The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-12-18
For the Donaldsonville CH1EF.
GrandmOther's Story.

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"Grandma, please tell MS one of you,
pretty stories," said merry group Of
little folks, as the family of a rich mer.
chant were all seated by brilliant fire
burning in the CRATE of Mrs. Hinkley
"Wen, let me see,o' said old Mrs. Hink-
ley, "as you all have been pretty good
children to-day, l believe that can
manage to tell you one of my stories
now what would you like to hear about
ooh! do tell us about the Indians |" said
an ingenious girl of thirteen by the name
of Ellen. They all agreed to this, and
so the Grandmother began as follows:
"Well, once there was poor family,
but they We're contented and happy; the
good wife was blessed with one lovely
child, girl of scarce seven summers
she was good, obedient child, and could
often help her mother in doing small
piece of work for her."
"But, Grandmotler," interrupted Ell
| iCl, yOt WCl5 HOlDH W OCil
us all Indian story!"
| "Wcll, we have not come to that part
of it, dear. The husband of the good
wife was wood chopper; and as lie
worked considerable distance from
their house, he found it inconvenient for
| him to come home at the dinner hour;
SO one day the wife called Elizabeth, for
! that was the name Of her little girl, to
come and go with tue servant girl to
carry her fathers dinner to him; SO the
mother of the child tied her bonnet string
| under her little white chin, gave her a
sweet kiss and started her off OIL her lit
tic pony. Now, it happened that not far
/ from where the woodman lived there was
tribe of Indians who had been very
friendly, but now they were not near so
friendly, and the old chief declared him
self all enemy to the whites. It hap
pened that two or three Indians were
out hunting; now, as soon as the Indians
saw Elizabeth coming they made haste
to get to her, one of them grabbed her,
while the other one grabbed the servant
and killed her right on the spot; but the
other one put poor little Elizabeth in a
bag and slung it over his back, and fear
ing she would scream and some one
would find him out, he babe her not to
utter sound or he would kill her. This
harsh language frightened the little
Elizabeth so much that she could hardly
breathe.
Gail this time the mother did not feel
ut all uneasy about the child, but when
the old clock OH the illantel struck one,
two, three, the good slsseIpaa,a began to
feel anxious, but being a quiet woman
she waited patiently, thinking perhaps
her daughter had staid to come home
with her father but when the woodman
came home without her and asked his
wife why she had not sent his dinner,
the poor woman suspected the sad truth
and tainted away. When she recovered
all she could say was, Elizabeth Eliza
beth. Oh! my child! my childv The
poor woman fell seriously i'll and every
ono feared she would s.ic, but after long
| struggle between life and death, she re-
| covered. Every effort had been made to
find the child, but without success; the
poor parents, brekcr-Eearted, went to
their native village to live with their
parents, who We're, Of course, kind to
them and tried to make them forget their
grief. Thus five years passed away and
llr. and Mrs. Cooper had becnme little
reconciled. One Sabbath evening the
family were seated around the fire and
there was a knock at the door. Mrs.
| Cooper went to the door and who should
she sec but her darling Elizabeth! She
took the child into the house and she
told her all that had happened since she
had been captured by the Indians. The
Indians had kept her a close prisoner
and made her work and taught her to
make moccasins and pin-cushions, which
they would send her to sell in the vii
lagos. They had sent her to Trenton to
sell somo and it happened to be the viii
lage where her parents then lived. The
Indians thought her parents still lived
in the woods; they had reared her and
made her promise not to tell white peo-
pie where she came from and the limo.
cent child had obeyed them. But for
| tunately her parents had now discovered
her and persuaded her to tell where the
Indian camp was. When Elizabeth did
not return to the camp of tic Indians
they suspected that she had betrayed
them and left the country secretly, sc
that the parents were not reyenged, but
since they had their child again they
We're thankful and happy" WI
Thus ended "Grandma's story" The
children had been much interested in
the story and wanted. another, but
Grandma said it was time to go to bed
so they thanked her, gave her sweet
kiss and were soon asleep.
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treating the dimensions Of the brain anl
spinal cord in some extinct reptiles HI
considered that the cerebral part of tl,t
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