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Then offering his hand, as he bade them good-by, he said to Emma, "I hope, my dear, that this charity abounds in you." "O no," she replied, "it does not abound although, I trust, it has a home in my poor heart." Emma found the door of poor Graffam's hut open, and the mother sitting beside the cradle where lay the sick babe asleep. "Walk in," said Mrs.
The last time I went there, the old woman sent one of the young ones to tell me that the village folks were an unmannerly set, and she wanted them to keep their distance. I told the girl to give my love to her mother, and tell her that she was the sweetest poppy upon the plain. So you see that it wouldn't do for me to go there again; I might get my head cracked with one of Graffam's rum-jugs."
This seemed true enough; for when any visitor to the plain called at Graffam's for a drink of water, they were never invited to enter. The water was handed them through a small opening, and the mother was seldom visible. It was one of the brightest of our July mornings, when a blue-berry company started from the village before-mentioned.
"Your milk is very nice, Mary," said Eddy, "but it does not cure my thirst; O I do want some cold water." "There is none nearer than the pond," said Joshua, "unless you go to Graffam's; but they are so piggish, I would choke before I would ask water of them.
Snag-Orchard, however, was evidently dreaded until the Lindsays came to live there, when it became less gloomy: for though the old trees with their heavy foliage were still there, descending in long sentinel-like rows down the hill-slope, until the last row drooped their branches into the bright waters of the brook, yet the rank grass around the house, that had so long raised its seedy head, and looked in at the windows, was mowed down, and sociable-looking flowers had taken its place; and then at evening, the traveler returning from the pond by the way of the plain, realized what had once been but the brilliant phantasy of poor Graffam's brain for though Mrs.
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