The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1875-01-07

AAAh AhS Ht t@tAN sAtha fHs''' ''t'" .''
a.. and lossius the rubbish away hke SO
much straw.
The owners were Kind enough. aud
did an they could to encourage the men
sending on, beer and other refreshments.
but The heap OF stuff 90 move was some
thing itightfuL aud more than once ]
felt ready to sit down aud cry weekly.
But was at Il again the next moment
and working with the best Of them.
Hadn't you better leave now said one
Of my masters; I'm see that every thing
is done.
gave him one look, aud he laid his
hand kindly on my shoulder, aud said no
more to me about going; and heard
him say, Poor fellow TO some one by
him, As he turned away.
We came upon the biler quite half
dozen yards out OF its place, ripped right
across where the rivets went while, as
for the engine, twas one curious biz of
iron taugle rods aud brass, twisted aud
turned and bent about, like SO much
string; aud the great ty-wheeI was brok
en- in haIfa dozen places,
This showed us now where the great
cellar-likc place-the stoke-hole was
aud we worked down now toward that;
but still clearing the way, for how could
| tell where the child might be? But it
was weary, slow work; every now aud
then rigging up shears, and fastening
ropes and pulley aud sheaf to haul up
some great piece of iron or a beam; and
willing as every one was, we made very
little progress in the dark night,
Once, we had to stop and batter down
wall with a scatiold pole; for the police
declared 1t to be unsafe, and the.sergeant
would not let us work near it till il was
down; aud all the while was raging
like a madman at the check. But it was
of no use, aud the man was right. lie
was doing his duty, and not like me,
searching for the little crushed form Of
my darling in the cruel ruins, The peo-
pie made me worse, for they would talk
and say what they thought so that |
could hear. One would say she might
still be alive, another would shake his
head aud so on: when kept stopping,
in spite Of all tried not, listening to
what they said, and it all seemed so much
/ lost time.
| The engine room was now cleared, and
in spite of my trembling and horror as
every big piece was disturbed, nothing
had been found, but all at once, as we
were trying to clear behind the biler and
get down to the stoke-hole, one of the
men gave cry. caught at the man
nearest to me, aud then lights, rubbish,
the strange wild scene, all seemed to run
round me, and should have fallen only
the man held me up, and some one bro't
me some brandy.
was myself again directly, and STUN
bling over the bricks to where knot Of
men had collected and police had his
bulls eye lantern open aud they were
STOPPING to look at something that lay
under beam they had raised-to the
left of where | expected she would be
found
Smashed heard some one with his
back to me say, and then some one, Poor
little thing she must have ran past
here
Then, with my throat dry and my eyes
staring, crept up and thrust two men
aside, right and left, when the others
made way for me without speaking, and
when got close up, covered my face
with my hands, and softly knelt down.
The policeman said something, and
some one else spoke cheeriIy; bat
couldn't hear what they said, for my
every thought was upon what was 90
ing to see. And now, for the first time
the great, binding tears came gushing
from my eyes, so that when slowly took
down first one hand aud then another, /
was blinded, and could not see for a few
moments; ill STOPPING a little lower
there, smashed and nittencd, covered
with mortar aud dust, WAS my Did red
cotton handkerchief, tied round the basin
aud plate that held my dinner, dropped
here by my little darling.
For few moments was, as IL were,
struck dumb--il was SO different a sight
to what had expected to see-and then
leaped up and laughed and danced, the
relief was so great
Come on cried again, aud then for
an hour or more we were at il, working
away tll the light began to come in
the east, and tell Us that It was day
break.
Late as It was, plenty Of people had
stopped all the time, for somehow or an.
other, hundreds had got to know tine
/ little, bright, goldcu-haired thing that
trotted backward and forward with my
dinner basin every day She was too
little to DO il, bat then, bless you that
was our pride: for the wife eombcd and
brushed, aud dressed her up on purpose
And fine aud proud we used TO be Of the
little thing going and coming Old.
fashioned. Why, lots OF heads used 90
be thrust out 10 watch her, and seeing
how pretty, and arile-s aud young .hc
was, we used to feel that every ouc
would try aud protect her and &c wa. SO
Time after line, lbat night, saw my.h-
eriy looking women that / did 800. kHow
. with their aproa 10 their eyes, -obbtH4
aud crying, aud though didn't nsa.
, il then, remembered il well eaouga ar
lcrwafd-ab. aud always ,ha.l. aHts