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

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thnnghb that She iolderiohl ia might step
ont leaving the gyoppgs the balloon.
II tieIs.3 8: ssht agals asiss and continue
ltslycyage! o ii 7lil Il. -
.ss hyno, replied the tier, SIS j eni
Eie would never stir from the car with
out JohnnY in shersa asrnA. n .ss Il
The3ba loon spassed ditaetlM over The
market town, and the children seeing
many people in the streets, stretched
put their hands and called loudly for
help: But the villagers, though they
calls.
Amazed at the strange apparition;
they might have thought the translated
little creatures Bnial il angel naV9iigyato
on some voyage OF discovery, some lit.
tie eherubio venture of their own, 4as;
hlleading head toward the rosy cloud Glands and
purple islands of sunset splendor. they
sna snlea ddsspSE and Deeper into the vest
Some company they had, poor little
sky-waifs ! Something comforted them
and allayedh their lRiiG teSrrioSra "a aii&ssoome--
thing whispered that below the night
and clouds was home; that above was
9a Rht hsFsysr 1s !. they t might drift 81. or
be IN His domain and under His oare--
that though, ofh6 away among the
stars, they could not be lost, for His
love would follow them. d
" hen the sunlight oil went away, and
the great comet came Blazing out, little
y Johnny was apprehensive that the comet
might come to2 OF near 4 their airy craft,
and set it on fire with a #llisk of its
dreadful tall But when his sister as
sured him.that the fiery dragon was tas
much as twenty miles away and ! that
dod wouldn't let him hurt them, he
was tranquili1ed, but soon afterward
SAID, ri wish be would come. little
cold !" G5 :.
Then Jennie took OFF her apron. mid
wrapped dSitabout the child, saving ten.
derly, g, Z. This is all sister l,as To make
you warm, darling, but she'll hug You
close IN her arms, and we will saw, OR
prayers and yonishali golto sleepsB g.
why, how can u say my prayers be.
forei Iahave my supperaY Yn asked little
Johnny. .I.ll1 0i tol BnG aSs1fi /
- Sister hasn't any supper for you or j.
for Herself, but we must pray all tho
harder, solemnlY respond ded Jennie. :,
80 the two bah wand ora hi ono o,nrie { Il in i
the vide heav VEINS, unaWed. by. darkness,
!mmehsity and tho millions of IMPLY
ing starsj fitted b ttlleir littla cslaspssd
hands, and sobbed out their aorrowiuI,
Our father, and that quaint little
supplementary prayer:
Now lay me down to sleep
l pray the Lord my soul TO keep;
If should die before wake,
pray the Lord my soul to take
There God heard that. casy I: for
we are close to Him up here" said in.
nocent little johnny.
Doubtless Divine Love stopped to
the little ones and folded them in per-
feet peace-forsoon the younger, seated
on the bottom of the car, with his head
leaning against his sisters kneo, slept
as soundly az though ho were lying in
his own little bed Mt home, while the
elder watched through tho long, long
hours, and tho car foated gently on in
the still night air, till it begun to sway
and rock on the fresh morning wind.
Who can divine That simple little
chIld's thoughts, speculations, and wild
imaginings, while Watching through
those hours? Sho may have feared
coming in collision with meteor-for
many were abroad that night, scouts
and heralds of the great comet-or.
perhaps being cast away on some DESC
late star'island, or more dreary still.
hoatlng and floating on, night and day,
till they should both die of cold and
hunger. Poor babes in the cloudsi
at length, o happy chance, or Provi-
dence-we will say Providence-gu
the little girls wandering hand to u
cord connected with the valve some
thing told her to pull it. At once the
balloon began to sink, slowly and gent.
~, as though some celestial pilot guided
1t through the wild currents of air, not
letting 1t drop into lake, or river, lofty
wood, or lmpenetrable swamp, where
this strange. unchild. like experience
might have been. closed by Il death of
unspeakable horror but causing it to
descend as softly rs bird alights, on a
ed it.
The sun had not 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 carstopped, to her
great disappointment it was not on the
ground, but caught fast in the topmost
branches Of 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-
gether they watched and watched and
waited for deliverance, hugging en- ,h
other for JOY and warmth, for they were
cod
Farmer Burton, who lived in lonely