The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-04-20

"She is my wife"
He is my husband"
Well" said Samuel Blood. Jacob
Barry started IL, and We good friends
and neighbors. twenty years."
Another fish was caught and added
TO the basket full.
Let him call Il pride. I call It tar
nation meanness. Maybe | amt got
pride. so here" He raised the
basket and held IL out to Narcissa.
Take these over TO Jacob Barry: tell
your Aunt to cook 'em for supper.
Tell Jacob Barry. Sam Blood sent 'em
and they come out Of our brook"
Back over the meadow sped the Pol
lard twins, bearing the Offering.
What happened thereafter was set
down in Narcissa's diary.
MY what a awful time. He raised
the basket full OF fishes and threw IL
as far as he could. All the chickens
came running and the old cat and her
kittens. He got purple in his face
and Uncle Cal came out and put him
In chair. The old lady she cried
awful. She wanted the fish for SUD-
per. We had beans and old Mr..
Barry was too bad from getting so
mad to pray much. He Just said may
We walk in the light OF thy reconciled
countenance. Amen"
Then Narcissa knelt beside the bed
TO give thanks for the good time she
and her sister were enjoying.
The next morning old Mr.. Barry
was sick. He did not get up. Mrs.
Barry came out and sat In the kitchen
where the twins were helping Aunt
Doddy.
"what'd Sam Blood say when he
sent the fish, twinies?" she asked.
That he didn't have PRIDE" Mar
cissa answered.
The old lady brushed away a tear.
oh. Jacobs pride" she deplored
There vas a queer chuckling laugh.
something like Samuel Blood's and
old Mr.. Barry stood leaning on his
stick in the doorway.
He thought cause I was beholdin'
90 him, I'd lost spirit and pride. but
no. ! stood ground claimed the
brook" Twice he struck the floor
with his stick. He's got a mortgage
on my house and won't foreclose,"
You'll have another turn" warned
the old lady.
, You're for hint" he accused sud
denly. For hint"
q The old lady Rugged her crippled
/ arm with the well one.
Il can live and let live!" she defied
Amt the brook minef" he yelled
= mo-" she answered stubbornIy.
4 "Whose?" he could hardly ask II.
| Gods" she said. give to you and
Sam Blood to FISH in"
;. He turned slowly round and hobblet
, And my little Mary cheated out o.
. her rights" the old woman whim
7 Dered. living in the next county,
stead OF married and livin' in tn,
y pink stone hOuse-happyi"
q She began crying softly. Aun
d. Doddy went I'm and found old Mr.
a Barry back in bed. He sent her on
d TO tell Uncle Cal to go for the doctor
o The doctor came that evening an,
left a tonic. Mrs. Barry made catniI
L tea next day, but he would not tax,
y 81. He slept a good deal. but hardll
Il talked at all This went on for tel
days.
!, Every day the twins saw old Sam
- uel Blood. After the one on whicl
Narcissa told him what had happene,
= 20 the fsh. he stopped speaking o
70 Jacob Barry. They had some yer,
/, pleasant times there by the brook.
Narcissa had given up writing he
n diary at night. the moon rose so late
n she was always asleep before Il 10
round 10 light her window.
% She slipped away. one afternoon
while Valera read from the Bible {,
b: old Mrs. Barry and went over IN
% Meadow. nearly to the brook, an
q climbed an apple tree II had a sea
y IN the crotch and there she began II
y write. She could see Samuel Bloc
fishing.
Ir At halting. swishing sound in ID
n meadow grass. Narcissa peered below
J. There came sick old Mr. Barry limr
INK along on his cane. He passed o
" toward the brook. There he stopped
~ exactly opposite Samuel Blood. Tn
70 brooks gurgling song kept PEACEFUL
on.
Hello. Jacob" spoke Samuel Blood
~ Hello. Samuel" old Jacob Barr
'' answered. 4 been sick"
N Narcissa slid out OF the apple tire,
over the meadow che bounded Wit
IA the news. But on the side pore
we're Uncle Cal. with an open iettel
Aunt Doddy and old Mrs. barry.
IN Mary Barry r. coming home q,
night Valera slipped from benin
NJ them 10 tell Uncle Calls cot q
r hitch mp and meet the train. lie 50
Q. the letter yesterday and put 70 In hi
ie pocket and forgot a."
"Liston'" Narcissa shrlued. Nj
= Barrys down there Of tho brook nal
d ms up with old Mr Blood
" Mrs Barry screamed and sank int
her chair
Making up. did you say" Unci
he Cal questioned
ID Yes. Uncle Cal. maxim upf~ VA
cIssa answered Talking same aa
- they were never mad AZ each other
~ He looked quickly At Aunt Dodd,
then he bent over hts mother
Come IN. mother and III cum
Id your hair before Mary comes" Aur
=. poddy said gently
n. That nieht she prepared a eorreou
10 supper the twins helping It va
ready when Uncle Cal came. drivin