The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-30
M EXPLAINS.
The Office Building Serubwoman
Accounts for an Uneleaned
Floor. e

Inc OulCc OOOE naO not Ocon 8CfuDDed
for some days, and Mrs. Murphy, ono OF the
cleaners Of tho building. was sought for an
explanation. She was found in an adjoining
ofioe-a large, motherly looking Irish
woman, with an expansive smile and a
kindly CLINT in her eye that not even family
cares and the necessity OF contributing to
the support Of the children she had brought
into the world, not to mention -buryin'
wan eleven months old just afore I tukt tn
work. here could materially lessen.
Her bright, alert look and smile caused
the righteous indignation Of the tenan to
dwindle to a feeble protest. She listened.
then became voluble and a~pologetio:
is that so? Shure, l was away on account
o. me sisters death, an l got a livin' out
girl to help me in tn buildin' for q few
days, n she didn't understand tn work..
But itT II be all right now. for I'll do it meself,'
! and straightway she followed to look az
the neglected floor.
Her look had grown a shade less cheerful
at the mention OF the sister, and the COM
plant became a murmur Of sympathy.
The explanation having been made, Mrs.
Murphy leaned upon her broom and con-
tinued:
YES, an I had to bury her. shure, abe
an me was tn last that was left Of tn
family. I brought her an another sister
to this country, an ] buried tn other;
an now this wan is gone too, an I'm tn
only wan that's left.
-She died in tn hospital, IN I was runnin'
there for two days afore she whit. As soon
as I finished me work. here I'd DO there.
and whin 1 come home 1 had to do q big
wash that was in tn tubs
Il was nigh dead wild il all, but. thank
God, / stayed wid me sister until tn last.
AMI brought her out of It. too, widout thin
ever touchin' her, an gev her q daoins
burial.
.But, shve, I had q hard time TO do II,
an only that I was that determined they'd
"a got tn best OF me In the ind. Ye see.
I'll day she died they sins me word
that she couldn't live tn day out, an I
whit up there an I seen her, but I couldn't
stay wild her, for i had tn work. to do:
So in tn avenin' whit up there agin. an
tn man at the dure tould me IL was agin
tn rules TO let anywan in at that time.
But l seq to him, me sister Is dyin'
an I want to GO in IN see her.
'Shure, wasn't ye here to-day ser he,
We'll: seq / to meself, i,n see Bridge,
vance more-an' she an me tn last that's
$50 1 whit to tn priest OF the parish. an.
I tould him that me sister was dyin' In tn
hospital, an would he come and prepaQ
her. SO he came along wild me, an WIKI
they saw tn priest they dare MT refuse to
ave him in, an 1 stuck tight to him; an
that's how l got TO see her agin.
sWhin tn doctor an tn attindint seen
Who let this woman imp an they
wanted to make me go out.
But i sez to them:
.sYeIl not put me out, for she's not long
TO live, an III stay here and see tn lsss
well, they said ~everythin' to me an, they
did everythin' to me but bate me-. II luks
and words could kill. I'd never come out
of tn place alive whin I tould thin IN
not lave it, shure, two officers ID be tn only
thing that d put me out o this
STAYED there Wild her, an whin il was nearly
IL o'clock at night she tried TO sit up in tn
bed, an sea she:
Mary, / see me mother
NO. ye do not Bridget SEQ ], but -
oh SEE she, 'whatu become o tn
childer whin I'm gomez
-Ye see, she hau two young vans, an tho
husband was no good.
REST aisy, Bridget ser I, for I'll take
little Maggie wild me, an I'll trate her like
wan of IN cow an the bye I'll put down to
Father Drumgoole's.'
Twill We, Mary?' SEE she.
81 will, with the help Of God SEE /.
kiss me, Mary SEE she, an / did, an
wild that she was gone.
Thin I TUX two Ave cent pieces out Of mo
pocket book an l closed her eyes wild thin,
an I tied up her chin. Whin 1 had her fixed
1 whit downstairs an tould the Rttindint.
an 1 stayed down there an waited. They
wanted me to &c home an wouldn't. Sea
wan to me:
'shure yer sister is gone now, an "
"Is that SOP SEE L. Well, I'll stay wild ms
sister while ever she's in this place, no mat
Their where We put her.
so in a little while down they brought
poor Bridget on a stretcher an TUX her to
the dead house, an me after thin, for, ser
1 TO myself, they'll hould no eyetopsy on
Bridget while I've a breath left in me body
for / thought what they'd be up to.
We'll, as soon as they put her in wan o.
thim-a thing like a drawer that ye'd pull
out, re know-they SEE to me:
"'This is no place for We TO be waitin'; ye'd
better go home m they tried to arRy wid
me, but no
I'm stay here seq I.
'Ye must be tired out afther yer hard
days work; ye'd better CO. sez the watch
man.
that yen get me out o here
An shure enough, while l was waitin'I
down came the doctors and attindants
wild a stretcher to take me poor sisters
body away TO cut up, an h wan o. the
doctors seen me he SEE:
What's this woman dom here?'
" I'm here sez /, to take care OF me
sisters dead body an see that ye make
none o. yer eyetopsies on her.
Wild that the doctor commenced to
talk 70 me. Sez he:
Why SEE he, that body is no moro
nor a house that ye'd be put out Of
Well sez l. I never was put out OF q
, house yet, thank God, an no more will me
sister be TUX out Of this by yees.'
. But SEE he, we know tits a rule Of
the place that we must do this: yer sister
had a lump under her hearrt an We want
to find out what il was
She did not ser I, she died OF con-
sumption. that's what she did, an I don't
care what's yer rules; yen make no eye
topsy on her.
well, at long last. whin they seen they
couldn't move me they whit of. An thin
who should come TO the place but Murphy.
Glory be to God. but I was glad to see 'imi
"Ye see, whin l didn't come home he
thought I'd be wild me sister. an so he came
TO lux for me, an he whit to the dure OF tbs
hospital an axed was l there, an they tould
him me sister was in the ~deadhouse. So,
sez he, that's where Marym be.
The minute l seen him l SEE:
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