OLD GRANNY SULLIVAN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2151, 28 March 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)

OLD GRANNY SULLIVAN.

(By Shaw Noilson.) But -Granny, she has seen the world, and often by her side I sit and listen while she speaks of youthful da vs of prieioj Old Granny’s hands are clasped; she wears her favorite faded shawl — I. ask her this, I ask her that: elio says, ‘‘l mind them all.” The day she first met- Sullivan—sho tells it all to me— How she was hardly twenty-one, and lie was twenty-three. The courting days! the kissing days! lmt hitter things befall The bravest hearts that plan and dream. Old Granny ‘‘minds it all.” Her wedding-dress I know by heart: yes.l- every flounce and frill; And the little home they lived in first, with the garden on the hill. 'Twas there her baOy boy was born; and neighbors came to call, But none had seen a boy like Jim — and Granny “minds it all.” The first dark days of widowhood, tho the weary days and slow. The grim, disheartening .uphill fight, then Granny lived to know. “The childer.” ah! they grew and grew—sound, rosv-cheeked, and tall: “The childer” still they are to her. Old Granny “minds them all.”