Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-30
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Al Cne age or II years. sadie b- wac Left an orphan, and a neighbor took her home. which he did after two or three months, in a family who em- ployed a cook and second girl. and who had twenty different servants in one summer
 She was taught to call the mistress Lady M- and the daughter Miss Har- riet-- The gtepson was called Mr. John. and a son Thomas and his wife and child spent their summers there He vas an artist and resided In New York Lady M. dressed fin black silk and wore a lace cap. and would keep some goods en hand to supply her second girls with clothes. but they didn't tarry long enough to receive them. Sadie. who had never been from home before to work. had to learn her duties. and if she omitted a single ar- ticle when she set the table she was punished by being allowed only one biscuit. with no butter. She swept and dusted and washed dishes and cleaned silver and filled lamps and cleaned I them. and at first she was allowed to | read books which Miss Harriet took from the library: but after a while. doors. Lady M- sent her out with a heavy rush broom to sweep gravel | walks.
 She wore a red calico dress after | AlOONn. AllLll II was too SQlleu 10 wear | any longer. and Miss Harriet sent her to church for the first time arrayed in the soiled dress. The poor child was too mortified to look anyone in the | face. She never had .fared in such a manner at home. Mrs. John went ahead and. opened c pew door for her near the entrance.
 One day Miss Harriet was scoldins her. and MT. Thomas passed by and stepped up to Sadie and boxed her w-. Ha e. . was leaving for home he gave her . silver nve-cent piece to remember him
 by She could not help thinking that she could remember him without 1t. One day Lady M. was giving her
 some directions about her work and as Sadie passed the dining room to attend
 to her duties Miss Harriet rushed after
 her and clutched her by the neck. The
 frightened child screamed and Lady
 M followed to inqu4re what the mattel
 was. Sadie replied:
 Miss Harriet choked mel"
 WheTcupon she exclaimed:
 Mother. I never touched her" | At that. Lady M. slapped her in thu
 face and ordered her to go to hel
 work.
 No wonder that the lonely orphan
 felt utterly friendless and her hear
 was filled with bitterness at the crue
 and unjust treatment she received.
 She and Margaret, the cook. slept ir | an 4lNiC room. ana one day MISS harN
 riet went up to look over Sadie's trunk
 after which she came down and safs
 she had found d toy In the truni
 which Sadie had stolen from the parlo'
 table. but she did not see At to show
 her the toy. and Sadie always believed
 that it was a toy of her own. giveI
 her by her mother. for she missed |
 and never heard of it agnin- It wal
 made of ivory and shaped like a win
 glass. with a cushion at the top. GOV
 cred with cherry velvet The poor gir | never ceased to grieve at her loss. They took her the same day am [ left her with the family who had he at first. but in a few weeks Quake , lady who lived across the street iron ried Sadie home and. finding her obe dient and strictly honest, decided | adopt her.
 , Meanwhile Lady NJ. had discovere that she was mistaken in thinking tha Margaret was honest. for as she wa about to leave they searched her trunl Harr!et's and white spread. Sh and Mir. John wrote her one, snyfnE sh was a good cook. so she had an oppor
 tunity to rob someone else but Sadie 5 good name was restored. and she re
 ceived a number of presents from tn family. though they would not own [ words how they had wronged her. She attended a good school and greI i up to be respected, but always locke 5 back on those few months as the dark
 est of her life.
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