The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30

I'm tired of It! Sick and tired OF
t. that | ami" complained the girl,
who sat by the dying fire in her
kitchen crate, one restless hand
twisting and pulling at the wedding
ring she wore. II wish l was back
again at service. do, with nothing to
worry about. I've been managing on
half nothing, and doing without this
and that, now you're out Of work so
long l did think we'd have been
happy and comfortable when / mar
ried YOU"
The girls voice broke IN an angry
sob, for she was young and thought
less. and did not notice that every
complaint she made was stab
through the heart of the honest fell
low she had married. He stood now
staring gloomily into the little back
yard, where his country wife, with
her love of flowers, had trained few
bright colored nasturtiums up a bit
of trellis work, and planted row Of
homely stocks and asters, with a tiny
patch of mignonette to smell sweet
beneath the window. He saw them
all, and the scent drifted up to him
from the ground.
Poor old Milly!" he thought to
himself. 1T is hard on the lass just
now" He turned around. Don't
go saying things you'll be sorry for
by and by, Mill" he said gently. God
knows, I'd never have brought you
away from the country II l hadn't
heard work was so plentiful up here
in London. So 1t was at first and
maybe will again. Well have to fight
on for a BIT"
He drew nearer, and laid a hand
on the averted shoulder.
Cheer up lassie. 1t amt like you
TO turn cross and nasty" He gave
the girl playful shake, but in an in
slant she had sprung to her feet, and
was facing him with blazing eyes.
Gross, am II" she cried shrilly.
And enough to make me! I'm not
an angel, and never was, and l say
I'm sick of it, pinching and scraping
and parting with the bits of things
for rent. I wish was dead!"
A food of passionate tears choked
her as the memory of the past trou-
bles rose up like black cloud before
her eyes, and she felt herself in i'm
agination growing old and shabby,
IKE all the other weary, untidy, shift
less London women whose husbands
mad got no work, and her pretty little
pieces of furniture and wedding pres
ents melting away one by one in that
last resort of the poor-the ever open
pawnshop.
Ihere was silence In the room.
broken only by the girls sobs, and
LOT once her husband did not speak.
ihere is limit to all patience. and
ove may be strained to the breaking
point at last. Jim was dumb now.
Win never word or caress, and the
siri grler grew quieter in sheer sur
prise Was Jim going to get sulky?
Ilih' that she could twist round her
nnger' and turn with smile or coax
ing word. since they had first walked
out together in the green Hampsbire
lanes.
presently he turned abruptly round
anu walking to the cupboard where
MS coat was hanging, took down n
cap. =
I'm going out again to look for a
Job" he said.
The girl glanced at the clock. q
was half-past 4.
nut lts tea time now" she mur-
INJURED, a sudden remorseful Thought
hdshing into her mind that he had
eaten no dinner. Better ston and
have IT," ''op anu
Inc man shook his head. "I dom,
want none. I'd best get out. or NAV.
.e, oe you ana III quarrel worse. You've
Said some cruel things can't forget
never thought taste o. poverty
could change you SO sudden: I'm,
there, I'll CO." 'u'
Inc anger which had almost died
uown OF sudden flashed up again
Co. then. go!" she cried sbrilIv
AND good riddance! An vo,
neednt-' But the door crashed to
Denind him, and she sank back in he,
mar trembling and exhausted. alone
IN the quiet room.
i'm ana she had parted in anger.
me CLOCK. on the shelf above ba,
neau licked noisily on, and the rat,
,ie OF carts in the street outside came
na1iiy In as she sat brooding bv tbe
Heside alone. She was calmer nou,
anu could think reasonably and even
httie ashamed of her wild o,t.
burst And she began in memory n
uriit back to the country again ana
nome' and her courting days.
one saw herself waiting nj tbs
WICKET gate each evening for r,m
a.s work up at the Hall stables beina
uone' ana he free to take her out fo,
ions country strolls. How GOOD ba.d
Deen to her. and faithful and STEADY
never a smile or word for anothe,
sirI IN the village. true 10 her only
rnen her wedding day. and few
months after. when she had begun Il
nong for change and to see Lender
ana at last she had persuaded him ~
city. w 70 Tue
Her wish entirely. her persuasion
hnd now what had It brought them
toY She got up and looked AZ harss,,
ln little glass that hung on The ~,
hooked long and anxiously. Was ~
setting old and ugly. she wond.rsd
Fsarfullsi Certainly London air la