The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-01
PART 7.

window,
twenty years
dealer wealthy
repute he able
close start bargain with say three out OF the six glasses OF
whisky wife indispensable bring
pride had him drunk
fresh and that in the of duty One
ter unusually busy
business Then discov
cred that his savings were nil His merely
Of three meadows of arabic land all heavily
mogagd the house By udcous and reless
Mrs skeemr had been able the house and
there bring her daughter, Matilda.
Tilda married
life q baby beauty She
of those children who have the misfortune be born old
Her pnched wizened limbs loose set
"she always
the lookout bone bullock Indeed Tda with her
to mind between POed Devon Irish home bred
She had given the lie to notion that ugly baby
makes a looking with the
face had BIRTH she had had
beauty of form that attracted him But admirer
twenty the
to all healthy minded girls had been hers thirty they
fingered hope against hope Now thrtyhve they
being heroiay consigned the limbo of might have
Yet the a only
with relieve
of existence in her mothers cottage and to show the
folk of the village that them by
inability i
Matilda had been early apprentced to the dressmking In
eed for the last efen painted on the three front
of glass with "Dressnaker" beneath
letters under all the
The six months the village had been unusually full of life
undergoing a
Norwich firm of builders doing the
woren were lodging In cottages or in any house in the village
where they could find accommodation
be dodgers fought Matilda.
The scanoding grad
uay being pulled down Soon the village would return to its
judging by hanging
had not lost their opportunity The dresses wedding
busy put
ting the finishing o a
Seems brought proper o
the owing
business helping by basting lining
skirt. "sch times agin
o CaIey's o
yes" sigh, ha brought about plenty O.
courtin' giv1n marriage"
"And a lot trolopng mawthers they be- tew,"
Seemer breaking her cotton effort give emphasis her
"ussies Knights
catched another who only
November cold Taint
Fare ter all the gals in the village be clean off their
heads"
yes they mother.
"Fluer tutter, tew," I
Mrs tother night
wouldn't ha exhibiting
folks ha let theirs dew guyed out in all their fnery and Sunday
clothes weekdays pick husband be he
STILL Tda her mother went on and there was aggreved
in her voice 81 did think when
begins yer going
mother! things thought past
the time day. be- Besides amt 'tractive the
girl, with bitterness.
"Oh we'll" skeemer men be
lookin' pretty they
and deserves all they and be well o the muck"
Matilda did but turned her face the window
and watched the boys playing with their Suddenly
there of Splits and crash of broken glass
bounced through the window and fell with bang the floor
a scamper daughter
Skeemer. complained
pceman afore
pliceman
pane glass I'll skin the young whole when
catches N TtdaT"
Shr yeIs proceeded from the little lane which by the
of a
view, dragging small boy by the
wornt met wOrn't tells YER howed the boy; lit
young Skipper. did mine his
great split and flew through the
vynder me, skeemer" again. by
time the had dragged him where Mrs Skeemer
purple standing Armine split
nnyhv he added n a whimper
who't Dew hold him, guide I'll
pay And Skeemer dived
returned a yard measure.
viciously.
"oh don't hit him. num- said the He be fairly fright
glazer I'll the winder right
this he let the boy wrgge of his
smiled as he watched him fly bowling down the street
ortnt ha' let him He should ha'
Of" grumbed Mrs Skeemer Plague the
Egausen in nowadays"
'Tn mend it for ha got few bits glass
ever the church wnders I'll
kind" said Matilda Me mother II much
if will, and if yer'n tell us what it costs"
for love-" broke the
turned
pushed her
which she shut then