The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-12-17

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f-.o ne ~psrlors ara blessed their 6st-otEsl- :
M her ANS about Fanny and kissed 1er
cried over her; she advised her ano tas Doy
marry a. soon as they could, and When SIC y
they we're Saving slowly and wouldn't Dc as
make il for months. she Srote chez
March. kids-setttle doEu-be o. t1s =
% one another" sae sighed. AID tAsy bo'h As
ner and said they would
Daisy wondered Row she could have 50
away SO long-how she could have wrsPF@1
self Up so completely il her OWE s1all7
these. Of her own flesh and Of her oEn hon
become faded images II an atrophied neE--
as though they had never been Or had CO
TO be
Here was little Fanny. Daisy would la
down her life for little Fanny; and cEe-a
Pete trying 10 shoot square. rot enough c.
sonaIity 10 accomplish i without subsLa1Cz-
rot enough o. : character 20 Withstand u
man crooked 11Cl1EIoLS- EELc - @s ne o.
himself, grown quite old. disappointed over
his children, including Daisy. DaisE had -
out the only decent crook in the whole mob
what good was she 10 him? She vas ID -
in fast company. Tar and away beyond lis So
like a full-nedged eagle hatcEed q CHS
hawk.
And here were the old walls There as
little room where she had spent Ter kidEo55
there the family sofa on which ste usea -
Ier beatings, and ther@oh. deAr-Jhe-e wss I
old picture Of the horse swishing his tai. II
had hung in the dining room ever since t1s
man had cleaned out farmhouse down The COZ
while the residents were of a. g funeral
Home! The worn rugs. the Clipped chirsva
the bent forks, the crippled chairs, the doo-E-
wired on With hsirpins. the coal 20 fetch u .
cellar-hov 1t all made her feel like IetU2E
hair down her back and borrowing one Of Fa--
Bingham aprons. the kind all girls wes- c.
South around home, whether the songs say So
not
That night she had dreams. She hez-3
humming or nighungales and the chi-p.-z
bees; she saw moonlight on ripping waite
she saw beaming faces Of contented cullud D.
adecuonately looking 10 their white massss
the plain needs and the treasured little lux,
OF their kindly. humble. grateful lives
smelled waffles and tasted Tasses drps. tolio7
by crisp fried young chicken swimming Y
own gravy and lying beside its affinity. core
tiers Of golden yellow tapering OF into CTS
brown.
And next morning her nanny came hone
she and Daisy had a lovely cry together :
Daisy helped with the dishes and cooked TIE j
ner. And Pete had a little confidential talk =
her and said if he could only raise fifty iollaci
ne knew OF job in Augusta: he didn't var
go crooked-he just couldn't, and the old q
Kept nagging, and he knew he'd De failure,
out came Daisy with the fifty. and back cai
Pete with his promise 10 go straight 10 Augus
and go straight thereafter
And, when Daisy finally packed off, hack
the North-with her mothers bubbling blessn
on her Petes silent grip on her little soft n.
(the business one), Fanny and her upright c.
eater besming her, even the old mans grsl
more outspoken than genuine-she began TO til
that maybe those Dixie songs weren't SO 81
after all; maybe she Was glad she'd rolled hDr
even IL she hadn't heard single banjo or ct
a leyee in the moonlight.