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Show .. Oh no. 'l'l.wn lit with tearful eye, \ \' hilst I hi · fate ( lt) tell. Ilis oul di<l from this cold world fly, By falling down a wdl. They got him out anu omptieu him ; Ala it was too late ; IIi~-< spirit was gone for to sport aloft. In ihe realm.· of the good and great. If En11n ,lin Urang rforcl roultl make poetry lik thnl hl.forc ~he wa fourteen, there ain·t no teJling \vhat .-h e' <·onlll a <lone by-ancl-by. Bnck said she oulcl rat tle off poetry like not hi11 rr. ~h cliJn't v r have to :-;tor) to think. l[' ·aicl slw h would . lap tlown a }jn , nncl if she co uldn't End anything tn rhynH' \Yith iL ·he woulcl ju t .·cratch it out and slap do\rn a11othcr on', and go ahead. Rhe warn't p:1rticular, she coulcl \\Tite about anything you choo ·e to give her to \Vrit ahon•.~, j u L so i L wa. saclful. Every titne a 1nan died, or a w01nan <lied, or n. child eli cl, he would be on hand with h er ' tribute ~ he for he \Yas cold. She called t hen1 tribut 'S. The neighbours said it wa. the doctor fir 't, th n Etnnl 'line, then the uncl rLakcr - the uncl ·rtaker never got in all a<l of Emmeline but once, and t h \n sh hung fire on a rhyn1c for t h clead p r on's name, \vhich wn · \Vlli.' tler. ih warn't cv r th' am , after that; he never ('Otnplained, but he kind of pin eel away and did n t live long. P )Or t bing, many'· the ti1nc I 1na<l 1ny. ·elf go up to the litt le rootn t hat u u t b h rs and get out her poor old '"'crap-b ok an(l rrad in it wh n h r pictur s had been aggravating 1ne ancl I had . oured on her a littl . 1 like<l all that family, dead on · ;lncl all, an<l warn t goino- to 1 't anything come between u~. Po r Etntnclin lll[Ul poetry about all the dead p eople when !"he was alive, and it didn't seeu1 right that there \Yarn't nobody to make some aboGt her, now he was g ne ; so I tried to sw at out a verse or two n1yself, but I c uldn't seem to make it go, A TI.~..V PA ..Y. PI..ll\-0. ],)f) ~omehow. They k pt Ennnelin : .. roo1n tt·inl an<lnicr aud all the thing fix: eel in iL ju:L t h way she li k cl to hav<· thr 1n when f-h was ali vc, and nol) ely cv 'r 1 pL tlH r . The old lady took care of th r o1n h r el f, th ngh there was plenty f nig~e r:-; and h s wed th r a good deal i.UHl r ad h r Hi blc there, lllO tly. \Y '11, a. I wa ·ayi11g about th' parlour, th n' wa · b<·nutiful curtain on th ·window : \Vhit , \Yith picture~ paint '<l on th<•Jn, of astl \vith vin all down th walls, an<l cattle emning down to ch·ink. Th re wa. a little old piano, too, that h:Hl tiu pa11s in it, I r ·kon, and n thing wa · <'vcr , o l Y ly a.· to hPar tlH· young laui : ing, "Th Last Link i~ Brok n" an<l plny ' T1H· BaLt] of Pra rrue ' on it. The walL of all the roorn: wa: pln.·- b t cr d, and n10 t had carpets on t h fl or:, nnd Lh ' whole hou.· · wa ... \vhit wa hed on th out. ide. It wa a doubl hou:e, and the big oprn p1ac 1 twixt t hPJn wa ro f d and floored, and . otn titn : t hr tablP wa. 't there in th 1niddl of the day, and it wa ·a ·oo], c 1nfortable place. othing couldn't b b tt r. And warn't t h' co king good and ju t bushel of it too ! .· -<'• - \ (4 ~ ~~;.., - ltii'\. .J. fir- -~- ......~. :.~ .._. _..... .,. / // .I// ·:- ----· -.. - , _, --._ ,. , __,~"~- _.. ... - THE llOC'"SE. |