Glenwood Or the Parish Farm

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. JIMMBY PENLY. THE UNKIND FATHER. STOLEN INTERVIEWS. FATA! DISASTER. In a cottage on the opposite side of the village from the house of Mr. Gregg lived the Widow Penly, whose only companion was a little boy, her son, James Penly, familiarly known as Jimmey. Mrs. Penly had been left a widow when thirty years of age, without property, and with a child but a few weeks old. She was naturally of feeble health, and difficult was the struggle to keep hunger and cold from her door. She took in sewing, went out to wash for the neighbors, and in various ways respectably maintained herself and child. The clothing of both was composed of cheap materials, but it was cut and made with taste, and kept so clean that their garments never looked mean; and so Jimmey stood as high among his playmates as other chil