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We'll go to see your uncle, Toby, and we should be very glad to do so even if we wasn't going for dinner." "Ben an' me will come 'round when it's time to go," said Toby, and then, in a hesitating way, he added, "Abner's out here he's a cripple that lives out to the poor-farm an' he never saw a circus or anything. Can't I bring him in here a minute before you open the show?"
"Well, I know that much, anyhow!" said Bessie to herself. "He didn't take her to Zebulon, and he can't have done anything yet. I don't believe he's got any right to keep her that way, not unless the people at the poor-farm give him the right to take her. Zara hasn't done anything it isn't as if she'd been arrested, and were running away from that." Suddenly Bessie started with alarm.
It was the only bit of decoration along the veterans' way, and they stopped and saluted it before they broke ranks and went out to the field corner beyond the poor-farm barn to the bit of ground that held the paupers' unmarked graves.
So you call on, do you, marm?" he queried, raising his voice. "Well, if you're all ready to start for the poor-farm, come along." "I ain't goin' onto no poor-farm," she squealed. "I call on, but I want supplies furnished." "Overseer of the poor has the say as to what shall be done with paupers," announced the Cap'n. "I say poor-farm.
For a number of years Toby had known that there was a crippled orphan at the poor-farm; but it so happened that he had not met him very often, and even then he had no idea of the lonely life the boy was obliged to lead.
As a matter of course Toby promised to be there, and to bring Abner with him. "You said that little cripple had to live at the poor-farm, didn't you?" asked Ben, after quite a long pause. "Yes, an' it's 'cause he hain't got no father or mother, nor no Uncle Dan'l like I've got," said Toby sadly. "Hain't he got any relations anywhere?"
"I don't know which way to turn to get the fall tailorin' done, now Mirandy Daggett's been and had money left to her," said, in an aggrieved tone, the buxom mistress of the Wei by poor-farm, as she briskly hung festoons of pumpkins, garners of the yellowest of the summer sunshine, along the beams of the great wood-shed chamber.
In San Francisco there is a newspaper man who writes in a quaint, peculiar, simple, yet subtle fashion, who signs himself "K.C.B." During the Panama-Pacific Exposition one of his hobbies was to plan to take there all the poor youngsters of the streets, the newsboys, the little ones in hospitals, the incurables, the down-and-outers of the work-house and poor-farm, and finally, the almost forgotten old men and women of the almshouses.
Blair, being "high sperited," like all the Coxes from whom she sprung, had now so tyrannized over the last of her series of room-mates, so browbeaten and intimidated her, that the latter had actually taken to her bed with a slow-fever of discouragement, announcing that "she'd rather go to the poor-farm and done with it than resk her life there another night; and she'd like to know what had become of that hunderd dollars her nephew Thomas paid down in bills to get her into the Home, for she'd be thankful to them that laid it away so antic to hand it back afore another night went over her head, so't she could board somewheres decent till 'twas gone, and then starve if she'd got to!"
Seems like there must be lots of other girls over there at the poor-farm he could take if he's so powerful anxious, all of a sudden, to have a girl to work for him. I did hear say, though, that he'd got some sort of a paper signed by the judge an' if that's so, there ain't no tellin' what he can do. Made him her gardeen, I guess, whatever that is." "But Zara doesn't need a guardian!
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