The Lincoln County herald., 1873-03-26


sunny gsass, satched, for Q long time. ,hs
beautiful insec. austering over ahc beau.
tirul mass Of creamy Blossom, Aecked With
red und green. Presently It few of and
began 20 auttes around him. IL alisb,ed
on his ear, aud whispered something 70
him and then butterfly and hawthorn
bush-aay, more, the sery mountain
itself-suddenly vanished. But attcs
having been spoken 10 by a butterfly,
tho little boy could be astouishcd at
nothing.
lie was no longer q little Toy but
man. He vas still hunchback, but he
had ceased 10 be sorry for that. When
people, as was still sometimes the case,
slig hted or iusulted him on account Of
his uglincss, he would smile an1 whisper
to himself, "Ah, If they only knew but
that's secret"
Two brothers we're going to fight, but
the hauchback ran between them, anil,
being ashamed to strike such as he, they
ceased from their quarrel long enough to
cool, and finally shook hands over the
huhchback's head.
In q bare room, an almost blind old
woman lay alone, bcdridden. Every one
belonging to her was dead. She was q
peevish old woman, interesting in no way,
aud in the wide world there was not a
soul to care whether she lived or died,
until the hunchback found her out lie
brought her food and physic and clothes /;
he brought her Goals, he brought her
cooling fruit. lie sat with her, reading
and talking. Sometimes the ungrateful
ugly old woman snapped at him for being
SO ugly, but the huuchback simply
smiled, and went on being kind to her.
A young woman, without a penny,
alone in great city, and maddeued ly
her loneliness, had thrown herself with a
loud shrek, into the black, gas lit river
of which the Eunchback, when he saw i,
as man, remembered that he had read
it when q boy. There was none to care
Tor her but the hunchback. He had
dragged her out and calmed her, and
comforted her and got her work and al
last she had married an honest husband
and lived to have a swarm Of pretty little
faces sway,ng about her like roses sround
q bush and wife and father and the little
roses all blessed the huncLback.
Another little girl, whose face hat
once been pure little rose, but had beer
sadly bligh,ed, he had found wandering
reckless in the same great city; but h
had lured her back to her quiet couutr,
home and once more father and mother
, brothers and sisters, blessed The bunch
back.
One of the most cruel Of his villae
tormcntors, had grown up like himself
/ was almost ruined-would be completed
i ruined if he bad to pay Immediately
, sum of money ne owed the hunchbacL
ASK him TO have mercy on you, an
, give you little grace" said the man
, wife. "It's Of no use," the man an
. swered, moodly IL never had an
& mercy on him, and CT course, he'll tax
it out OF me now"
d "Then III 90 and ask him." said tn
4 wife aud when she had told him Of hi
$ old tormentor's troubles, the hunchbac
d freely forgave him all. The man prt
e fessed to be grateful, but afterward b
e spread a report that the hunchback ha
IS only given up his claim because he kne
6 that he had been o cheat in pretendin
n to have one. And again the hunchbac
v forgave the man all.
J. A fearful plague ragged in the villag
e In almost every farm house aud Gotta;
e there were some persons down with
@ Almost all not smitten with it had fed
r their selfish terror. There was no CT
e left to bury the dead. Scarcely any OF
+. was left to comfort the dying, and
!. cherish ana rescue such Of the sick
, might be saved, except the hunchbac
d Ugly as he was, he went from house
], house like q sunbeam, the only ray
:. hope to the poor creatures with whom
y sat up night aud day.
,, But his turn came to be stricken dow
t. His eyes we're sealed, his limbs froze
ie aud then Lis face was transisured. a.
r the hump expanded into snowy win!
I'd on VIII ch he fed away to rest. T
is secret was out. I'VE always said he "
II an angel, and that his wings we're pack
in away in the hump exclaimei the s,
he ferers who watched his fight. b
ue when his eyes opened, he saw again
= orange tip butterfly and the haw,ho
1y bush. lie was again little, feeble, us
a boy, lying on the warm grass beside
OF holy we'll.
r Somehow, however, as he walked do
Mt through the heather. thinking over
ys strange experiences, he felt that his T
of grimage to the we'll had not been ma
ng 10 vain.
m How A Doc WAS "SoLD. Here il
2, true dog story: A family down TO
=, having false crate in one of the roo
l Of the house placed some red paper /
hind it to give the effect of fire. One
tho o,,I1ost dana ,k;s ,p n for tha dnO