The Princeton union., 1879-08-20

and. . joyful meeting ind Heaven. 1Valans
the face of the fact that / knew we'll
enoug the woman's name, the coroner's
jury brought in verdict Of unknown
woman killed and no fault of the road
as before, and we made a grave up there
in the white sand and laid her in it with
her baby on her breast to sleep aside of
the man that had not u doubt in my
heart was her husband"
cam Uncle Sammy prayed bootiful,
too, for the souls that had all got home
at last, I've heard Brislin say so,-hc was
my father" put in the square little girl,
eagerly.
"That was ly dooty agin, there bein'
no minister, 'replied the old station agent,
humbly. oval, put that letter long
with the other one, and made it my
dooty. too, to plant those weepin' willers
close by the graves so they might have a
shade-tree of their own a growing over
'em after all.'
:'Now ma'am," said Uncle Sammy,
drawing a long breath, call this I've tcld
ye is stranger, stranger than any thing
cvcl found sot down in books, but it amt
no where nigh rs strange as what came
next, this is what makes the whole thing
look as though it was a made-up story.
The poor unfortunates slept fora matter
of a year or so, in their lonely graves
peacefully, only Freeman's wife used to
say she saw em in hot, dry weather q
waterin' the roots of the willer I sot out,
with their tears, and that would set all
the children in Shanty village carryin'
water to it from the brook, and the tree
grew and f1ourished till We see it's beau
ty.
"Wal, one summer time, there come up
through here great company of Nor
mons from England on their way to
Utah. The agents shipped 'cm about as
if they were cattle, and took 'em on ex-
ira trains SOS to connect with the Grand
Trunk. The engines was to be changed
here at this station, and lot of folks had
gathered to look at the Mormons, as if
they was wild animals instead of pack
Of poor, deluded human bcin's.
Just us the train whistled, Freeman S
wife sidled up to me, and says she,
'Someth1n's up with them unfortinits.
) They was out on the track all last night,
t every time there was a whistle, with
their hands up over their eyes lool1in
down the road into the darkness. There
, they be, now!' said she: under the shade
) of the big hemlock, over on the edge OF
: the glen there, watchin' for the train.
But I looked and couldn't see nothin
). 'cept them two white birch saplin' s
5 Just then the extra came putin and blow
| IN along, and as soon as it stopped tho
poor Mormons begun to swarm out like sc
I many sheep, with no more Of an ides
l than sheep Of the great ways they hac
= yet to go afore they got to the promised
land.
! "Among the rest that got out was {
, poor, old, tremblin, white haired man
that tottered about little and said to me
as I Was passin' him, do you know, goec
, sT, of q town called Brackenboro', il
| Amen-y? 'Brackenboro' is ten miles
) north Of herc,' said I, *it's the next station
] you'll stop to- At that he threw up his
white, whithered hands, opened his
mouth as if to speak and dropped dead a
my feet. .-
5 "Old Hugh Leigh is dead,' said tho
sharp-voiced woman at my elbow; 'he!
: dead and I'm glad enow. He's beer
t nought but a trouble ever since we start
j, ed. But he would come when he founi
), was to Ameriky we was bound, if i
took his last farthing. Now hope he'
s satisfied 81. b., :"
) "'He thought he should be fndin
n Jvhn and Alice and the baby said an
= other, but they have been still now. The,
e never writ one blessed uord-they.d .didn'
# want the trouble of him. But the OLE
h man was always sayin' Alice needed hin
e to help take care Of baby Mary He
n dead and I'm glad ont. His old hear
7, was we'll nigh broke with waitin' for
G letter. SAID the shrill voiced woman
snatchin' the hat off the dead mans hea,
II and disappearing in the car jest as tn
r. whistle sounded, and they were off one
t, more. We laid the old man out in tn
k freight house in his turn"
8 can it was there the three ghosts KEEP
y watch by the body, and Freeman's wife
e she seed 'em," put In the square littl
v girl, enthusiastically.
IL "And the verdick was give this time,
= went on the old station agent. 'Unknow
,r Mormon dropped dead from heat a
t South Verony.' We buried him besid
k the others, and there's never been
'e shadder of doubt in my mind but wha
he was the grandfather.' 49,
II can heard Uncle Sammy pray thi
n time,' said the Brislin's girl, quickly
h. ian niver shall torgit how he fowl
IS about it they was all togither now, an
in that God was always good"
1e "Of course did my dooty, there bcil
at no minister," reiterated Uncle Sunny
IS ''and l also made it my dooty to plar
e. that willer fence all round their grave
fc And Frecman's wife sees 'cm all there q
es happy as can be under the willer. The
re have never walked about since the grant
e, father come. Sometimes think the
ue was unfortnits, and then agin I thin
er they was fortinits. Any way its clear
d, my mind that the good Lord had speci
| charge over 'cm." +. "
m And we three wiped our eyes in con
1g pany-Uncle Sammy and and the squa
as little girl. --5pramgfeId Republican.
as Stumbling Two Young Snobs.
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