The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1861-01-03

ment. She seemed TO see visions and
dream dreams.
"My DEAR she said, ''you are the
6rst Of the family that has returned to
candles since the innovation of gas. You
are indebted to your dip for my presence.
How hollow l would have looked under
ch handelier-how bloodless, how white!-
AS it is, think am looking very natur-
al, am l not?''
She glanced up at her portrait, and
waited my reply.
ga little pale, grandmother, said;
''but tell me, dear madam, if your pur
suits in the other world are of such ma
ture that they admit of your returning to
this at any time?"
"By no mea MS. I am not permitted
to appear in this sphere but seldom. Ny
influence l can make felt oftener. 1
have not been seen before since my cof-
fin lid was closed. l am come to tell
you there arose a yell in Panden onium.
| looked in 10 see whence it came. l
found the great chamber assigned to lit
tie children, and which is always full of
little ones of all sizes and ages, the scene
of great commotion. Infants were crawl
ing into corners; three year old toddlers
were tottering out of the way. Older
ones were hastily finding seats, and all
faces wore q gIistening expression. A
small voice was saying:
ut was no fault of mine that bro't me
here. l who am now but five years old,
might have lived to be fifty. Nature, ,un-
fortunately, gave me a physical develops
ment. Ny chest was round and full, my
skin clear, my limbs finely moulded
My tender mother, proud Of her offspring,
barred my neck and arms in the chill win: i:
:ers, when her rose bushes and vines
were packed in warm straw and thoro'ly
protected from every blast, l was brot
down to be viewed by company, and ex-
posed to different temperatures as l went
from room to room. My mother, wrap
ped in soft velvet and comfortable silks
did not suffer. l did, but could not tell
her so. took cold, became great
trouble in the house. My beauty faded
l fingered on from month to month, and
died at last, at five years old, of consump>
ton. My mother cried over my little
coffin. l knew, but could not tell her
then, that her own vanity mad placed me
there-would send me here
81 was trotted to DEATH" said a more
piping voice, as the first speaker sat
down.
"a woman was hired expressly to take
care of me, and she took care that l
should not want exercise. Her days and
nights were spent in keeping ME going
cup, up.upy," and down, down, downy.'
That unknown wonder, perpetual motion
was to be found IN my nurses knees
Every bone in my poor little body was
racked, every ounce of flesh WAS sore.-
My food went down milk and came up
cheese. If cried, I was trotted; if
screamed, I was trotted; If was still,
was trotted-I be came little better than
a human churn, from which the butter
had been taken and the sour milk left
standing. My brains turned to bruises,
my blood to whey, my bones grew SO
shap they almost pierced the knees which
trotted them. AS l began to cut teeth
my tongue was constantly jolted between
my jaws, and in danger of being bitten
off. I dared not whine, for knew the
penalty: began at last to calculate how
long the torture could possibly continue.
Warm weather was coming on, and l
thought one or the other of us must soon
give up the ghost; and as my nurses ex-
ertions were almost superhuman, I i'm
agined that perhaps 1 might outlast her.
One unlucky day, however, my mother
entering the room unexpectedly, I smi-
led at her. l had never done SO be.
fore.
1.-The darling" cried my parent, "see,
it knows me-
'Poor thing, rather" said the nurse,
''lt has wind on its stomacb!'
Forthwith she proceeded to trot it
out. Every thump Of her foot on the
floor was, I knew, nail in my coffin.-
| felt should never smile again. My
faithful nurse continued her efforts, and
l was trotted out Of existence upon the
poor old woman's knee"
GAS the speaker ceased. one Of the OIL
der occupants of the room deserted me,
said my grandmother. "He at once
made room for me to enter, and begged
me to remain awhile anl hear the re.
marks. 1 consented, and took a seat
near the entrance.
a." said little fellow, rising from
his seat, with his blue eyes all bloodshot