Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-04-08

there to feel like father. | took the
little blue-eyed, red-cheeked, white-
haired plumpness, and sitting her upon
my breast, | was just going to COM
mence talking to her when she said,
pointing:
"'Look at 90 dog
"And, sure enough, there was that
fool dog just a-tearing around camp,
a-walloping his tail on the ground, and
every now and again jumping high over
me and the young one, as if he had
plumb lost his Material senses. He was
the gladdest dog ever see.
Now" L said to the young lady,
"what is your name?"
Lainey.
" Where do you livep
"In ow wagon
"Where does your mamma livep'
"'Oh, my other mamma, she's dead!
the bad Ingins killed her. Now me- s
got another mamma
Where does the new mamma
livep'
"In ow wagon
"Where is the wagonp'
90. Down there pointing forward.
"Down whereP said l, rising, with
the child in my arms.
"'Down there pointing again.
"Oh, no; there isn't any wagon
dow there. That's away off the road. ;
No, 90 ask e dog. He knowsn
81 looked inquirngly at Nep, but he
had fallen into his old, solemn, sleepy
looks again.
" Where did you sleep last night?'
$500 know L sleep wiz 90 and C
dog
a held the child in my arms, and
looked all about the sage-covered plain,
and up and down the lonesome, desolate
dust-line or road, but l could see no sign
of camp smoke, nor any object indicat-
ing civilization.
E"How far did you walk, to come
here?'
"'Oh! such o long, long wayne
and e dog. | so tired 90 to sleep,
and e dog tiss me in e face and wake
me up; then-then-we walk long
way, some more. and come here to sleep
wiz oo.'
".Well, now, Miss Lainey, you set
right down here on the blankets, along
| side of the dog, until / get us some
breakfast and l put the child out OF
my arms.
Me vewy hungwy.'
"' All right! Well soon have some
breakfast Which do you like, Miss
Lainey, tea or cotlee9'
"'Totlee, and heaps of sugaw.'
And so, chattering along to the
child, / fused around until | got our
little breakfast ready in the midst of the
wilderness.
| Cha n In a,.tNr 10
and did Justice to my rough efforts tc
please her palate, and after breakfast,
she insisted on large pan of hot water
to 'wass 'e disses.' but as | could not
afford that luxury in the midst of per.
petual drought, we compromised the
matter by my agreeing to let her ride
on top of the pack-animar S pack. This
arrangement delighted her no little fol
a while, and also suited me first-rate
until she got into the idee of standing
up like circus rider. She never had
much sense of fear. argued, and even
scolded against this circus business, but
it was no use. and finally gave her g
rope send in each hand, W hich suited
her mighty fine, until she got to being
sleepy and laid down on top of the
pack and fell fast asleep, while walked
beside the jack to see that she didn'
fall off.
"I didn't reckon we should go fal
without hearing inquiries for los
child, yet, as passed immigrant wag
ons, and was passed by other Immigrant
wagons, they had none of them lost {
child or heard of child being lost.
my little procession wasn't quite Sc
solemn after we got Lainey, cause thu
dog, instid of walking behind with hi
tail dropped, now marched in front
with tail and head up; and Canary, cal
culating to keep up with the dog
stepped heap more lively than he dit
before, and ye-hee-hawed splendidly
And now if you think that when Laine,
was standing up on top of Canary
pack that we WASN'T some circus, ye'
mistaken.
81 don't know what the immigrant
and stage drivers took me for-whethe
they thought was n Mormon runnin,
away from too much wife, or widder
er in distress, or a man what had kille'
a family in order to steal agal- baby ant
jack and black dog-but took mysel
for a man with a powerful responsible
ty on his hands.
"The fust two or three days / wa
awful feared / wouldn't find any one t.
take Lainey off my hands. Then, b.
jing, began to dread meeting or find
ing any one who would take her. And
at last, to tell We the truth, lef
the reg lar stage road and sneaked OF
over the Sierra into California by an oil
shadowed route.
II got some changes of clothes fo
Lainey here and there from immioran n