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Show 1'1Il~ ADJ"El{TUllES OJ/ IIUCJ{LEBERRl~ l·'I.iY. f.t~ t do, and a body could ~ e by ·what she had done what th ey hatl lo ~ t. But I reckon eel, that with her di po ition, she \ra · having a beLtcr time in the grave-yard. She wa at work on \rhat th y aifl was her greatest picture \rhen h 1 ook ·ick, and every day and ev ry night it wa · h r ] >ray r to be <·tllowed t live till ·he got it don , but she nev r got th chance. IL \ra · a picture of a young woman in a long w bite go\vn, standing on the rail of a bri(lgc all ready to jump off, with h er hair all down her back, and looking up to the n1oon, \vith llH\ t ear~ running down her fac e, and he had two ann ... fold d a eros h r brea t, and t\Y ann: tretched out in front, nnd t.\vo nwre reaching up t \Yard. th n1oon-and th idea \vas, to . c whi<:h pair would look be t and th n cratch out all th ' olb cr ~n·1n ; but, a I wa ' ·aying, she died befor sh goL her n1ind 1nadc np, and now th y k pt thi picture over the h ead of the heel in h )r rootn, and very tim her birthday com they hung Rower ' on it. Other tin1es it \Va hicl with a little curt<lin. The young wo1nan in the picture had a kincl of a uic f~WC t face, but there .wa.' so 1nany ar1ns it made h r look i oo ._ pid )ry, .. c1ned to me. This young girl kept a scrap-book when . he \va. · alive, ancl tvecl to pa t obituaries and accid nts and cases of paticnL suffering in it out of Lhe ' Presbyterian Ob erv r,' and write poetry after th m out of her own head. It wa.' v ry goo<l poetry. Thi · i · what he \Yrot \ about a boy by th nau1e f ~t.epheu Dowling Bot that fell clown a well and was dro,vnd <l : Om·J TO I 'TEP1LE~ DOWLING nors, Dl]C\l. And did young tephen sicken, And did young . tephen die ? And did the sad hearts thicl\en, And did the mourn rs cry? :K o; .. uch was not the fat of Young teph n Dowling- Bots; 8TEPIIEN DOTVLTs·a JJOT~ '. Though sad hearts round him th ic1mncu, Twa not fl'Om icknes~' 'hot:-:. Xo whooping-cough did rack his framl', Nor nH'n.. l ' drear, with . pots: Not these impaired the . acred nam Of tl'phen Dowling Bot~ . "THEY GOT llll\1 OUT AND El\TPTIED Jll:\f.'' Despised love .·truck not with woe That h ad of curly ]motH, Nor stomach troubl s laid him low, Young St phen Dowling Bot . 1·">7 |