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"Ah, Jabez," Aunt Alvirah said, as they watched Ruth get into the Cameron automobile to be whisked away to the station, and so to Briarwood for her second half, "that's where our endurin' comfort an' hope is centered for our old age. We've only got Ruthie." "She's a mighty expensive piece of property," snarled the old man. "Ye don't mean it, Jabez, ye don't mean it," she returned, softly.
A very few minutes later they came in sight of the Red Mill, with the rambling, old, story-and-a-half dwelling beside it, in which Jabez Potter's grandfather had been born. Although the leaves had long since fallen from the trees, and the lawn was brown, the sloping front yard of the Potter house was very attractive.
And I'm a poorer man than Macy Cameron an' less able to give." The tone and the words were both cruel or seemed to be to Ruth's mind. But she said, bravely: "People know that you're my uncle " "I was yer mother's uncle; that's all. The relationship ain't much," declared Uncle Jabez.
The Mothers of the Wise and Good, by JABEZ BURNS, D.D., reprinted by Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, Boston, is a collection of interesting incidents, showing the effects of maternal influence on the formation of character, and tracing the excellence of many eminent men in various walks of life, to the pure and exalted virtues with which they were familiar in early life, within the sacred retirements of the domestic circle.
"Master Dan," cried Jabez piteously, "if you don't stop to once, the little bit of brain I've got'll be addled! Iss, my word, addled beyond recovery, and me a poor man with my living to get." "It do put me in mind of my old granny," said Grace, laughing, "when poor grandfather died, and she was getting her bit of mourning.
Kitty, though, was so struck by the sight of his preparations that for the moment she forgot him and his injuries. "Father hasn't to go out again to-night, has he, Jabez?" she asked anxiously, staying behind while the others strolled on. "Yes, miss, he hev. He've got to go to Welland to once. They've just sent in." "Are you going too?" looking at his bandaged head.
"Oh, let me go, let me go! and I'll lie snug and quiet till we get into harbour, and then I'll leave the ship and never come back that I won't," answered the ghost, in piteous accents. But Jabez was inexorable, and dragging him to the sentry's lantern, by its sickly light discovered features which belonged to no other than Bobby Smudge.
Jabez looked at him in surprise, and Monody scowled up his face till he looked like a wounded Silver Tip, but the' came a queer hunted look into Jabez' eyes for a moment, an' then he muttered, "Well, this is a free country an' I reckon lie has the right to decide.
"You're nothin' but a kid in most things," sez Jabez, an' his voice was so friendly that I began to cool. Then he said, "Why, I never think of you like I do the rest o' the boys, though I rely on you a heap more.
Well, Josiah, so sure it is that the hottest love soonest cools, vowed that Jabez should never step his foot into the house agin. And I wuz glad enough to see that Rosy agreed with him. But I wuz naterally made more megum, and thought, any port in a storm, and a hour won't be much anyway. If we've stood all this dirt and confusion for five weeks we could stand it a hour longer.
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