The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-11-20

some IN Spt60G1d WOfk ana 18ppy
few In heroic deeds reserved to them,
which win echo down the centuries.
Never mind, earie-down-in-the-mudl
Just pull away. You're sure to come
out dry and high, if you keep a good
heart and stiff lip. Is.z.
One night, as Xirginis leaned against
the window, looking at the heavy sky,
she heard a violin. The sound was
faint; but, as she listened, it grew till il
filed ali her sense of hearing. 1t talked
TO her like an angel. Her heart sWelled.
She leaned towards the darkness from
which it spoke, strained after it. It's
sweetness, its pathos, its compass can
not be described. She took no thought
of the hand upon it. She loved that
violin. Through hours she listened,
leaning over the window. sill, feeling
the eity's breath IN her face, but the
breath of heaven In her heart. She
thought about it all next day, and
waited impatientIy for the next evening.
Night by night it talked to her, becom-
ing part of her existence. IF it ne
elected her, she was restless and fretted.
When it did its best, she paid it distant
tribute by clapping her hands and whis-
perIng in ecstacy, ''Oh, you darling
old fiddle! I do love you I You've
got a soul / wish it was personl ?
She ofted added: 81 wish it could be q
friend to me-" e- ...r-,...- ..s. D..
q Suddenly the music stopped. She
listened night after night, but all the
hours were silent.
p "Jast like everything take to low
ing cried Virginia, passlonately.
ST think I shall die walled Vir-
ginia, in q woman's intense undertOne
as she drrgged through the dusk one
evening. "I know shall die if some
thing don't comfort me pretty soon
Oh, I'd like to steal baby Why isn't
some founding dropped into my lapP
1 shall forget all the pretty ways my
own brother Jamie had before he Gied,
and I shall just mummy, like Miss
Blum. Oh, I wish a baby'd be lost,
and I'd find It'll -z s H.ao3
Midsunamer-night, You know, is a
night on which every wish spoken is
granted. It being midsummer night,
therefore at the next corner Virginia did
find lost baby. ~ - se
1t was a quaint, pretty child. dressed
in clothing of a foreign cut. One little
shoe was on one little foot, but the
other little shoe was cIutched in fat
hands. Frightened, but brave, was
GAlL5 D1DI CEJ4uB anu guy DAtg
looking straight ahead, and mopping its
face with its petticoats.
"What is it, dear?" asked Virginia.
stopping TO the little head.
'' Papa |" said the child, bursting into
a wall '' Yo list eh ?" s.----l..-.... 81.
+. She's so frightened Are you lost?"
tPapa !''
g Come with me, begged the girl,
winning on the conyulsed face, and get
ting power over her wall. You'll
come with me, won't you p She led it
along. '' What's your name"
g Wooise i''
ssLouise, is it 4? All, she's so tired /
Come up on my shoulders, pet; I'll
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 a message. So
she few 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 a
rocking g-chair. smuggling the child. The
child had large blue eyes, curly blonde
hair, and an unmistakable German face.
She held Vnginia's neck with conf
dence, and watched all Virginia's mo-
tions with discerning eyes. .--l-
" Louise % cried the girl, and here
she stopped to squeeze and kiss the
child's breath half away. g Oh, it's 50
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
= Tor1- /
guages, and often grew confused be-
tween the two.
"Do You understand thisP'' Vir-
ginia framed the plump face with her
hands and kissed it again. Oh, I love
You SO, baby !"
Sc BIst du mamma ?" inquired Louise,
lifting an interrogating finger and plae-
ing it on Virginia's chin.
The girl laughed out merrily. Her
dismal little room echoed. That room
was astonished to the sound of sob
bino it was accustomed, but against
it set its ghastly face and lifted
It's ghostly voice.
'sNo, I'na not mamma, replied Vir-
zinia. sbut I'll tell you who am. Put
your arms up so. Now say darling
Jeanie r" ans
Louise made an effort to do as re-
Iuested. but these we're two big words.
She clucked at them, broke down, and
stuck her tongue out in confusion.
Virginia laughed again, and cuddled
;he little thing on her neck. " But
where is mamma ?' she asked ;; "who /
Is mamma She'll miss you, won't |
ihe ?" @
SO Hinmel is uttered Louise with an |
effort, "gone - e 4
els she dead ?" low aud tenderly.
'sYah," replied Louise, greatly re
ieved at being comprehended, 'goEe |
lead" s COS f-
e Laws sakes !" bawled Mrs. Stump, |
VINO made towels an excuse for march |
ing upon citadal where she heard such |
sounds of revelIy. Sc Whose |
young one is thatP What on earth are
you doing with it ?" lt e
ssShe was lost on the streets" ex-
planned Virginia Sc found her."
"LOst a-puFpOse, expect. You'd |
better send her round to the station and !
have her owners looked up, if she's got |
auy. ] amt going to feed no vagrants. !
"Don't trouble yourself, madam ia
fred up this sweet-tempered young wo- !
man instantly. s. know very well that /
feeding people is not your forte; and, |
be assured, / shall take all proper steps |
for finding he fowners.'
Mrs. Stump opened her mouth like a |
and was going to plump a |
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's
thread of talk with Louise was broken
she listened spprehensiVsly to the voices
below.
"Isost, madam I" exclaimed a mans |
voice, deep and full of foreign gutter
ais !" a little child. Vile been gone. |
Was gone tWO weeks. The nurse, she /