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She tried to smile, as if to cover all our fears, and said with effort: "I am weak; I could not hold together; get some of Aunt Hildy's bitters," and when the glass containing it was held to her lips, she drank eagerly. "Take both hands, Louis; let the baby touch me." "Oh, Clara, don't go!" I said, as I held little Emily near her. "No, no, not now, but I want help to stay; keep the baby close.
"Yes, sir!" shouted the children. "Then we'll hear you sing 'Hail Columbia, and separate for the day. I hope the summer will be a happy one for you all!" It will be impossible to fully describe "Aunt Hildy's Plot," as it appeared in the days when everything was settled, and the children at work in earnest, each with an idea born of himself.
When the work he was doing for them commenced, Aunt Hildy had said: "That's it; put not your light under a bushel but where men can see it, Louis, for I tell you the candles you carry to folks' hearts are run in the mould of the Lord's love, and every gleam on 'em is worth seein'." Aunt Hildy's step we knew was growing less firm, and now and then she rode to the village.
As I grew older this was a troublesome thought that now and then, asked for a hearing. As we came out of church, Deacon Grover with his small black eyes peering into aunt Hildy's face, said to her: "Smart sermon; good talk, Miss Patten, how did you enjoy it?" "Well as I could," and I nearly laughed in his face, although I knew he did not realize what she meant.
Pears like he's got two sides to hisself, um, um." I heard this absent talk of Matthias', and also Aunt Hildy's words, and I marvelled, saying in my heart, "Emily Minot, what will be done next?" We were all glad to see mother, and she had enjoyed her visit, which had improved her much. "Hope you haint done any work?" said Aunt Hildy.
I could hardly see where we had room for all the gifts that came to us, for Clara's part of the house was well filled, and Aunt Hildy's belongings took nearly all the upstairs room we could spare; but by moving and shifting, and using a little gumption, as Aunt Hildy expressed it, they were all disposed of properly.
I wondered how it came that I should never have known and dimly remembered something about some one's going away strangely, when I was a little girl. My mother had, like all Aunt Hildy's friends, kept her sorrow secret, and she told me it was a rare occurrence for Aunt Hildy to mention it even to her, whom she had always considered her best friend.
The cruel hand of war would never have touched us had the first lesson in life's book been well read and understood." "That is true," said my father, as we entered the gate at home, and looking up I saw two stars, and said: "Clara and Aunt Hildy both say 'Amen!" It was the spring of 1862, when "Aunt Hildy's Plot" was the scene of happy labor.
I cannot tell you of all the events that occurred among us, but when the smoke from a new chimney rose in the very spot almost where Aunt Hildy's cottage stood, it was due to the fact that a new double house had been erected on a splendid lot, and Willie and Burton were living there with their parents. Mrs.
Ben had the receipt for that wonderful "intment," and he calls it "Aunt Hildy's miracle." When the cold days of the fall came upon us, Aunt Hildy felt them greatly, and the morning of December tenth we awoke to find her gone; she had gone to sleep to wake in a better home.
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