“Some ofem came to our house, I know,” said Miss Binson. “Shed lake a lot o trouble to please a child, `tead o shoving of it out o the way, like the rest of us when were drove.
“I can tell you the biggest thing she ever done, and I dont know` (here` anybody left but me to tell it. I dont want it forgot,” Sarah flinson went on, looking up at the clock to see how the night was going. “It was that pretty-looking Trevor girl, who taught the Corners school, and married so well afterwards, out in New York State. You remember her, I dare say?”
“Certain,” said Mrs. Crowe, with an air of interest.
“She was a splendid scholar, folks said, and give the school a great start; but shed overdone herself getting her education, and working to pay for it, and she all broke down one spring, and Tempy made her come and stop with her a while you remember that? Well, she had an uncle, her mother` brother, out in Chicago, who was well off and friendly, and used to write to Lizzie Trevor, and I dare say make her some presents; but he was a lively, driving man, and didnt take time lo stop and think about his folks. He hadnt seen her since she was a little girl. Poor Lizzie was so pale and weakly that she just got through (he term o school. She looked as if she was just going straight off in a decline.
Visit Niagary
Tempy, she cosseted her up a while, and then, next thing folks knew, she was tellin round how Miss Trevor had gone to see her uncle, and meant to visit Niagary Falls on the way, and stop over night. Now I happened to know, in ways I wont dwell on to explain, that the poor girl was in debt for her schoolin when she come here, and her last quarter` pay had just squared it off at last, and left her without cent ahead, hardly; but it had fretted her thinking of it, so she pai it all; those might have dunned her that she owed it to. An I tax Tempy about the girl` goin off on such a journey till she owned u rathern have Lizzie blamed, that shed given her sixty dollars, same if she was rolling in riches, and sent her off to have a good rest an vacation.”
“Sixty dollars!” exclaimed Mrs. Crowe. “Tempy only had nine’ dollars a year that came in to her; rest of her living she got by help about, with what she raised off this little piece o ground, sand on side an clay the other. An how often Ive heard her tell, years ag~ that shed rather see Niagary than any other sight in the world!”
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