The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-10-21

/ VIII tollulIu"h JUST Us y W. WIZ tH'SN
" sitting down to supper; and they got
little tired of sleeping with one ear
open, listening for the awful, ech0ing
sound of the cruel Indian war cry, and
whatever might be urged against life as
. coachman in England at least it Was q
| life in which ones attention wasn't call
! ed so frequently to the top Of ones lea !.
"Mine is fairly sore laughed Susan,
with thinking how it will feel to be
/ scalped"
| But Susan was such brave little wo-
man and If there is anything very much
needed in this world it Is brave women:
"I'll have a gun, she said. So she had
gun. I'll be good shot she sand
! And quickly she became as good u shot as
John. And when John was at work
in the woods or the garden, Susan gath
| cred her brood about her in the house,
and lynI-cyed us Il sentry ana n'e'
cared as q mother, mounted guard.
Now there came time when nobody
| had seen any Indians for so long while
! that the wise heart of the mother forgot
to feel keenly about anything in this
world; if we do not see it-and absent
duty, or and absent friend, or and absent
terror-ali alike they grow tr.iio dim
or dull.
And one day when ri tus and Tim
said, lust onegallop on the prairie, moth
or, with old jerusalem their mother
said, "well, ! don't know and their
father said, II guess d let en- and the
lynx eyes, and the keen ears, and the
wise head of the mother said her not nay
and so it happened.
Old Jcruslem was the old white horse;
the faithful, ugly, grand old horse that
took steps almost Us long as kangaroo's,
and was more afraid Of an Indian than
Titus and Tam.
So Susan kissed Titus goodbye ten
derlv-ior he was the good boy OF those
remarkable Withstand that wa' why
she called hun Titus; and kissed Tam 4
little more ten lerly still, because he was
not so good Us Titus, and so had got
called Tam: and she said hold on tight!
and John came out and sad, "Comc
home pretty soon;' and Tam got on first,
and I tus got on behind him, and JGrus.
allen gave one great !. bound, and away
they shot, cling with shining bare feet To
Jeru,lcm's bare back-!or they We're
magnificent little riders, seven years old
now, and rs brave Us cubs.
Susan stood watching them after John
had gone back to his work-stood watch.
ing long after they had swept away into
the great, green, beautiful sea Of troach-
erous prairie grass
Uneasy? not exactly. Sorry she had
had let them 20? Hardly that. Sho was
a sensible little woman, and having done
what she thought WAS right, had no idea
of icing troubled by it till he time came,
But still she stood watching, her hand
above her cycs.-;his wuy--aud she did
not 90 into the house till the ncwrs. new
baby had cried at least five minutes at
the top O: its new little lungs.
Titus and Tam and jerusalem got pref
tv far out on the beauti!ulPrairIc. How
beautiful it was! l. did not seem as if It
ever could be terrible if 1t tried. The
green waves of the soft grass rolled mad
IS. The wind was high. The sun Was
80 bright thew could not look ut II. The
strong horse bounded with mighty leaps.
The bows could !rel the muscles culver
inc and drawn tense in his soft,
warmb,dy as they chung. II was
l!keb-lug horse yourself.
They dti rot know which was the
horse and which was the boy. They
.aurhcd because they could not help 1t,
and shouted bc,uu-s they did not know
it IL, Il q. Tn" sur. and III" mad
..-ls,. and tn" wild wind! III. Hi! Viii!
Who could be two boys on ,Ich p'a'rr,
on such Il day, on sucl horse, ami not
vel like little wIll-catst
.I|s pretty. sad little Titus, softly,
when he had 20, tired of yelling.
You bc..' said Tam, loudly III! III!
Hi! II.i-cc &C.
Il cues. we ought to 90 bo"k," sad
Titus. pretty soon; Titus was So much
more likely 80 remember 10 be good.
"Ch no" .id Tam, who wa generally
y little bad when there wM- 81 chance.
"Fathcr said TO come home pretty
soon said Titus.
But urged Tam, with bright air,
"mo,acr said 10 hold on tight. III! u.
YI!'
Ala! VIVA. was that? VIVA. was ii?
Could Jerusalem answer? couid the wild
wind, talk? VIII the mad prai7e speak?
The sunshine is tonGue-ted, and the
great skr is dumb. Bat something an
swercd Tam O.Shantcrs shout.
0, there! ., Titus! Quick quick, quick!
Turn him round, Tam! Turn Jerusalem
round. lujuns Iuiuns! On, | wish We
hadu come! " hat sha.! we DO! what
shall We do? Oh Tam, what shall We
do? Oh, Tam, they've all got horses and
they're coming straight! Get Get upl
on Jerusalem, do hurry Old fellow, do
get US home, Good boy! Good old feI-
.sw
Oh, Tam! they've got arrows and
they're going-to-shoci,
Pretty little Mrs. jacobs had got the
newest baby to sleep, and got the baby
that wasn't quite so lnew to secp, and
given Betty her patchwork and serV her
husband out his beer, and swept the kltch-
en- and built the fire and started supper
on the way. and | don't know what else
besides. when that fine mothers ears OF
hers detected through the sough Of the
wind upon the pralrlc, sharp, uncsven,
and g. Der notion, rather ugly sound.
Betty was sitting in the door but she
heard nothing. TIE se,pins babe, did
mo-, str from their baby dreams. John
wa, in the garden, but john heard never
a sound.
Oa.v the mother heard It. Only the
mother crew lyux.cyei in an instant,
and in NJ. lu,tnu. was gu. with hand up
r.,i, cd-iust so agaln-bareheaded, stern
mou,hcd anxious.heartcd, watching Us
those watch who hav" lived much face
to face with death without II word.
She did not even Gail her husband. The
time had not come 10 speak.
IL might have been three minutes il
might have been less or more; who
could tell? when John Jacobs, digging
heavily over an obstinate potato, leit It
hard lad lightly upon his shoulder.
HIS wife stood beside him. She was AS
pale as.onc many hours dead; but she
stood quite still.
"Jnbn" she said in low voice come