Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-02-26

10 put III mere 1Or me, as my OWL
particular luggage is still unpacked
But what are those high windows in
the wall opposite my garden windowsi
| must investigate. | take a chair
and climbing up, find they look into q
sort of unused bathroom down-stair:
on the second floor. ! came back &c
sit down to my work, forgetting &c
close the air-shaft window, through
which had been looking.
Sitting here and writing in my Jour.
nal | must confess to feeling n little
homesick. | hope | shall get letter.
from home by the steamer tomorrow
What is thatP Some one singing the
song l heard so much on the steamer
coming over, the refrain ending with
$50 to sleep, my baby, my baby
What q sweet, sad voice. | wonder
whose it is, cannot write any more, |
hear child's voice saying, "Sing
moro, mamma" and then the mother
answers, "What shall sing, darling?'
ooh, my song, pease," and then comes
the dear old song of "Her Sweet
Smile Haunts Me STILL" and as | sit
here the sonnd comes floating up into
my room, and when l lie down to sleep
feel as if | were child again al
home, and my mothers voice was
soothing me to rest.
December 18th. AT work all day in
the office down town, and though
weary | must add few little bits tc
my journal. | have seen her, the
young widow, at last, and she did not
sit opposite, but beside me. She has q
low, sweet voice, SO excellent in woa
man, and her face is not only beauti-
full in feature, but beautiful in expires
sion, only very sad. 1t was her voice
that SO soothed me the other night, and
she has q little girl of four years; Sc
much have learned, and no more.
December 18th. Ihave been writing
letters heme, and am feeling rather
down-hearted, the steamer having
brought me such loving words from
the old, dear home, SO far across the
ocean. Hark again hear the lullaby.
| did not like it on shipboard, but it has
grown very sweet to me now. AS the
mother sings, hear little voice say,
Mamma, top q minnit, sink" (she
evidently could not pronounce the
"th), 81 would rasser talk to 90 a foe
mintys, tant seep, sinking what Sanity
Taus ill bing me, what does 90 sink,
mammal" "NTell, darling" / hear
the mother answer, Il think he will
bring you nice little pair of shoes,
and stockings, and a pretty new coat,
SO you can go out with the other little
girls to walk, for my little girl stays in
the house too much, while mamma is
away working for her pet"
"Oh, mamma darling, Use orful solly
90 has to work so hard, and I'm doin
to dit bid, and help 90; I'll dit bid
velly soon, SO if 90 TODD, mamma, !
sood rasser have buful big doll, with
buful turly hair and eyes"
am sure from the silence that en-.
sues, the poor young mother is kissing
apd hugging her baby. Afterward |
hear her say, my dear baby, you be-
lieve mamma, and you are her only
little friend now, and when mamma
says she is too poor to buy any dolls,
and she can only buy her baby warm
clothes which she must have, then
mamma knows her baby will be her
dear little friend, and help mamma by
thinking if mamma was only rich,
how she would give her darling all the
'buful' dolls in the world"
"Ees, mamma" little plaintiva
voice answers, lees, mamma | does
know | is oor little fend, and | won't
asst any more; but pease may | tort a
itty bit about it; | don't want doll
any more mamma dear, but | tan tort
about it, ! tan ask Sanity Taus, he's
wich, mamma"
"Well, my baby, you may think of
it, and talk to mamma if it pleases
you, but now 60 to sleep my baby,
my baby '" and so the song floats into