The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-05-19
OUT OF THE I'D HOUSE. NANCY.
BY WILL Il CARLETON.

By WILL CARLETON.
our p 9, y e old house. Naney-moyed up into tn
oni. e hurry and work are just as good as froa m
"a ~ sna5s 20 stand Oh the door step here, and BIZ
What shell we've lived in, these nineteen O
Wonder il hadn't smashed in and tumbIed abou
Wonder it's stuck together and answered TN to
But every individual log was pat up here 70 stay.
Things looked rather new. though, when this old
And i. things that blossomed you. would,ve made
And h every other day. then. as sure as day would
Ny nsighbor Ager came this way, invitin. me ia
AND you for want Of neighbors was sometimes
For Eolyes and bears and Wild cats was the near
But 10 IOo Sdes s sSea aa q the c,s,rn,
UutIl we vas fairly out Of the woods, and things
Aoo :, W snefe at cur new housei-ain't it q thing
Tan and big and handsome, and new as new can be.
And neye ~, 0r1er, especially the shelves.
ourselves w o"n II an
Look at our old log house-how little it now ap-
But It's never gone back on us, for nineteen or
twenty years; VI
Tnd won't go back on it now pokin' fun,
good that it has done.
Probably yOu remember how rich we was that
When We was fairly settled, am had things snug
We feel as proud you please. Nancy, over our
But we Ielt proud under this old roof. and
good deal prouder, too. ''-~
Never handsomer house was seen beneath the
Kitchen and parior and b edroom-we had ,em al,
in one; - go
And the fat old wooden clock that we bought when
Was tckin' away in the corner, there an dom its
Trees was all around US, whisperin' cheerin'
Loud was the squirrels chatter. and sweet the
And home grew sweeter and brighter-our coura0a
And things looked hearty and happy, then, and
And here. one night it happened, when things were
We fell IN deep old quarrel-the first we ever had
? No when you give out and cried, then 1 like a
An then we agreed to rub all out. and start the
thing ag'in.
Here it was. you remember, we sat when the day
And you was maxim clothing taGt qcdsnr for ef-
And often a soft word of love was soft enough to
And the wolves were howlin' in the wood not
T TbsnS our 9rst born 6a5y regular little joy
an = sne little hirt, though. with all her pouts
Why. settlers come, to see that show, half doz-
en- miles.
Yonder sat the cradle-a homely, homemade
and many night rocked it, providln' you would
And many little squatter brought T p with us to
And SO that cradle, for many a year, was never
put away.
How they kept comin' SO cunnin' and fat and
How they growedl twas wonder we found room
But though the hOnse was crowded. it empty SEEM
When Jennie lay by the fireplace, there, an
moaned her life away.
And right in there, the preacher, with bible and
6 'TMixs , the dead and the living and chopped
tWouid 90 us good"
And now as rub my eyes it seems as if could
see 1t yet.
Then that at of sickness it brought on you, you
just BY thread you hung. and you e'en Almost
And hers is the spot tumbled. an give the Lord
When the doctor said the fever'd turned, an he
could fetch you through.
Yes. deal has happened to make this old house
Christenin's funerals, weddin's-what havn't we
had heres
Not log in this buldin' but its memories has got
And not nail in this old floor but touches q ten
der spot.
Out of the old house, Nancy-moved up into the
new;
All the hurry and worry just as good as through;
But tell you right thing here that amt ashsm
ed to say;
There's precious things in the old house we never
can take away.
Here the old house will stand but not as it stood
before;
Winds will whistle through it and rains will food
the floor;
And over the hearth. once blazing thesnow drifts
oft will pile,
And the old thing will seem to be mournin' all
the while.
Fare You WELL old hOusei you're naught that can
feel or see,
But you seem like human being-a dear old
friend, to me;
And we never viii have a better home, If my opin-
ion stands.
Until we commence keepin' house. in the house
not made with hands.
HILLsDALE, MICH.