, 1875-09-12

pa. OUT tneI6 IN E0e raln, t0Q t0en would
fancy heard baby feet Dattering the door
stone, and get up and open tho door, to find that
there was nothing there All me! the links that
bind to the dead ars often stronger than tho
links that bind to the living.
But little Willie talked precocious1Y-prouI
ing in : doctor-and walked preoociously-
equally promising IN b doctor. he was . boy
before he rot through beng baby aud again
The old truudle- bed came down from the garret,
and Manx vsa left to doza On the floor, tho
junior Nsedhana, II. D., becoming its proprietor,
With no proviso about taking Manx - hurry.
Mollie and sat up all night the t1rat night but
the little doctor slept soundly. The second
night passed, aud DR.. Needhan, Jr., opened his
great gray eyes in the morning me pad nis
grandmothers eyes exactly) and iustny oemano s;oi
mapnikin was put to bed At half-past z IN the
trundie-bed:; but the next morning the ere*t
grny eyes did not open, and their owner had no
occasion for breakfast.
After that there wero two little toinpetones u
the old graveyard under the hill. and two voices
to csll to me s Papal papA!" two everlasting
trund!e-beds for me to visit in the moonlight.
The old trundle-bed was carried up gaxret agaln'
whence never expected 1T would come down;
I tried to forget myself In my prufasslon, and
came to soft Of loving understanding With the
old sign-board announcing me as Job Needham,
III. b., which year in and year out had
wa1ed more and mora confidential bot
tho two voices from the two little graves
stiffness in which they did not call Papa
papat" first one aud then the other, and no
bustle in which did not always hear them; and
Noliy forgot, or seemed to forget hex own gIlel
in her anxiety about what the neighbors called
my hypo.
Thera is something in transmieration. after
all, for the third baby WAS little Sunbeam over
again, and represented her 30 wildly that I half
forgot the Sunbeam that had been in the Snn-
beam that Was; and one Of the voices stopped
calling from the grave as httlo Violet learned to
lisp her "papa."
80 the day came for the trundle- bed to come
down from the gasret again but Molly insisted
upon having = new one. associating with
mothers superstition fatality with the quaint
old frame that had Graded generations Of Need
hams. Agnes and William had died in that
trunule-bed, she sa1d, and, the baby must
| sleep in t.undle-bed. abe would have ne"
| one' It cana home, and Was set up and Was
| dedicated to little Violet (Afolly. would never
nights, alternating, Molly aud sat up. and iittio
| Violet opened her eyes on the fourth morning.
The fatality-uight was now paused, and Molly
and went about that day With strange thank
tulness In our haarts- and slumbeted On the
! fourth night with peaceful sumber
| But peace came never sgaio. Little Violet
was dead, and the fatality had not been in the
trundle-bed- Externally, things settled into
their old round only there we're three little
graves in the graveyard :, Agnes: s agea Ssars
r,anotnnv mn, ar nt thai fatal numeral: md there
wave Three ittle voices to call sPapal papa
papa!~ first one, and then the other, then the
recent third They did not think heard them,
avan #, the aick-room ssLie atill, little one !;
papa'u be there presently" Aud when had
answered, the voices would stop calling for =
few minutes, az it they heard me, aud we're try.
ing to wait patiently bat presently H. you'd
nothing to me- now, and the unknown quantity
nok wortn toiling after
| There il a transmig1ation OF essences, I an
SURE, Or else God made little JOB to BE- Agne: Eaa
worts uondarfnl compausat1ou ip this world, il
men had but the heart to understand them
nsn,ad him Job alter mysolf, and somehow that
name uey A it uas, seemed to comfort
bo,h Molir and me-thouch still would heal
ths thTaa hahy.voices calling from the three
1;tt,a trnni71e- heds the sexton had uaada in the
| 1ravava1d Manx-he was old Manx noH-Wa:
S6t;;, iv;np. a aleepy old fellow, except in Ais
Moods and stilt competept for Tablespoonful
| -. ~ ao1h;,0 ~ g.. crnv;no for pickles. But no.
5a se5 .tnaetsd rim now nf heit1r the devil if he
10y hs5 heen although he was still pillar OF
a. ,,o-v and than in The dark.
In dne season the trundle-bed eame down from
sne - ,eno everv d,7 to crv over il. and Job
! sh., nas: -. a. witb many ouafms and tremors.
e ;',a+aiad nronr1ator- Four nights, altetnat-
| 80 1r ,llv oni lans vigil and DR. Needham
1ns' a,sn.d lila aras IN ta morning as il there
& gee bee.' M fst.iitr in our Family In third and
~ ea-.h uee'- +;ohta and ia trnndIe-bedt. The
lou ioul n;ott shannened to fall to nv lot. and
nnt 49, .nidr;aht drifted avav into half-doze,
oo9us .aa 3nsP 1steninr to The three little voices
49,, - eravavard. and was irving to make
~. ~" .i,;.f .h wss which when I was startled
~ ~ ~ nv drnxse With sudden shock, sue.
eaasa oua -" hv = Strange premonition OF Impending
I.no;tr The csndle was burning dimly on tho
cny esana and IA | bent to listen to little Jobs
h~aathino canoht the CLEAN OF two lurid eve
liz raa1;ne INTO tha room from the cat-hole
~. 49,; ~ tha 1over corner OF the door, The 1oom
ss eut - not nrnnerlv bedroom started and the
wa arahsl,a iisanneared.
yTban It Tas. in that terribly excited state oi
.ha ua-rea Ihat the idea took POSSESSION OF me-
nrons-lv had inherited It a. a dormant mania
fron, nv mother. Who MAS half mad On the sub
;act 4 snnerstisiou. friend is something more
~ rafe inaeiuing handed down from gen.
a-st;on n oenaration it is an hereditary taini
~ ,naanitv--au inherited bent OF the na1voua
oratam that stores up forces and vii
ba"e its way sometimes. however reason ant
cm.t1ra NAV protest. The strange supesstltionl
Of parbaric races are bad physical conditiont
correlated ~ psychical results, rather as funda
mental bent Of nervous organization. Just a.
| +-.ranniaa,h2a and nearly n9 lperadlcabt6 as thf