The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-03-18

the words all ran together and mad
such sad nonsense that she was forced q
last to put the book down and turn T.
that dearer volume which lay before hs
In tho cradle, with its white initial lea
, as yet unsoiled, and try to look forward
to Its mysterious future. And rockins
the cradle she thought of everything and
everybody, but still she was wide awak,
as ever
1t was nearly twelve o'clock when sh.
At last lay down in her clothes. How
long she slept she could not remember
but she awoke with . dreadful ehokina
In her throat and found herself standing
trembling all over, in the middle of the
room with her baby clasped to hea
breast, and she was saying sssonsthin0 =
The baby cried and sobbed, and sobbed
and cried, and she walked up and down
trying to hush it, when she heard .
scratching at the door. She opened il
fearfully, and was glad to see it was enly
old Fete, their dog, who crawled drip
ping with water into the room. She
would like to have locked out-not in
the faint hope Of her husbands coming.
but to see how things looked. but the
wind shook the door 80 savagely that she
could hardly hold it. Then she sat
.oelo sno tnen sne lay
1o~n ss..I u.Sle WINE. . 80,
LLylnE CLOSE Y me wal OF the little
caDln sue tlouent sne neard once or
.mlce, soMe.n,ne scrape SLOWLY against
hroncha. Tha, ths. I:.tE -
IL 1900 IL a. 81 "o0 ,as'lo eule
1.ss evu .I1a. nHo sne Dapy Maae Whon y
s.c1;cL. c,;oI. apd ..a1nl .Lsn soesnng o1e MenI
sba sat nm in he'd Whan .ha a;a 1s 81 'ias =.
was attracted NV somAth;rg ale. th.t
seemed crea,,ing from fho bacL 5aa,.
towards tha center ~ tba r,o,n Tx-r1
m,,ch 49, tl,ar ~. VIZ ,;.ti. % s,.s ".In I..
saon ~ . .ae11.d 1 Sn - .he r;ath tte - % a Da'
and bsosn sn-..a;no ~ on ona. " tha az, Hn aaH
n 80 satar -. o 'o oi'
:.
Sno run 20 tne iront door ana threw II
VIDE open ana saw nothing out water.
Ing pu1 wa.er. Sne ran 20 tne side1Wln- ~
Enc 1eHe@ oeisu nesrln8 ner nusDsnd
once say tnat there WAS no danger from
sne vac, LOT tnat ien regularly, ana peo-
PIE ooula caiculate on IT,, ana snat ne
would ratner Hve near the bay than the
river whose banks might overflow at any
time But was It the tide? 80 she ran
again 10 tne pacK aoor ana threw out
se'cK OF "oo1. M II drlisea away toward
sne Day. one scooPed up some OF the
wafer ana put II eagerly TO her lips 1t
was fresn ana sweet. IL WAS the river
and not the tide
She drew the bedstead toward the mid
die of the room and placed table upon
it, and on that side she put the candle.
The water on the floor was a.
ready over her ankles, and the house
once or twice moved SO psrceptibly,
and seemed to he racked SO that the
closed doors all few open. Then she
heard the same strange rasping and
humping against the wall, and looking
out saw that q large uprooted tree, which
had lain near the road at the upper end
of the pasture, had foated down to the
house. Luckily its long roots dragged
in the soil and kept it from moving as
the house in it's full career, even
could not have withstood the shock. The
hound had leaped upon its knotty sur
face and crouched near the roots, shiver-
ing and whining. A ray of hope flashed
across her mind. She drew Q heavy
blanket from the bed, and wrapping it
about the babe, waded in the deepening
water to the door. Az the tree swung
again, broadslde on, making the little
cabin creak and tremble, she leaped on
to its trunk. By Gods mercy she suc-
ceeded in obtaining footing on its slip
perry surface, and twining an arm about
It's roots. she held IN the other her moan
ing child. Then something cracked near
the front porch and the whole front OF
the house she had just Quilted fell for
ward-iust as cattle fall on their knees