The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-25

matoes begin to come said I; Indy
ShiVvers, it's a pity that you had to give
little Maggie up. You need responsible
tty. But she turned around and went in
the house without a word. went up to
the step where Samuel sat smoking, and
said; 1t puts me out Of patience the way
Indy Shivvers goes on about little Mag
gle. A body can't feel that way about
anybody elses child. 'Tisn't nature--for
we had lost our one.
Well, m, borrowin's a DANGER Us
thing, said Samuel, especially borroHtn'
of people or boats. 1 borrowed the Sally
Pate once from Old Cap'n Peters, and.
by gum. 1 clean forgot she warnt mine!
I set store by the Sally Pate. Yes'm, a
body better have somethin' of their own
or 50 without, That's my sightin' of
it,
! don't know about that sad II
was real young then, and there certainly
was a heap I didn't know-'But I'm tirsd
OF Indy Shivvers' curiosity. She ought
to sell that big place and live sociable
and sensible
I've heard tell there's a heap of
comfort just havin your own things,
they're queer there's mostly somethin' to
make en- so. 1 guess old Nathan Shiy-
Vers was enough to take the wind out of
Lindy's sails in his time. Old Nathan
was Lindy's father, and a hard man.
Indy Shiyvers used to be the bashfUl
lest one around; worse than anybody ex-
Cept Timothy Callow. He's the bsaten-
est knew that Samuel mostly stood
up for women, though, and 1 took little
notice.
The next day here came Lindy's voice
again, while [ was watering my vines
oh, Mis- Marrow, you're watering
your plants, amt you?'
Looks So said I.
" Do you think they'll grow, Mis- Mar
row.
- don't see how they can well help
themselves with their roots in the earth,
said !.
I'd rather have only a few of my
own than heaps anybody gave me-" said
Indy. With that put my trOwel down
and stood up. See here Lindy Shivvers,
said I. If my garden is only a patch, it
is big enough for two, and yours is
heap too big for one, so there! Indy
looked kind of scared at me, then threw
her hands up to her face and ran home
"AH that evening I kept telling my
self that 1t served her right for be-
ing SO curious. But when the lamps were
lighted. l looked over to Iindy's, and it
seemed 50 big and dark over there for
one woman, and a real small one, that I
threw a shawl over my head and went
across. As L passed her kitchen window
I saw her sitting under the lamp sewing.
There was a big basket beside her, and
she leaned over patting 1t, almost as if
she was talking to It. When she came
to the door, ! held my hand out, for she
looked frightened, and I said:
" I've come across to say that I spoke
too hasty. Indy, and I'm sorry
And I want you to believe that I
never though Of your garden being small
er, Mis- Marrow said she; I couldn't, for
j do love little things. Mine are all
so big. I got lonely, and just thought to
go talk TO you to be sociable.'
Then don't give it another thought
said I, sitting beside the table, and she
sat. TOO. and I began to talk easy-like
about her work. But she got red and
pushed the basket under the table
with her foot. Then it rolled over and
everything fell out-pieces of white linen,
fine and pretty, and a little skirt and I'M
derneath great big baby doll. The
thing gave me turn, 1t was so nat
ural.
" Dressing a doll for Maggie?' said I.
Nom; Maggie's got plenty of dolls,
now She sat up as If she expected a
pistol shot No, Mis- Marrow, this one $
mine.
Yours said !.
Z" 'Yes'm, tilt don't hurt anybody, Ms
Marrow, and a body must have some
thing
81 suppose truth is like a lantern; if
we don't carry one on a dark night. we
want to go in the dark. that's ALL 1t didn' t
take me a minute to see all I'd been
binding myself to; all of Indy SHINY.
ers' starved life. / remembered all I'd
heard about old Nathan Shivyers' cruelty
to his daughters, and how Indy had no
body after little Maggie went away. and
how she had been sort OF left out by peo-
mic thinking her offish and queer: and
/ Just said helplessiy, oh, you poor