The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-10-02

decided, when mother had fair
chance with the flowers and vines,
and shrubbery, her heart delighted
in. At present she protested, with
a touch of bitterness, she would "not
put dibble in earth to set one slip of
them" any more, till the new paling
father had promised to erect should
be there to protect them; wandering
animals of various kinds having so
often made assault upon her precious
plants, that she averred they were
making her life a burden to her.
sat Marius-like, among the outsk;rts
of the woodpile awhile longer than need
have done, rambling off into these and
various other thoughts, till quick little
rap of mothers fingers on the window
pane recalled me with scarf to my pres
ent duty, which straiglItway hurried to
fulfill. BY the time the fire was lain and
kindled, the dancing light Of the flames
was contending on the walls witk the last
CLEAN of sunset, drawing my shadow upon
them in likeness of Sairey Camps as
brushed upon the floor, bedec1ed- las she
in her watchman's eoat-wi.h the attire
before described.
A sound of deliberately advancing hoof
was heard on the turf without, and moth
er exclaimed with despairihg gesture:
'There comes that old stray mare to finish
the last of my dahlias! It is hardly worth
while to drive the creature away again.
she comes back 50 soon" "a-"
"l'll give her one good fright this time,
anyhow" cried wrathfully. excited by
my m theirs wrongs; and sitting the &C.
tion to the word, suddenly orened the.
door and bounded out with wild whoop,
brandishing my broom Maenad like ener.
Igy. IT the old mare had been there /
suppose she would quietly have dropped
down and died with the fright, sand
there an end" as Macbeth comfortably
expresses it. But no, no! it was no old
stray mare, but stately black horse, and
on that horse sat q stately rider-"had
been seated" / should rather say.
At the moment of my onslaught he was
just moving to dismount at our door. The
frantic bound which that stable steed
made as my horrible apparition burst out
upon him would have sufficed to unseat
any ordinary horseman. 10 tue case OF
this unfortunate man, just about 10 quit
his sadd at leisurely ease, the effect was
to swing him off in tangent, which
brought his head against our stone door
step, where he lay bleeding and senseless
at my very feet. The fearful shrek I
gave as my victim fell before me, brought
mother to the door, with look of alarm
which changed to horror when she saw
the bloody burden on her threshold. She
comprehended the affair in flash, espe-
cially as the frightened horse went thun-
dering down the road ut rate the old
marc had certainly never been capable of
in her remotest youth; and--dearest and
best of womeD-she wasted not moment
in ques tions, reproaches, or lamentations
In full possession of her faculties, she
stopped at once to examine the strangers
injuries, while l stood stupidity looking
on, frozen with horror at the sight of the
homicide had committed.
lis he quite dead?" l gasped out at last.
dead, goosey! NJ, only stunned" an
swered mother little sharply, for her,
then looking up into my face. she sLften-
ed her tone to a motherly comforting one.
Don't look so dear. It's not such ter
rible hurt, l hope. And rot your fault
more than mine, Frank. Run daughter,
and bring warm water, and that roll of
linen in my right hand upper drawer,
hand me the scissors first. This is bad
cut on this poor head"
made what haste my trembling feet
and shaking hands could, and when re-
turned mother babe me prop his head
while she put away his hair and washed
the blood from gaping wound, which it
frightened me to look at, looking more
and more anxious the while, as no signs
of animation yet appeared in her patient.
Most fortunately before we had any