Albion State Normal School - Sage Yearbook (Albion, ID)

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dimness and his face was again gray and care- worn. I began to talk about tl1e daughter he loved so dearly and he was soon cheered up and left almost as lighthearted as he had come. From that time on he was very different. Al- ways happy and quite talkative. About a month later he came one morning happier if possible than on that other morning. This time he told me that Annie was coming the next day. An' den vont I be happy! he exclaimed. The next morning Old Slop of as I had learn- ed Johan Bjorensan did not appear. But I thought nothing of it, supposing he was too much taken up with his daughter to remember his hungry pigs and the neglected slop cans of his neighbors. About two o'clock that afternoon a boy came and told me that I was wanted in the little dirt cover- ed shack down by th eriver. Anxiously I hurried off, fearing some accident had befallen my friend. When I entered a sweet faced girl came up to me timidily and with an appealing look that went straight to my heart she took my hand and led me over to the bed. There lay the old man, his little spark of life was almost gone. As I stepped to the bed side he raised himself very slightly and looked up at me very pathetically. Vill you keep Annie-until de dad die? I chockingly assured him that I would and he fell back--dead. Old Slop had died of happiness. E. F. B. Fourth Year Class. I

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was almost as rickety as the old man's knees, and 111 it were two greasy slop cans. You got any slop you 'd like to have took off? he asked with a decided Scandanavian accent. I gladly shoved him the slop cans and from that time on he came regularly every morning, until We began to get interested in him and rather felt HS tho we ought to know more about him. I de- Olared from the first that he had a sad story to tell and determined sooner or later to learn it if possible. A year went by and more and more was im- Dressed upon me his patient endurance and his Sweet, quite strength. Old Slop, as the irre- Verant people called him, never had much to say but occasionally when he did talk 11e always seem- ed cheerful in spite of the burden that evidently lily on his shoulders. I often yearned to draw him out and if possible to l1elp him and impart Strength to him, but there was something in the Qld man's bearing that forbade me to ask ques- t10ns or I would have had the whole story long before I did. At last tl1e opportunity came. One morning when he came he was fairly bursting with joy and his wheel-barrow seemed to syinpathise with him, for it lurehed along as though it were really 3 1Ve. You seem unusually happy this morning. :live you received good news? I ventured to S . . . Yas'm. And he spoke almost hurriedly in h1S great excitement. I got a letter frum ma leetle gurl las' night an' she 's comin' to me from de ole' country. . Oh, then you have a daughter? How old 1S She-if I may ask? for I was still rather timid. She'll be tirteen een March an' I a1n't seen her since she were two year old. Lg, Well, I don't blame you for being happy. Is your wife coming too? In the few times during this year that I had got him to talk he had occasionally spoken of a vife back een de ole country. No'm, de vife she cant come until de dad die, and the sad tone mingled with bitterness excited my curiosity more than ever. Then he surprised me by saying, I'm going to tell you about it. He leaned back against the house and began: I come here frum de ole coun- try eleven years ago. I was starved out of ma home an' I had to come to America to make a livin.' I was goin' to have ma vife an' leetle Annie come to me as soon as I had earned enough money. I went hungry an' cold to make de money pile grow faster and finally I had enough to bring ,ein over, so I sent it. But pretty soon l' got a letter frum the vife saying she didn't vant to come until de dad die. S0 I vaited an' worked an' vaited an' I vas lonely all dese time. Finally she sent 'me anoder letter an' say she tought de dad was about to die an, she would come. So again I sent her all ma savings an' den de dad right quick got better an' den she wrote me a mean letter an' I knew she didn 't vant to come to me but vas trying to get all de money out of me she could an' oh, I vas so lonely. I still hoped dat when de dad vas dead maybe she vould come so I vorked on an' shiver an' starve some more for I tank maybe if I save hard enough I can buy a home ven she come. But de vork vas too hard an' I get seek and had to pay most all of ma mon- ey to de edoctor an' ven I vas vell again I vas not strong an' all I could do vas to get some peegs an' gather slop for ,em an' I bane so awful lonely but now ma leetle Annie's acomin. . And here he almost danced for joy. As he talked his eyes had assumed their old

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