Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-30

as good fairy as the best of them
After the hay-mow flight, when she
was as big a girl as Mr.. Billings has
made her, we had many tramp together
up-brook, through moosewood, and over
mountain. l have EN- her pass from
rock to rock, on one of the ridges of
Ktaadn, with no thought of taking a
staff. with no kind of uneasiness, though
she we're Just on the sheer edge of that
precipice which you remember perhaps
on the southern face of Ktaadn. [ have
seen it fifty miles away. Yes, and I
have seen the child's father fell pine
tree $50 years old that we might walk
dry-shod across stream and the mo-
ment it fell, little Janet was the first to
across as lightly as one of her own birds
would, and in ten seconds was beckon-
ing and waving her hand from the rocks
word she said for the rush of the rapids
in the gorge below. Her father, who
worships her-as well as he may-used
to tell the story of an experience of
theirs in a sort of outlying station he
had, half shanty and half lumber camp,
just on the edge Of the woods. Mrs.
Trevor had gone up with him and Janet
and the children; and they were to have
sort of picnic frolic for three or fonr
days. But one of the little boys was not
well SO their mother had taken them
all home, leaving Janet to cook for her
father, who had something in hand.
Poor fellow In the middle of the sec
ond morning, as he pried up heavy sill
from its resting place, the ground gave
way under him, his bar slipped, and he
and the log rolled down together in the
hole he had made,-poor Trevor under
meath, and his legs broken just above
the ankle. Janet was with him in two
seconds but she could not free him,
nor could five others like her. "She
did not wait long" he said. Off she
went like bird down to McMurtrie's
pasture, mile and half down the in
tervale Over tho root-fence, into the
pasture, and then treading through the
high ferns, she began to call, ''Dan :!
Dam Dan i' Now, Dan was q vicious
old stallion whom McMurtrie chose to
keep ranging in his pasture and in the
woods. When McMurtrie or any of his
men wanted Dan, which was perhaps
four times in summer, it took a peck of
salt, and lurings and chasings, lariats
and lassos indescribable, to WOO and to
win him. And now this child-for Janet
was still not woman grOwn-only called
, Dan two or three times, and down through
the underbrush came the great hulkiing
creature, glowering at her, and, as she
| slowly walked up to him with handful
of raspberries, he did not turn away
and then and there he stood and she
. stood-she on q rough bowlder, he nib
. bling at the fruit she rubbing his head
between the ears, he whinnying with
, satisfaction that he had company And
3 at last, when Janet thought the entente
? cordiaLe was attained, she coolly put her
> little green scarf through his mouth, be-
hind his great teeth, and, before he
: knew it, she had flung herself on his
: back, and was away. They were not
) long in making the six miles to the vii
: lage. AS she came in by the saw-mill,
t she met Dr. Kittredge. She told him
her story and in three minutes he and
four or five other men were in lumbe,
wagon on their way to the rescue. Kit
5 tredge told me this himself. They
4 asked the girl if she would not go with
: them; but Janet said no somebody
D must take Dan back to the pasture and
/ so she went ahead of the party. Poor
i, Trevor was released, in less than two
!. hours from the time he fell.
y But you want to know how Wildail
first met her. 1t is John Wildair, re-
i member-not Taylor Taylor is in Aus.
: tralia. John is Taylor's brother. Tia
b is just the way with you people. All yor
e care about is the love-making and tbs
:. wedding. Now, 1 might entertain 20,
v for an hour with pleasant accounts o
t how the Trevors came into the Piscata
It quis valley, and how l came to be there
: and of the origin of the Trevor family
and you would skip it all to see how tn,
story turned out, and who married them
Only Helen, of all of you, would reat
|, about the early history of Cornwall; ant
r she would do it, not because she wanted
d to know, but from love of me.
|. Well, John Wildair first saw Janet Oh
board a Kennebec steamer-hterally Oh
i board, if you will rightly consider tn
i derivation of that term. John Wildai
was sitting on the deck at Bath, watch
T ing as the passengers came on board
i And two men brought an old lady, in
I chair, down the wharf and upon tn
F; deck: Janet came with her, and wrappe'
d her up warm, and coddled her, and mad
l. her feel quite at home. Then the oil
If lady wished she had some of the orange
? which a German woman was selling o.
le the wharf, and Janet ran ashore to bu
= them. While the German fddled abesl
sr the change the boat cast off, the car
,e tain's bell struck, and they had fairf
lie pulled the gangway in, when Janet cam
e, running back with her fruit.
n . hid she stOD? Not she
IS :. Please run it on again, . she said
th and the wharf-hands obeyed her-jus
w as Dan obeyed her in the pasture. An
I'd the little bird, as I called her before
We ran right over the board boat mo-
nd ing the end along steadily as she did S
it and sprang upon the deck SIS perfect
,e- unconscious as if she had been walkin
y, the floor. Years after John Wildair TIRE
to make her remember it; but she di
,ty not remember it at all; said, indee'
ms there was nothing to remember. 81
to said there was no danger, and cons
cd o,,o,t1xy NO coI1rape that the Mar