Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1866-03-29

nLtle scale the oay Dorore ana Le0-
ling bic low spirited, it almost seemed
as though was going into my own, new
er to come up any more.
Very stupid and foolish ideas, say:
yOu--far-fetched ideas. Very likely
but that's what / thought; and there
are times when men has VERY strange
ideas; and I'llteH you fact that some.
thing struck me-When Invent down that
hole as ] shouldn't come up it again
and didn'ti neither. Why the VERY
feel O. the cold damp place made you
think o. being buried, and when few
bits of earth came and ratified down upon
the stage above my head, as soon as the
first start was over it seemed to me so
like the ratIling o. the earth but a few
hours before upon little coffin, that
something fell with patupon my bright
trowel, which, if it had been left, would
hab been spot o. rust. @
Nothing like work to put fellow to
rights and / soon found that / was
feeling better, and the strokes o. my
trowel went ringing away down the sew
er as | cut the bricks in half; and after
bit almost felt inclined to whistle, but
didn't, for kept on thinking of that
solitary face at hOme-the face that al
ways frightened up when / went back,
and had made such man oy ne as felt
1 was. for it was enough to make any
man vain to be thought so much Of. And
then / thought how dull she'd be, and
fond she'd be o'IlOOking at the drawer
swhere all the little things were kept /;
and then well, amt ashamed Of it,
if am great hulking felloW--I took
that nobody saw what / was doing, while
! had look at a little bit of shoe as /
had in my pocket.
/ didn't go home to dinner, for it was
too far off; so had my snack, and then
went to il again directly along with two
more, for we was on the piece. We
had some beer sent down to US, and at it
we went till it was time to leave off; and
/ must soy as / was glad Of it, and did
not much envy.Ihe fresh gang coming on
to work all night, though it might just as
well have been night with US. Twas
last down, and had jest put my foot on
the first round of the ladder, when /
heard something falling as it hit and
Jared the boards up'ards; and them
directly after what seemed to be brick
caught me on the head, and, before l
knew where l was, was off the little
platform, splash down in the cold rush.
ing water that took me off and away
yards before / got my head above it /;
and then / was so confused and half
stunned that ! let it go under again. and
had been carried ever so far, half drown
ed, l gained my legs and leaned, painting
and blinded, up against the Shiny wall.
There / stood for al least ten minutes
/ should suppose, shuddering and hor-
ried, with the thick darkness all around,
the Shiny, muddy bricks against my
hands, the cold, rushing water beneath
me, and my mind in that confused state
for a-few minutes longer didn't know
what / was going to do nex:, and wanted
to persuade myself that it was all
dream, and ] should wake up directly.
All at once, gave jump, and instead
o. being cold with the water dripping
from mel turned all hot and burning ,and
then again cold and shudder. and then
close against my bare neck, when gave
the jump, and heard close by me light
splash in the water-a splash which ech-
oed through the hollow place, while half
to frighten the beast that / fancled must
be in swarms around me, half wrung
from me as a cry of fear and agony, /
yelled out.
"Rats i"
Rats they we're far above the hollow
"wash-wash, hurry-hurry, wash-wash,
hurry-hurry'' Of the water, i could hear
little splashes and scaffing by me
along the sides o. the brick-work.
You may laugh at peoples halr atan-
ding on end, bat know then that there
was a creeping, .ingling sensation in
the roots o. mine, as though sand was
trickling among il; q cloud seemed to
come over my mqd, and for few mo-
ments. believe was mad-mad with
fear; and it was only by setting my teeth
hard and clenching my fists that / kept
from shrieking. However, l was soon
better, and ready to laugh at myself az
recOllected that I could only be a little
way from the spot where the men work
ed; so / began to wade along the water
here about up to my middle. All at
stopped, and thOught about where was
a work.
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