The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-02-17

! Have you 8eHnSk0sle IT, was inef queSi
! ton as he stood before her, his homespun
clothes pottsd With cotton fakes, and
further ornamented by two or three
striped, d,catapillars,s which we're industri;
sousty Measuring the length Of his panta-
looms. So So &
Seen Rosis 6 Nj not sincesh brought
me .myscanteen-of fresh water this morn
ings She. came back home, though.
saw tSr runnin asrace with Wolf clear
up to.the ;tarnips patch. /" !
g sfSsshl Size did come back, but she slipped
away awhile ago when j was :talkingto
Some one and 7 haven't 't.seen her since:
akin to Zdmy Kailse, 1 2spose. 1
saw. him qcomin' iathis way, riding that
snrustang :iikefthe mad devil be i" -;
IS So nomatter whom / was talking to ),
Rosie lis gone, and she must be found
Tight away, We must go and hunt her
II lie Wolf with yon. he will help usifnd fin
s S; 81 u hers "a SWolfs I BE must be with
" s child. Helalwayi follows her, yon
Tow. OF, she. issafe enough: # any
Wing. tfn had happened to. her, you'd have
L;olf back hefs bowling Ike a pack of
- B namesakea.nn.s z * ....-...s
I caunot trust to, that; I feel as if
Hmathine !. was tisi 7 7 wrong II with her. She
lever. does 20 father than sher little
trapeyine swi1st there in the bottom, and
Away; AIN comes nj e III t;all. Yon remem-
sber little sPierre.f ferIs, who was missing
lat wear md never found. and The couple
of fittia. .darkiest that disappeared the year
before and nbbpdy sssr saw hair 81, hide
5of them aflsfTais s.: - -. + s u,
s.ThaW vent ddWn she. throat of the
nyack 5sviif ::jiBSill jBil asid. referring TO an
oSerrroTI siiiasfor that was5 known to
.csiy h;dia. di iassssi sniaisGsssd and thickened by
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. bullett.vroof. since
frsnuarit shhss & f6riniir,. rife and mus.
IA had no other effect than to render
him 1nore.eunniiug and, more rarely to be
seen: sSBatR Rosiierwould never 60 $50 far
..,tha. bayon: : ,f,ors likely she's dropped
3ssiaen nvar her snlatys under some pecan
trss 81 t6a hny added hastily. seeing the.
ghassly tetf6r that oyisYspread his sisters
fsce al fha & mention Of Inc alligator.
In. an. hour they!had searehed the open
woods -frr half !a mile around, making
Them echo, with the child's name, and
looking carefully for little tracks, which
thew found IN plenty around the house
and in lie patches, but the freshest were
near the. bant. .cf the little stream close to
TIA chiId,syprapeyine; swing. But the
t;nv threadsof water was too shallow to
drown even tfive,yJesr. Old Rosie, who Of
tan waded1n it ankle deep. The brother
and sister now carefully followed its
course for several hundred yards up aud
down, but could h Hot see no lur1ner It'll signl
Of the little bare feat they we're IN search
off, .as9si3H 60.
The nearest neighbors lived o mile
away. but Maine hada faint hope that
the child had gone: to tho house Of one of
these-a hope that was disappointed
when they reached the first cabin, where
the COWS were being MIXED for the even
ing, and the children and dogs. were
fighting over the formers supper OF ciab.
ber and bread poured into cottonwood
trough in the yard, to be scooped up with
wooden spoons and dirty palms. :.
But If these people had rough exteri-
ors their hearts were tender, and they
reused at loacs with keen!interest' and
pity at the story that orphan Rosie was
missing. Remembering their own little
Pierre, who went out last year to gather
dewberries and never was heard Of after
ward, the Yernes turned out their whole
capable force, male and female, to hunt
for the lost child, followed by a small
army Of dogs, and intending to collect
pine knots, as soOn as 1t became dusk,
and continue the search until the lost
was fonnd. t A'Sz
They went at once to the bayou, and
d;.;3sa 40 a to search both its soft. mud.
dv banks up and down, for foot: prints or
othar .siigns..s In a listle,while they were
ioined BY other neighbors and formed
themselves into q GORDON. searching the
woods in every direction within circuit
Of several miles around Rosis's home.
No wild beasts other than harmless rae.
coons and oppossums were known to lurk
in the neighborbood, but the party OF
searchers stopped long and held their
flaming torches of resinous pine over the
deer. black water.hole. under a. steep,
yerhaogisg3 bsnk, where the alligator
they calleda6e sRIack Devil was khown
to hare his hiding place. As the day
approached, the Gordon gradually mar.
rowed until, as the sun rose, they stood
before the lost child's cabin home still
and smokeless, and with no sign OF ute
about it. Again the woods rang with
the name they had echoed so otlen da'