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Show 36 Kitty Nelson, and she married a Lawrence, and she told me, I was seventy-fire, and that's all I know." .c Poor creature," said I, 11 you have suffered a great deal." "A deal, missis, n. deal. You see they hated me so, and yet it wasn't me they hated; but nothing could beat them llits for natural spite! And so, you sec, missis, eight years ago, we got safe to New York, where my old man took care of gardens up town, and I found friends among the ladies. Tllen this dreadful law was passed, and Harry said, please God, I '11 set my foot in Canada; but ho was upwards of ninety, and it wasn't easy moving. 'y c came in the spring. They cheated us, on the road. :My daughter and her boy died, and we got carried round to !In milton. 'y c was a long time getting hero, and then this winter there was no work but chopping. Feeble as he was,and nobody 's spry at ninety,- my ole man walked three miles out into the woods, at five every morn· ing, and never carne back for his dinner till it was A llllt:t:zt: ~ltO!I T,A IO; ONTAJUO. 3i dark. Every week I kept hoping I'd get some money, but they wouldn't give him any till he 'd chopped twenty cords, and long before that he was down with tho rheumatis. Now he can't lift his hand to his head, and I have to work or beg for both ; but he did, n't forsake me, and I ' II never forsake him, God Almighty help rue," and the poor old thing burst into tenrs. My children listened sadly, nnd before I could speak, my golden-haired J.Jily, a little more th:m two years old, gathered up the brigllt-colorcd beans, with which she was playing, and poured them into her lap. Little could her childish heart take in the talc of misery to which they had listened, but her quick eye penetrated to the need of food, and she said imploringly, ~~'Take these, poor old aunty, and put them in your pot, and stew the old man some soup." t• Lord love you, darling," said the old woman, drying her eyes, " Lord love you, I have whole bags of peas and beans in the house, but if I was starving, I 4 |