St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1866-04-05
STUCK FAST,

goes nome one night, ana Mrs. Burge-
aat's our mex room neighbor-shows me
omething wrapped up in flannel, all pink
nd greasy and very snufay, as though it
anted its nose blowing; which could mt
expected, for it hadn't got any to sig
ify. .-.... co.. -
Well, couldn't see as it was; but I
tdn't like to say so, for knew my wife
oily had been rather reckoning on what
le said We ought to have had more'n q
Ear ago so didn' like to disappoint her,
knew she lay listenin' in the mex
'0m. -'i w .-. .,...s &.lEFitN tjz ~
Polly always said there never was such
baby as that one aud somehow it scos
king to see how her face used to light up
over smiles when she thought warn't
oking; and knew it was all on account
the little 'un. She never said she felt
Ill now; and when at home of a night
ed to think how my mates would laugh
see me a-handling the little thing that
- allus being pushed into my face to kiss;
hen Pm blessed if ever /; see such q yor-
ious 'un in my life: it would hang on to
u-nose, lip, anywheres-in minute. ST.
One day, when it was about nine months
!, 1t was taken all of sudden with a fit.
lily screamed to me to run for the doctor;
it happened that I was on the club that
'ek, and at home with q bad hand. I run
'him, and he soon come; and then there
u WARM Dath anu msutUtne put a1uer-
.rds, when l saw the little thing lying on
|. 'lly's lap SO still and quiet, and with q
II film forming over its eyes, l felt that
netting was coming, though dared not
I her and about twelve o'clock the little
ing suddenly started, stared wildly an in
mt, and then it was all over. g = = TO
My hand " arn't bad. any moro that week;
+: it took all my time to cheer up my poor
art-br0ken lass She did take on dread
: mig ht and day, night and day, till we
ried it.; and then she seemed to take
ite change, and begged Of me to forgive
lat she called her selfshness, and wiped
r eyes once for all, as she said, and talked
OFT it all being for the best. But she
Int know that Lay awake Of a night,
ling her cry silently till the pillow was
1sked with tears. .E H.. ~ ",. !. 80. q
We buried the little one on the Sunday,
d on the Monday morning was clapped
to . job that / didn't much relish, for it
3 tho re-bricking Of sewer that ran
wn ono Of the main streets, quite fifty
4 underground. .;..5.. .gq,,%i. nd. -, "a
AFTER two years in London I'd seen some
sange, but this was my first visit to the
wells OF the earth. I'd worked on drains
-Wn in tho country, but not in such a
5loern % this; why, . ife-guard might
We walked down with ease SO that there
8 plenty Of room to work. But then,
nd you, it amt pleasant work there you
down ladder after ladder, past gas:pipes
! water-pipes, and down and down, till
! get to the stage stretched across the
ct that you are at work on, with the day
hit so high up, as seen through boards
\ scafolds and ladders. that it's no use
you who are working by the light Of the
ring gas. There in front of you is the
*, black arch; and there behind you is
other; while under your feet the foul
thing water hurries along, sending up q
ell as turns your silver watch. and every
pence and shilling you have in your
;ket, black as the water that swirls bub-
ng along. Every word you speak sounds
low and echoing, while it goes whisper
] and rumbling along the dark arch till
4 think it has gone, when all at once you
lr 1t again quite plain in way as would
Ike you jump as much as when half q
lck or . bit o hard. mortar dropped into
water. ays3... Y.,sft,.a: .s..'.gtE !. f55y
5ut talk about jumping, nothing made
jump more than when a-bit of soil, or q
me, was loosened above, and came rat
10 down. I've seen more than one chap
l.nge color : and know it's been from
thought that, suppose the earth caved
where should we be ?, No doubt the
! crush in would do it, and there'd be an
lsof workmen and foreman; but there
med something VERY awful in the idea
3eing buried alive. sFsaa4z1ss& s l3
&g assthe opening was, when I went to
II, it made me shudder; there was the
til thrown out; there was the. rope at
side; there was the boarding round 7;
re it was for all the world like q big
I've. same as I'D stood by on little scale
day before; and, feeling q bit low.
rited, it almost seemed as though ]. was
hg down into my own, never to come up
more. 4: go f.
Very stupid and foolish ideas. says you.
sr-fetcheds ideas, Very likely, but
ts what Thought; aud there are times
On men hassswsrry strange ideas; and
tell you Tor ! fact that sonnet thing struck
whom I went down that hole as ]
tuldn't como up it again and I didn't,
ther. Why, the very feel . the cold,
mp place made me think 70 being buried,
whom . few bits Of earth came and rat
4 down upon the stage above my head,
soon - the FIRST start was over, it seemed
ne 20 like the rafting 20 the earth but q
hours before upon little coffin, that
asething fell with . pat upon my bright
vel, which. II il had been left, would ha'
II aspot Of rust. 4, &ss z.5 '': o.
sothing like work to put q fellow u
hts and soon found / was feeling bet
and the strokes q my troHel went ring.