The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-06
LAZlNESS WORKS.
But Aunt Sally Says DoPa's
Husband Doesn't Tell All.

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by the WY. Aunt Sally. said
young Mrs Billings and the fact
that she stopped rocking TO say it was
a sign 81 its Importance there's a
question I've been saving to ask you
as soon as you came, and 1t was all
could do TO keep from writing it.
DO you remember Lazy Dora?'
Do I remember herr" The active
looking black-eyed woman sat erect
Gould forget herr OF all the Shift
less, good for nothing girls I ever saw
and I've seen somet
Sakes alive. she added, turning
TO the neighbor from the floor below,
who had run in with her mending
You'd need to see her to believe she
was true Ny niece and ] gave her
that name. just between ourselves,
and u fitted. We knew her To Idaho
when nay husband was doing a bit Of
engineering out there, and we were
boarding with her mother-a sensi-
Bile, industrious womaAa3 ever was.
There was plenty for Lazy Dora
70 do, but noshe'd lie abed until
time 10 dress for dinner-that was at
noon aud then she'd appear and
talk 70 the men-young engineers,
you know After that she lop down
and read novels or sleep until even
ing, when the men were home again.
Then she'd come to life in earnest.
My. how she d sparkle, ] used to
blink couldn't believe my own eyes,
she was so different from the daytime
Dora
AND. auntie, Mrs. Billings
wedged in. do you remember the
young engineer who was SO crazy
over herr"
DO /? Rufus Chandler was hi.
name. Poor man! squandering his
money on horses and carriages to
take her out Sundays and talking
with her evenings, and never dream
ing what she was like from morning
until night Il makes me sick now
to think Of his blindness,
Mrs Billings laughed softly. You
see. auntie had an eye on him for
me. she explained to the neighbor
from the floor below
She didn't know at the time that
/ already had my eye ON Jack Bill
lings, and ii went hard with her to
see this ether splendid young man
throwing himself away She was al
ways cornering him and telling him
what good pies / could make and
how ] had kept house for my father
since / was fourteen. but it was no
use. Rufus would slip away at the
first sound of Dora's slippers on the
stairs. And Aunt Sally would shake
her head at me in private and say:
Just wait till they're married, He'll
find out his mistake. Just you
watt
Il was perfectly right, too, Aunt
Sally persisted If he ever married
which I hope for his sake he
didn't-hes regretting 1t.
Aunt Sally announced Mrs Bill
lIngs impressiyely, he did marry her,
and they're living in this building
now, IN the Fat right over us"
"You don't say Poor fellow!"
"And he's blissfully happy"
"Then maybe he's made enough
money to keep her in idle luxury"
No; he's hard mp. He's told Jack
about his financial troubles, but he
says Dora is the bright star of his
life They cant even keep SER
want.
You don't mean to say that she
does her own work."
mo; he does her own work He
makes the beds and gets breakfast
and washes the dishes before he
leaves, and he always brings home the
provisions he's going to cook at night.
Yes, and he's rugged up a wire frame
90 hold her book, so that she can read
without getting too tired"
"Eunice Billings!"
Its all true Sometimes she mus
tiers energy to meet him down on the
front steps, and then he puts down
his parcels and carries her up two
flights of stairs and comes running
down again after his meat and veg
etablas lookins as if she'd given him
q kingdom
yes, indeed, the neighbor said,
"I'ye seen THAI often.
us she sick Aunt Sally shifted
mo more than she was when we
knew her. aunra. Shes JUST too