The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1873-05-15
Ono night said Blithe, ..he feI

cover wheel says /, quick enough.
Don't hurry me- said BIitbc, and she
put down her little feathers and drew up
her little breath. "She iell-over-thc
bed you see. The tide was in / was to
sleep, father, in the night, ahd come NOR
ming sat uE, and the tide was out, and
here she lay. The floor was all sloppy,
and there she lay l don't Ike to renenl-
Der that, said Bhthe,
lcs, sir | went On my knees. Right
down in the hoard wet on that horrd
i1or. couldn't have helped it, not to
save me. Down l went, and bid my face
and l thanked the Almighty Tor His onex-
pectei favors to myself and a little gal
aho wasn't Ike her mother. 1t was WI b
the parting AMI the longness. 1t was with
the arm and the misery, Il was with .
coming home to find her curling feather
for a Twin in u two foot tide upon 4 island
by which mean bed-teside little
camille. 1t was with bein led \ LIFE, sir
a hundred times.
There was nobody il the world now but
me and the little gal. I'll DO it all through
ag!n to have nobody in the world but the
little girl and me. 1t was with the blum
der and the pun,s lmenr. 1t was with a
being useful and repenting Of it. 1t was
with so much, sir, that declare didn' t
feel rs II III ought to take it unrequtted
for i sencc of Obligation come upon me
very sndlen. III never felt obligated, not
even to the Almighty, in my life before.
1t was 4 very curious feeling.
Bat bless You, no; I never told my
little gal. "Marm was sick, said I, the
same as eyer. Maybe it come to late, =
.aId l,
What came ?" asks Biithc.
''The chance says l. For remembered
being on my knees upon the s!appy floor,
how the young "eman had drawed her hair
across her eyes, and what she said about a
chance. So ''Marm was sick, said l; and
l felt Kind Of gcntleness in ny mind to-
wards nor seeing now that Size was dead
and from feeling obhgate! 70 Aliniglh God,
SUPP ose, SO unexpected.
Out you've lost your arm :" says B itEc
But shat of that o. says /.
And what Of that indeed, sir? Crof this
or 'Jother: Or Of anything gone or to come
OF that might he or mishtn't, to the little
gal and me?
So | tho1ght that night, sir; and 50 I've
thought many times. But yet It was Gu
riou., noT, sir, hon it come upon me when
the tie vas our, and Bh,he got down on
The shiny floor 10 ligh: the fire for tea, how
Ike We sas to them oysters that have trou
bed me so many times--s.randed there
alone among III, weeds and mud.
And then and many times I've though.
it over. There's things Id Ike % be for
the sake Of the little gal to b. for the sake
Of me. And though man has nothing TO
complain OF, SIR, WHO is Oh. gated to lhe
Almighty for a littl5 gal yet | wonder
sometimes WHO it is they come 50 hard and
Zip 20 easy; and Why it is that, do my
bs,t, can get my litllc gal just her din
ntrs ans! her sap9crs, ard Just her bynnets
and her aprons; and why it is that If you
was to want the kinrdofa Of heaven come
on earth for gon.' little = Il, you've just to
raise yonr finer far NV MI ;,.;I co,oo :,
tine .y, r,.s, / don't knnw # mako my.
uer,i,,., ,l.,r. and I'm, p,...,,;,,., . ,frcrsc
But dat and the oysters h.yo ,.iv,o mo =
great many curious turns Of mind.
And there's tue instrolnuut WHY,
ye~, and there, the int c.nIn.. \ e.
urrne man can't pick and chose: and
what's tie tension, con c t. think ont
! man often iuckv, sir, 10 yet Tie cAoHce
t. / a Iubic uu.>au:c IN tbs ere world.
Never thought 0 NV, lid you =: | brought
out an I-taIiln just setting up il poetry
to;her end the city; yolr choice for f,n
cents, and = large blue margin, sir, tesidcs.
There's one tom i Ike. Ever hear it:
1t goes
"bonny Jockey, H...he and gay"
play that toon sight. like to strike
il M, y. kind If cor,yI;me, : to low ,yh.n
sue oioSSIS OVER al '''e crossing lhefe 10
schoo.. l don't play that to0n 50 much
for pay. Yes she, goirg to school. When
vn cot INTO = Winch sLo ,,kcs ho- ,;.Io
Iea i'e'S NOME h'7iltS' put mean she
shall 80 to school. She can cipher and
write in caI itals qnite plain.
M,
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insTemHht l most forget. Perhaps l We
wore your patience, SIR, talking of the
child, lis nretty nicb one tb1,y Won
oo ~
biu you ever near me play The girl
left behind me7' Yes? | thought so. play
10. or.o. tooc...,.
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her little piece OF STEAK with that. And
Champagne Charley? That gets her little
shoes. She wears out a si,ht Of little
.boos vhon sho ,,orts I;.tro roo5or
,;,,ro, ,..,l, It,, = IL,
/ Sencf ny depend sir on ga Dog Tray.