Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-05-08
BROWN LITTLE HETTY.,
Dear, dear, how it rains !" said Hetty

rush of wind and rain that swept in at
the crevice compelled her to close it
again almost instantaneOusly. ~
It was little brown house, on the
edge of the lonely Western .forest--a
brown house, with sloping caves and a
bay window, and a dooryard full of
roses, whose crimson clusters cleaned
family IN the late autumn twilight.
Doctor Wallis lived here-Doctor WAX
lis, who had come West, with his two
daughters, scarcely six months ago, and
who was the only physician in q radius
Of thirty good miles around.
Hetty stood by the fire, one foot on
the fender, her dark, dreamy eyes fixed
on the red glow of the burning logs.
Sibyl, the other sister, lay luxuriously
back in cushioned easy chair, waiting
for the lamps to be lighted before she
went on with bit of Berlin woodwork
in her lap.
Sibyl Wallis was q rosecheeked, soar
letlipped beauty-one of those fair
human flowers, which, like the lilies of
Solomon, are destined neither to toll
nor to spin. ---..
Doctor Wallis was poor man, and
Kept no servants: but no one ever ex-
pected Sibyl to do any of the rough and
disagreeable Offices consequent upon
housekeeping. q
Sibyl busted the parlors, kept the
vases full of flowers, washed the tea
china, and did up her own pretty laces
and pocket handkerchiefs; and Hetty,
the second daughters brown little elf,
with jetty hair growing low on her fore
head, and colorless olive skin-cheer-
fully undertook the prosaic part of life,
as if it were her natural Inheritance.
To think of poor paoa out in all
this tempest?' said Hetty, mourn
fully.
Gentlemen don't mind such things"
said Sibyl serenely. "And, of course,
it's just what a doctor might. expect"
"Hushp' said Hetty, suddenly turn
ing her head in quick, bird-like fashion.
Some one is knocking at the back
door,"
Perhaps you'd better go and see who
it 49," remarked Sibyl, serenely.
It was man all wrapped up in oil
skin, until nothing more than the tip of
very red nose was visible.
OA3 0S1S uIlSS, Sctlu Vic
visitant. where's the doctor?'
He isn't In, said Hetty. a
"Where's Doctor Wallis?" reiterated
the man.
He's out!" answered Hetty, speak
ing loud and distinctly, under the i'm
preston that the inquirer was deaf
Its Dakin's boy" said the man !:
he's choking to death !" 4a
"Oh said Hetty. /" Group, sup
poser 0
Don't know what it IS" said the
messenger. Amt no doctor myself
All [ know is that | must bring back
Doctor Wallis" said he, with nod at
his lumber wagon at the gate.
"But you can't, if he is OUT" said
Hetty. a88e IS
The man stood a moment, shifting
from one foot to the other, evidently in
quandary.
''Im blamed if I know what to, do, !"
said he. well, I'll tell-ee VIII at, miss
You just send the doctor on to Dakin's
just as quick as he comes back. IF
Dakin's boy chokes to death, it amt no
fault of nine clga, 1s
And away rambled the wagon into the
mist and twilight atA.7'o 81
1t had hardly disappeared when a
little lad arrived with note for Hetty.
.e" It's from papa" said Hetty, hurri-
edly opening it, and reading aloud the
following brief message: 8
"DE4R GIRLs:-Old Eldwood is very
Lad, and I shall be detained all night.
Lock up the house as usual, and don't
expect me untilI come. Affeetlonately,
~st7S I1EkT > EfI @r10sH. W."
-. sob, DEAR said Hetty.n blankly;
and what is to become of Dakin;s
child ?'' 500, 5s I=E3t, I5>I=9-l1.T s
| never saw sucn "a girl as you.
Hetty,7 said lovely Sibyl, with pettish
contraction of the brows. ) +" q You're al
ways shouldering other. peoples trou-
bles. What is Dakin's child to us, I'd
Z like to know?" .te'5< Assi-'.k. 81 -
.eos"But only think Of it.. sibyl,"' said
Hetty. clasping her hands; "a dear
little baby suffocating to death, all for
want of the simplest rem sdies." = -
1--WE can't help it," said Sibyl, set
thing back composedy among her
I cushions. Faea f@s1's b = eoT1 > vs.
- /" But am notlsso sure of that 'Ssaid
> Hetty, briskly. fl know the remedies
papa uses for a case of Group and how
to .usethem. I'll go myself" 4 10Y ii
s.1 !: Hetty,n. cried the elder sister, Fare
you crazy!?1o 10. aG6 - .fsa-,.s le s.
$3.50 razysn said Hetty:-A No, Pm only
ordinarily human. The child shan't
tlie5if L can help sit.n Ja q "hAfs{ a
.osl She went to her fathers drug closet;
) opened it, and took out several little
Z walls r 5sss goob lei h9sih fiab& d
Syrup, ipecac.n1. said 1tetty, with a
little nod of her nand to each. Asa.
foetida, hive syrup. Simple remedies.
but very effectual if taken il. tim o." ii
$780," But, Hetty," pleaded Silly G you're
never going to walk, nobody knows how
far IN all the rain P2g4 4 VAqTY3T
j f." HYes,.I am" said Hetty,s bqttonine
on capacious waterproof cleak,and
pulling the hood over her head.
And you don't even know where
these Dakins live"
Yes. | do. It's a big red-brick