Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-11-21
IN THE GRAY GOTH
A Story of the Lumbermen.
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pines; Dove ana beadie Always hau 'ha'
done up prompt IN November. us pretty
work going IN blazing Whiie INC sun IS
warm, and the WOODS iikc great pohhre
with the naples. used 10 hkeit' ou' your
mother wouldn't near OF IL when she couiu
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down INC cafl7p"'h' anu an "'oun'' aue
away into the WOODS anu thcfc was SUI"
IN the SKY now se''ihg IN ior ies''a,
noreaster. Inc trees $1,000 up s'ra,gi' u
around Without any icaves, auu uuo'' 'As
bushes IL was us oiacN Us pi'ch'
"Fivc months, said to myself, ,-"hvt
months."
''What in times the matter with you
Hollis says Bob Stokes, with great slal
on my arm; ''you're giving that ere OK mo
lasses OH his hay!
Sure enough was, and he said actet
like dazed creature, and very likely did
But couldn't have told Bob the reason
, You see, knew Nancy was just drawin
/ up her little rocking g-chair-the one with tn
green cushion-close by the fire, sittn
there with the children to wait for the tea t
i boil. And / kncw-I couldn't help know
ing, if I'd tried hard far it-how she wa
8 CRYING away softly in the dark so that non
ofthcm could see her, to think of the word
we'd said, and gone in without ever mai
ing of them up. l was sorry for them theI
: O Johnny, was sorry, and she was thirt
: miles away. I'd got to be sorry five months
a thirty miles away, and couldn't let her know
If The boys said was poor company thl
first week, and shouldn't wonder if wa
= couldn't seem to get overit any way,
,r think i couldn't let her know.
lfI could have sent her scrap of a lette
f or n message. or something, | should ha,
n felt better But there wasn't any chant
of that this long time, unless we got out
prog or fodder, and had 10 send down..
te which we didn't expect to, for we'd laid
81 q more than usual.
81 We had two pretty rough weeks work
1T begin with. for the worst storms of the SC
rs son set in, and kept in. and I never sa
,,r lc their like, before or since. 1t seemed as
a there'd never be an end OF them. stor
lie after storm, blow after blow, freeze aft
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