The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-11-26

vio1;r TSilu mi upon 1t. She loved that
IaoIi. Iaorin. through hours she listened.
a. over the window sill, feeling
$500 .o SI'y breath IN her face, but the
thought about it all next dav 90
waited impatiently for the next eysn;nr, I,,l-
!Nlght by night it talked to her. bacoT9-
I6 part OF her existence. If it ne
g1Sc'ed her, she was restless and fretta5
t,i "Ien u dld Its best, she paid it distant
'l, 1lnou1e ny clapplng her hands and whis-
/ Pe5lng IN ecstacy, "Ob. Won darIino
old hddIe do love You Yon've
got a soul I wish it was a personf'
S9e oited added SCI wish it could be q
friend to me-" ''' '0 "
=; 9uddenl y the music stopped. She
listened night after night, but all the
hours were silent.
Jast like everything I take to low
iDg cried Virginia, passionately.
! think 1 shall die /" waiIed Viz
ginia, in a woman's intense nndertona
as she drrgged through the dusk one
evening. ST know I shall die If sorna.
thing don't comfort me pretty soon
On, Ia like to steal baby Whv isn't
some toundling dropped into nv IanP
snail forget all the pretty ways nv
own brother jamie had before he died
and L snail Just mummy, like Miss
Blum: Oh, I wish a baby'd be lost.
and I'd find it 4"
Midsummer-night, you know, is a
night on which every wish spoken is
| granted. 1t being midsummer night.
therefore at the next corner, Virginia did
find lost baby.
1t was a quaint, pretty child. dressed
IN clothing of foreign cut. One little
! shoe was on one little foot. but the
other little shoe was cIutched in fat
hands. frightened, but brave, was
this baby; crying and quiVering, but
| looking straight ahead, and mopping its
face with its petticoats.
" What is it, dear?" asked Virginia.
STOPPING to the little head.
Papa y said the child, bursting into
a wall ''vo ist eh ?"
She's so frightened | Are you lost?"
"Papa -
"Come with me-" begged the girl,
winning on the convulsed face, and get
ting power over her wall. You'll
come with me, won't you !" She led it
along. :. What's your name"
'Wooise p
"Louise, is itP All, she's so tired !
Come up on my shoulders, pet I'll
carry you"
She got Louise into her arms and
fitted like thief. She knew that to
report her find at once to the police
would be to have the child taken from
her and placed in the station house.
She would wait and send message. So
she flew past Mrs. Stump, who admitted
her to dark hall, and darted up stairs.
Virginia opened the shutters, threw
! her hat from her, and sat down in
rocking-chair, smuggling the child. The
child had large blue eyes, curly blonde
! hair, and an unmistakable German face.
She held Virginia's neck with conf
dence, and watched all Virginia's mo-
tions with discerning eyes.
"Louise !" cried the girl, and here
she stopped TO squeeze and kiss the
child's breath half away. "Oh, it's so
long since jamie went out of his sisters
arms. Oh, you bonnie darling Do
you understand me when talk ?"
Louise shook her head and then nod
ded it. She was learning two Ian
guages, and often grew confused be-
tween the two.
"Do you understand this?" Vir-
ginia framed the plump face with her
hands and kissed it again. Oh, love
1 you so, babyl"
90 Blst du mamma ?" inquired Louise,
lifting an interrogating finger and plac-
! ing 1t on Virginia's chin.
2
dismal little room echoed. That room
was astonished; to the sound of sob
bing it was accustomed, but against
laughter it set its CHASTITY face and lifted
its ghOstly veice.
"No, Im not mamma" replied Vir-
ginia, "but I'll tell you who I am. Put
your arms up so. Now say darling
Jeanie 7"
Louise made an effort to do as re.
quested, but these were two big words.
She clucked at them, broke down, and
stuck her tongue out IN confusion.
Virginia laughed again, and cuddle6
where is mamma ?" she asked who
is mamma? She'll miss you, won
she ?"
81 Himmel p uttered Louise with al
effort, "gone -
els she dead ?" low aud tenderly.
"Yah," replied Louise, greatly n
lieved at being comprehended, "gon
dead"
claws sakes - bawled Mrs. Stump
, who made towels an excuse for march
ing upon n citadal where she heard sucl
unwonted sounds of revelIy. Who's
|, young one is that? What on earth arr
you doing with it ?"
'She was lost on the streets" eX
|
'Lost a purpose, I expect. YOu'C
better send her round to the station anC
= have her owners looked mp, if she's go
? any. ] amt going to feed no vagrants
"Don'i trouble yourself, madam !
fred up this sweet-tempered young wo
Z man Instantly. 81 know very well thai
feeding people is not your forte; and
be assured, shall take all proper steps
3 for finding he owners.
t Mrs. Stump opened her mouth like
, howitzer, and was going to plump
r telling ball, when the door-bell startled
her back into her respectable board
} ing house keeper" demeanOr. She went
down and answered the bell. Virginia.
r thread of talk with Louise was broken
she listened apprehensively to the voices
S below.
voice deem and full of foreign gutter
: ais &" little child. Vile been gone
4 Was gone two weeks. The nurse, she
e careless-shs let's mine kind out OF he1
q eve-a man tells NE she vas on thi'
sthreet I"
+ "Papa - fiuttered Louise, prickinG
f up her ears. "Oh, papa I"
., Virginia carried her to the head o
{ the stairs. She saw below an aler
/. man. bronzed, but blue-eyed and fair
d haired like his child, dressed In travel
e er's gray, and holding violin-case un
o der his arm. This he dropped as Louls'
reached her arms and screamed for him
J.. he dashed mp stairs, met them midway
and took the child ont of Virginia.
:. arms. nj,
g II thought had lost theel Bles
]. thee All. this fraulein has been kln'
a 10 thee. Hast thanked her p
e "Yah, ich-ich habe sill gekuszt
Q Numbered baby, eagerly.
"That was we'll g As he grew cSl ~ ~
e er his English came more smooihiy s-LI y
g g sFraulein' belief me, am grateful !!
4 at was nothing" reDlied Virgins
: with filling eyes 81 hate to have yo'
a tske her away there are no childrel
! here. 1 was so glad to find her,
4 {" Ach - his face frightened ike
e sun fully unolouded. She shall com
! oFtt Shall you not, Louise, and Sc