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I mebby orter mentioned sooner it had been a dry summer and they was only three or four feet of water in our cistern, and Hank wasn't in scarcely up to his big hairy chest. So when Elmira says the cistern is full of fish, that woman opens the trap door and looks in. Hank thinks it's Elmira come to get him out.
"Mother don't want to give up her wedding-dress." "Women always have their wedding-dresses made over for their daughters," Elmira said, gravely. "What color is it?" "A real pretty green, with a little sheeny figure in it; and I am going to have a new ribbon on my bonnet." "It's 'most ten miles to Granby; hadn't I better get a team and take you over?" said Jerome.
Mr Brockway's testimony should be taken as final seeing that of the 12,000 felons who have passed through the Elmira Reformatory, 82 per cent. have reformed, i.e., have not returned to criminal practices. The statistics for the year 1903 are as follows: Returned to Reformatory for violation of parole 15 or 33 " Probably returned to crime.
At that time Elmira was as a shy child to her own emotions, and Jerome's were all sleeping. He had truly seen nothing but the sweep of that lovely rose-strewn silk, and never even glanced at the fair wearer. "Why not have a red silk, then?" he asked, soberly. "I can't expect to have things like Squire Merritt's daughter," returned Elmira.
But Elmira caught her brother by the long, blue coat-tail, and brought him to a stand. "Oh, Jerome," she whispered, "there are so many there, and we are so late, I'm afraid to go in." "What are you afraid of?" demanded Jerome, with a rustic brusqueness which was foreign to him. "Come along." He pulled his coat away and strode on, and Elmira had to follow.
Presently a rough-looking man, who had been among the wildest and most violent in his denunciation of the South, said, looking at Vincent: "I see by the papers to-day that one of the cursed rebel officers who gave them the slip at Elmira is traveling in the disguise of a minister.
Edwards's mouth was set as if against anticipated opposition, her nervously gleaming eyes were fierce with ready argument. Jerome knit his brows over the letter, then he folded it nicely and gave it back to Elmira. "You see what it is?" said his mother. "Yes, I see," replied Jerome, hesitatingly. He looked confused before her, for one of the few times of his life.
"Well, you needed them, if you are goin' to the party. You've got to look a little like folks. Where you goin'?" for Jerome had started towards the door. "Into the parlor to get a book." He opened the door, but his mother beckoned him back mysteriously, and he closed it softly. "What is it?" he asked, wonderingly. "Who is there? Has Elmira got company?"
Now, the pupil of the Elmira trades' school is not considered to have completed his course until he has gained a thorough knowledge of every department of his trade.
Its faded cover, with two ancient ink-blots which answered for eyes, fostered this idea, which was a disquieting one. On the wall hung two silver coffin-plates in a glass case, testifying that Freeborn Scraper, and Elmira his wife, had been duly buried, and that their coffins had presented a good appearance at the funeral.
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