The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-08-01

came a little more rigid, II anything.
and the old woman's rocker Increased a
the cadence of its creaking by ten a
rocks 10 the minute, but still she kept b
her eyes intent upon her work, which,
for knitted stocking seemed TO heeu
an unusual amount OF attention.
AS for Joseph, the look OF astonish-
ment then CONSERVATION that came
over his face was pitiful to see. lie
brought down his feet from their
Mace of ease, half turned In his chair
till he could see his aunts rigid ex-
pression. and exclaimed in voice III
which all the trouble of his race was
reproduced:
"Alone! Why. aunt, what's the mat.
fer? What have done? Amt
tended to the wood, and amt helped
YOU wash. and amt | done every'h'hs
for yer that could? BE yer SICK vi
seein' me 'round9 Why, Aunt, ms
| voice broke as his eyes filled, why,
| aunt. I didn't know wasn't apleasm
| yer"
The cadence of tho chair Increased
vet again (the only outward evidence
of the inward disturbance), ana Mary
waited a moment before answering
"'Tain't you. joe she said hnaliy'
"it's me. | guess but | tell yer, Joe,
I'VE been thinking It over all summer
and If am an old woman ] ain't quite
laid on the shelf yet, and | amt ago
in to be, neither"
AS she talked her feelings overcame
her timidity of speech. and now sne
set forth her views with the force Oh
ten months of pent-up feelings. whiie
moor Joe listened and looked as
though the end Of the world had come
mo. sir! amt quite bedridden
vet" she went on. Here I've peeh
3 a.runnin' this house for 40 years, ana
3 never day but what was glad there
want no man botherin' round. VINO
r dug the garding and planted 1t, year
4 in an year out. before you came? l
6 did Who threw in the wood an piled
It II IN in the shed every fall? l. did
l. Who's drawed the water pail at
It time all these years, and VINO even
It laid the shingles on the ell an barn
ten years ago? | did. | did, Joe Ger
n IRISH. and you know 1t. Now do you
u, think I'm a-goin' to see my home
:" taken right out of my hands, an me
a-dependin' on somebody else? Well
u | amt"
s, But the 'rangement, auntle, th'
g. arrangement" said poor Joe, graspin'
is like drowning man at the only stray
n in sight: you know the rangemen
to was that do the work around an
t." make my home here the rest OF m
ne DAYS. and that sometime when yo
get through. aunt. | was a-goih
I'D have the place Want that the unde
A. standin} Aunt Mary?"
ou, "Providin', Joe. providin' that AT III
ct end of year everything was satista
we tory. Want that what | saidY Didh
YOU agree to that, now? Tell, me, nov
didn't you agree to that!
IAN YES, / agreed to it, aunt, agree
YES to it, but | never once 'spected "
SO want satisfied with me. I've tried a.
lao full hard to please yer. Aunt, I've tri'
NV awful hard
Turned out. Joe looked around
III the homely, old-fashioned furniture
'ur- the kitchen. Around the kitchen I
WIN ewes travelled and into the STUN
room. and everywhere were to be Sc
'u, evidences of his hardness with ha
o mer and saw.
nay Oh. but 1t was hard to be turned Q
you -, Not hut that he could contin
les TO do odd jobs and so earn hvi
from the more pretentious neighbol
oids his services were always In DENIAL
IN But the old house had become home
him. To sit down at night ana or
as l off his heavy boots put on his wal
'oru roomy slippers and after supper,
VIII Dick on his knees or close beside n
row think over his thoughts all by n
'ded self was 10y enough and to spare.
TINS little realized the inner emotions
his aunt. He little imagined as ne
oack thus in pleasant and peacetui tnou
IL that though outwardly calm. she
run saving that he made her nerV
. Ell with his sulky ways.
wear before he had come hi
ight- from Indiana, man 62 years old,
VIII nothing but a pair of willing ha
Id IL and a clean name. His aunt, Ill at
as l fine was nearly 20 years older,
feeling that she had lived alone
up enough. had proposed that Joe II
light bis home with her, with the un
g to standing that sometime the hi
rds should be his. Thus had the place
will come home to the old man, an'
happy had he been in this have
gray refuge that he failed to see the ST
COM that was rising. and when at la
ldson broke he felt for the while that
! the spirit broke as we'll. So, with only
! cha stars to see, ne cried like child
archt night before tired Nature at last
e not way and sleep claimed her own.
anus
December came and went. 1t
hard month. Great storms piled
streets. and country. city and shil
suffered Joe Gerrish In his one
u luoA room kept his diminutive stove 4
HOW | =, ut,., ana hafora N no ruhhe