, 1877-03-17

nc made 'ctn all Is powerful, and good, too, the1
It. amt no preacher can do It,
n other day. I've been there, too, n I'd ike t
= Know II chap Gun 60 up there, among thos
T. awful precipices and gorges, and look over tb
II country for hundred miles, and see the noun
d tains around, and the plains way off in front
+ TINT don't seem to have no end, and then lool
= ! at hisseif, and say whether be does reaIl,
- amount to row Of pins. You see, never wa
I my Christian, and never give Charley no sid
!, 90 quite right by him. But, Lord love you,
! stranger, when he vent among THE angels, I'm
1cst certain there wasn't none Of 'em had any
> cteaner soul IAN what be had.
There was place, about three-duarters af a
mile from our house, where he used to go q good
deal Sundays and Nary would read the Bible to
ms and slng' she was good singer, Mary was.
We we used to call the PLACE "Devil's Run" It
was sort OF creek, aud didn't have no water
IN II, 'cept after hard rain. It conc
DOWN between two high mountains, where
II was steer. as could be. Wen storm came up
rve known it in haif IN hour to have six feet ct
wafer IN 1t. An then 1t would bring down biz
logs, trunks OF trees, aud great stones, roaring
That way ro4 could bear 1t for miles,
u got its name because 1t was such an infer
nepvS paee sbosn ten lTe 5een woke up at night By
1mg as though It would tear everything to pieces,
There couldn't be no worse place fixed for the
road, road, u they bad hunted the whole country
through, than right there. There was a sharn
| curve, and On the outside of it was straight
upand-doWn precipicc for hundreds Of feet.
so that II train went off it would be smashed
ao mo Eindlin, wood and tenpenny nails. Devils
OF the cure, through barrel culyert, aud once
thefe came a hard storm, N the trces n stones
"a so On, checked up the culrert, which wasn't !
WITS t enough, n tle water damned up and rose,
anu twenty feet Of the road went riDDiu' down
the mountain. They found out the break be-
lole any accident ftarpened, and the culyert
vas rebuilt, q good deal larger than before. But
that place the whole road was afcard Of
As was tc1lin', it it hadn't been sich 4 wick
eo ptace, DEVILS Run was the prettest one on
tue whole mountain. The bed Ut the stream !
Mas are eesp doMn n full Of ferns and crosses that
there in the hottest day n the sun could never
nf'd MS way through the trees overhead. ,
As was 6eilin, Charley was born to be an ! /
vnaes5. cnars e ~ TIE time be ha! got to be sir
Inc machine. He'd learnt all the signals that I
was used on the road. He knew that q red 1Iag =
or red light meant danger. That lantern, at {
a, aSas s%%u1s s% 'a 1ackwaTds u forwards. slowly,
stantl'n. All that sort o. thing he'd Jest pix
70 up h4sself. lie knew the sound Of eyery
Sastie s and 6cll On tue road m could te what
~ hs'h y lucy eeiongsd to, and believe he knew s,
nc tEead o1 40 ~ whenever she went by, night q
y day. No. -, that was my in.lne, | 1un Ter o.
nont three years, and there wasn't nothin' in | h,
,ous 'ss IS %ofd [o couldn't GET out Of her when she
uulcFStDOH
mother, and she hardly ever went back on mr. HI
'nec IN while she did, and then she was per ro
ret cuss. ~ ~
Yes! he was that winter-iust years olda B,
ee'Gfe a1d chtssas alter Charley got
las. alostly contrred to lay of that Iay so tis
10 oe nome With far little parl. Sorne vi the III:
oys vas alters ready and 'riliiu' to take nv tnt
,i'1cn i, tat epstesn Ho rs didn't hey no wives So
'erc's your little paru, he'll be a~wautiu' of va
~ tomorrow, which is Christmas. S. iii nh.
ST take your run dawn. AM this 'ere basket, ust
", tne boys, you know they scs, We amt got tnc
1nlcX or c;na, and we'll send this along to did
!thain's little Charley" zen
! ne hrst tiNle they did that was tool, back An
at WY stool and gapcdfa lcokin' around a
9 t1 = natufal, ana couldn't say word. And So:
: t4!ogs thcg used to send Charley was as hat
aIshn'i toys and SO on. Why, one Christmas suc1
= sent I'm asi!yer ring. Oh! stranger, them pap
IS vas such times as Ire never led sine to :
er1cv erS wase NJ no other children around for Iron
alley 10 play with, but me'n bis mother was first
iie seemed to care for, N we'd carrr on To- rain
ner ns al day Just as ii none OF us was more'n Fl
harsv ho7 - ,;.., - foun
# wI;;ch ha. .ie Ioom oT nisSe1, Ehere be he Ii
trr,oi. ~ @ "inoon t'ssL looked down OF t
r;rrnsa2 80 ~ !.,iiEoau lantern, which cour
f1anieu 1. anu called hissef, after showed told
+ his iantsrn j., II w, was ny night down he'd If an
gnt w. 81 49,. s soutu see u long way be- Sleep
nwn :" 40 tn. IT. was wen was com bed
'of vas lynn there fast asleep and dreain, faItir
tne roar OF the train vas the footsteps Of Mp
~ pard flying ut forty mile an hour.'' Kin y
, vas ny run down Thanksgiving-eye. was ;pe
tn taIa ~. - tr.;,s ~ n.p! auo 6!A Nalker agiu,
aJtoono ~ - Etp4o oach. NE started that
heh;nd - ~ tae eseu1uE anu good place
her hai heen uar,, ~ "aI.u day, Inc Git Of
n.n ha t ra; 9een warm 1or some time back and be xiii
~" Rv nieht the he ~. uurn1n, ana hed Fained The
6rth IN = haron "uo eu,pppfu Ioonu to [ the GU
arted It was T,;nin colu, SO 1tat wen like,
for - han1-t. en0 sleet!n H1Ea an out You
!or saw y neaS} a H. storm: darker night in i.
NV fireman i etG, Cr1v tE p9'eo = the oe!! tEict
,}v r,,o !, ~. c1' .''s - gum To be ed. II
y sui 81 poy and so they had nicknamcd n1fi,;n
IN }eft hin rro.~ t euuu utoppcd the h. was
went by 81 Ia "a. ~ .ue1s 6Ie name he you'd
. ripht rhars y 1es, 1e. oosS, gucss ketch
hct never was afcar1 = noae, ma one O. them gently
desnoroto +;e,. I nola'n'~ rye seen Hki1
show the wh;to foa+ ei.s 49, o1e never knoWd ~ he
r devil copld s.ora ~, ,.u upnt believe on his
to hc sortor ,1naav , ~ oAI eA1ls ulgnt ne voice.
etimrs tbere,s u1.as, s4',,:,,,'!is 1!he. "Sto
hand Tint sonoth;n AS :: a.ahss you Think Stran
/ ot-of-nrescnt;n5on guy 20 nappen- time, b,
timen'. Ynn "nn't III ie5! that's It. was. T
there ia snarr;te :, :, 1oW It Is. mere ba
like thew 1ros tr;ni ;uenes @ OF DISASTERS, wind ho
know in TINA os1 1n on1 "as 10 ICE Was. i
crythipg secmed '1 - eousonk ~ quite 20 mother
at njpbt Tto ~ "lous Hltn him, III
y COS w. l,nrrie1 ,, oa.eensets was all "CuI,
pulled mt nv n,a,.h;p vi, ~ u supper; and AM T.
her, Nh % Nc ~. ter:, H., 1t1e fefl otu quivcr
surest c0r;,.s ~ ~ ri " was Que whistle
ipto her 5;,Jos sh 3D. 'ns 1 toat', out Wen she "AIl
etr;ns government mule Insnes is like mint. II
e"r Th.r machines aa;. or planners, and them Hcs -
aud yer can,t te,1 rx,na,. Without no Pard's S:
m only thew ;est ,roa't ~ . tae matter Then
Is about it. She "ur :iild thats all smile in
tied. and sno,.S1 o",i mgia49uI steam. by he'd
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