The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-01-04

country, Helena
eyes, darling" the girl replied, '.and
we'n stop at the very next house.
| "But can't go till I rest and sleep.
Oh, I'm so sleepy" And the boy sank
down in little heap by the roadside,
pulling his sister after him. She had
little wish to resist and less power.
"Sister !'-the boy was nestled up to
the girls warm heart, and the snow was
spreading over them its soft beautiful
covers.
eyes, Toot."
edo you s'pose God d let anything
hurt-anything hurt us-if we'd say our
prayers taOice 2"
II hadn't thought of that," answered
the girl. "We might try"
"But I'm SO sleepy can't think how
it begins"
"Well, say it after me, loot. sNow
I lay me down to sleep
"Now I lay me down to sleep
don't let my head slip, Helen"
mo; L pray the Lord my soul to
"'I pray the Lord my soul to
keep" slowly repeated the boy, cling
ing closer to the bosom that was his
only home.
IF I should die before I wake"
"If I should die'-Oh, I am so cold
And, Helen, just feel the icicles in my
eyes"
The girl put her numb finger on the
sleepy, shut lids.
"They're tears, pet" she said tender
ly. You've been crying and I didn't
know it. Don't cry, Toot."
"But you're crying" persisted the
boy.
"Only alittle, dear I was thinking OF
mamma"
"Do you s'pose her eyes shine, up in
heaven, just as they used to when she
put her arms around me and said Dear
Toot?'"
81 guess So" Helen whispered, try
ing to choke down the sobs.
.But do you suppose she sees us down
here in the snow?"
Yes, loot cause you know she
said she should always be seeing and
loving u.s."
"Then-then-I don't believe she's
singing with the angels. She never sang
when we were cold and hungry"
"Maybe she's asking God to take us
out of the dark and the snow. Shall we
finish the prayers now9"
so, yes. I'd mos forgot. Where
was we2"
"Lets begin again and 60 straight
through twice, without stopping" said
Helen.
The snow had covered them closely
ere the prayers were said-the prayers
that had been finished with low I" Dear
God, don't Let anything hurt us, for
mammals sake. Amen!" And min
ute later beth children were fast asleep
upon their cold, wet touches on the
hillside.
The storm increased. The winds
grew keener and angrier. Young Harry
Knowles, vending his way from the
city, where he went to market every day,
had vacated his high spring seat, and
was crouching on the floor of his wagon,
wrapped in blankets and talking cheer
lily to his iron glays, while they trotted
briskly against the storm.
"Never mind, my Beauties" he was
saying, "only another mile, and the
shelter and the food!'' Then, after a
pause, "These for them !; but oh, so
much more for me ! And there's many
poor fellow going home in this awful
storm that had about as lief stay out as
go in, [ think. But my home is a
home"
And the man half forgot the cold
without, his heart grew so warm within
him.
His horses SHE'D presently, threw up
their heads, snorted, and stood stone
still.
"Why, Bess Why, Beauty What's
up now2" their master said, springing
to his feet and Tightening the reins.
"Not thing in sighu but the snow. Go
long! Do you hear?" And he gave
Bess sharp cut across her flank, which
made her rear and plunge, but go for
ward she would not.
Caesar, Mr.. Knowles big dog, who
accompanied his master everywhere, had
been standing all this time with bis fore
feet on the side-board, shutting the air,
and looking around, as dogs that are
lost do, quickly, eagerly suddenly he
bounded from the wagon, scenting and
barking his way to little white heap
in the roadside.
"Well, this beats me |" Mr.. Knowles
said, obeying something that babe him
follow the brute.
And there he found them-the little
waits half way up the hill, asleep in each
others arms.
| The wife went out when the horses
stopped in the back yard, close by the
porch door-went out wrapped in a
waterproof, and carrying lighted Ian
tern.
"Aren't you most frozen, dear?" she
asked.
"Not bit of it," her husband an
swered, cheerily, jumping from the
wagon and kissing the bright face lifted
to his own.
i" Mary," he added, 81 think God has