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MAY, 1809.
you that you are well. I am so late here
that your letter had been sent away. I
think that was the letter that had the
pictures in” (a letter which she did not
receive). “Dear Teacher, these are not
my writings. I ordered Augustin to
answer for me. lam so sick that I can
hardly hold the pen in my fingers. I
couldn’t read your letter either, but Au
gustin he did read it too. All the rest
of the family are well, but I feel so bad.
When I was sick at the school after I
recovered I was always weak. I did not
For Woman’s Work.
M Beair Exipernemieeo
TT AST summer I spent my vacation
1 on a homestead of my Father in
the Cascade Mountains. Three of us—
A- m y broth
~~-V L er.afriend,
and myself
\ went up
a week in
advance of
theothers.
4 We were
supp o s e d
to sta y at
home and take care of the farm, but the
‘‘call of the wild” was too much for us,
and so a day after we arrived found us
on a camping trip for the purpose of
hunting and fishing. We went to the
very head of a little valley through
which a trout stream flowed, and there
made camp.
On the way up the valley we had met
a settler who told us that several bears
had been killed in the vicinity.
The boys began to cook supper, but,
as I was not considered much of a cook,
I took my shot-gun and went out to
look around.
For Woman’s Work.
AUNT EMILI’S BEREAVEMENT.
BY MRS. J. C. ROBERTS.
(Concluded From Last Mouth.)
UNT EMILY was dressed in deep
IB black, with a long veil, and so
•was Sookey Blueskin. They took their
places as chief mourners, of course,
but just as deeply arrayed in wid
ow’s weeds was another woman,
with two half-grown children, who
got into the same carriage and di
vided the honors with them. At the
grave the two stood side by side,
mingling their tears and lamenta
tions, and after darkness had put
a stop to the proceedings, they all
■came home together to Aunt Em
ily’s cabin. Father, of course,
knew all of Aunt Emily’s immediate
relatives, but he could not place
this woman, and her identity re
mained a mystery until Aunt Emily
solved the problem.
The next morning she was at her
old place in the kitchen, wearing
her usual manner and clothes —her
widow’s weeds being laid aside for
dress occasions. Before breakfast,
Father, like a true gentleman, ex
pressed his regret for the hasty
words he had uttered, and told her
how glad he was that she had dis
regarded them.
“You wuzn’t so mighty fur wrong,
Marse William,” she said humbly,
then adding, “white fokes is got
sense, but er nigger aint got nuthin’
hut deir feelin’s ter go by,” she
closed the conversation by going
back to the kitchen.
“Did Cephas know you when you
got there?” I asked as I followed
Aunt Emily into the kitchen, after
breakfast was over.
“Yes, honey, he knowed me,” she
answered dryly, then, flourishing her
dish-cloth as she talked, she plunged
into her dish-washing and her story
at the same time.
“Yer see, honey, hit wuz jes’ dis
way: Me and de baby rid on dem
cyars to erbout two er clock in de
■ebenlng, en den we got off at dat
place, New Hope. Hit’s er little bit
er place, not nigh ez big ez dis, wid
trains runnin’ backards en forards
all de time. I axed er little boy
down at de depot es he knowed Ce
phas Bankston, en he sed "Yes’m.’
get strong; at last I came home, and
when I got in here in a few days I felt
worse. So this is about all. Good by
from your pupil, ConsTancia.”
The man who wrote this letter added
a .note: “Constancia is very sick, just at
die, she may die this week. No Doctor
can cure her. I think that is why they
send her home.”
Ten days later I received another let
ter announcing her death and adding:
“It was rain here and the rain stop when
Constancia’s funeral start out!”
Rose L. Ellerbe.
I loaded my gun with buckshot, and
.started up a trail to look for game. I
had not gone a hundred yards when—
what was my horror to behold in the
biush, not fifty feet away, a monstrous
black bear! My hair stood on end, my
knees knocked together, and I trembled
from head to foot. I would have fled,
but I had vowed to shoot at the first
bear I saw. With my “heart in my
mouth,” I raised my gun, shut my eyes,
and fired. When I recovered the use of
my legs and my lungs I ran with all
my might, tearing into camp, yelling:
“A bear! a bear!” at the top of my voice.
Os course this caused great commo
tion. My brother would have taken
first prize in a sprinting match, and the
other boy lay flat behind a stump.
At last we recovered from our shock,
loaded our guns, and proceeded toward
the brush to find the dead bear! Ap
proaching cautiously we beheld—a large
black stump with a hole torn in the
bark! We surveyed it sadly for some
time, and then went back to dine off a
chunk of fat bacon. Ray Lapham.
Portland, Oregon.
“Den I axed him how he wuz—en
he look kind er cu’us, en he say,
‘He well.’
“Den I say: ‘Boy, you don’t know
whut you er talkin’ erbout, kase he
sick in bed.’ Den de boy kinder
scratch his haid en say, den he
guess he tuck sick mighty sudden,
kase he see him er goin’ fishin’ dis
mornin’. Well, I knowed dat Ce
phas wuz a mighty favorite of fishin’
so I never said nuthin’ else, but I
axed him es he know war he live
at, en he sez, ‘Yes’m, he live right
up yander whar his wife wuz er
hangin’ out close.’ Den I say dat I
thought all de time dat he didn’t
know whut he wuz talkin’ erbout,
en now I knowed hit, kase I wuz
his wife. Wid dat de boy look fun
ny en didn’t say nuthin’ else, en
hit wuz dat ve’y bigges’ boy whut
come home wid us here yestiddy
ebenin’
“Well, I lowed I’d go ax questions
er sumbody whut knowed sump’n,
en so I went up ter de house whar
de ’oman wuz hangin’ out close, en
dey sho looked mighty pretty en
white. She uz rinchin’ em out uv
er tub by the do’ en had her back
ter me so she didn’t see me. De
house wuz right by er railroad track
whut sprangled off sum de big
track, en dar wuz er train cornin’
up on de yuther side, so I had ter
go right up ter de do’ en holler loud
so she could hear me.
“ ’Good ebenin’, ma’am’, I sez, sez
I, ’kin you tell me whar a collured
man lives by de forgiven name er
Cephas Bankston?’ Wid dat de
’oman she looked up right quick,
but ’fo she could say er word, er
man whut wuz settin’ inside, kinder
lean for’ard so he could see my face.
“Well, sir! I’d come ter de right
place, but Mars e William neber say
er truer word in his life dan he
did whenst he told me ter stay at
home en let Cephas erflone. Dat
man settin’ in de cheer wuz Cephas,
en de minit he ketched er glimpse
er me, he jump up like de paterrol
lers wuz atter him, en run outen
de do en ketched hold er one er
Woman’s Work.
dem little step ladders out dar, be
twixt dem cyars, but somehow er
nuther his hand slipped en he drap
ped down en dey kilt him plum
daid. Yes, sir! he wuz in sech er
hurry ter git er way dat he didn’t
git er good holt, en hit wuz all over
’fo you could say, ‘Jack Robison.’ ”
Aunt Emily washed the dishes)
in tragic silence, confronted by a
catastrophe too terrible for words.
I was stricken dumb by the horror,
of the situation, and could think
of no possible consolation to offer.
After a while she continued:
“Well, fokes dey come er runnin’
from ever which way, en dey fetch
ed de doctor, but, Lor’, twant no
use. We all knowed dat sum de
word go. Atter while, night come
on, en de fokes dar commence ter
drap out en go home, twell finally
dey left me en dat udder ’oman er
settin’ dar by our two selves. Den
we commenced ter splanify matters,
en I don’t doubt but dat we might
er bofe got mad any other time,
but look like dat man er lyin’ dar
on de bed sorter taken all de devil
ment outen us, en bimeby we got
ter de rights uv hit. She never had
heeard tell enny more erbout me den
I had erbout her, en she’d been mar
ried fair en square to Cephas en had
her marriage-paper done framed en
hangin’ up on de wall wider glass
over hit jes’ like white fokes.
“Well, uv cose I didn't have mine
wid me, but I had dat las’ letter
whut he writ me, en whut I uz fak
in’ erlong kase I uz afraid dat I
ud dismember de names, er de place
er sump’n. She’s er smart ’oman en
can read writin’, so whenst she read
dat letter en seen his po’ little gran’
chile er lyin’ down darer sleep on
de pallet, why, she seen dat she
never had no reason fer hard feel
ins todes me, en we got ter be mos’
like sisters.
“She had des erbout as hard er
time wid Cephas es I had, en had
two chillen, dat ve’y boy whut I uz
talkin’ to down at de depot, en er
nuther one erbout er year younger.
“She taken hit mighty hard er
tout him writen’ ter me fer money,
kase she lowed dat she had er
washin’ fer nearly evey day in de
week, en dar wuz his livin’ right
dar, en sue say ez fur ez terbaccer
wuz concerned, he des dipped snuff
wid her des like er ’oman, en I
reckon he did, kase he uster wid
me. Cephas had sum mighty com
fortin’ ways, en he wuzn’t ter say
er bad nigger, des kinder triflin’ en
easy goin’.”
Aunt Emily let her hands fall in
the dish water and lie there a long
time, while she gazed straight for
ward with the vacant stare of one
dwelling on scenes of the past. Then
resuming the thread of her dis
course, she went briskly forward
with her dish washing as well.
“Well, sir! atter we talked hit
all over, I showed her my little
wad er money, en bless God, she had
er little, too; so we settled on whut
we gwine do erbout de funeral. Den
we whirl in, bofe tergether dar in
the middle er de night, en we i’on
up dat white lady’s close whut
she’d been washin’ dat day, en we
got thoo jes’ ’fo sun-up. Atter
breakfas’ I went en hunted up dat
man whut Marse William give me er
letter fur, en sho nuff, he uz one
er de ole time white fokes des like
yo’ Pa, en he tell us whut ter do
like yer Pa said he would, so we
didn’t have no trouble ’tall.
“Well, we settled hit betwixt us
dat I uz de firs wife dat I wuz ter
git in de ca’age fust, but ez she wuz
de las’ wife, dat she wuz ter stan*
er leetle de clostest to de grave.
En de same way, his body ud be
burled here whar I live, but his fun
’al samint is ter be preched up dar
at New Hope. She gwine ter stay
here er while wid me twell she kin
git res’ed up, en I gwine ter pay
de visit back whenever dey preaches
his fun’al.”
Aunt Emily rinsed out her dish
pan, hung it up, and put the hot,
dry dishes in the safe. Her face
and form showed the effects of the
distressing ordeal which she had
gone through, although she could
relate it so calmly. As she took
down her bonnet, preparatory to
starting to her cabin, she said Im
pressively: “Don’t never let no
body tell me dat dey aint nuthln’ in
signs en tokens, kase I dremp
erbout wadin’ in muddy water, en 1
sho has been er wadin’ in trouble.
En Cephas settin’ up fat en well,
writ ter me dat he cungered en gwine
ter die, en in lessen er week he’s ei
lyin’ out yonder in de grave.”
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