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There  were  other  troubles,  lie  paid 
Mrs.  Schmitt,  three  and  a  half  dollars  a 
week,  and  Mrs.  Mooney  two  dollars  a  day, 
while  his  grocery  hills  were  fully  double 
what, they  had  been. 
Ills  mother  demanded  every  minute  of 
his  spare  time,  and  filled  it  with  com¬ 
plaints.  lie  began  to  dread  the  sound 
of  her  voice. 
‘  (»osh  !"  lit1  said  to  himself.  “IIow  did 
Martha  stand  it!  But  then,  women 
don’t  mind  such  things,  like  men  do.” 
lie  had  borne  it  all  with  such  patience 
as  he  could  muster,  expecting  every  day 
to  hear  that  Martha  was  coining  back. 
She  must  know  that  she  was  needed ! 
And  now  she  was  to  stay  a  year!  He 
told  Mrs.  Schmitt. 
“You’ll  have  to  get  someone  else, 
then,”  she  said.  “I  didn’t  hire  out  for 
me !"  lie  said.  “YVhere’d  I  have  been,  if 
it  hadn’t  been  for  her?  O,  dang  it  till!" 
And  he  went  in  and  knelt  down  by  his 
old  mother’s  knee,  sis  he  had  done  when 
a  child,  and  said  : 
“J’orgivp  me,  mother !” 
Kindly  his  mother  patted  with  her 
wrinkled  old  hand,  the  gray  head  bowed 
upon  her  knee.  To  her,  he  was  just 
her  contrite  boy. 
“There,  there,  Johnny,”  she  said, 
“don’t  feel  had.  I  expect  1  do  get  to  be 
a  kind  of  a  bother.  Old  folks  get  kind 
of  seltisli  sometimes.  I’ve  been  t li inkin’ 
a  lot  since  Marthy  went  away,  She  was 
so  patient  and  pleasant.  1  never  thought 
how  often  her  feet,  or  her  back,  or  her 
head,  or  till  three,  must  have  ached. 
Johnny.  I  hope  I'll  not  die  until  1  can 
see  Marthy  and  tell  her  the  things  I've 
“  John  knelt  down  by  his  old  mother 
no  hospital  nurse.  :m’  that  old  woman 
would  drive  anybody  crazy.  An'  this  is 
the  iuconvenietitest  house  to  work  in  ’tit 
I  ever  see!  Drinking  water  has  to  be 
fetched  from  Lord  knows  how  fur  off,  an’ 
there  hain’t  even  a  oil  stove.  I  have  to 
git  the  house  all  hot  up,  every  time  I 
bile  a  kittle  of  water,  tin’  the  woodbox 
is  empty  half  the  time,  so  I  have  to 
unjint  my  hips  every  time  I  git  a  stick 
of  wood,  down  them  steep  steps,  an' 
though  you’ve  got  a  engine  to  save  them 
big  husky  hired  men,  you  hain’t  never 
hitched  it  onto  no  washing  machine,  an’ 
Mrs.  Mooney,  she  says  she  hain’t  tt  goin’ 
to  wash  here  after  this  week,  because 
your  wnsbin’s  is  too  heavy,  an'  1  hain’t 
a  goin’  to  wash !”  She  was  as  good  as 
her  word.  She  left  on  the  following  Fri¬ 
day. 
Farmer  Jocelyn  could  not  find  any 
married  woman  or  widow  willing  to  take 
her  place,  and  no  girl  would  come  where 
there  were  three  men  and  only  a  help¬ 
less  old  woman.  Finally  he  braced  up. 
“By  gum !  I  cooked  six  weeks  when 
I  was  sailin’  an’  I  guess  I  can  now! 
Housework  is  just,  play,  anyhow!”  So 
lie  undertook  to  manage  the  cuisine. 
The  lirst  change  he  made,  was  to  buy 
bread,  instead  of  halting  it.  The  next 
was  to  send  the  washings  to  the  nearest 
laundry,  five  miles  away.  For  its  trans¬ 
portation  he  paid  50  cents,  and  for  the 
laundry  itself,  three  dollars  and  tt  half. 
Then  he  set  himself  to  cooking.  But 
thing's  were  not  handy,  as  ou  ship-board. 
It  seemed  to  him  as  if  he  never  had  so 
mauy  corns,  all  working  at  once  as  he' 
had  now.  He  seemed  to  be  tramping 
hack  and  forth  on  the  hard  wood  floor 
from  morning  till  night,  without  ces¬ 
sation. 
The  frequency  and  the  inevitableness, 
of  the  call  “John !”  made  him  irritable, 
and  he  roared  tit  his  mother  in  a  shame¬ 
ful  manner,  which  brought  the  slow  tears 
of  old  age  and  helplessness.  This  made 
him  curse  himself  for  a  brute. 
“Gol - !  She  was  always  good  to 
been  n  turnin'  over  in  my  mind  since  she 
left. 
“Dou’t  you  remember,  Johnny,  how 
light-hearted  she  used  to  be,  and  full  of 
spring,  and  snap,  and  how  she  used  to 
play  on  the  piano,  and  sing?  I'm  awful 
afraid,  son,  that  between  us,  we’ve  took 
the  tuck  out  of  Marthy.” 
There  was  silence  in  the  room.  The 
big  old-fashioned  clock  ticked  in  til" 
corner.  The  gray  head  was  still  buried 
in  the  mother’s  hip.  She  felt  his  should¬ 
ers  quivering. 
“Why,  Johnny,  Johnny !  Ye  .ain’t 
eryin’,  he  ye?  Mother  didn’t  mean  to 
make  you  feel  bad !  I  wan’t  a  blamin’ 
you  Sonny !" 
Farmer  John  groped  for  his  mother's 
other  hand,  lie  could  not  spare  the  one 
that  wtis  so  comfortingly  patting  his 
bead  just  as  it  used  to  do,  when  it  was 
a  curly  little  pate,  and  he  had  brought 
his  troubles  to  that  same  haven,  and  had 
always  had  them  smoothed  away. 
“O  Mother!"  In*  groaned,  “can’t  we 
make  it  up  to  her?  Do  you  suppose  it 
is  too  late?” 
“No.  son.  I  don't  believe  it  is.  All 
she  needs  is  rest,  and  some  of  that  lovin’ 
care  she’s  been  a  lmudin’  out  to  us,  till 
these  years.  You  know  what,  a  lot  of 
sunshine  goes  into  (lit'  inakin’  of  coal — 
when  the  coal  is  lighted,  it  gives  it  all 
back  again.  Now  we’ll  play  we  was  the 
coal,  that’s  filled  with  Marthy’s  sunshine, 
an’  we’ll  try  an'  give  some  of  it  back  to 
her.  Won't  we,  sonny?  You  got  mo  a 
wheel  chair,  an’  I’ll  wait  on  myself,  an’ 
as  fur  as  1  can,  I’ll  show  her  how  much 
1  think  id'  her.  You  get  her  back,  John¬ 
ny.  1  know  good  tin’  well,  she’s  homesick 
for  us  this  minute.” 
Martha  received  a  letter  from  her  hus¬ 
band,  that  brought  some  pale  pink  roses 
to  a  pair  of  white  cheeks.  Farmer  Joce¬ 
lyn  sent  to  his  hrotlier-in  law  the  fol¬ 
lowing  letter: 
“Dear  Jim:  I  sold  that  twenty,  and 
was  going  to  send  it  to  you  to  invest  out 
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