Show TUE fim DULLAR HILL mrs dean sat alono in her little kitchen sho used parlor tharo was the extravagance of an extra cro to be considered alio fact that alio best rag woven by her own skillful hands must not be worn out too recklessly alio dread possibility ot sunshine fading ditl chair covers sirs dean was an economist she bo in making everything ever thing last as long as it possibly could and so she made alio kitchen her headquarters anil sat knitting with her feet comfortably balanced on alie itono stono hearth tho saucepan of apples bubbling away at alio back anil alio sound of glicr husbands ax ringing boru lio back shed as lie cut and split the kindling wood piled up there in adl seasoned logs she was a wrinkled faced woman of lifty slier ribbon bows to her cap hair that seemed dried up instead of silvered tind keen blue eyes eliat twinkled as if they had discovered the secret of perpetual motion to save was glicr chief end and aim in life ilo very milieus she was knitting acro to in sold at tho village storo in exchange lur tea sugar spices and all such y A penny saved is as gaud as a penny earned was the golden rulo by inch alic slipped her lito im glad I 1 took that money out of alic savin bank milard ay iy said airs dean to herself as the bright needles clicked merrily away people say it isn t quite safe and ono can t bv too careful but again theres alio llio danger of burglars though tu be sure no burglar sno added a complacent inward chuckle would ever think of looking in abe folds of the old aue clarion newspaper in the wall pocket on the wull its tho bureau drawer and alio llio trunks and tho locked up chests aliat liny aim for A fifty dollar bill a clean crisp nw fifty dollar bill and all savings too out of alic house money just tharo sounded a knock at alio door and in came old dr inan rubicund alic of the march wind and up in alic find fin d of lie wild animals from time to limo lie himself had shot good day miss acau good day said he no thank you I 1 cant sit dow downam nIm a deal too busy for that but 1 heard that you look fifty dollars out of alio savings bank yet said her face involuntarily hardening I 1 did wo arc taking up a subscription to pet little lacic dick bodley a cart anil donkey so that ho can go around ped said the doctor it s pretty hard for any one afflicted a lie i to get along and if you can licup us a little I 1 but I 1 cant interposed sirs dean breathlessly alio money was an investment I 1 dont propose to cut it up into little bits its a decd of charity airs deau said alio old man to help lanio dick bodhil 1 daro say said mrs dean a little suitably but I 1 never pretended to be a charitable ano old doctor went away and alio llio next visitor was helen hurst a rosy girl of eighteen excuse me for interrupting you mrs arm said hc but larry Johnson was at and he tells me that out your money I 1 was all creation elicio thought mrs dean but sho said nothing only knit away until her needles seemed to glauce and glitter like points of diio I 1 am trying to gut a boarding place at mrs swipes added coloring so as to be near tho district school where I 1 am to teach aliis spring but mrs swipes requires payment in advance by alio month and unfortunately we have used up all our slender mccaus in providing my boullit A teacher you know must be dressed decently to command the respect of glicr pupils but if you would kindly lend mu ten dollars 1 I auver lend said mrs dean curtly 1 will bo sure to up when I 1 receive my figol quarters salary pleaded helen and I 1 dont know of any one casu to go to its against my principles said mrs dean with glicr face as hard as if it had been carved out of hickory helen hurst crept out feeling humiliated aud disappointed beyond all ox preshion pres aion dean chuckled at her own shrewdness but sho hardly biad to stir up tho apples in alio saucepan bc turo mrs araham entered with a little k covered memorandum book and pencil I 1 am looking for charitable people mrs dean said squires wife a laugh then bouvo conio to the wrong place said mrs dean frigidly ioor patrick was killed yesterday in tho machinery of alic mill said marf graham ignoring her neighbors response lie las left a difo and eight children totally and whose that aard mrs dean will you not contribute something toward relieving their condition urged mrs graham opening tic book and holding alio pencil ready for use certainly ot dean iau no money to paro but L WAS auld 1 L 0 about alio that way drawn out of tho savings balt said mrs dean but I 1 intend to keen that money for myself mrs arabam ho that giloth to tho poor to the lord costly saoko sirs gra ham yes yes ihnow baij mrs dean 11 but nobody interprets iho literally nowadays mrs graham took her departure acknowledging within herself that her errand was 1 failure and mrs dean left to herself at last indulged in a nap with iho in her lap a nip wherein sho clial the tidy dollar bill haid bakun to itself legs and was running away from a crowd of pursuers herself among alic number sho waked up roused by the loiso of coal being poured upon tho stove a candle was burning and air dann was laughing at lier why betsey said ho 1 I thought von never acro going to wake again you sat ano liro dand out and ive had to kindla it up again bless roel ald mrs bean I 1 must have been a while aut aa sho started up she saw that the old wall pocket opposite was empty where ia that old number of the it was last weeks paper aard mr deau calmly wo biad bogli of read it so I 1 just look it to kindla alio fire you anu bcd it up yes said mr doin do in 1 I burned it up why I 1 half an hour mi 9 dean sat silent and never saoko a word and was ila tho lords judgment upon mot mrs dean was woman full of character abo went to bior table drawer took out a of paper and wrote to dr inclosing v 1101 lar toward lame dick borso sho sent another to mrs graham for tho poor liello aind promised to donate n barrel of russets a of and somo of her husbands cast kofl to cut avor for tho and sho sent for llalon hurst to chuo and sec her I 1 cant lend you ten dollars my said she because 1 got it hut ill tell you what I 1 will do ill let ou make bour homo hero ns long as jou please theros a nico room and its an eighth of a mile nearer than mrs swipes to the district school 0 how very very good you ancl said aelon her swimming with tears good cried mrs dean im just beginning to aliat a selfish greedy creaturo crea luro ive been all my life lint youre welcome my dear and your boina shall not ct you n cent she opened her parlor shook out the curtains and built a liro in the airtight air tight wood stove acau likes the parlor said alio because it has rucj nico south windows and I 1 dont see why we enjoy it alio baked 1 fresh batch of gingerbread and sent a loaf to old mrs audgo alic took out a basket of chiok for poor little harry jones who was trying to crack dried up pignuts on the stone by the sho renewed her subscription to tho church bics tics 1 I cant be very liberal sho said but I 1 am determined to do what I 1 cm right my dear right her husband wo shall be prosperous never fear I 1 m awfully coiry about burning up your litty idoll ir bill but if it s going t your aliis its tho best thing that could have to us airs dean was sweeping out alic kitchen she looked around with a as sho moved the wide leaved table which always stood under alic wall and took down the pocket itself a riidu lined with red cambric and lied with corda and of red worsted to dust it out yes sho said 1 I am afraid I 1 uw getting to bo n little miserly and why this mr a slip of crumn lou dark grcen paper which had from the wall pocket 11 1 1 his wife turned it upside down and tapped glicr ingar against it to remove all possible dust its the lifty dollar bill said he with mouth and opening in unison it must have slipped down from the fold alie newspaper anil lodged herec tho lord has sent it back to us said mrs dean reverently and ho has sent a lesson wise and merciful willial willi il well said mr dean after a moment or two of theres alesson in almost overy thing docs il we did but know it and all tho theologians theol ogiana in the world could nut have improved upon the faith of aliis bimble unlettered old farmer Satur Jwj A laif |