Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-08-14

OLD,
Made warm nesting PLACES in natures grown
cold.
"Only baby" And yet from the skies ~, i
The great God looked down and smiled in her
Till we saw in them shine,
From glory thus given,
The light all divine,
The radiance of Heaven!
only baby!" yet so needed above, .
That an angel came down with a message of
love,
And lifted the baLc--at the word Of tho Lord
From the mothers warm breast to the bosom
of God
Christian advocate.
JACK.
"a morning like this, with the sun
Il shinin', and the birds Il singin', and
the posics blossoming in those beds
down there seem to chirk one up might
ily," said Mrs. Zib, flirting her dust rag
vigorously. Its pity YOU amt able
to be up and get peak ut it. It'd do
you more good than medicine 'cording to
my notion. There's lots of folks gone by
already, the kind that has little to do.
Well, if cver!" and Mrs. Zib's poke
bonnet and tho edge of her sharp nose
seemed in imminent danger. Of going
through the shutter, she was so inquisi-
lively eager in her inspection Of some
passer by.
"1t's that Hoke boy,' she said pres
emily withdrawing her head and proceed
ing to set in order the Walls on the stand.
II declare he is shaver to be driving
his own pony, a black one with a pail
face ind a-what do you call it--dog
cart; l don't sec why there's any need of
giving decent wagon such an outland.
ish name He amt more than eight
years Did I'm sure, and is abou as sassy
as they make 'em. but tt en- some folks
arc able to make all sorts of fol-de- rolls
for their children, and others arc put to
their wits end to git bread for theirs,
and you can't help teelin' that lots is va
rious. Soslc do seem to git all the
plums in the pudding, and others can't
even git IL Whit at the crust. It's queer,
but I suppose it 8 right
She gave inc an lnterrogallyc glance as
she spoke, then spying some uneasiness
in the little week old morscl of humanity
who was cuddled in my arms, she took
him away and sat down with him in the
low rocker. "You folks make all awful
fuss over him." she said meditatively,
mot that he is anything out of the ordi-
nary run either, as / can see, but some
how, you seem to think he is wonderful.
S'posing now you had felt bad about his
coming, not knowing how he could be
fed or clothed, and s'posing nobody kissed
or cuddlea him, and wondered whether
he looked like you or his father OF his
grandmother or all the rest of 'em?"
"Mrs. lib, please hand me that baby
right away. l want to kiss him.
~ amt going to do any such thing"
said nurse peremptorily. "He's just
been fooled with enough this morning !
All them big girls in the family had to
have their foolishness over him before
they went to school, and hain't count
ed how many times you've kissed him,
He'll take it easy enough on my lap
awhile. Yeller, amt he2 Well, that's
the jaunder's; it makes 'em sleepy too.
I once saw baby just as likely for his
age as this one but laws, he was blink
in and winkin' away III miserable
sort Of u shanty, and nobody seemed to
want him in the world very much; he
was one of them kind that never gifts a
Whit at the pudding. He belonged to
the Briggs, Danl and Melindy, and the
belonging to them want much of a
blessing, for they were two Of the shift
less, slack, always behind hand sort of
people who never seem to know how to
take care of themselves rightly. Their
folks had been lust so too, workin' q
little on other folks land, doing an odd
job now and then, kecpin' in vittels and
shabby clothes somehow, the women get
tin cold v1ttlcs when they washed for
the farmers wives and some of the old
clothes, it want no use to make over.
Dan'l however, was the very cream of the
hull 50 far as slackhan .cdness and down
right laziness was concerned. 1t want
no trouble for him to do no:hin', and
never troubled his conscience neither,
though perhaps he didn't have one to
trouble. Sometimes he got a job in harry
rst Or plantin' time, but generally folks
were shy about hiring him; nobody likes
to pay Ii man for settin' drummin' his
heels agin the fence or stoppin' to talk to
everybody who happens to 60 by. The
women folks said he vas Il heavy hand
too, on the butter and the meat He was
great ono to go cunning; you'd sec
him slouching along regular, two NANCY,
ribby hounds a follOwin' after; such folks
must keep dog, you know. even if. they
hain't nothin' for themselves.
"Nlelindy used to say sometimes that
she wished Danl was little steadicr al
his work, but if you went to blaming
him she always had some excuse for HIM
He had a pain in his side, or the
Squire wanted him. too work to hard
or he had to take care Of the baby.
"There always was baby in the house
!. little, half-drcssed, generally miserable
creetur, for they never got the. right kline
Of fare and want made the least mite Of
though Danl and Mellndy liked them il
their way. can't even say that it wa
curious the little things died of after ON
another, but 1t did seem to me fortunate
for there want no gainsaying but wha
they were better off out of the world thai
in it. Jack though, he TOUCHED i. out
though he had all the drawbacks tn,
others had, had grew to be little, black
eyed youngster, hanging to Melindy'
skirts, trottin' no und after Danl or lyin
in the sun and sand alongside them mis-
eraDle OoSS.
Melindy went when the seventh bah,
come, and she and the child were buriet
together, and you wouldn't hardly thipl
itbut one day when one of my boys wen
past the place where she was buried, j
there want that torlorn little Jack
walking 'roundand round it and pipin
NANNY, mammy!' =, '.'. d
'Misfortunes never comes single, the,
say, and I believe it, and to prove j
Danrs gun went off all ola sudden on
day when he was climbing 4 fence, ant
somebody found INN the same day lvin,
there clean shot through the heart
After he was deccntly buried no on
knew what to do with Jack. It wan
to be thought Of that anybody aroun,
should want him, and the only way seem
ca to be to send him to the house
l remember he sat out on big stone Il
the yard, hiding his face from evervbod
in his torn Jacket sleeve. and. cr,;no 10