The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08

| B ~ yes. tney promised over ana over again,
| and joe Bessie and Clear the Trackp were
soon ready to start.
keep in the road Don't go across the
fields! ~ called mamma out of the window.
Two kisses were thrown back with the an
| swer: = All right. Good-by."
| The sch0ol-house was a long distance away
for as the village wasn't rich enough to have q
school all to itself, the next village had joined
! with them in supporting one, which was built
| half way, and the children had nearly mile to
walk. .r...t.
"Oh. why did let those children go:'' said
mamma to herself, the minute they were out
of the yard. The little brightness all disap-
| peared from the sky and the wind whistled
around the house, rafting the blinds and
| Whlrling the snow this way and that into every
| crevice and corner it could find.
| "Why did do it I" she repeated a hundred
times that morning, as the hours went on and
the storm went sweeping by At eleven
| O'Clock she could stand it no longer. Calling
| Jane, the maid she told her to 90 at once to
the store and tell her master to send for Bessie
| and Joe without DELAY
| 1t took poor Jane five minutes just to go
from the side door to the gate, and half an
hour to reach the store. The drifts across
the road ran from fence to fence, and even the
| teams We're struggling along an inch at time.
Say : | will 90 at once" said papa, A
! neighbOr was passing in Il sleigh, and they
agreed to push on together.
| How it did snow! As on the hills so in the
valley. The roads were almost impossible.
The horse plunged and reared as the huge
snOW-dritts arose before him and the binding
storm dashed into his face.
They couldn't have gone further than tsF
halfway house, any way,n said the neighbor,
trying To keep papa's courage up. The half
way house was where little old woman lived
all alone, and sold apples and candy to the
children as they passed on their way to school.
The horse struggled on. ..IHi
" Bless We, sir, the childers is gone back two
hours ago, ach wild a stick o candy. so smiln'
and happy" said the little old woman.
"Shure, they didn't go on at ALL
1t was then past two O'Clock, and two hours
more it took them to travel that short dis
lance back again. And when they reached
home the horse was helpless.
well, mammal cried papa, cheerfully,
making believe he wasn't nearly wild with
anxiety, ARE the children upstairs or playing
in the barn.
White and trembling mamma answers .
What! Haven't you brought Them" And
mamma gives up then, while Jane and papa
lift her upon the lounge, trying to bring back
the light into her eyes once more.
y X y
By five O'Clock brave, strong men were out
with heavy oX-teams. But the women shook
their heads. Eight hours out in Ithe Storm
and nothing but wee bits of children. too
,,ns ond Elm :, VIZ iliI2 eileit
in tba snow. Ardnt Sou 6at IL ~ ~ "s,v
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children are really lost to her.
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ot +i,7,,,vi, AZ ~ 80 ~ "0 d elai peeps
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