Peace in Friendship Village

," says I. "Well, must

is' Fire Chief Merri

Sykes—that would correct your g

ther and her mother within a year, and sh

le monument she wants here in to

her something to put her

business college, and choring it for near the whole town. He used to swallow his supper and rush like mad from wood-box to cow all over the village. Nights when I heard a noise, I ne

coming to live with me. She's lost her folks.

My cousin Jed, he lost his folk

w plainer. She was a nice little thing, but plain eyes, plain nose, plain mouth, and her hair—that wa

." Mis' Merriman and Mis' Syke

Merriman, and wiped her eyes! Mis

and she sniffed. Everything Mis' Sykes does she o

ough. While we were getting her

ight niece? She ain't got

adn't. She wore a

g

ord it," says Mis' Merriman.

to plant next spring in her cemetery lot. Mis' Sykes and Mis' Merriman were both ready to cry all the while she untied them. But Letty smiled, serene, and thanked them, serene too, and put a pink

ain in the face, on George F

shavings, Miss

earn your education bette

ducation any more, Miss Marsh," he says. "I've

a bookkeeper, Geo

elivering for the

it, won't you

a little about it,

g

and wood-boxes in the village to ma

my stuff, and headed for the Syke

e flowers, Letty all interested in both of them,

to you, now that you're among friends, to talk about yo

ver to her, sw

a flower or a fresh egg. Then there was an old man who picked every rose in his garden and sent them in. And a club there hi

s in the village. We always tell symptoms and treatments and pain and last words

for a mourner," says Mis' Syk

g

ced them, and then she figured some on a card. Then she walked over and priced so

t the monument?" says Mis' Sykes t

e her," says

, in his best clothes, coming in our front gate. He was coming,

cousin Jed, he lost his folks a year ago. They took

y, Mr. Fred,

, "is his other front name.

ious: she hadn't been with me twenty-four hours har

ave got a little money we're not using. Don't you want to borrow

says Geo

g

o be a lady, I dunno what

off, walking some on the ground and some in the

ave that boy be a bookkeeper instead of a delivery boy. Father and mother—" it wa

I ran over to Mis' Sykes's and

hing better than buy mourni

n my life I ever see Mis' Silas

he says, "she's u

something more. And Letty, that we were going to be

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