The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-04-26

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= Z BE it ghost OF be it robber, Anthony
Hunt is not one to abandon child to
die without trying 20 save t.''--zsur.
e But how wasI t0save it?-how find
ii? The more / Searched about, the les:
could my hands light on any thing, save
the sloppy earth. The voice had quite
ceased now, sol had no guide from that.
While / stood trying to peer into the
darkness all my ears alert, flood OF
sheet Gghtnings suddenly illuminated
the plain. At a little distance, just be-
yond kind Of ridge or gentle hill, ]
caught glimpse of something white,
1t was dark again in a moment, but
made my way with unerIing instinct
Sure enough, there hay aipoor little
child Whether boy or girl | could not
tell. 1t seemed to. be three parts insen-
sible now, asI took itpp,, dripping with
wet, from the sloppy earth: . ~ On
31cMy poor little thing!" I said as
hushed it to me. Wen go and find
nanny. You are all safe now. =
And, in answer, the child Just put out
its feeble hand, moaned once andnestled
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With the child hushed to my breast, ]
rode on. Its perfect silence soon showed
me that it slept. And, sir, / thank God
that he had let me save it, and thought
how grateful some poor mother. would
7bel But / was full of wonder for al
that, wondering whatexh.aoiiinary fate
had taken any young child 10 that soil
tary, spot. -y-e~
Z Getting in sight of home, | saw all the
windows alight. Deborah had done il
for me, Il thought, to guide noe, home il
safety through the darkness. But pres
emily knew that something must be the
matter, for the very few neighbors we
had were collected there. Ny hear
Stood still with fear. I Thought of some
calamity to one or the other of the chill
dren. I had saved like one from per
ishing, but what might not have hap.
pened to my ownP e
Hardly daring to lift thelatch, whil(
my poor tired horse stood still and mute
outside. I went slowly in, the child il
my arms covered with the flap of my
long coat. My wife was weeping bit
terlv. - - rHrEsas -Uyv
.z--ss Whats amiss ?'i-I asked i'm faint
voice. And itFscemed that Il whole
chorus, of voices answered me.
"Dolly's LOST
- Dolly lost! Just for a moment my
heart turned sick. Then some instinct
like a ray of light ahd hope, seized upon
me. Pulling the coat off the face of tn,
child l held, j lifted the. little sleeping
thing to the. light, and saw Dolly!
Yes, sir The child | had saved was
no other than nay own-my little Dolly
And knew that Gods good angels haC
guided me to save her, and that the frs
flash of the summer lightning had shont
Just at the right moment to show mi
where she lay. 1t was her white sun
bonnet that had caught my eye. NJ,
darling it was, and none other, that
had picked up on the drenched road.
Dolly, anxious for her doll, had wan
dered out unseen to meet me in the af
ternoon. For some hours she was no
missed. 1t Glanced that my tNsoselde
girls had gone over to our nearest neigh
boris, and my wife, missing the chill
! Just afterwards, took it for granted sh
was with them. The little one had com
on and on, until night and the rstorn
overlook her, when she fell down fright
ened and utterly exhausted. | thanke'
Heaven aloud before them all, sir; as
said that none but God and his holy an
gels had guided me to her. It's no
much Of a story to listen, to, sir, an
aware of that. But often think of it ii
the long nights, lying awake ;rand | asl
myself how could bear tolive on now
had / run away from the poor little or
in the road, hardly louder than squir
rel's chirp, and left my child TO die.
Yes, sir, you are right; that's Doll
out Y9nder with her mother, pickini
fruit; the little trim light figure in pin
with just the same sort of white sun
bomet- on her headsthat he-wore tina
night ten years ago, She is a girl tina
was worth saving, sir, though say it
and God knows that as long as my lif
lasts | shall be thankful that L came o
home that night instead of staying i
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