The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-01

That has become OF your fOod2'
"Bunt up in de sto room, massas
all de visions was in de sto room, an
it koteh afire an hunt up"
''Kotch afre? How dill it catch fre?''
You see, massa. I haint got muffin to
say gin de sogers; haint nc complaint
on 'em, no sir ] has much respecs for
sogers, 1 has; 50 have al as colored
folks :"
It was evident the old simpleton
thought might resent it. ii he accused
our soldiers of burning the house.
did the Union sol ii-rs set the house
on fire?"
''Pears like dey did; yes. massa, OATS
how it pears; do hainI no complaint F"
"Never mind your eomplaints-ten
me exactly what happened, you shall
not be blamed. want to know where
the child's mother Is, and where the
child is to get her breakfast or dinner.
Has she had any thing toeday ?''
mary scrap. massa, an OATS what's
help KILN sister Francis. She cant abear
to hear her baby abeggin' for bread an
nary crum to gin her, dat's it massa."
The old man wept as he spoke.
''Ihe child shall not suffer I will
send you provisions as soon as return
to the city. If you viii let me take the
child. will see that it has every com
fort. If you tell me where the mother
! is I will do what 1 can to serve her"
"'Tanky masha, tanky-no gemman
could offer farer dan dat, " answered the
old man, bat the women clutched the
little one closer to her breast and gave
me q glance OF fierce distrust.
'Ef massa will sen de visions to US,
we ken feed de baby, don't troublin mas
sa so much, you see de baby is usent to
her black nanny; an sister Francis
would a NOSE die right off, eff de baby
was taken from her"
"But the mother, you have not told
me-
The old negro hobbled up on his in
firm old legs, went toward the door, and
made mysterious sign, for me to follow
him out into the yard I did so. When
out beyond the hearing of the.woman in
the bed he said:
"You see massa, sister Francis she
amt a sister in de blood, but de chuch-
we bofe is 'fessors Nv 'ligion an longs to
de same chuch, you see. was Altered
she could'n abear to hear it tole; she sot a
store by her mistis. becsze she nussed
her when baby."
tfXVaU 6o,,. mo-, ;to W, ro,J A., 81
diers dragged the mistress from the dead
body of her husband and held her in
the yard while the house was burning
nov where is she %
''Dat's it 4! OATS IS what sister Francis
cannot abear to hear :ell on It was toe
awful! You s,e, she was a nose outer
her senses, beceze OBJ de deaf OBJ her hus-
| band, what had been brought home dat
day, jest as The sun vas a pc epiu up, vic
a woon in breas," an oey jes lay hin
down in de bed, an he hardly hab tim,
for to kiss his baby an his wife afo d,
Lord cali HIM to come, an de breaf wen
outeu his body. an his wife, she mos
went crazy becaze she hadn't seen hin
for nigh bout year, an to have him di
jes dat minute he come home was mort
he could abar."
."Will you go on"
"Yes Sah"-he wiped his old eyes
Yes sab, you see massa, de ole maj
sot store by dem white folks, he did
This he offered in humble apole gy 70
the tears that COED from his ancien
eyes.
We'll, what became of the mistress?'
Eyes, sah; after mistis see the sojsrs
pullen sister Francis outen de burnin
house, away from de copse of de dea'
husban'; she jes guy a mighty lunch an
got outen dem soger's hands, an rul
straight in dc roarin' flames an smoke
An Dat was de las we eber see ode chill
moder, an datg what's killIn of sis;e
Francis-yes, sab. dats it.
, The woman never recovered from tn,
hook she had received. I sent the best
surgeon to see her. supplied her witt
medicine aud food, and endeavored t,
satisfy her mind as TO the future comfor
of the little one she loved so well; all il
{ VAIL llCI uCiNOub ByELGIl " as EudLLtI
ed beyond mans ability to mend: Da,
by day she grew weaker and weaker
and toward the dawn OF the second Sab
bath after the burning Of the city, sh
breathed Der last, holding the baby clos
TO her withered breast. All my kindnes
and attentions rad not dissi pated o
abated her cold distrust. Like the IN.
reasoning white women of the South
she was determined to hold every indi-
vidual soldier in the Union army respon
siSle for the excuses done by some O
the lawless and brutal.
If the child had any relatives Willing
and able to take care of it, ! never hear,
of them. After the old womau's death
I took possession of the child; it had en-
!, tirely won my heart. inserted a no
tice in the Columbia papers, although
fearing she might be taken from me
Nothing came of the newspaper notice
and that is the way we found our secoD,
child, our darling.
"And you love this child of adoption
equally as well as the child Of you
blood ?'' 1 asked.
"If any thing, 1 love her more. YoI
can see that she is more winning chilC
than her sister. We love what attrset
us. The kindship of feeling is stronge
than the kindship of blood"
"And you never intend she shall know
her early history, the tragedy of he
mothers death?"
"Neverl She might come to hate mt