New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-01

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may be wadded in, ana padded away. anC
fql6 aR I'd aP D; n g9e MA &a
word, he was on his way to the WIDOW
with Sandy, while Timber Tim, with hA
mouth half-open, came crawling up tn
trail and grinding and whetting his screechy
gun boots together after them.
There is fine marble statue in the grea
garden at Naples, near the massive head Of
| Virgh, which represents some great giant a
vt411l11alsnu11slssc tigzny GDwnsOve,
his shoulder, which he is9arelessly holding
on by the heel. Sandy looked not wholly
unlike that statue as he strobe up tho trail
with Washee- Washee.
| He reached the door OF the-widow:s cabin
Knocked with the knuckles Of his left hand
while hisright hand held on to an ankle
that hung down over his left shoulder, and
calmly waited an answer.
The door halfway opened.
"Beg pardon, num-
| He bowed stiti1y as he said this, an then
shifting Washee- Washee round, quietly
| took bis other heel in his other hand, And
proceeded to shake him up and down end
dance him am stand him gently on hif
head, until the clothes began to burst out
from under his blue seamless garment, and
down around his throat and daBgle about
| his face, tll the little man was nearly
| smOthered.
Then Sandy Get hjm down q moment to
rest, and looked in his face - he sat there
| and it had the same peaceful smile, TIE
| same calm satisfaction as before. The
little man now put his head to one side, shut
his pretty brown eyes little tighter at the
corners, and opened his mouth the least
| bit in the world, and put out his tongue
as it he waslabout to sing bymR
Then Sandy took him, up. He smiled
again, sweeter than before. Sandy tilted
him sidewise and shook him again. Then
there fell spoon. then a pepper box, and
then q small brass candlestick and at last,
as he rolled him over and shook the other
side, there came out machine strangely
end wonderfully made of whalehone and
brass and stays and hooks and eyes, that
Sandy had never seen before End did not
all understand, but supposed was either a
fish trap or some new invention for wash.
ing gold.
Then Timber Tin, who had screwed his
back up against the palings and watched
all this with his mouth open, came dOwL,
and reaching out with his thumb and
finger as if they had been Q pair of tOngs,
took the garments, one by one, named
them, for he knew tbene and their owners
well, and laid them. silently aside. Then
he took Washee- Washee from the hands of
Sandy, and stood him up or tried to stand
hin up alone. He looked like q flagstaff
nth the banner aAlling loosely around it in
an indolent wind. He held him by the queno
awhile, but he, Wilted and sank down e1ntly
at Mis- feet, 81 Me time smiling sweetly as
befoge, all d = time looking up with half
close6eye and hakparted lips, as though
he was enjoy ing himself perfectly and woald
like to laugh, only that he had too much
respect for the present company.
"IfI could only shake the lies out of him,
mum, as easily as I did this ere spoon, and
'ere"-5Sandy had stopped and picked up
the articles as he spoke. and now was hand
ing them to the widow in triu0ph.
Poor litt1D, helpless, harmless fellow"
The widow was looking straight at the
Celestial, who sat thef8 piled up in little
bit of heap, the linpiest thing in all the
forks party, save Timber Tim.
'I.et him 90, please; lot him 60. Bring
the things and come in"
"YSu can 20 now, John: Int don't do so
any more. It is not xght." The widow
smiled in pity as che said this to Washee
Washee. The Chinaman understood the
first proposition perfectly, but not the last |
ut all. To him this was simply a bad in
To him it was only little ship |
wreck, and having been taught by the phi
osophers of his country y prepare for ad-
vsesify in the hour of prosperity, he was
act at all lacking in resignation now. He
rose up. smiled that musical and peaceful |
smile of his, and wended his way to his |
nome.
Sandy looked a moment at the retreat |
ng, hungry-looking little Chinaman and
hen thrust bis two great hands into his !
,wo great pockets, and, fitting his head
irst on the LETT shoulder and then on the
light, tried hard to look the widow in the
ace, but found himself contemplating the-
oes of his great gunboats in second.
will you not come inw
The man rolled forward. He sat down in
he widows cabin in perfect glow of ex-
itement and delight.
am bound to admit that, upright and |
reat as Sandy was, he kept thinking to
mself: What will the judge and the boys
az to this9" He was even glad in his heart
hat Timber Tim stood win his-back glued
p against the palings On the outside, and
is hands reached back and wound in and
round the rails, sothat he could testify to
be bOys-tell it, in fact, to - wOhd-that
9 had entered in and sat down in the
'idows cabin.
1t was not an easy work for Sandy sitting
here. He soon began to suffer. He hitched
bout sud twisted around on the broad
'oDdeA stool as if he had sat down on a
cry hot stove. ed
The widow sat little way back across
le cabin, bit of work in her lap, looking |
p at Sandy now, and now droppiBg her
alf-sad blue eyes down to her work, and
Il the time in low, sweet cay, doing \,
very word of the talking.
Sand'ys bot stove kept getting hotter and
otter. He began to wish he was down
it'll the boys at the H0wling Wilderness,
the oracle of cocktails. All at
hn 30 4
gs. They seemed to him as if they reached
most o4ean across the cabin, like two
eat anacondas, going to swallow up the =,
idOw. He fished them up, curved them, I
rev his two great hands across them,
lrsed them atfecti0nately; but they seemed g
ore in the way and uglier than ever
fore. Then he thrust them out again, but
rked them back instantly and drove them ! /
Ick under his bench, al if they had been | I
7oSbig and unruly bulldogs-and he near c
upset himself in doing it. They had
yer half so. long before. 1t eeemed to '
m as though they would reach across the
ON and through the wall, and even down 8
the HOwling Wilderness. He twisted il
EN- up under the bench and got them fast a
ere, and was glad of it; tor now they b
build not and could not run out and rush b
ross the room at the widow. &c
But now poor Sandy saw another skefe-
D. His eyes came upon them suddenly, G
sort u discovery. 1t seemed as if he u
d just found them out for the first time.
d knew them for mortal enemies, and de- S
rmined to do away with them at once, Il
d at any sacrifice. Such hands! Had
3 widow really been looking at them Hi h
Is time! The back of that hand was big b
d rough as the bark Of i tree. That finger
il had white rim of dough around it; tfat | a,
lmb nail was as big and about as dirtyks 8,
spoon! He picked up that IL
nd, thrust it under him, sat firmly over
that side and held it down and ont of