The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-02-19
A STRANGE SrORI.

- a. ,s,l II an sxpey,enss ol my own
.s,Wsrsal NIGHT In the woods. lmagin. !,
~ Asd nothing to do with Il, ior ! !, :,
- bsekwccdsman's daughter. accus- !
s.sd 10 the wild sounds VI the forest, .
- lonliness, and all tha: Is terrifying 10
sscV!ee. |,
e. ,i,er his own simple fashion, seeing !
- an loving Him In Ills works. ]
-, ard him hold forth on tho provi-
- vuyS Of the beaver: "Why! the
- Sii,er'd s,arve in the cold season,
n HOdn't used its little dat tail for
I'M Ne house, and then filed Il with
- n ,Ipe!" I have heard him tell
= ~ caribou: "Look nj that. too"
= roud say, +" and at the moose. Now.
- caribou has to travel often q matter
= twenty miles for his dinner, for he's
slsin,y nm, and only eats the long gray
- tia, hangs from the trecs-so God
- him suow-shocs good as an Inj'.n
IN make 'em to skim over the Ice.
sns-whi!e the big, heavy moose there |
80 ficht In. His dinner u close to
Iand. lie could live for months on an
sers lDs!" He would speak OF the loon.
"A i.s adaptation In every way To its
w,sry kome-alwsys ending such talk
IA: "An Gods works are pom hon
=: there's no halfway with llim!"
ivSs the only ono LETT Of ten children.
m father, when mourning over and
ling the others, would never COM
80, bot only say: "They're better
WHY! II 10 cant trust the little
o1il1rvu, that don't know what wrong.
80 Il, and don't know the meaning
Z r.. then there ainr say chance for
q nea!" And % he lived Ais quiet
h-Ab Aears beating close 70 natures
~, and bic soul unconsciously SEEK
? md finding natures God.
n mother must have been beautiful
= Isr youth. She was lorstfe Cemn.
IIuse. and her bright French spirit.
uB;sd her ,gsyly over many o hard
q In her lie II frequent dePrivasions
o. Rreat, overshadowine sorrow OF bel
r v,s tho unaccountable disappear
- Il hss listls year.oA daughter, bel
! ~ bsansiiul shlA-aAe Oae IN - ov'
80; whom from the tirse che love'
Va6 o peculiar Tenderness.
h child bad been left alone In he
- birch.bark crib. for . short hall
-. while mother was busy at %
-. Q mile from home, In The mid
~ woods. I, . little six.year-olt
- N ths canoe with my father. ,
60 for having been especially 800
~ before. Father and had %
oGklld Hus-ws always did whs
1S1at away together-snd, our can;
q trout, 10 were coming gay
- toward svsning, when . co
q IN on our happiness, and o
IN heaYt felt . strange thrill q
~ . sudden anxiety in my lathe!
- whose every change knew. i
07k sar had caught the sound Of mot
q voiee, and, after . while, !, Y
oulla hsar Q hopeless moaning. adrei
"a Heort-btoken sound. We fou
nslAer kneslinG on the Aoor, her be
haains on tho empty CRIB. and mou
- g onA that could not be comfort
Il baby was gone. How. or whe
- could not tell-we never kne
WeSks were spent In searching for b
"a. q length. 70 save mothers ress
hlker forced her to leave the pretty
nhln In the woods by the lake, VII
~ lat sorrow had come upon her.
~ went to Montreal.
There 10 lived quietly for years q
~ tho winter time. The nuns OF
Srse& convent q ths Gray Sisters
Ssnee a my education. Mother u
~ - little rooms b The French q
q. vhils father went o. mo
>in9 for weary month";;
- ImISuer.ames ~ always spent
- Re Wosld choose lovely .
r. ar simmer encampments, but o
q = he a 10 log.cabin deserted
e g q baby's los, until tho SUNNI:
I - Oinsteenth ysar. Then grsa'
- Sssk possession Of my mother =
- nors 70 the old homo. She
les6 v>ry dslicats that winter, and
(. & NJ rcueh father denied her notl
- I Ghndder when I think OF that b
81 Airseul placs now-k seem
lcueh our evil fate lowered abos
~ u anguish I ever knew %
srs!
Ne passed one peaceful mont
mlAer. described only By distan
IN d 10 diphtheris, . soourgs
81 olsned 70 b striding along ftom v
bvolaGs, Arst on The RIVER then nea
- tAsSrsatlake; but 10 neveftnoa
j oucAipguD, until oAo Uicoeao'c:
NJ iheHsr cane home, languif
piiisA. ftom ono Of bic nuDero'
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n 10y finger q To ecour{s ,
IL M upo1 him. Aitse 10 .
I'D ss1iely shout lather, 81 81
e "a o dessrt my dsliea&s little
e. Itoa - hrst ~ bed desl
- Mn, aad row ! ~ thae
~ ~ WeWe takea. ! ShoaA n
"a ~ them both.
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~ tlegps slzoagsr boeds svsa
~ ~ nd suffered - nu
~, H. vA alwlys eppeean
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