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Identifier: outing55newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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azement. And the other is my brother, mum-bled the old man, and would say nomore. After that Dr. Lemaire came eachday from Landry and treated the girlfor nothing, out of the kindness of hisheart. It is probable that she wouldhave recovered had the old man bought OLD ANDRES GOLD 613 the medicine that was prescribed forher. But in this matter he was asmiserly as he had been before, and thechild died one night, despite all that thedoctor had done for her. At the funeral many hard things weresaid of the old man, but he paid no heedto them. He went through the pitifulceremony silently, with no apparentshow of grief, walking behind the plain plows, doing a countless number ofthings while he waited for the springand the first green tips of the sproutingrice. It was early in the fall that his sonJules got into difficulty. All throughthe harvest the lad had been busily em-ployed, working hard each day and go-ing to his rest exhausted each night.But when the last sack had been stored ^ v *■-,
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OII?R.Bf\Ef\liX—. TRAMPED INTO LANDRY ONE MORNING FOLLOWED BY HIS RAGGED, HALF-GROWN CHILDREN. pine box in his same sodden garments ofthe field. When, toward the end of the harvest,the last water had been taken from therice and the old mans work was done,he went to the overseer and begged thathe might remain at the plantation foranother season. He would do anything,he said, although there was workenough to be done on the levees to keephim busy until the spring. At first theoverseer turned a deaf ear to his plead-ings, for, like the rest of the people atBelrive, he hated the old man for hismiserly ways; but in the end he re-lented, for never had he seen so com-petent a water tender before. So old Andre stayed on at Belrive,patching the levees, sharpening the in the warehouse and the whole planta-tion had seemed to pause as if for abreathing spell, he had been left withnothing to do. Missing his sister, who had alwaysstayed with him at the cabin, the boybegan to roam abroad, wild and

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