Home Pictures (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...soon as ever we set foot in Ameriky. "Michael got work, and did well for a little; but I found soon that he wasn't over sober; and when it was the case that he would drink, he was savage and threatened me, till at last I'd give up every penny of my money. For all that, didn't I love him as a thrue-hearted wife, sure? "One day we was just going home from church, me an' Michael, and Michael was dressed in a nice blue suit and looked the real gintleman; and for all thinking of his bad ways, I was prouder of him than ever. "We had come to the corner of a little square, and was just turning, when we met a woman, a little, delicate woman, and she could scarcely walk, so sick and thin she was. I knew she must be dying; I knew it by her cheeks and her wild eyes. She stopped all at once't as we went by her, and looked at Michael with a strange sort of look. "He turned pale and tried to hurry past; and when we had, the woman fell against the house, and Michael wouldn't let me go back to her, much as I felt for her. "It wasn't a week after, ma'am," added Betty, much agitated, "that poor sick crature came to my room in the house where I lived. She hadn't strength to move any further, so I took her in and made her rest on my bed. What do you think she told me? that she was his wife, married in ould Ireland years ago "Oh if God had taken me to himself that day, as he did her, wouldn't I have been a happy woman? But He didn't. I lived till Michael came home, though I thought I shouldn't, and I pointed to his dead wife, and made him tell me the whole truth. And there I left him that night, though I loved him so dearly--left him without him knowing where I was going, though it almost broke my heart; and I hav'n't seen him since--fou...