THE GIRL FOR THE SERGEANT'S MONEY.

Kumara Times, Issue 409, 17 January 1878, Page 4

THE GIRL FOR THE SERGEANT'S MONEY.

A very old story indeed, but one which, from its inherent simplicity and natural pathos, will be ever freak, is the true tale which tells how, close upon 80 years ago, a certain sergeant in an English regiment of foot commanded by Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and Rationed in British North America, happened to pass one wintry morning, just.after dawn, thedoor of the cottage wheredwelt.tf noncommissioned officer of artillery. Standing in front of the hut was a very young* English lass, the daughter, hale, hearty, and pretty, and with her deevea. turned up to the elbows. Early as wSfcthe hour and bleak the weather, she was scrubbing at a washing-tub as thou|h for dear life." That's the girl for my money," qriothihe sejygea»t, glancing observantly • at her over his stiff black leather stock ; amlaway he plodded td the orderly room. Soon afterwards, ho began in simple, honest; straightforward fashion, to court the pretty maid of "the'washing tub: He found favor in her eyes; batojn a .short timerthe- battery to which/her father belonged .was ordered home, her sweetregiment- remaining in the colony. Now the sergeant was a hardheaded, self-reliant, frugal man, and when he bade his love good-bye, he pave her a bag full of golden, guineas, the froit of his long painful. savings, and told her to expend as much of the money as was needful for her cojifortable maintenance, and to take care of the rest, until in two sears time, he returned, God willing, her as his jwife. And in two years he' did come back, being honorably discharged from the regiment, in which he had risen to the -rank of fiergeaut-major. H> found his sweetheart at Woolwich, looking as young as ever and prettier than ever; and; with joy and honestpride, she handed to him intact the bag.of guineas, and in addition a round little sum of her own saving; for <during the two years of his absence she, disdaining to live in idleness on his bonnty, had slaved a domestic servant. She was emphatically the gb* for ;thee?-sergeant.'£ money; so were married*, and lived long and happilv together, and had many children. Only a few days *nce the daughter of the notable, housewife, who Fcrufebed the washing-tub and saved the gnirie.as for Eer true love's sake diedv/irt Bro'mpton Crescent, at' the adv.TicKd age of S2. ! Her father, the «-sftVjge*irt of Lord Edward's- regiment,: has' been dead these/fbur-aml-torty: years. He was the famous 'Wil'edits* of the PntttfoalEogisler, p ar . lament fa? OldharoA-r-Daily Telegraph.