The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-09-05

OSOly uOuJ hucW Wudb sue WAS cuutiT-
ing. Then there was the prayer-I've
said and III say it again that it was
tender and sweet as If Christ himself
had made it over the poor child and her
child. ~ @ S5 -
I'VE drew the baby home, and re-
member just how the sunlight fell aslant
the trees in the Park, and on the turf,
and how it lay in door-yards facing the
west. 1t was june afternoon, you
know. s.s:...eg
The men from Blodgett's had come
out to sun themselves on the strip of
turf before the saloon. As the baby's
small carriage-wheels crunched upon the
gravel, jules husband raised. himself
upon one elbow and stared at us. .s4a
Halo, Ju!'' called he; "that you,
Jup" 'i'.'l,'s s
= She didn't say word, and she hard
ly spoke all the way home. I thought
she had rather be alone, and. so / left
her.. ~ ass Esif{,5fss II .un,t.,4s.
All the remainder of the afternoon she
sat out upon her piazza, alone with her
baby. ~
The sun set beautifully that night, and
you know how from that place Jou can
see the evening purple come over the
lakesand the lights gleam out from the
village, and just how solemn and quiet
|. it is there! Well, she sat there until
near 12 O'Clock, then Hammerston came
fumbling at the gate and staggering up
the walk. @,sl EsFs-
"Ju," said he, +" "Blodgett laughed at
me about your taking the baby to be
baptized this afternoon; did you take itP
Did you, Ju Hammerstonpn
Yes, did, Jonn." a.,it a.
He started to strike her, but, stagger-
ing, you see he hit the baby and knock
ed it on the stone walk. i
Dreadful! This is life only. 1t has
nothing to do with eschatology, you
know. oss~1 -s.sez ,ssessw e1T
It didn't'kil him, nor it didn't make
him complete idiot, but he was always
what we mothers call Backward
i sHammerston laid all the blame upon
Julie and upon the church, and he
drank, and drank, and drank, until the
house was like-that place people don't
believe in nowadays.
Blodgett came around pretty soon
with a security upon the house Julie had
been coaxed into giving, and your uncle
again bought it, this time taking the
deed himself. But Hammerston then
took a notion that he wouldn't be under
obligations to any one, hired a tenement
over Blodgett's and moved his family
there.7 hss gaa
o, the life that he led her there! She
made me think Of one of these little
sweet white yiolets growing in. the
slough. s. @yisi as ,eh
/ All at once Hammerston disappeared,
and your uncle and between ourselves
said, good radiance. We moved Julie
back to her old home, and, though
whenever sleet storm beat against
the house, or the snow drifted, or il
rained hard, along in November, she
Iwould stand. watching and sighing al
the window, and though the trial that
boy was to her no tongue can tell, she
had begun to look happy and to sing
again in little snatches, when back came
Hammerston. g s1gjf
= He looked like ghost, and said ht
shouldn't trouble us long, but he did
He lived three years, and he made hi
poor health an excuse for all sorts O
outrages. When he became too feeble
J to go out, the scenes with him were pas
ali description. .1l-- e !. 7.lI,45I "a -
f. Seeing him lupon his death-bed. I on,
dav tried to talk with him. Bible /,
hand !. =. 80 ~. n,TT !
I'll don't want any of your .blue or
.tbodxvi,, saws he. e. vonr own minis
!, ters don't be}ieve n II I've heard then
, talk 7 exnect to take it, for q while
hnt I shalI stave # THROUGH - 4 few
wears, moro or less. make no oreat diff
terence Tn. ,M. I saw,
He died .Iulie SITTING m mon the be,
sunnortino him that he MIGHT breath