The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-01-06

talk, she had little sister to talk to;
and that was serious.
said John, decidedly, "My dear,
never can manage it in the world, IIow's
one coachman'S wages TO do all this
said Susan, dcjectedly Qor the baby
and one twin had cried all night, !
don't know, John, Can't we 60 to
America?
"And what should we do in Amcrica?'
said John.
"Liyc!" said Susan: and her tired
black eyes snapped,
Well, the long and short of that was,
they came to Nebraska; and here, per-
haps, my story should properly begin.
So long ago as it takes for little boys to
grow great men, it was not so easy to
live in Nebraska as it is now, when the
great land commissioner Of the great
railroads hangs bunalo's head in every
depot in Boston, to show the world how
much more delightful is the society Of
bunalos than the society of Bostonians.
When John, and Susan, and Titus and
Tam O'Shanter and Betty, and the new
baby came to Nebraska, that pIucky
young state was, for the most part, an
ugly, howlng wilderness,
In the thick of the wilderness Mr.. and
Mrs. John Jacobs dug out for themselves
a home. Literally they dug it out with
their own hands. Susan was Il tough
little woman, with stout hands and a
stout heart and she dug too. ! think, if
the truth must be told, she rather en-
ioycd leaving Titus and Tam with the
other babies there's no guessing how
much care one baby will take of another
till you've tried-and taking an axe to
help her husband fell trees and cut un-
4crbrush, or taking hoe to hoe her row
in the darling little garden, out of which
they meant to make a living, if they
died for it.
1t was only because they meant to, 50
very hard, fancy, that they made the
living without dying for it, 1t was
almost worse, at first, than coachman's
wages in Mother England. There was
the ncwness, and there was the home
sickness, and there was the distance from
the market, and there was the bitter. cold,
and there was the bIighting heat, and
always there were the babies
Yes, an Indian story. Truly, hon
cstly,' as my little friend Trotty would
say, live Indian story; and though 1t
ism very long one, it is every word n
true one. Most true things are not very
long in this world unless you accept the
moral law or the multiplication table, or
a few such things as that.
,lohn and Susan, and Tam and TITUS,
and Betty, and the new baby, and the
newest new baby (whcn 1T camc) got
along pretty well with everything else;
but it wasn't pleasant to see an Indian
come walking by with a tOmahawk Just
as Won were quietly sitting down to sup
per; and they got little tired of sleep
ing with one ear open, listening for the
awful, echoing sound Of the cruel Indian
way,cry; and whatever may he urged
against life as n coachman in England,
at least il was life in which ones attcn-
tion wasn't called 50 frequently to the
top of ones head"
Mine is fairly sore" laughed Susan,
"wth thinking how it will feel to be
scapcd."
But Susan was such a brave little |
woman! And if there is anything very |
much needed in this world, it is brave
women.
"Tll have Il gum she said. 80 She |
had a gun. 81 II be sod shot, she
said. And quickly She became aS good
shot as John. And when John was at
work in the woods or the garden, susan
gathered her brood about hcr III '"1
house, and lynX-eyed as II sentry, ana
iinc.carcd aa Il mother, mounted guard
Now, there came time wh'h hopo"y'
had seen any Indians Tor 50 long aNh,l''
that even the wise heart OF the mother
forgot to feel kccnIy about anything i"
this world. If we do not see 't,-ah an-
sent duty, or an absent irleha or an an-
; sent tcrror,-a alike, they grow Urine
dim or dull
y 4na one oay, Nntn I, lia"s ,,a an" "ro;r;n %n
S"'l; '"Nl T'o T"'"l W" m hoir
-, motHcr' M'H II' I,,, I'a ,''',,m, ,,,. ' nnd
miotler slu' M'I!' @ "on M I'I% Iot ON, % :"
, Imr', ,,' i''n,, i'.,, ',,u, ag% ,ho loon nars
ai'I ,I'c YIN 'l'i' !',L s.u ,l". ,n;J hor
iln" lne "lsc ',r"'t ., hnJ ,e ",J''''' '''" NV
hoI ,'ny-aI ~ !. ,n'i,p'iin, iI' hi hito horso.
"u c;fI IviJ'',,1' oi, ",' ,r,nI , iii horse that
tnot t., ''t", stom. nmo., "0 ~ I"nr ~ kanraroos
@ ,oof @ Suy' ""'"Ii ~" nf.iJ q" ' mf on inJian than
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80 susan kl''o'l l'luS sToi,os' .l,, 'on
defIyII3r ne was te , goo" ,, noy y,h VI '", ho,,
reiI''IID,r II i, T;4,.anJ T, L;.sod Tam littic
,'''1'' n.,I ,."3 IN T Lonnmso he wasn't so
'''"'I 'vt,;t,'9 T;,,, oInJ I ."LaJ ooi coIlrd Tam
S"1' ~ ~, I'LL I'LL 49,, ,,-l'trW anL Iobn
,a,,o ,'m ,,, n,,t t', ard sa;J "Comr home rrctty
o"',nc ,"ar "" y nnI III Tom ,ot nm first and Titus
aDon ,p, ~, Loh;od .%' Iii lin and JerusaIrm rayc
/ ~, @ "n ,'root n,'' bonnJ and away thev Shot,
"u' Ei''t p'"'.'' GU" "t