“l was eight and your great-aunt
Virginia ten when we had the
Thanksgiving and birthday in one,
which we never forgot. Our mother
was a Southern woman. She gave to
her first child the name of her be-
loved State. If Virginia had been a
boy his name would have been
George Washington. When 1 was
born two years later to a day I was
named Georgie Washington. - Your
great-grandfather died three months
before I was born. Our birthday
came the 20th of November, so near
to Thanksgiving that mother always
celebrated the two days in one.
“This that I am going to tell hap-
pened long before the Civil War; for
the first time in our lives the Thanks-
giving Day for Massachusetts was
appointed on the 20th day of Novem-
ber. We all went early to the meet-
ing-house the Sunday before, for we
knew we were going to hear the
Thanksgiving proclamation. All the
children in the meeting-house kept
wide awake that morning, and Virgle
and I nudged each other when the
minister opened the proclamation
with a rattle and spread it on the
desk.
“We knew what was coming. We
could repeat the conclusion word for
word. ‘Given at the Council chamber
in Boston this day * * * by His Ex-
cellency the Governor, George N.
Briggs, and by the advice and consent
of the Council.” That sounded great,
and when the .ainister repeated slow-
ly, ‘God save the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts,” it was grand! 1 felt
as if I filled the meeting-house, be-
cause if George Washington had not
been the ‘father of his country,’
where would Massachusetts be?
“The night before the great day
we were standing at the kitchen ta-
ble, watching mother unjoint the
boiled chickens for the chicken ple,
when the clock struck 8. She lighted
a tallow candle and gave it to Virgle.
It was our bedtime. ‘Oh, said I, as
I dumped down in the feather bed,
‘Isn't it beautiful, Virgie, to have
birthdays and Thanksgiving all to-
gether? And isn't mother kind? I'm
Just as happy!’
“ ‘So am 1,’ said Virgie, giving me
a hug. ‘I know something.’
“ “What is it, Virgie?’ I asked
whisper.
“Then she told me that she
going to get up before anybody else
in the house and steal out softly, and
go to the north pasture and get some
red berries to hang over George
Washington's portrait in the front
room, to please mother, and because
it would be appropriate to my birth-
day.
oe
in a
was
Let's,” said I. ‘It will be splen- |
did,” and then I told her, what was
true, that she was always thinking of
something to please somebody, and
then we sald our prayers and cuddled
down to sleep
“It didn’t seem but a minute after
that when I sat up and rubbed my
eyes. Virgie was already tying her
leathernshoestrings. ‘Georgie Wash-
ington Howe, get up this minute; it's
as light as a cork,” she said. ‘I'm not
going to put up my hair, it will take
too much time, and it will keep me |
warm,” and she let fall a cloud of |
gold over her shoulders.” Grand-|
mother Gibbons’ voice always trem- |
bled a little here. “You've seen the |
portrait of your great-aunt Virginia, |
children. It's true what 1 told yon. |
She was the most be autiful woman I}
ever saw; her hair was spun
gold. :
“We
thick dresses,
warm woolen hoods and
for fear of waking Ponto in the shed,
Virgie nsked me to wait on the
step while brought a bowl of |
mother's chicken Broth, It
thick and nourishing. It tested good
“We the cows to the north |
pasture every summer morning. we |
knew every nook and corner of it, |
but we didn't know the difference be- |
tween broad daylight and me
and great was our surprise when
reached the pasture bar 8,
moon going down, and
morning, but Virgie kept
hand and said, ‘Never mind, Georgie |
Washington, we can find the path,
and the flat rock by the black walnut
tree, if the moon doesn’t shine.’
“ ‘Yous’ [ sald, ‘but how can we find
the berries if it's pitch dark, Virgie?’ |
“ ‘Oh,’ she said,
long; it can’t,
like
put our surtouts over oir
our |
out i
woolen tied on
tiptoed
stono
she
was
drove
onlight,
we
the
no sign of
hold of my |
to see
i
‘it won't be dark i
because coverybody
knows it's time for the «un to rise
when the moon goes down; and lots
of times I've seen the sun and moon
shining both together in the sky,
haven't you, Georgie Washington?’
“% ‘Yeg,' 1 sald, stumbling into a
thorn bush and beginning to ery, ‘but,
Virgie, this doesn’t soem like the
path: where's the black walnut tree,
and flat rock?
bere. but they aren’t here!’
“ ‘We may be a little out of the
path, Georgle Washington,’ she sald
bravely, ‘but anyway, we are in the
right pasture, and here's a rock with
a back to it, so let's sit down and
wait, and she put her arm in a
motherly way around me, and plil-
lowed my red hooded head upon her
shoulder. ‘I'm glad I didn’t put up
my hair.’
“‘So'm I, Virgie, sald I, as I
nestled against the soft cushion,
‘Your hair is the loveliest I ever saw,
Virgie, and mine is short and stiff
like bristles. I hate it.’
“ ‘But you're real good, Georgie
Washington, and as soon as ever we
get home, I'm going to give you a
real boughten doll,’ she sald, ‘to have
for your very own birthday, and to
keep always.”
Grandmother Gibbons did not need
to tell the children that she had kept
the “boughten doll;” they had all
seen it.
“Well, children, the next thing, it
seemed the stars all faded, and the
darkness deepened around us. I don't
know how long we waited, while I
lay with my head pressed against
your great-aunt Virginia's shoulder,
but I heard her calling to me, ‘Geor-
this will never do.
Billy went
a ——
me as if all at once I grew to be a
woman. It seemed to me as if God
had given Virgie's life into my keep-
fing. I kept calling down to her,
telling her tha* it would soon be
lighter, and that I felt sure that some
way, somehow, I could save her.
“At last it came, children, the first
streak of the morning! 1 stooped
over, and looked down that awful
abyss,
courage. ‘Virgie,’ I cried, and my
teeth didn't chatter this time, for
when God wants us to do anything,
children, no matter how difficult, He
will give us the will and the strength
to do it. ‘Virgie, I can see you, you
are not half way down, but keep |
still a few minutes, and I can save
you'.”
“How did you do it, grandma?”
always asked the children.
“1 didn't know how 1 was going
to do it, at first, but 1 began, very
slowly, to make my way, not straight,
but in a zigzag fashion, slowly and
carefully down to the shell over
which Virgie hung. There was a lit-
tle platform of rock, on which I
stopped. It was growing lighter
every minute, as I reached up to the
twisted tree branch. Then God let
me see how 1 was going to be able |
to save my sister. You know how |
I did it, children.”
”"
“You untwisted her from
the children in chorus.
“Yes, those beautiful, strong locks |
of hair, all kinked and snarled and |
held as in a vise, partly with my |
teeth, partly with my fingers, 1 loos- |
ened evary golden thread. i
‘Now,’ 1 sald, ‘Virgie, you are |
hair,
free! Cateh hold of this limb that | |
HIS REPENTANCE.
Dy Laura E. Richards
to dinner When the midn
Billy hoy
Had ts take a
You must not go to sleep; we muat
get up and walk around.’
“I don’t want walk
I said. 'lI want to go home,
to
‘We'll walk toward home,’
Virgie, taking hold of my hand, and
{ starting up.
we can't be far from it,
must keep walking, for you must not
go to sleep.
tree.’
“Virgie gave a sudden spring for-
ward, and fell, She told your great- |
grandmother Howe, "after it was all |
over, that it seemed as if she
miles and miles. Then it came over
her like a flash, we had come through
the wrong bars, and were over the
gorge! That dreadful gorge where
light!
a ledge not larger than her two feet,
but her hair had been caught by an
out-reaching tree branch, and it held
her. True to her nature, her first
thought, even then, was for me.
“ ‘Georgie Washington, are you up
there?’ she called. Her voice sound-
ed through the darkness far away.
“ ‘Yes, Virgie, I am here!’ 1 think
my teeth chattered. ‘Where are
you?’
“ ‘Brand still! Don’t stir a step!
Don't go to sleep, we're over the
gorge. I'm caught by the hair and
wo must walt!’
“No one will ever know, children,
how long we waited, It scoemed to
Sighed the |
Digger than
wn to you!
[REE
ghe
ghall
‘Oh, Georgie Washing
‘I can’t! I'm dizzy! 1
ton,’
I conld see that her strength was
failing, but I wouldn't give up that
I could save her; so 1 put all of my
self into my volece, and I may have
| prayed, but I didn’t know it, then.
“ ‘No, you won't faint, Virgie,’ 1
| called. ‘You won't faint; you won't |
| tall! You can't; you've got the limb,
| Now here's my hand; let's climb!
We can see every step now, Virgie.’
“We climbed slowly, step by step,
j zigzagging, picking cur way up, and
ithe top, and that i= the way I met
an emergendy, the Thanksgiving and
birthday we never forgot. And that
{is the way 1 saved your great-aunt
Virginia.” —From Good Housekeep-
ing.
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“Downside Up" - .1f the Creatures
AST NIGHT 1 had a fearful dream; I
L tremble even yet!
saw a table long and wide,
dishes set;
And at one end I seemed to lie, helpless,
and fat, and hot,
And could not move a foot or wing to
hasten from the spot!
with many
My
Nor
stomach was uncomfortable; 1 eould
not draw my breath,
make a sound, howe'er 1
really felt like death!
I couldn't seem to find my head
was out of place,
And somehow | had sadly
and grace!
tried; 1
; my heart
Jost my dignity
Then such a racketing arose,
ing through the hall,
And then a lot of people
and wife, and all
The children who had been
given me loads te eat
danced around my prostrate
my downfall was complete!
and scurey-
CRIME master,
so kind and
They form;
Deceitful creatures! that for in
my dream they said,
“Ha, ha, Old Turkey! Where's your pride
now you have lost your head *”
I quivered with my burning wrongs,
no one seemed to care,
all sat down around the board and
bowed their beads in prayer
they are;
but
And then my master, that good man, took
up a dreaded kwmfe,
And held it slant wise over me;
for my life!
en a gret at fork
+» a jump and »
rlv tombled off 1
+ from my dre
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pierced my breast,
ream
perch
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in wak-
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bitter draft
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was
the dinner!”
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