THE MORTGAGE.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7552, 15 May 1890, Page 2

THE MORTGAGE.

We walked through epring ftngjf** i ? through summer *«« throagftjx f But the mortgage worked the kwcem*** , t< \\ the steadiest of all; Ij It worked on nights a»dSoiW»* w |j worked each holiday; t f< It settled down among Uβ, ana »"" ft} went away. , .j**** li Whatever we kept from it tmtsm a" 5 ® 8 * ft as bad as theft; n *\ktM & It watched Uβ every mluafce, «><* * 3| us right and left. ft The rust and blight were with 09 sem* , m times and sometimes, opt; ' --1* If The dark-browed scowling mortg*g* r* m forever on the epot. «-*« H The weevil and the cut-worm tbef »«» w I well as came; -*•«*»& fi The mortgage stayed for c ver eating a**"* g all tbe same. .._a-««4«l It It nailed up every window, stood gfl** 9 m every door, - iv& And happiness and sunshine m*oe w home with us no more, «.—ifi* '■ Till with failing crops and elcksms'«®W m . stalled upon the grade, «_!,-*«« " i And there came a dark day on Oβ WBSBW" interest wast paid; .«„.«. «a4l I And there came a sharp foreclose** ««*• •, ! kind o , lost my hold, »«,!*& i 1 And grew weary and disconrageOt aea** , i farm wa* cheaply sold. —fc—l tfesj ' \ The children left and scattered, Wfeen tw» f ! hardly yet woie grown; Kn i I My wife she pined an* perished, fta *«»*" myself alone. _»WiH What she died of was a " mystery, ***"",„; ; doctors never knew; „*_*«&# ! Bat I know «he died of mortgage-!**** , : well as I wanted to. «ftfcft ? If to trace a hidden eorrow were w»»" i the doctors'firt> \ I They'd ha* found a mortgage lytej&e» w- | woman's broken heart. ~„„--»■ ail 1 Worm or beetle, drought or t®mpw% T? 1 farmer's land may fall, 1 Ba& for flratHjlass ruiuatica tro*i »■*"• I gage 'gninst them ail. : I In consequence of the 1 for Lincoln wool in Kn«la«d, atW» Jg, § rams last year, and *fj% , fecit 1 flocks of thif «oloa» |