMMERS OIL Il tdE dAu hlShb t@Au ~ '~
in such opportunities that Sally would
/ get down to the port with the basket OF
Y her accommodating treasures; being apte
s ordinarily neither to take Humphrey W!th
d her nor to leave him behind; while none
# of the contents of the basket would nave
= been disposed Of had he been aware Of
il. for he concentrated on them al the
IS interest he might have felt III the AFFAIRS
of the world at large had he been himself.
u n..1a, ro-, would NOT have wondered
le at this. had you ever tasted 4 certain con
re cerve that Sally made of ~rosehips ana
= honey. or her sweet and fiery cherry cor
5. dial or had you drenched a corner OF
=? ycur tire in the cologne of her componnh-
lit mo And none Of these things dd S2ily
s ever refuse Humphrey; although she
ct could not help crying when she came
g home one day and found the whole noase
ar &C # q storm had blown through it, and
er discovered that he had brought IN the
q. school bows. and had made away WE
as evervthjng she had prepared, anu IRON
id tho sale of which she had expected Il
il s~stfsfv their simple wants for half me
lie year.
Va Humphrey saw her cry. lie knew i wa
lat On account CT his misdeed. He coalu 40
IS understand tina Sally should decay III
No. awnings: but the sight OF hti 'e'i
,ro,oht him to a fury. He rushed to tn
LET little St III III IIt GlANi
eft nartlv IN temper, partly perhaps 'ha' -
he nroducts should never again tempt mn
nd To- bnrt her nartlv with irresponsible out
al hraak 80 Humphrey, Humphrey. Don |
led don't touch it, O, the still, the WIN
nd cried Sally, THROWN herself before H'i'
r Fer tAere was not an3tner sun " y
IN found. and if anything happehe 10 -
the want that would befall them "pp"i'o
,oh ,or ;n swift fancy. The essence OF rose
- I +lrC,,rh ~ the DOOR, WCd
,vn cordial spirit that she dlstlIiea IholS,i
yer. mo the only thing between them ana Iii
mo a,,,eto,,ca Tor the cCnserVes. ire can
pss aioe the carved trifles. signlhe1 ho,-lin
o. heeide these dainty walls OF perfume =
,er. If tonic that made her welcome ~ Yum
,eh o;r1 and housewife, and made the chllo''
les. feel as if the gales OF Ar"ny ~ '>
by blev about as she Wal&ea-
,u7d uun,hrev turned to look at h3F, Ga
ono uo,eod with the hammer in MS III,
o.a t~aa. and Sally gently loosened MS II.
IA a~ra tin they dropped it, anu lhe1 81
,o~e - w. arm about her shGuller ana u
pGa, avav her lips still trempllhs' -
Llii a+o And from that day Humphrt
.a,v 1a1a himself the keeper OF the lhl5er"o
cor 1i+tio affair, and althou&h Will t,NN :,
.o1ast him, co1nDassed III one 20
it'll vatchfulness CT the 1-lee ~
reak terCs. he said ha
inc" Il like TO LlcaI ' 49, ,ioht wakil
whimperingly 10 0"i'
her from sleep 10 '"' aroa dreamil
had well dear $40 80 hida her futu
hal although she lIe'n'
e 10 store. sallv. TIL
Lord ''They're Sc|' 60 60 did I. Tt
h Of thought the Jam O. 4ho;r hair. &
were pat TIE rose" d'' fho crarry-boun,
ep i. clicked up. lhes arn,t inst the thing
q sat treat boys to, was it, sal1s ;f-a as'4 if, y
makes nae Zee, zoe Going round t
life know, the Wol'0 acknowledgements,
: yea other way r,ovhe strike them sil
2 for thought t"o"li .Iv9 like to treat
You qhay,re Just the age u y
!, H. boys 49, WHAT'S become OF PONY :
w." I'm Sally could endure no tne