The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-06-24

glad TO give dove. the other starving
30 receive It. Little by Httb the child
opened her heart sure of sympathy,
and Miss Cartssa ives learning what a
strange and unnatural pRoduct an or.
phan asylum child IS
| Lueila's mind was 80 full OF queer
fancies that Miss Clarissa was not sur
prised that stormy night when onr
story opens that the chihd's thought
should turn as It did and to hear her
ask II h wouldn't be Juice TO have a
bot OF dead folks ell yunY OWL"
"Dead folks Lstefia ?" she asked.
Yes" answered the child simply;
agrandfathers and graIdmothers and
aunts and unctes, Oh your own. with a
high fence around b keNi folks out
An, It must be 80 nicer Laellass face
grew bright or TIE thought.
Eyes, deaa" Miss Clarissa said soft
". 81 know what you mean. 10 have
oness dead together Is a comfort"
"But. Miss Claresea, do you think II
would be Wicked 10 adopt granffnv
TIERS n they'd hsen dead so hong they
had D one Rft7 There are two SOL
diers % the Revolution, In the old part
Of Che graveyard. end they have DO
one 90 love them and take care Of
them, and they'd make such nice
grandfathers COZ me II you think they
wouldn't object Do you? l want
some dead reiatfpes 3d. The near
sighted eyes were dim with taaFs.
WHO dre Hays7 ashpd Miss Clarts-
sA
cong b Capts4p jonathan Martin.
end Che >otber q Lieutenant Thomas
Hfmuuds. and 0ey died before 1900 -
NO. ssfd Mfsc Clarissa in answer
to tbe chflds Inquiry. ~rhe Martin
family are an Coma, and the last Ed
muD6s moved 2HSf years ago. There
b no one living ewho wound cave, and
as for the deaa q don't think they'll
object bot whaf good VIII they do
your
sAhn sahd EaEfa, WITH feREnR, "they
win b8 enco onnfoEt 10 me nights
! eau make stories up about them aft
er go TO bed. and can take care Of
their graves and put wRaaths Oh them
90 their birthdays, and perhaps you
win have the haadstmes Strengthened.
and WIN clean and srnpe them, and
then en- Memorial day they will put
tags and towers there, and / shall
iced SO proud and so so respectable. I"
So with Miss Clarssa's consent and
ah IOella Alice adopted her grandfn-
thera
| an through AE1 the child worked
every pleasant day after school hours,
patiently digging up witch grass and
weeds from the neglected. mounds and
The gTaveaed waik that ran beside
them Miss Clartssa had the saggfng
headstOnes Strengthened, but it was
Lnela who lahnrtousfy scraped and
eleaned them tn the Old inscriptions
Eere plainly egibiR.
There, too tho tlrst Wild flowers were
carefully transpaanted, and ON Sunday
Afternoons Miss Carissa and Lucia
Nten walked there. and the child show
I'd WITH delight the improvements made
Curing the week,
Il gave GrandfatfeB Martin all OF the
DwslipS for be was SO fond of them.
fou know. Grandma says he always
kept Q bowl of them on the sitting
room table while they we've IN bios
om.' The child lifted her eyebrows
significantly and whispered .'Malsa be-
deve"
ABut Grandpa Edmun1s liked vinfets
best 50 I've given them all to him"
The child ran ON, FUN of mythical
tales OF these pseudo grandfathers who
had died more than "a hundred years
before
Royton. IKE many old towns IN New
England. was rich in Revolutionary
lore. and 10 her graveyard were buried
several Of those who by dying had