The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1882-06-30

streak faced, bose jointed shape
OF our common humanity.
So, too, when the little miss,
beaming with joy and gratitude,
came and put her model of a hand
in his mighty palma pearl in an
overgrown oyster shell-said /:
" Come with me to my papa and
mamma" he only answered;
"Can't do it, miss, nohow you
can fix ii. Must get home to do up
my chores afore candlelight. 1t
your dad wants to do anything tor
me, then let me fili up his coal-bins.
III put HMM fifty, hundred-yes,
BY Judas, a hundred bushels OF
handsome hickory and maple coal
not u smick of chestnut in it for one
shilling a bushel, and We chalk them
on the cellar door as we dump 'em
in.r
any postoflice,' he added, turn.
ing to the astonished throng, sis
Tabor Swan, White Perch pond,
near Deacon Gallup's grist mill,
aud I'll put coal in for any on ye at
the same fggers.'
Before dawn, on the morrow, as
he was yoking his red helpmates for
another trip to town, he caught,
through one of the upraised OK
bows a glimpse OF some OF that
starry company overhead and this
accident set his tortoise intelligence
to creeping and wondering-won-
dering why the heavenly lights
burned on the burdens OF a new
day with a tendercr and q sadder
beauty. Was it because at this ex-
haustive time, mortals we're wont to
die, when the sad tides were drift
ing seswardi
And this thought led him to won
dering what the stars were, aud how
they came here, and hence wonder
ing what he was, aud how he came |;
but with it all he never recalled his
thrilling exploit of yesterday after
nooA or dreamed that the whole
city, was sounding his praises, or
that papa and mamma we're making
splendid preparations to reward
him, so primitive was his mind aud
80 simple had always seemed to
him a hardy and brilliantly hazard
Gus achievement.
There came a time however, when
his adventure was brought ire sist-
IDLY to his mind aud memory. IL
was the last serene hours of a July
afternOOn-a sweet time IN the
country, when all things come forth
and assert themselves with cameo
distinctncss, when the old-tasll
ioned well sweeps stand so proml
nently against the cloudless azure
suggestive of lone brook fisherman
of unusual stature when through
the breezy lanes, and over thu
sunny cart roads, come toiling OF
the heavily laden hay carts, like
mammoth land turtles.
Tabor Swan was at q coal-pit
when looking up casually, he saw
halted in front of his farm-hOus,
door a handsome coach in wbicl
were seated u gentleman, "a lad,
aud a girl.
| Obedient TO his notions of polite
ness he dropped his pitrake, an'
expeditiously put himself IN th'
presence Of his guests. Even hi
obture fancy did not fail to OBJ
serve the marvellous foreshort
eniugs aud magnitying OF the cal
rage and horses in their reflection
on the rolling grass plat transform
ing them into the veritale chario
car aud grillins of remotest anti
guilty.,
1--WE have come Mr.. Swan,' sal,
the gentleman, "to put all ou
heads together and see if we eau
not in some way make our acknowl
edgment for your gallant rescue o
our little darling here" -
The blackamoor Of the brand
hung his head, ,bewildered, abashed
dismuyed then, rallying from hi
stupor, he rushed into the house
and presently reappeared with
little girl--.a toy Of a thing-a mol
sci of young mortality with min
ature hands and feet, but principal
eyes-that looked as it they ha
blossomed for the first time tina
very morning.
Esquire aud squre's lady," bega
, Tabor Swan, bowing with dippe
duck frequency aud awkwardnes'
"you can't do nothing for me, bu
/ If you are a mind 60 take this 'eI
, spring lamb and edicate her, as
hainlt been edicated, you will do m
all the favors in the world. | can
read nor write, and many is til
nights pvc laid awake and Worried
COS dis ERE little bleating thing ha
I to grow up in the same way, an
face the great bleak world, witho,
/, readln', writin', or spellin', got
sup sorrow and disapp'ntmen
! with no 'rithmetic, no grammar, |
1 g'ografy.
Ii |
That night, as the great, beaul
: ful, luxuriously -iressilent coach W,
rolling homeward, under the state
! roadside oaks and elms, through 1
!. illumination OF frenies, the sprir