The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-03-26

his wife.
He had returned to his own honse in hi
bewild-rment.
wh,n we remember that Jone. mad no
slept for two nights preceding th, Que, o
account of his mortal quarrel with Butron
and he had now been beating against an arc
tic hurricane, and tramping treacherou
pillows Of an hour, we can not wonder tina
he fell over his own threshold in state O
extreme exhaustion.
Happy for him that lie did lot fall be
wildered on the prairie, as many anothe
poor wayfarer did Oh tina. fatal night!
As it was bis wife must needs give uI
the vain little searches she had been max
ing in the neighborhood OF the shanty
She had now sick husband, with frozer
hands and feet, to care for Every minute
the thermometer fell lower and lower, anc
all the heat in the little cook stove in Jone' ::
could give would hardly keep them from
freezing.
Burton had staid or that lot all day
waiting for chance to shoot bis old part
ner Jones'. He had no. heard Of the arri
val Of jones vile, SO he Concluded that
| his enemy had proved coward and had
left him in possession, or else that he mean:
| to play him some treacherous trick on his
way home.
! 50 Burton resolved 20 keep a sharp look
out. But he soon found that impossible,
/ for the storm was upon him in all its bin
ding fury. He tr ei to follow the path,
| but he could not ind it.
| Had be been less of a frontierman be
must have persisted there, within furlong
of his own house. But in endeayoring to
keep the direction Of the path he heard a
smothered cry, and then saw something
rise up covered wish snow and fall down
again. He raised his gun to shoot it when
| the creature uttered anothes waiting cry so
human that he put down his gun and went
cautiously for.
Ii was a child,
He did not remember that there was
such child among ali the settlers in New
ton. But he did not stop to ask questions.
He must, without delay, get himself and
the child, too, to place of safety, or both
would soon be frozen.
So he took the little thing in bis arms
and started through the drifts And the
child put its little icy fingers on Burton's
rough cheek, and muttered Papa" And
| Burton held her closer, and fought the
snow more courageously than ever.
lie found the shanty at last, and rolled
the child in a buffalo robe while he made q
fire. Then when he got the room little
warm, he took the little thing upon hi.
knee, dipped her aching fingers in cold
water, and asked her what her name was
kitty she said.
kitty he said; land what else?"
"kitty," she answered, nor could he FIND
out any more.
Nv hose Kitty are you:"
"Your Kitty" she said. For she has
known her father but that one day, and
now she believed that Burton WAS be.
Burton sat up all night and stuffed wooc
INTO his impotent little stove to keep the
baby from freezing to death. Never hav
ing had to do with children, he firmly be
lieved that Kitty, sleeping snusIy under
blankets and buffalo robes, would freeze il
he chould let the fire suhside in the least.
As the storm prevailed with undated
fury the next day. and as he dared neither
to take Kitty out nor to leave her alone, be
stayed by her all day and stuffed the s'ovt
with wool, and laughed at her droll baby
talk, and fed her on biscuit and fried ba
con and coffee.
On the morning Of the second day thu
storm had subsidized. 1t was forty degree.
cold, but knowing somebody must be mour
ming Kitty for dead, he wrapped her il
skins, with much difficulty reached tn,
| nearest neigt boris house, suffering only
frost bite on his nose by the way.
THAT child said the woman to " hos,
t house he had come, lis Jones. / see,
EN- take her outeI the wagon day befor
Yesterday"
, Burton looked at Kitty moment in per
pie1ity. Then he rolled her up again an,
started out, travelling Ike mad" til
Z tn ,r,tahnl
When he reached Jones he found Jone
) and his wife sitting in utter wretchednes
, s;ie:i, and unable to l. owe out Of the house
KIT Y they had given W for buried aliv
r under some snor mound. They wou!
find her when spring should come and mel
F.. the snow cover of.
r When the exhausted Burton came i
With his bundle of buffalo skins, they look
cd at him with amazement. But when h
! opened it and let out the little Kitty, an
said
I Here, jones, is this yer Kitten?" Mr.:
a Jones couldn't think Of any thing better t
! do thaa to scream.
And Jones got UP and took his old par
q ner's hand and said, "Bur ton, old fellow,
j and then choked up and sat down, an
, cried hclp!cssl7.
: And Burton said, Zones, ole fellow
: you may have that forty acre patch.
d come mighty nigh maxim pre- the murder,
/ OF that little kitty's father"
e "No, you shall take it yourself" erie
$ Jones, ''if l have to 90 to law to max
n Hou."
: And Jones actually decided bis intere
a in the forty acres TO Burteu. But Burto
e transferred it all 20 Kitty.
That is why this part of Newton is Gale
d to-day "k'tty's Forty. Con
u panton.
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