Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-10-26
HETTY GRANGER'S GIRL

Priscilla Pipp. solemnly, laying aside her
bonnet and sinking comfortably into
rocker.
1T seems strange to think of Hettv
gone-that we won't see her comm out
OF the bay way any more with plate
to borrow butter on. l remember her
comm over one afternoon when she had
company to tea, unexpected like, with
that old blue plate-you remember that
old blue chiny one her great grandmoth-
er handed down-no, you don't, either,
because you amt ever been inside of her
house as l know of-but ANYWAY I let
her have a piece off my last print of
butter an me not gettin' any more till
Saturday, was Dave jerks regular time
to bring it in, an Hetty goin' back home
so careful like an slippin' an losin' the
butter an breakin' tn chiny plate all to
pieces an her lookin' all around to see
If any one was lookin', am then pickin'
up the butter and wipin' it off on her
apron. But the plate was too fur gone
for savin', although / believe she did
afterward gather up the pieces and glue
EN- together Poor Hettyl 1t seems
strange to think of Hetty gone-in Para
disc"
1T does seem strange" Sarah admit
ted.
"What?" said Priscilla, absently.
To think of her-in Paradise Sarah
said Il don't s'pose she'll make any
great stir in Paradise ~ she continued. in
a half inquiry.
We'll, mebbe not as much as she will
after she gets her bearin's,n Priscilla
agreed with qualification. "Hetty's bound
to be busy, in the flesh or In the sperrit
Hers amt no sperrit to sit by with fold
ed hands and watch things takin' place
It's my believ she'll be active, even in
the sperrit. She was a powerful cleaner,
Hetty was. / don't know of any one in
the neighborhood that had rugs am cur
tains out on the line oftener n Hetty
did"
AN certainly no ore had her tongue
out oftener,' observed Sarah bitingIy.
Il wouldn't feel hard toward her, now
she's deal" Priscilla volunteered. feeling
her way along cautiously. Il know she
--she did you a lot o. wrong. but mebbe
she liked him better'n you did, an it
was all years an Years ago, an she's
dead an he's dead, am"
A tear trickled down Sarah's cheek
"Mehbe she did" she admitted; ashe
talked faster'n / did, anyway" She
brushed the tear away inpatiently and
left shiny streak on her face
THAT amt neither here nor there"
Priscilla declared. you've got nice
things, Sarah" she said, looking about
her through the big room. 81 remem-
Der when you an me was girls together
how we used to build doll houses an
wonder about all the nice things we'd
have when we growed up an got-mar-
ried'-the last word came with an eff
fort AN then when we got along
about the marryin' age, who should
come along but Peter Pipp, with nothin'
but poverty an prospects, an before
knew it we were married, an while we
nin't had no money to brag of, we've
always been comfortable. an Pipp's
made a good husband, aside from his
mothers interferin' sometimes An aft
erwards | remember how you an'-well
you fell III love an some way it got
broke off an he married Hetty, an you
lived with your father on tn old place
for so many years, an then he died an
left you comfortable for the rest of your
days. / never knew what broke it off
A-Nitti Il iiStlitft SuGSCSllNGil.
I'm goin' to give 'em to tn guild
when | get 'em hemstitched," Sarah vol
unteered this much in the way of in
formation.
Priscilla went back to rocking.
Hetty's left a girl, too," she went on
as though the destiny OF the napkins did
not impress her. "They say she looks
more like him every day. It's too bad
o,nst 81 inst sha 4,p,o .ho ,onaJn m nav
ent's care the most, an both of 'em gone
an nothin' left in the way of money
or property. | wonder what she'll do
she ventured.
What she can, mebbee-like tn rest
CT us" Sarah suggested harshly.
They say she ain'@ got no relatives"
Priscilla added.
(Which amt always On unmixed af.
iliction retorted Sarah
"lt it want for Minnie an Mamie an
Willie an Jimmie an little Peter I'd
take her myself Priscilla continued,
passing Sarah's tart observation unno-
tleed. 1T would be a mercy to take her
in an give her home. Still, s'pose tn
Lord'n provide way for her, but blessed
ii l can see it now
Sarah folded the hapkins up and put
them or the chair beside her.
Il should think you'd get lonesome in
this big house with not soul around
but a boy dom chores an going to
school," Priscilla said.
1T amt always them that's around
you that keeps you from bein' lone.
some" Sarah remarked, looking hard at
something out of the window that seemed
20 have a mist about it.
no, s'pose not Priscilla said softly.
There were few minutes of rocking
and looking out OF the window.
"You know" Priscilla said, after
pause, "if anything was to happen that
my Minnie was to be left alone l won.
der if / could send down a prayer that
would so into somebody's heart and not
let EN- rest until they went an found
her an took her in an gave her good
home BIKE your't, for example, she