Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-11

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thought that the older;o child might step
cat leaving the young in the balloon.
Then it might, again arise and continue
Its voyage! lSi ~ ,2Iil5dsts b 1al su!iIssL9
dtAh,, mo, ,H'replied the emother, ,H Jen.
ME would never stir from the osrf with.
out johnny in :herarrns.", n itG
The balloon epnssed difeotlN over the
market town, and the children. seeing
many people in the streets, stretched
out their hands and called loudly forr'
help. Bnt the villagers, though, they
saySthe bright little heads, heard nc
calls. :. /.
Amazed at the strange apparition,
they might have thought the translated
little creatures small angel naaV7iiggators,
on some voyage of discovery, some lit
tie eherubic venture cs their own, as,
heading toward The rosy c1oudlsnds and
purple islands of sunset splendor, they
snd fadsa dsspsF a%ag sna a'fp'r INTO vest
Some company they had, poor little
sky-waifs Something comforted them
and allayedt their (MilH terriddfass Some
thing whispered That below the night
and clouds was home; that above was
God that wherever, they might drift OF
clash, living Or dead, tksyv Would ttill
be in His domain and under His care
that though, q borfie away among the
stars, they could not be lost, for His
love would follow them.
When the sunlight oil went away. and
the great comet came blazing out, a,iittle
Johnny was apprehensive that the comet
might come too near their airy craft,
and set it on fre with "a wliisk of it's
dreadful tail. But when his sister as
sured him that the fiery dragon was "as
much as twenty miles away" and that
God wouldn't let him hurt them, he
was tranq Utilized, but soon afterward
said, - Il wish he would come q little
nearer, SO could warm myself, + m i SO o
cold I" -
Then Jennie took off her apron, .and
wrapped it about the child, saying ten.
derly, "Thig is all sister las to make
you warm, darling, but she'll hug You
close IN her arms, and we will say our
prayers and youshall goto sleep.B -
"Why, how can Il say my prayers be.
iore1 ,i0have my supper ?n asked little
johnny. ~, ii tol ITE asa1'' I
Sister hasn't any supper for Won or
for herself, but wo must pray all tho
harder" solemnly responded Jennie.
So tho two baby waandororaa,,0 0aiono in
the wide heavens, l,nawod by' darEness
immehsity and tho millions of unnity.
ing, starai lifted VI their littlo claspisd
hands, and sobbed out their sorrowfui.
Our father, and that quaint little
supplementary prayer:
Now lay mo down to sleep,
l pray the Lord my soul to keep;
If thould die before wake.
pray the Lord my soul 10 take.
"Thcro God honrd that, easy : for
we are close to Him up here" said in
nocent little johnny.
Doubtless Divine Love stooped 10
the little ones and folded them in per-
fcct pence-forsoon the younger, seated
on the bottom of tho car, with his head
leaning against his sisters knee, slept
as soundly as though ho were lying in
his own little bed at home, while the
elder watched through tho long, long
hours, and tho car floated gently on in
the still night air, till it begun to sway
and rock OH tho fresh morning wind.
Who can divine that simple little
chlld's thoughts, speculutions, and wild
lmaginlngs, while watching through
those hours? She may have feared
coming in collision with meteor-for
many were abroad that night, scouts
and heralds of tho great comet-or,
perhaps being cast away on some desc
late start leland, or more dreary still.
floating and floating on, night and day,
TIL they should both die of cold and
hunger. Poor babes in the clouds!
at length, a happy chance, or Provi-
dence-wc will say Providence-guidsd
the little girls wandering hand to II
cord connected with the ynlve some.
thing told her to pull it. At once the
balloon began to sink, slowly and gent.
~, as though some celestial pilot guided
it through the wild currents of air. not
letting it drop into lake, or river. iofty
wood, or impenetrable swamp, where
this strange. unchild. like experience
might have been closed by death of
nnspeakable horror; but causing it to
descend as softly rs bird alights, on
spot where human care md pity await
ed it.
The sun had no! yet risen, but the
morning twilight had come, when the
little girl, looking over the edge of the
car, saw the defr old earth coming
nearer" rising towards them" she
said. But when the car stopped, to her
great disappointment it was not on the
ground, but caught fast in the topmost
branches of n tree. Yet she saw they
were near house whence help might
soon come, so she awakened her brother
and told him the good news, and to-
gcther they watched and watched and
waited for deliverance, hugging en- III
other for joy and warmth, for they were
cod.
Farmer Burton, who lived in lonely