The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-07-24

HE is my husband"
Well" said Samuel Blood, Jacob
Barry started 1t, and we good friends
and neighbors, twenty years."
Another fish was caught and added
to the basket full.
Let him call it pride. I call it tar
nation meanness. Maybe l amt got
pride, so here" He raised the
basket and held it 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 it
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 a chair. The old lady she cried
awful. She wanted the fish for sup
per. We had beans and old Mr..
Barry was too bad from getting so
mad to pray much. He just said may
VIC vain III lilo 4lEuI VI Ivy
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.
ooh, Jacobs pride" she deplored.
There was queer chuckling laugh,
something like Samuel Blood's and
old Mr.. Barry stood leaning on his
stick in the doorway.
"He thought cause was beholdin'
to him, I'd lost spirit and pride, but
no, l stood ground-I 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 him!" he accused sud-
denly. For him!"
q The old lady Rugged her crippled
! arm with the well one.
II can live and let livel" she defled.
Amt the brook miner" he yelled.
moi" she answered stubbornly.
! 'Whose?" he could hardly ask It.
l Gods" she said, give to you and
I Sam Blood to fish i'm
}. He turned slowly round and hobbled
D off.
J And my little Mary cheated out of
: her rights" the old woman whim-
2 pered, living in the next county
stead of married and Twin in the
:, pink stone house-happy!"
e She began crying softly. Aunt
4 Doddy went in and found old Mr.
a Barry back in bed. He sent her out
d to tell Uncle Cal to go for the doctor
o The doctor came that evening and
left a tonic. Mrs. Barry made catniI
t tea next day, but he would not take
y it. He slept a good deal, but hardly
It talked at ali. This went on for ter
days.
Every day the twins saw old Sam
II uel Blood. After the one on which
Narcissa told him what had happened
Z to the fish, he stopped speaking Of
. Jacob Barry. They had some very
, pleasant times there by the brook.
- Narcissa had given up writing hel
q diary at night, the moon rose so late
= she was always asleep before it go
round to light her window.
. She slipped away, one afternoon
while Valera read from the Bible Il
;: old Mrs. Barry and went over the
q Meadow, nearly to the brook, and
It climbed an apple tree. I'~had a sea-
Y in the crotch and there she began tt
v write. She could see Samuel Blood
fishing.
If At hating, swishing sound in the
n meadOw-grass. Narcissa peered below
j. There came sick old Mr. Barry limp
ing along on his cane. He passed or
y toward the brook. There he stopped
q exactly opposite Samuel Blood. The
on.
Hello, Jacob" spoke Samuel Blood
q Hello, Samuel" old Jacob Barry
j answered, Il been sick"
II Narcissa slid out of the apple tree
Over the meadow she bounded with
4 the news. But on the side porch
were Uncle Cal, with an open letter
Aunt Doddy and old Mrs. Barry. 4
n Mary Barry is coming home to
night" Valera slipped from behind
It them to tell. Uncle Calls got Il
e. hitch up and meet the train. He got
J. the letter yesterday and put it in his
70 pocket and forgot it."
Listen" Narcissa shrilled. "Mr
$. Barry's down there at the brook max
d ing up with old Mr.. Blood"
Il Mrs. Barry screamed and sank int
her chair.
Making up,~did you say?" Uncle
e Cal questioned.
d Eyes, Uncle Cal, maxim up" Mar
cissa answered. Talking same as Il
!" they were never mad at each other
a He looked quickly at Aunt Doddy
}! then he bent over his mother.
Come in, mother, and I'll coml
4 your hair before Mary comes" Aun
a Doddy said gently.
D. That night she prepared a gorgeous
it supper, the twins helping. 1t wa