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/ACAMEMNO

BY ANNA FICHBERG.

“Charity, Agamemnon Mow, am a beautiful ting ;’ and Maumy Mow dumped a great gingham bundle on the floor, and itting down on the old rocking chair with ver black hands spread on her knees, she gazed thoughtfully at her son, aged seven who was nursing the baby. “Charity he cover a multitood ob sins; d’you hear dat, Agamemnon ?”

Whereupon Mrs. Mow opened the bundle |

‘}while her son watched her with great agita-

tion, which she manifested by holding the , baby up-side down.

Againemnon was such a smal] darkey,and the baby was so big that the division of labor seemed unfair.

*‘Agamemnon, what you doin’ wid dat angel sister -ob yourn /” his mother asked reproachfully.

Agamemnon, suddenly aware that ten little bronze toes were wriggling in the air, where one wooly head should have been, made a mighty effort and turned her right side up, then took a long breath, his burden smiling placidly meanwhile, for Rosalba was nothing if not good-natured.

‘*‘Bress her sweet heart, and put dis on Upon which the ever-smiling Rosalba was crowned with an

neient poke bonnet, which Mammy had picked up in some dusty garret.

Mrs. Mow did ‘‘chores’ for a living, and from the various houses she ‘‘cleaned” she *gathered those strange garments in which Mthey were all arrayed.

- “See yere, Agamemnon,” sbe cried, fondly held up a pair of shabby trousers,

***‘Dem’'s ole massa’s, he telled me he wear

‘em when he go courtin’ missis. Mighty ig pity,” she added witha sigh, ‘the hab Dat am de waistcoat, an’ dis are de coat an’ dis am a cap for you, Agememnon,” whereupon he was extin- guished beneath a fur cap with a visor.

*‘Now L’se got some ting else. Just you guess what itam!” she said in triumph and hid something in the shadow of the old Coat.

Agamemnon’s eyes glowed in the depths of his fur cap.

“it’s a watermelon, he shouted, and at’ the name of her favorite dish the baby joined in with a fat squeal.

**To-morrow am Chris’ mas, an’ de water- melions, dey ain’t jes’ ripe yet. But I) _eplain to de gard’ner de ’cessity of hurrying em up tite eand he’s a berry ‘bliging gen Jeman,” Mammy retorted.

Agamemmnon’s eyes nearly started out of | hls head. He lifted the tails of the ancient coat he wore, and prepared to attack the mystery when Mrs. Mow held up—-a chicken. Agamemnon had little experi- ence in chickens, but instinct told him that this was a tine bird, combining the noble proportions of mature years and the tender- ness of infancy. He howled with rapture | and considerately pushed back Rosalba’s bonnet so that she also could share in the general joy. And that wasn’t all. drew out a huge loaf of bread, a portly cab- bage whose hard heart was a virtue, a quart bag of cranberries, and then, Oh, rapture ! & newspaper parcel bursting with dough- nuts, sv warm still and so greasy that they appeared to dissulve in their own richness,

‘Ole mass’r tell de cook to gib dem to me, cosit am Chris’mas, bress his heart ! Charity am a beautiful ting! [t am a

Mammy interrupted her reflections and pounced on a black paw that was abseutly toying with the doughnuts. ‘Dis aim Chris’mas eating! You go out ob doors an’ git some air wid dat baby.”

So the two discreetly retreated into the front yard, where they cuddled together in a broken-down washtub, while the goat, tethered to a bit of fence near by, tried to make a frugal meal off the limp roses in Rosalba’s bonnet.

Mrs. Mow’s residence consisted of two rooms, and stood on the highway lead ng to the small town. The neighborhood was so sparsely settled thet Mammy’s shanty seemed to have tumbled down there by accident. thistles, rocks, posters aud goats.

The next day being Christmas, Mammy, to do credit to the occasion, scrubbed Ros- alba until she looked like polished ebony, while Agamemnon suffered such tortures in a pail combined with yellow soap, that he decided to enlist as a pirate as soon as Ros- alba could walk. In the mean time his spirits were depressed that even the recol- lection of the chicken could sooth him. Maminy, having secured her children, pro- ceeded to array herself in unto!d splendor, and as she was thrusting a part of her great black band in a yellow kid glove, she thus addressed her son :

‘*l’se a going down to a praise meetin’ at Ebenezer Chapel, Agamenon. Just you keep dat baby clean, an’ if | come home an’ tinds a speck ob dirt on dat chile, [’ll just spank you blue. I has inwted Uncle Spooner to dine wid us hiah after de meetin’, cause it ain't ebery day dat he eat such a chicken as dis one.”

Su she departed and left Agamemnon in a lowness of spirits deepened by a surrep- titious contemplation of the chicken.

He knew Uncle Spooner’s appetite from painful experience, and it would be un- peraeney aggravated by much shouting in

he chapel. Whichever way he calculated, the end was equally unsatisfactory. If Uncle Spooner began with the neck of the fowl and ate his way down the most deli- cate calculation would prove that only a sealy drum-stick could remain for Agamem- non, On the other hand, supposing Uncle Spooner began at the tail, it was a self- evident fact that only the neck would be left, which part Agamemnon knew to bea mockery and a delusion. Therefore was he in gloom.

Extingui*hed under the fur cap and stage gering under Rossalba, he leaned mourn- fully against the fence. Christmas had lost its interest for him, and not even the con- templation of the goat taking a light re- freshment off a tomato can could bring a

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Mammy

bressed ting to gib—Oh, you little nigger.” |

Over the way were fields rich in|

dilapidated stranger sauntered down the road. He was terribly out at elbows, but he was cheerful and ready for conservation.

‘Hallo, you little nigger, how do you do?” he remarked genially, as the two ‘black infants stared ‘t him from the shelter of a broken-down fence. The infant with the bonnet smiled generously, while the other said with deep gloom that he was pretty well.

‘That's your sister,I guess,” the stranger continued, leaning over the fence and tickl- ing Rossalba’s fat “chin with the dingy end

ie « clay pipe, ‘**Please let dat chile alon, sar. She done

been cleaned up fo’ to- day, cos’ it am Christmas.” “So it is. Id nearly forgotten. She/1

‘don't look as if she ever suffered from hun-

‘She don’ be hungry jis’ yet,” non piped up shrilly.

The stranger leaned a little more heavily on the fence.

**Would you believe it, sonny,” he said with much emotion, ‘‘I have eight of them young things at home, not one of ‘em older than her, and they’re all hungry.”

Agamemnon gazed at the unhappy father with some compassion. He knew how Rossalba yelled when she was hungry, and he rapidly multiplied the noise by eight.

‘Why don you gib em something to eat?”

“Cos L ain't got anything. What’s your name?” | *‘Agamemnon Mow.”

*‘Agamemnon,| ain’t ate anything myself for four days.” Whereupon he mopped his face with the remnant ot a red silk hand- kerchief. ‘*Perhaps your ma'll give me something, seeing it’s Christmas.”

“She's gone to Ebenezer Chapel, an’ dere ain't nobody in ‘cept me an’ de bby. First dere is a pr aise meeting, an’ den dere are— chicken,’ and young Againemnon sighed. “Well, guess I'll go in and get a glass of

water anyway, it’s better’n nothing,” aud she stranger strolled in,followed by Agame- mnon and the baby.

‘** Pears like you might be a tramp, sir,” Agamemnon suggested politely, as the other sank into Mamuny’s favorite chair.

| “It’s what some call me, particularly! ‘policemen. But don’t you be afraid, you’ little nigger, I won't hurt you,”

“I ain’t noways ‘fraid,” Agamemnon re- torted, and then added, coming nearer, **is dey be rry hungry ”

| Who,” the forgetful parent demanded. | “De eight.”

“Oh yes, t’besure! Awful ! howling.”

‘Guess dey’ like something to eat.”

“Of course they would, darkey.”

| Agamemnon paused, reflected, and then, like all great characters, decided without delay. Charity was a beautiful thing, Mammy had said so, and rather than Uncle Spooner, why the famished eight shonld eat that chicken.

** If you jis’ hole dat baby a minit I done fetch suftin’ fo’ dem,” he said res lutely.

The ever-smiling Rosalba was transferred to the tramp, and Agamemnon disclosed the treasures of the cupboard,

There stood the noble loaf of bread as a svlid background; the chicken hung by its yellow Jegs, the portly face of the cabbage absolutely seemed to smile, and the cran- berries glowed like garnets. As for the doughnuts, well it wasa torture to part with them, but Agamemnon was reckless and resolved. As if to make the ways of sin easy, underneath stood Mammy’s mar-

ket basket.

| ‘Guess, I'll put the tings in heah, but you done bring dat basket back fo’ shuah. ‘Dem chillen won't cry no moah, sah,” he said as the visitor departed.

As that gentleman disappeared down the street he passed a gorgeous colored lady, escorted by a fat old darkey in an ancient silk hat and a stupendous collar.

‘** Well, I do declar’, Uncle Spooner,’ she said to her escort, ‘** ef dat gen’lenin ain't got a basket jes like mine! Howebber, as I done remark, dar am a chicken at home

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Mammy made a-dive. for him, but he use Rosalba as a shield.

“Gib dat dinner away ?”

**He say dey was all so hungry—eight ob ‘em —no bigger den Rosalba,” Agamem- non sobbed. ’

‘Jes’ you come hiah, I's gwine to”—-

“Mamiuny, you say it am beautiful te give things away,’ Agamemnon pleaded, but in his secret soul he knew that diluted ‘charity is a failure,

Mammy gasped, grabbed the baby, drop- ped it in the air apparently, and then clutched her son by the seat of his patched velveteen breeches and laid him over her knee.

“Uncle Spooner, der am an ole slipper in de cupboard ; jes gim me dat, dye. ain't nuftin else dere.”

Agamemnon wailed and Maumy wielled the slipper.

*Charity am a beautiful ting, you dark- ey, but he done begin to home, 4 .gamem- non, dun’ you nebber forgit dat.”

Some one knocked at the kitchen door, but as no one paid any atientivoa a dilapi- dated head looked in and observed the situ- ation. It was the parent of the eight hun- gry children.

“Qh I say, old lady,” he cried, ‘here's your dinner. 1 guess that’s whet you are walloping him for. I've brought it back.”

‘So dat’s you,” mammy exclaimed, leasing Agamemnon.

“Yes, but I thought better of it. I kind’er guessed how it would end for that engaging little nigges of yours. And, to tell the truth,” he added with an agreeab!e sinile, ‘‘the victuals being mostly raw, would set heavy on my ” digesti ion, wy French cook's off on a vacation. So says I to inyself, “bring them victuals back and they'll invite youto dinner after they're cooked,’ ”

Mammy flew at the baskets,

“They're all there, mum, excepting a doughnus or two—-and the chickon’s a very fine chicken. Tain’t every gentleman would have done as much. 1 think, mum, you said 1 could stay and welcume—seeing it’s Christmas.”

‘Seeing it’s Chris'mas you kin stay,” Mammy cried, rejoicing over her recovered treasures.

‘*‘Hiah, Agamemnon, hiah am a dough- nut, an’ you kin set on de cushion to-day. But dere’s one ting don’ you nebber forgit, you little nigger, Charity he done always begin tu home.”

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gracious!’ Manny ejaculated at . loss for. adjectives, ** Dere am nuttin so beautiful like charity,” she concluded joyfully as they reached the gate.

‘* And how am the healf ob Agamemnon; an’ dis oderdear chile ob yourn, Mow ?” Uncle Spooner asked, and pulled | the baby’s woolly braids and pushed Aga memnon’s fur cap over his eyes,

A dreadful joey tiled Agamemnon’s soul. No, the beautiful chicken was not dastined for Uncle Spooner. He rejviced to think of the hungry eight. Besides, had not Mammy distinctly said charity is a beauti- tul thing ?

** ]’se done come straight back an’ cook dat dinner, Uncle Spooner,” cried the un- suspecting Mammy.

Agamemnon watched Uncle Spooner pry into the nooks and corners, and he ob- served his start of surprise when on open- ing the familiar cupboard he found it empty.

‘**Hab your ma any udder ‘ceptacle for the victuals,” he asked anxiously.

Agamemnon pretended not tu hear. He felt nervous, He began to fear that his charity, being diluted charity, might go wrong.

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He dared not disobey. He crept along. | He a p aed.

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