The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-11-16
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ish. They're cooling, ingens is
You tended that ingen-bed, didn't
you, Madgie p
g andma and l."
"And we wanted some OF them
ingens for marke'," said the old
wife, cycling the sacrifice severely.
1--WE ain't got no ground to throw |
away raising Injuries for our
sclges."
"Well, well, mother y pleaded
Caspar, dipping his fragrant sphere
in salt, II don't calk'late to pull
'em all, jist wanted somethin' re-
freshin' after hard day. "Taste
'en, Madgie," insinuating the
emerald tops toward her.
"Oh no, grandpa, keep 'em your
SELF" shaking her head and smiling.
Il feel" rambled Caspar, filling
his senses and his jaw with per-
fumed roots, until a blind man
would have pronounced him a Mex
ican, If his nose had sat in judg-
ment over Casper, II rally feel as
it l needed somethin' refreshin',
working hard day after day for
nothiq', you might say. Sort O.
seeing your work go to- pieces un-
der your own eyes, and knowin' the
danger to them on the road.''
"What do you mean, grandpa"
cried Madge, turning white as her
bread and butter.
"Why, honey, you sec we've
picked and picked in that cut, and
the sile's as unsteady as water.
The stones and the earth jist rolls
on the track contineral. The COM
pany orto do somethin' to that cut.
Stones as big as You is Jared
down every train. But then the
roads new, the roads new yet
"Men amt got no sense,' broke
in the old wife. "Don't you see
your skeering that child to death
for fear Charloy'll &c. smashed up.
He runs on that road"
Two blades of keen remorse
leaped from Casper's bleared eyes.
''Now don't be skeered, honey.
Take an ingen, honey ?"
) He reached over to pat her fin
gers.
"Charley didn't pass to-day when
the dirt was rattlin' down SO. He
don't pass till half-past 8 this eve
ming, and We left the track as clean
as this table. Yes, sir; them rails
is as free and bright as new tin
pans. So don't be skeered, honey
"I'm not scared about anything
grandpa" said Madge tremulously
but smiling like rain bow.
> There, now. .nother," cried Cas-
: par triumphantly, returning to hi
onions, "you came down on me fol
= nothing. She amt skeered Bit
10 No, not bit! She flew a5ou
70 the room like bird, washed th'
= earthen-ware, brought her grand
~ father his pipe and dropped at hi
feet to tell some funny story afloat
- In his enjoyment be wrapped him
y self in such cloud that she coul
- hardly see the clock.
~ Madge slipped out to the gat'
She was often there looking up th
, road. The two old people sat il
er side thinking of the days whe
ut they we're young.
ng She was restless, and fitted ov,
a. the cinder sidewalk, following
Is, magnet which would have draw
10. her from the center of the cart
ot To the road, of course. How ofte
Ep- had she watched the rails conver,
ny ing horizonward until they shar
ell ened themselves to q needle poin
The RAILROAD had q fascination &
'd' Madge. When baby, she used
ke follow her grandfather to his wol
all and hide among bushes to see Il
IN. big freights numbering by, and Il
ier express trains wh;rling into tov
w. like screaming land demons. s.
we had heard of the sea, and the sp,
Ter it had upon sailors, but she 81
IN the railroad and felt the spe
art which nobody seemed to remar
ds, that it cast over the inland labo
all ers. She saw her boy playmat
OF sucked up by 'stbe road," hea
'ne her grandfather tell of hair bread
escapes from collisions, of CO
led courage in men who placed the
selves between the people tn
sie, carried and most horrible dea
e, She had learned the power a
ing mission of ethe road" In sho
she was as loyal daughter of I
OF rail as any Main skipper's child
ing of the sea. Madge had an affin
for an engine. To this day
throat swelled, her eye kindl
Ct q when the great animal swept p'
aga her Charley drove an engine, q
not his engine was in her eves a