Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-03-25

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company with the points of their swords
The younger among the children CAV,
out, as might have been expected, poo
things, very early on the march. Shor
and | set the example of taking two o
them up, pick-a-back, which was fol
lowed directly by the. rest of the men
Two of Mrs. Macey's three children
fell to our share; the eldest, travelling
behind us on his fathers back. Shor
heisted the next in age, a girl, on hi
broad shoulders. I see him now as i
it was yesterday, with the perspiratior
pouring down his fat face and bushy
whiskers, rolling along as if he was OF
the deck Of ship, and making sling
of his notwithstanding, with his clever
sailors fingers, to support the little CIR
on his back. 4 expect you'll marry
me, my darling, when You grow up,
says he, in his oily, Joking voice. And
the poor child, in her innocence, laid
her weary head down on his shoulder
and gravely and faithfully promised that
she would.
A lighter weight fell to my share. ]
had the youngest of the children, the
pretty little boy, already mentioned, who
had been deaf and dumb from his birth
His mothers voice. trembled sadly, as
she thanked me for taking him up, and
tenderly put his little dress right while
she walked behind me. .sHe is very
little and light of his age Says the poor
lady, trying hard to speak steady. sHe
won't give you much trouble, Davis
he has always beena very patient child
from the first Thesboy's little afrail
arms clasped themselves round my neck
while she was speaking; and something
or other seemed to stop in my throat the
cheerful answer that l wanted to make.
| walked on with what must have look
ed, l am afraid, like a gruff silence; the
poor child humming softly on my back,
in his unchanging, dumb way, till he
hummed himself to sleep. Often and
often, since that time, in dreams, i have
felt those small arms round my neck
again, and have heard that dumb muir
muring song in nay ear, dying away
fainter ane fainter, till nothing was left
but the light breath raising and falling
regularly on my cheek, telling me that
my little fellow prisoner had forgotten
his troubles in sleep. szsss9 :
We marched, as well as Icould guess,
somewhere about seven miles that day
"a short spell enough, Judging by dis
lance, but a terrible long one judging
by heart. Our hating place was by
the banks of stream, across which, at
a little distance, some wild pigs were
swimming as we came up, Beyond us,
was the same view of forests and noun
tains thatI have already mentioned;
and all round us, was a perfect wilder
ness of flowers. The shrubs, the bush
es, the ground, all blazed again with
colors, under the evening
sun. When We were ordered to halt,
wherever we set child down, there
that child had laps and laps fall of flow
ers growing within reach of itshand.-
We sat on flowers, eat on flowers, slept
at night on fowers-any chance hand
full of which would have been well worth
a golden guinea among the gentlefolks
in England. 1t was sight not easily
described, tossee niggers, savages, and
Pirates, hideous, filthy, and ferocious in
the last degree to look at, squatting
about grimly upon natural carpet OF
beauty, of the sort that is painted
in pictures with pretty fairies dancing
on it.
The mules were unloaded, and left to
roll among the flowers to their hearts
content. A neat tent was set up fer the
Pirate Captain, at the door Of which, af-
ter eating good meal, he laid himself
down in languishing attitude, with a
a nosegay in the bosom of has waistcoat
and his guitar on his knees, and iingled
away at the strings, singing foreign
songs, with shrill voice and with his
nose conceitedly turned up in the air
| was obliged to caution Short and the
sailors-or they would, TO dead GER
certainty, have put all our lives in peril
by openly laughing at him.
We had but poor supper that night.
The Pirates now kept the provisions
they had brought from the Island, fol-
their own use; and we had to share the
starvation diet of the country
with the Indians and the SaInbos. This
consisted of black beans fried, and OF
things they call Tortillas, meaning, in
plain English, fiat cakes made of crush
ed Indian corn, and baked on a clay
griddle. Not only was this food insipid
but the dirty manner in which the In
dians prepared it, disgusting. How.
ever, complaint was useless; for we could
see for ourselves that no other provi
sion had been brought for the prison
ers. ! heard some grumbling among
our men, and some little fretfulnes.
among the children, which their moth
ers soon quieted. / myself was indif
ferent enough to quality of food; for
hadnoticed circumstance, just before i
was brought to us, which occupied my
mind with more serious considerations
One of the mules was unloaded near us
81 Il observed among the baggage large
bundle of new axes, doubtless taker
from some ship. After puzzling m,
brains for some time to know what the,
could be wanted for, / came to the con
clusion that they were to be employed
in cutting our way through, when W,
came to the forests. To think of tina
kind Of travelling which these prepar
atoms promised--if the viewI took o
them was the right one-and then t,
look at the women and children,exhaust
ed by the first days march, was stuff
cientto make any manuneasy. Itweigh
ed heavily enough ON my mind, | know
when | woke up among the flowers, iron
time to time, that night.
lTo BE coSTINUED.
EF An lrishman was challenged t
f yht duel, but declined on the pie
that he didn't wish to leave his mothe
Il. .