Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1903-03-25
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Cinderella proportions.

Cinderella proportions.
From under the hat two big gray
eyes fixed upon the doughnut Whlcn
Miss Eliza held in her hand; not long,
however, FORWARDING all ceremony, the
boy took it quickly from between her
fingers, and the doughnut disappeared
in three mouthfuls, so much to MISS
E1iza's alarm, that she ran for glass
Of milk; for she cften remarked that
sponge cake and doughnuts, be they
ever so light, did beat all for sticking
IN ones throat, and for her part she
never could cat either without drinking
at least two cups of tea to get them
down.
The milk followed the doughnut, and
evidently met with some degree OF ap-
probation, for the hard and weary little
face softened as it was lifted to Miss
ELIAS, and the boy said,-
S"Gim-me sumpin' ter do"
#Miss Somers regarded all boys as her
natural enemies. Living alone for the
past twenty years since her father,
Farmer Somers, died, she associated
them only with stolen fruit and tram
pied flower beds, and so declared them
Himps and pests" and impatient with
herself for relenting toward one OF the
race to this extent, said sharply
eyes, wash your face"
{. She closed the door, drove the Doll
in with good deal of force, and went
back to her task of clearing up.
This done, and having eaten her fru.
gal dinner, she went upstairs ane
made her afternoon toilet.
Before sitting down to her small
mending she thought of her plants ne
elected this busy day; so taking th'
watering pot from its hook in tn
porch. she went out to the cistern II
All it. for she always maintained tina
no plants ever flourished like thos
watered with pure rain water.
I This was day of upsets. There, b
the side of the cistern, cuddled up in
heap, his head pillowed on the butte
frkin, that served for bucket, lay he
small acquaintans of the morning, las
- asleep.
SiHis face, streaked by his recent anna
thur ablutions, looked so drawn an
pHnched that Miss Somers was startle
aid took hold Of his shoulder.
gThe boy jumped to his feet, ducke
4der her arm, and ran to the otnf
Sic of the cistern.
HT-I washed me ldce;' GIN me sum-
In ter do" he said, for he felt there W;
need of propitiating this woman, Wh
notwithstanding her kindness, spoil
and looked so sternly.
"You needn't be so scairt; what
you mean, going to sleep in my var
right side of the cistern, too; "
might a. fallen in and drowned, tn
.there'd been a pretty how-de-do."
"Me names Mugsy, and come fro
the city; guess was clean beat. X
work"
"Humph! beat you may be, but
don't see anything clean about you;
for work, I'd like to know what y
kin do"
"I kin scrub floors, an sift ashes,
If there was one thing Miss Eliza q
liked to do it was to sift ashes.
said she never got on the south S
of the barrel but what the wind bl
from the north, and il she changed
the north side, the wind was bound
shift to the south.
The idea of boy being useful,
such. a specimen as this appeared to
haunting the premises all day lk'
disconcerting spirit y "a,
aThers's sitter full over on t
barrel; you kin sift that, if you're
terrible anxious, and then you
straight home"
ediss 5Eiiza went back to her pla