Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28
LOOKING ON.

/ DoHOS hNeu on the very top
Of hill. and the yard that he played in
was almost all hillside. So that if he
happened to fall down. and get to roll
ing before he could get up again, he
never stopped rolling until he reached
the fence at the bottom of the hill.
But this did not happen very often.
Really it never happened but just once
that know of. That time he did roll
down hill, just like a log of wood or a
keg OF molasses to the bottom.
His mamma was sewing on the ma
chine, by the sitting-room window, at
the time, and CHANGING to look out, she
saw her precious son rolling away! And
what was worse, he rolled faster and
faster at every roll. Imagine her feel
ings! But if you're not mamma your
sell, there sno use in trying to mag
ine-you can't. But she need not have
been so alarmed about him, for half an
hour afterwards her son was safely on
the top of the hill again--in the house.
He had been rubbed with arnica
here, and anointed with scented salve
there, and he had long strip of court
plaster Just above one of his eyes, and
another strip across the bridge of his
nose. Nevertheless, he was very hap
Ply. For besides having been a great
hero, achieved greatness" as Shake
speare would say, he had also achieved
some blackberry Jam. And he did not
get blackberry jam very often, not much
oftener than he took a roll down the
hillside. II was only because of the roll
that he got the jam now. Sammy un-
derstOod this fact; so withal, he felt
that the accident was ''all for the best
now that it was over.
While he ate his bread and Jam, his
mamma with very red eyes, was giving
her neighbor, Mrs. Smith, an account of
the shocking affair, and of the mental
anguish she had suffered while her boy
was taking his wonderful circular jour
ney. H9r @
"Why, i should think my hair would
have turned gray with horror at the
sight" she, exclaimed, wiping away
some more tears that came at the
thought:
"Oh?' interrupted Sammy just as
Mrs. Smith began speaking, % if YOU'D
just been the fellow that was a-roliing
though! Looking on amt nothing" he
added, grandly.
But few days afterwards he found
that looking on y aOds something. 1t
came about in this way:
When Sammy's father, who was
doctor, came home at noon on this dav,
he was in a great hurry. Mrs. Buel,
who lived twelve miles out of town, had
another stroke of paralysis, and he must
go to see her right off.
3. "Fll just take old Bill out of the
shafts, said the doctor, land let him |
get. some oats and a few minutes rest,
and then off must go again"
Then he put two stones before the !
front wheels of the buggy to keep it
from rolling away, and went in to his
own dinner
Don't NEEDLE with those stones,
Sammy he said, the last thing.
Sammy had had his dinner, and so |
had his two little cousins Meg and Milly, |
who were visiting him. So they did not |
go into the house.
LETS get in the buggy and play |
horse" said Meg.
And in she and Milly clambered, |
while Sammy took hold of the shafts
and began pulling. Taking hold of the
shafts and pulling little was not med
ding with the stones. he thought. He |
just pulled a little bit, " when sud-
denly the buggy begSn to push. 1t
pushed harder and harder, and Sam
my got very red in the face trying to |
hold it in. But it tcouldnt be held in!
1t got away from him. and rushed pell-
nell down the hill with those two little
cousins inside screaming ''ust awfully.''
And Sammy could only stand still and
look on, just as poor mamma had done
when he rolled away few days before.
Oh! he felt dreadfuLy! Then his papa
rushed out, and his mamma rushed
out, and his auntie, and Mary Ann, the
hired girl, they all chased the buggy
down the hill. But they did not catch
it-not until it stopped Of itself against
the fence.
Milly and Meg were not bit hurt,
but they cried and cried; and both of
the shafts of the buggy were broken
clear off.
So the doctor had to go on horseback
to see Mrs BueI = tiHsh ~
Nobody scolded Sammy very much,
for he looked so pale and sorry, and no
body gave him any jam this time
either. But after while his mamma
smiled little, ard asked him if look
ing on Uasn't something
And Sammy looked very, very meek.
aud said: Yes, ma m. "-Youth's Com
pGraJO7I.