The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-10-31

ture in politics. Miss Wilson is us acc
| famous as an amateur actress.
goin' to meetin' agin. Folks go to meetin'
to thank the Lord for blessin's I s'posc.
I've lost. mine, an i amt goin'.''
''"What hev you lost, Ann?" $685..
"Ain't lost Willy?"
you don't mean to say you're maxim
such fuss as this oyeG a cat?"': -. ,:,:s
Mrs, Stone could make q good deal of
Interpretation and Contempt manifest in
her pale and very high featured face, and
she dld now.
eyes, do"
."Well,. amt nothin' agin>cats, Slut I
must say Pm beat. Why, Ann Millet,
it's downright sinful fur you to feel 50.
~ course you set . God deal by Willy,
but it amt a" as a human crea-
ture. Cats is cas-. For my part never
thought it was right to set by animals as
ct they was babies" '
II can't near what you say"
Il never thought it was right to set by
animals as eff they. were babies.''
81 don't keer. It's comfortin' to have
live creatures about you, an I amt never
he'd anything like other women. 1 amt
never he'd no folks of my own sense kin
remember. I've worked hard all my life,
an he'd nothin' at all to love, an I've
thought I'd orter be thankful all the
same. But I did want as much as a
cat!"
well, as I said before, I've nothin'
again cats. But I don't understand any
human bein', with an immortal soul,
a-settin' so much by one.''
~ can't hear what you say"
Ann could usually hear Mrs. Stones
high voice without difficulty, but today
she seemed deafer.
II don't understand any human bein'
with an immortal soul a-settin' so much
by cat"
| you've got folks, Mis- Stone.'
! Il know l hev; but folks is trials
sometimes. Not that my children are,
though; Eve got good deal to be thank
full for, III own, in that way. But, Ann
Millet, didn't think you was one to sink
down under any trial. I thought the
Lord would be comfort to YOU"
II know all that, Mis- Stone. But
when it comes to it Pm here, an amt
thar; an I've got hands, an 1 want
somethin' l kin touch" Then the poor
soul broke down, and sobbed out loud
like baby. II amt never felt as eff I'd
orter begretch other-women their homes
an their folks. I thought-p'haps-I
could git along better without 'em, than
some; an the Lord knowed it, an
SEEM thar want enough to 90 round.
He gave 'em to them that needed 'em
most. 1 ain't-never-felt-as eff I'd
orter complain. But-thar- was-cats--
enough. mis- ht hed-that-m
"You kin git another cat, Ann. Mis-
MaxwelPs got some real smart kittens,
an l know she wants to git rid of EN-
Il don't want any of Mis- Maxwelps
kittens. / don't never want any other
cat'
| "Phaps yourn will come back"
| mo, he won't. I'll never see him agin.
I've felt jest that way about it from the
first. Somebody's stole him, or he's been
p'isoned an crawled away an died, or
he's been shot for his fur. I heerd thar
was boy over the river maxim a cat
skin kerridge blanket, an I went over
thar an asked him, an he said he hadn't
never shot cat like Willy. But 1 don't
know. Boys amt brought up any too
strict, nowadays. I hope he spoke the
TRUTH
"Hark! I declare, thought I heard
cat new, somewhat. But I guess I
didn't. I don't hear it, now. Well, I'm
sorry, Ann. I s'pose, I've got to 90;
thar's dinner to git, an the baby's con-,
siderable fretty, today. Why, Ann Mil
let, whar's your squashes?'
'What?"
"Where are your squashes?''
! Il throwed 'em away, out in the field.
Willy can't hev none of 'em now, an l
don't keer about 'em myself"
| Mrs. Stone looked at ner in horror.
| When she got home she told her daughter
that Ann Millet was in a dreadful state
of mind, and she thought the minister
ought to see her. She believed she should
tell him, if she was not out to meeting
that night.
| She. was not. This touch of grief had
goaded that meek, reverential nature into
tierceness. The childish earnestness
which she had had in religion, she had
now in the other direction. Ann Millet,
in spite of all excuses that could be made
for her, was for the time a wicked, re-
bellious old woman. And she was as
truly SO as if this petty occasion for it
had been a graver one in other peoples
estimation. 49,.
The next day the minister called on
her, stimulated by Mrs. Stones report.
He did not. find her so outspoken; her
awe of him restrained her. Still, this
phase of her character was revelation
to him. He told his wife, when he re-