The Republican journal., 1875-12-23


memory
One evening, Jack having retired much
| tatgued after a long and successful foray
/ alter trout, | asked Nose, point-blank
| whose the things We're which had found
/ in the back room.
| ] was afraid had oiycn offence nv this
question, it was SO long before cot an
answer, at length he spoke, somewhat as
| follows. "She wor Jacks mother. Mary
wor her name never co1ld find ont
whur she halted from; she never wouldn't
| tel. She wor alters Kind Of above me
ana never dared ask her much questions
about her Kin. When me and Ike were
/ will! the ltes. we were out with them
after buffalo down on the Platte one day
| that's now MORN ten wear aro-and we
| head firing one morning. and we secuted
| up coward whar the sound came from.
We ound that the Sioux had attacked a
wagon traiu and killed all hands We
| pitched into them, of course. and we
whipped them. too. While the officers
wer. following their trail. me and Ike we
loOhed around to see ei we could pick I'D
anything that would be of use to US. for
thee was lots of thinps LAYING about. |
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he Mad one s1!aw aITnadv nut ,Ia,v On
\ horse one ni9ht and No travelled as
tas. rs we could to oct into thn California
trafl But We had to rns1 npx4 dav Gor
Mary she ronldn,t stand nothin1 | ia
hen in some bushes and wa4riod nv Troll
lorI was dcad spra tbny won]d follow ne
Sine enonoh abont nonn tbora comes Ike
with two Inillns and senino there were no
,orrn of thnm ard thav wonll find us
ANYHOW. stepped ont OF the bush and
hniIowed ia thnm tn srnn. hut thnv shoots
at nu-yes and hits me too thonGh moth
ino TO sneak ol-and down with the old
OH and takes Ike between the cyas as
c}pm rs 4 souirrcl and I've never knowad
what b,rt hin
"The Ininns they turned and ran and
nrver seed them mo- more But was
sorry tnr ,,oor Ike. ann bnried him on
th, ,p9t and then me and Mary we
pushed on. and ~ot to California at last
hnt when We come AMONGST white nen-
plo She somehow seemed very sad and
her away INTO the wilderness auain Then
we went to Oregon. and in a little village
on tile Willamette River little Jack was
horned
When Elary cot strong AGAIN. she
bcooed me harder than ever to take her
She shia, anywhere,
where nobody can t see me ) ana we tray
eljc0 ON till we come to this SPOT. and. as
she wasn't able to 70 NO farther. built
this cabin. and have been here ever
since
Nlary. slie couldn't be hanpv. nonow.
and nnnldn't never make her our. One
evening. When little Jack was about d
ypar old ghe called me ia her bedside ::
for She warn-t able to be about then, and
sh. pralpa a lono PRAYER about me. ana
asked God i5r to bless me and her little
child aud SAYS she, .Mose,' SAYS she, Il
know 4s you don't know how YOU have
harmed me, bnt forgive you. Only
promise to make q good man ot Jack
Save, says she, 'till You have enough to
take him TO 4 good school, 10 have him
properly cdicated' And | promised SO.
and then she died, all OF snddent,' Nose
passed his bl% hand over his eyes and sat
stiil for some minutes. "And am al
most ready ne continued, ito take Jack
to school. for have been a-working and
a-saying ever since, and must have nigh
ON to $500 il the bank ,
lhis simple story. told by the rude man
in his own rude way, affected me greatly
Poor. ooor oirl, Who was she? Where
did Me come from These are questions
never to he solved till The last day. From
what could gather aterward / JUDGED
that She must have been woman of edu-
r,tinn and refinement whose heart broke
With thn shame and Grief thai a hard fate
had hrnuobt upon her. II seemed that
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