Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-10-26
everybody was ont. she added somewhat

Ni.s ~ y odidH, you mustn't I,
cried Priscilla. "It's blasphemy.''
eWhat--prayer?' Sarah inquired.
No talkin' Ike that" said Priscilla.
We'll, amt / goirr + give tn napkins
to tn guild?" Sarah retorted.
1T amt napkins tn Lord wants" sue
gested Priscilla.
What is it, them" inquired Sarah.
Its hearts-good. lovin'. tender hui
man hearts-that's what it is"
Well, mine was good an lovin' an
tender once" Sarah said, slowly. But
it's old an hard an dry now like an old
cheese rind."
sMebbe He's tryin' to make it lovin'
an tender again an give you somethin'
to put into it thatll take it back to
where it used to be" Priscilla sug-
gested
How?" Sarah asked.
"Oh, ! don't know" Priscilla respond
ed. He works in mysterious way
that's what the poet says"
HYou mean for me to take her-that
girl of Hetty's?" demanded Sarah, fierce
".
'.No; | mean for you to take her-that
girl of Robins" Priscilla answered her.
IL forgot" Sarah responded, less
bitterly.
Her name is Robin, same as his
Priscilla informed her. tits the kind
of name you can give to girl or a
boy either-th' boys after Robin Hood
an th' girls after Robin Redbreast, meb-
be-"
"She told him lies,o Sarah cried, her
bitterness returning. "She told him lies
and he" She rested her chin on her
hands and her elbows on her knees and
looked hard out of che window, where
everything was misty.
Il know" said Priscilla, soothingly.
''But she is dead an he is dead an you
an me are here"
Il never knew about her fallin' down
with tn butter" Sarah said Then she
added: "Was it .rue that they got pref
ty poor before she died'"
Il guess they were in bad straits"
Priscilla said. "They say little Robin
amt hardly got clothes enough to keep
soul an body together"
''Her mother should "a talked less an
sewed more" Sarah ventured.
.'Hetty Granger want idle" Priscilla
ohjectcd. Give tn dead her due. She
was always busy, but woman can't do
much in tn way Of earnin' tn way
things CO."
Il suppose not" Sarah said. 'Does
she look any way like her mother?"
'They say she's tn image of her fa-
ther. She's all alone in tn house up there,
with nobody but Kate Adams, an Hates
been havin' such time mournin' openly
for Hetty Pm ofTaid she'll have poor
little Robin scared to death before night.
Hates a good soul, but she's powerful
mourner, so Pm goin' up to get Robin
an bring her home for few days with
me. Jimmie an Willie an little Peter
can sleep together in the quarter
bed. an that'll make room for her with
Nellie"
Il don't think / ever saw her." Sarah
unused. Il amt looked at one of 'em
for fifteen years"
"You better peek out when we're goin'
by" Priscilla suggested. "I'll rattle my
parasol against the fence pickets."
Il don't s'pose she'll look at me. Het-
ty probably filed her up with stuff about
nae
"Hetty never told her word" re-
sponded Priscilla. "She told me so on
her dyin' bed, and tn truth win out
then"
(which is some better than never"
said Sarah. ''Well, mebbe I'll peek out.
Don't scrape tn fence pickets too hard.
They're fresh painted"
"It'll crowd Jimmie an Willie an lit
tie Peter to sleep three in a three-quar-
ter bed. but it's CROWN in a good cause"
Priscilla suggested 1T must be strange
to live without crowdin', Sarah. We
can't turn around home without runnin'
into a trunk OF a table or chair or
baby"
IF you think she'd come"-Sarah hes
itated--'if you think she would care to
come, Priscilla, | will let her have the
front room upstairs-for a night or
two"
Priscilla rose from the rocker and
touched Sarah's forehead with her lips.
Its like when we were girls again"
she said
Il don't s'pose she could help what her
mother did before she was born," ad-
mitted Sarah.
Il don't exactly see how she could"
admitted Priscilla, cautiously.
Sarah's glance went out of the window
and away off up green slope to the top
of a hill where white shafts rose.
priscilla" she said, "if you think she
would care to come an live with dried
up, old maid"
Yes. eagerly.
swell, you can bring her in when you
so by and leave her here for while,
anyway. I'll try to do right by her, al
though / amt sayin' by that / forgive
Hetty Granger. An don't know as l
ever will unless you come around again
talkin' about girls together, and silly
things like that. l amt dom it for Het-
ty Granger, either, but for Robins sake
-s
"For Robins sake" Priscilla assented.
mo, not for Robins sake, either, but
for the sake of Willie and Jimmie and
little Peter, an to keep 'em from crowd
in three in bed,' said Sarah, wiping
her eve with a corner of one of the
guilds napkins. AN it'll save you
scrapin' on tn fence pickets. too. They're
fresh painted. New York Times.
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