Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-03-16
From the Little Corporal.
AMONG THE RELATIONS.
BY a. H. POE.

I've been visiting our relations. /
don't mean Grandma Collins folks, nor
Uncle Pettengill's, nor none of them;
It's mammals relations Ill Illinois. 1
went by myself, only man, one OF the
students that studies with papa, went
with me as far as Springfield We'd
been travelling all the day before and
all that night. Pretty soon after he got
off, Gt wasn't quite morning yet, the
cars stopped again, and the conductor
said,
"Come, little girl; this is your sta
ton And he helped me OFF, and car
ried my travelling bag into the depot
for me, and there, instead of finding
grandpa, there wasn't any one except
two men, and they wasn't very nice
looking l was 50 disappointed; and I
said to the conductor,
Il was specting somebody here to
meet me.
The conductor said, "Well, never
mind sit still and wait little while.
They'll be along presently" And he
put my travelling bag down, and went
off quick.
Twasn't much Of depot, / tell you.
The lights were dim, too, but they had
good fire. sat real still, and after a
while one of the men said;
EUR to go, sissy"
/ told him I thought twas about five
miles and then was feeling 50 I'M
easy [ asked, "'Do you know grand
pa n
whats his name?'' said he. And I
said twas Grandpa Harvey,
''O,' said he, q reckon it's old
'Sqnire Harvey. I've heerd him spok-
en- of, but l amt acquainted. l amt
been long in these parts myself
just then / heard a quick step out
side, and the door opened, and there
was Uncle Guy. He laughed right out
and said, This is our city girl, is it?"
hadn't seen him but once before, and
/ was almost 'shamed when he took me
up in his arms and kissed me, and car
ried me ont, and put me into the
spring wagon. just as If had been no
bigger than Robby. Then he told me
to hold the lines while he got my trunk.
The Horses were beautiful gray ones,
like papa's carriage horses, only wilder;
and they jumped and pranced as il they
wanted 10 run away | was afraid, but
l wasn't going to let Uncle Guy know;
and when he came back | found l
needn't have been, a bit because he
hadn't united them yet.
1t took a long time to get there.
There wasn't any houses along the road
at all, hardly, and it looked so cold;
colder than it was. The lanes were
long, and the ground was covered with
little spots of ice Uncle Guy said the
horses "broke in. ?" After awhile we
came to the woods. 1t was grandpa's
maple woods; and it looked beautiful
in October, Uncle Guy said, but Icame
a little too late At the end of the
woods there was white house with
green window blinds, and four front
doors; and back of that was red one,
with white strips up and down 1t. That
was the barn, but / didn't know it
then. The yard was full of maple trees,
and the grass and walks were covered
with dead leaves. Uncle Guy drove up
to the hitching post, and whoaed y
loud
We got on to the porch before any of
them saw us: and then twas Joe, ilrst.
Joe is boy that lives there. He came
from the poor house, and his mother 5
crazy but he's real good boy. He
was coming out of the house, but when
he saw us he ran back and cried,
"They've come they've come y
and grandpa, and grandma, and Aunt
Ollie came out and kissed and Rugged
me, and grandpa called me little
Irene Harvey" Irene amt my name,
it, mammals; so / said, as loud as |
could, o(because grandpa can't hear
easy), MY names Mignonette Collins. >
The breakfast was good, but | don't
remember much what they had, be
cause l was SO sleepy After breakfast
/ went to sleep on a little trundlebed
in grandmas room. Aunt Olive seid
they bought it down stairs on purpose
for me 1t was the same one mamma
used 10 sleep IN.
When l woke up grandma was I'M