The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-06-04

siissL Leu ; ask N0u again, M0Sef
and thank him for bringing Us.
to this iceEwarm haystack.l'.
$50 Don't belong Patty, for I'm
50 sleepy ollivgr1[IAs;
I Once more the childish petit
tions ascend to the Throne Of
Grace, and then. huddled close
together, the tired wanderers
fell asleep. S
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oiaaa $40 Iis % Wna llwpe M
Home in the snug warm
kitchen T; the busy house mother.
at her 1aily tasks, is aroused
by the gathering darkness SO
early in the day, Already the
snow falls thickly, and she goes.
to the door and blows the conch
shell which will bring the far
mer in. I" Husband, it is $beS
ginning to storm Won't you
hitch up and go for the child
rem 2" The farmer looks at his
watch. Z" Too early yet. Be-
sides one of the cows is very
sick, my best one, and | want
to stay with her, I'll send
Isaac by two o'clock" ,.a5'
All right, Patty promised
me they'd stay until you came
for them if it snowed." And
back she goes singing to her
tasks. Singing that sweet
hymn:
My faith looks up to thee"
All! little does she think how
that faith will be tried in the
next twenty-four hours!
About one O'clock the storm
RACES so fiercely that the farmer
resolves to go for the children
whether the COW dies or not.
So putting plenty of buffalo
robes in the sleigh he drives
away after the two, who even
now are fighting the driving
storm. Il
Two o'clock, three o'clock,
four o'clock, and they do not
come! Mrs. Meagher has anx-
iously looked from the door at
least twenty times within the
last hour Atlength she hears
the welcome sound of the bells
as the sleigh drives into the
back yard, and in a few min
utes figure covered with snow
and icicles, grasps her by the
wrist, and in a hoarse, rough
voice, asks: - 4
" Are the children at homer
"John what can you meant
No! Tell me are they not
with you2" gasps she in brOk-
en- sentences. With a grban
her husband sinks into a chair
and buries his face in his hands.
They are lost. They were
gone over an hour when | got
to the school house, and there
is q no trace of them on the
road"
With a sharp cry of agony
Ule Mother 1alls on her knees
beside the, weeping father, and
for few minutes there is H.
lence, broken only by the loud
ticking clock, and the storm
as it mockingly beats against
the window pane,
Then John Meagher rises
and buttons his coat tightly
around him,
ID @Lmust get alEthe farmihaads
aud'sesrch the plains he says,
although no man better knows
The uselessness Of such a task. |
From the window his Wife
watches them go, and then flls
on her knees, praying God to
protect her darlings. Even then
they are calmly sleeping u{der
the shelter Of the haystacR in|
one Of their fathers fields. But
the anxious parents do not know
It, and when at night the little
band returned half frozen and
exhausted after frnitlehsI
search, the children are given
up foraead' 'r Z. "a
.*b..og *yhans*
"patty, I'm 50 hungry" \
Where's your pail, Mose2
I lost mine in the snow when
we aknelt down" .
aWhy, here 1t IS and / didn't
eat my turnover because, moth
er put in two. Won't you have
half, Patty ~ 81 ysg
N" No, Nose Eat it all your
self. It's none too big" And
generous, hungry Patty turns