The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1900-09-15

wnen you wanted TO WASH your feet
and you've never found me withou,
stickin salve fur sore fingers. I've
nursed you through collie and sot W
with you through fever You've never
had to tell me my bread was heavy OF
the biscuit tasted of saleratus And
when I'm laid away. Samuel. you'll re-
member that wore the same bonnet
and shawl fur II years and that
allus made a pair of shoes last three
years. Haven't | done purity well all
things considered?'
Mr.. Gallup might have agreed with
her, but if he did he didn't say so
aloud. He crossed his legs the other
way and scratched the other heel, and
when Mrs. Gallup could restrain her
tears she observed:
81 amt leavin this house the way
some wives would. Samuel. When |
am gone, you'll find your shirts and
socks and everything in the usual
place, and you won't have to sew or a
button I'll even scald out the teapot
and scour out the dishpan if ! have
time. If angels can look down from
heaven. then | want to look down and
see that I've left everything in order.
I want to ask You about angels, Sam
uel. Are they all old or young angels,
or are they sorter mixed up? Will |
be set back 20 or 40 years, or will be
an old woman angelo
She looked directly at Mr. Gallup
and waited for a reply, but he was
reading how to make a hammock out
of -four barrel and he paid no heed
TO the question.
"And are all angels purity. Samuel?'
she continued after awhile. 1--WE new
err been party since was baby and
fell out OF the winder. but if I've got
to be an angel | want my face made
over as soon as get up there. Pm not
goin to be pinted our fur my homeli-
ness as fly around If was, know
Ia n,ake up faces az some of 'em.
Will I be changed in the twinkIin Of
an eye and made as purity as the rest
If em::'
Something like a smile fitted over
the face Of Mr.. Gallup, but it was prob
ably caused by the article he was read
ng
And about the music, Samuel? |
can't play on no harp without lessons.
have never even seen harp. When
we was first married. used to play
IN the accordion fur you, but it was
awful poor playin, and you soon got
sick of it. Is ii goin to be expected
hat | kin fly right up to heaven and
1egin playin on & harp the very first
hing? If it is, then dunno as
want to die. never could a-bear havin
'olks laugh at me. And the singin,
Samuel-the Singh! My voice is crack
ID, and sing through my nose, and is
hat goin to do up there? | s'pose l
could walk around with a robe on and
ak and visit, but l can't sing nor
)lay, and they needn't expect it. Sam
lei. shall we talk about whether you'd
better take a second wife or not?
| think you had, and some
lines | think you hadn't. What do
'ou think?'
Mr.. Gallup turned from the ham,
mock article to one on natural gas in
ohio. and he extended his legs again
md prepared to digest it thoroughly.
t might have occurred to him that
1rs. Gallup was in the room and that
he or some one else was talking to
i'm, but he answered not. Ten Main
ties had gone by when he finished the
rticle and looked up and around as if
lie had suddenly missed something.
'1rs. Gallup lay curled up on the
OUNCE fast asleep. and in the cor
Ter Of each eye still glistened a big
ear. NJ. QUAD.