Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-29
A RESCUE FROM CANFIBALS.
A Story For New Years.

tie earth TO find me, as she usually wa
compelled to do. There was no necessi
ty for her remaining amid the rust and
reaches, the gloom ard intermi4abl,
stream, Of that governors kitchen floor O
ours on Brooklyn Heights We had KEEP
board rs now for years and years, or per
| haps the boartters had kept us or i
might have been q mutual eking out O
existence Bat I took care OF the cook
ing, because IN that the main strength o.
success lay, and didn't want to keer
boarlers all ny life: (.
When we began il was to please broth-
er Bob He was WELT do salesman
IL the city and used to come down to the
dear Old homestead with 50 many airs
and graces about hlm that we grew to
look upon him with . sort of awe, and
wonder if this pinky gentleman III the
high hat and linen dustar could be our BOB
that used to kick all the bottoms out Of
| the chairs, and never bad & whole knee in
| his breeches; that robbed the birds nests
worried the scho0,master, was nearly
drowned IL the milirace and had his leg.
broken by a fall from the hay-rick No
! body would dream he had ever l<ink in
! mercial man. He was as straight ana
tail as the finest OF our scarlet-ruauar
poles, and butter wouldn't melt in his
mouth, he was that smooth and sleek a2d
soft-spokenr- How surprised we We're
when ne proposed himself 10 90 and near
Ddvlde Dvlne's first sermon, holding the
hymn book all the way, ana carrying
Hulda's best shawl On his arm | used to
b. his fayorite in the good old days when
he didn't know a Stub nose from Gre
clan one, and Bob found my caFroty hair
aBd frcckies much finer than the silken
locks and delicate com ple1ion Of Hu:C:a
He used to call Huida the mix and wa
ter baby. and | was the one be came 10 in
all his scrapes and short comings But
somehow, after he got to the city never
could fnd mach favor in his sight, and
had no relish for q dead delight The
boy was gone from me as utterly as if
ne lay in the old church-yard by sister
| Batty's SIDE. The memory Of him was
lar sweeter than any present delight In
his prosperity.
was always opposed to giving up the
homestead when mother and father died,
end going to the city TO keep house for
Boo. But Bob persisted. and won over
Hulda, as he always did. think he had
sneaking design from the first that
Hulda should win The admiration of one
OF his employers-the bachelor NJ en- be1
Of the firm of Marley g. Bfothers. He
came out with Bob in one of the vaca-
tons, and certainly seemed to admire
Hada, as one might say, ravenously.
He ate more in quiet way than any per
son I ever saw; and it seemed aver7
high compliment, in Rob's eyes, that
while he was eating, his grave, owl like
eyes were fixed upon .Iulda, though why
[ c MT say, as [ always did the cooking.
/ used to tell our young preacher, Davy
Devine, hat he couldn't expect the hot
place would have the terror for me it
mad for Others, seeing that was used to
the hottest corner and rather liked it,.
David made some kind little reply in his
| pleasant way: and / must say my choice
Tor HuIda had always been this band
some, fair-worded, pure-heatte !, God.
loving young neighbor OF ours. He had
always cared for her since they were
| CLlluISn anu i knew tanner az @
mother would have been we'll content 70
have Hulda the parsons wife in the old
Dutch church where they had gone to-
gether year In and year out, and now law
resting close by.
Hulda was little more than child,
but was taking kindly to the wonderfully
pleasantly ways of Providence just then:
and after mother died she chung mora,
and more to me and David. He and
used to talk the matter over, even to the
furnishing up of the old parsonage,
never dreaming but that all would be
tight 1t seemed as natural to me a.
seed-time and harvest that Hulda should
marry David, and walk up the aisle in
her plain silk gown and close bonnet
and everybody should say what sweet
wife was the young pastors
But in the meantime Bob married a
fashionable city girl, aud in the hot sea
sons he brought his wife and children
home. l couldn't tind much fault with
the girl, though tried TO hard enough
she spent too L.uch time dlstorting heI
pretty hair cut OF its natural come lines,
and put as many queer arljfi "a, humps
about her as a camel; butt >he had in.
some, CHEEKY way with ner, and always
had weakness for beauty. be it in man
woman or beast; and, besides, she aIway.
had good word for the young parson
often Turing Marley away with hc1
coquetry and w=les, SO that David couc
have word with Hutda.
Hes worth a dozen of that bald
, blinking Marley she would say, ''anc
I'll do what can, Magda, to foil Bob,
plans"
she was such good ra1ured creatur,
, | wish it had been Gods will tospare h..
to he, young brood, Of which she wa
over-tond; but While they were thre
: manikins the gay young mother got colt
and died, and notl ing must do but w
7 must 60 to the city and keep house fa
? Bon. Aulda's tender heart was x.ung 70
t B IBIS widowed and lonely CONDITION, bu
/; l c dice under his stiff, lard mplanchol,
| a bitter quantity Of worldly foretaou Oh
e and speculation.
9 l knew what was coming, and, indeed
t was prepared for anything What did
s matter how that the blessed old home
stead was out of our ho'd2 had kep
8 some of the mahogany furniture, muc
r to Bob's disgust, who seemed to cheape
t the richest acres We had aud spoke s,i : ut
: ingy OF the knots nd gnarls in our dea
d old spple trees that every body kne,
made the fruit all the sWeettr b.