The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-09-03
FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH.

The fire burns cheerily on the hearth
The great logs crackle and flare up the
vide chimney, up which it is my
wont to say you could drive coach-and-
four. draw my chair nearer to it,
with shiver. "What nightr'
say.
lis it still showing ?" asks my wife,
who sits opposite to me, her books and
work on the table beside her
Fast. You can scarcely see yard
before YOU
Heaven help any poor creature on
the moor tonight /" says she.
"Who would venture out? It began
showing before dark, and all the people
about know the danger of being be,
1ighted on the moor in snowstorm. I"
eyes. But I have known people
frozen to death hereabouts before now"
My wife is Scotch, and this pleasant
house in the Highlands is hers. We
are trying winter in it for the first
time, and find it excessively cold and
somewhat dull. Mentally, I decide
that in the future we will only grace it
with our presence during the shooting
season. Presently I 60 to the window
and look out it has ceased showing
and through rift in the clouds see a
star.
"It is beginning to clear" tell my
wife, and also inform her it is half-past
II o'clock. As she lights her candle at
the side-table I hear whining and
scratching at the front door.
ssThere is Laddie loose again." says
she. "Would you let him in, dear %
I did not like facing the cold wind,
but could not refuse to let the poor ami
NAL in. Strangely enough, when I
opened the door and called him he
wouldn't come. He runs up to the
door and looks into my face with dumb
entreaty then he runs back few
steps, looking round to see if am fol-
lowing and, finally, he takes my coat
in his mouth and tries to draw me out.
"Laddie won't come in, I call out to
nv wife. "On the contrary, he seems
to want me to go out and have game
of SNOWFALL with him."
She throws shawl around her and
comes to the door. The collie was
here before we were married, and she is
almost as fond of him, tell her, as she
is of Jack, our eldest boy.
"Laddie, Laddie I" she calls; ''come
in, SIR He comes obediently at her
call, but refuses to enter the house, and
pursues the same dumb pantomime he
has already tried on me.
81 shall shut him out, JESSIE" [ say.
ga night in the snow won't hurt him.;
10 ii hn
"You will do nothing of the kind r.
she replies, with an anxious look, but
YOU will rouse the servants at once, and
follow him. Some one is lost In the
snow and Laddie knows it"
I laugh. "Really, Jessie, you are
absurd. Laddie is sagacious animal,
no doubt, but I cannot believe he is as
clever as that. How can he possibly
know whether any one is lost IN the
snow or not?"
"Because he has found them, and
come back to us for help. Look at him
now"
cannot but own that the dog seems
restless and uneasy, and is evidently
endeayoring to coax us to follow him
he looks at us with pathetic entreaty II
his eloquent eyes. "Why don't yor
believe mel" he seems to ask.
"Come," she continues, "you know
vor could not rest while there was 6
possibility of fellow creature wanting
your assistance. And I am certain
Laddie is not deceiving u.s..
What is a poor hen-peck ed man t.
do? grumble, and resist, and yield
as I have grumbled, and resisted. ane
Welded before, and as doubtless otter
shall again. -.
.Laidie once found man in thu
s. wv before, but he was Dead" Jennie