Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-09-17
The Grape Girl.
BY ANNA MARBLE.

LII Italy there once lived wicked man
named Borgo, who owned miles and
miles of beautiful vineyards, bur who
would not pay the peasants working III
them wages enough 10 enable them 10
buy food
You may he very sure that Borgo was
not loved by the pocT men and women
and little children who toed during the
long. sunny hours, in order to fill his
baskets with cluster upon cluster of the
beautiful purple fruit. But Borgo did
not care whether the people liked him or
not. long as he continued to grow
richer every year.
Among the peasants in Borgos vine
yard there worked a little girl named
Bettina, who was compelled TO support
her poor old mother by gathering the
grapes. Nobody knew better than She
how hard il was to live ON the miserable
wages which Borgo paid. One day, en-
hnldened by her mothers suffering and
her own hunger, Bettina Went To see the
wicked old man, and asked him to do
better by the peasants, TO add few
more copper coins, which he could readi-
ly spare, 10 their scant wages.
Iiorg0 laughed aloud ut Bcttiua and
ted her the vineyard workers were well
enough paid and that he should soon te-
luce their wages still more.
The poor child went away fun Of sor-
row, and impaired the news to the
others, whereat they all began to weep
and pray that the saints would soften
Borgo's miseriy heart.
That same evening, rs the peasants
took their way home over the green
fields, they noticed an old woman sitting
beside the wooden cross at the roadside
The vineyard workers often paused be-
fore this cross to say Il prayer on their
way to and from their labor, but they
did not stop this time because the old
woman had one arm outStrctched as
though asking for aims. SO they all went
by and pretended not 10 sec her.
Only Rettina waited a bit for the
woman looked hungry, and BcJtina
knew just how that felt. Presently She
went M 10 her and she SAX then that the
old womau's trouble was quite Of an
other kind. On the ground beside her
was an overturned basket of beautiful
grapes. and as fast aS the dame tried 10
put the fruit back into the basket il all
fell ont again.
Let me help YOU, signora," cried the
little girl. and bent over 70 assist her;
bur the old woman cri2l out shrlly:
Go away, 20 away, ] know what
your helping means. You will want me
70 repay you when You have replaced the
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