Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-14

road, and stop at Fells and Harder's-may-
be little Sam had stopped to play Well he
didn't find him, and the good teller hoofed it
till he met Nyfer, three or four miles this
side the Fork There was no Sammy with
him. He said the child had turned back at
the big shingle-tree stump, about mile from
home.
''When Ben druv up to his house
there was quite company Of the neigh
bors there waitin' to see if he had
the boy. A sarch was started that night
with lanterns and KEEP up till mornin' Word
was sent fur and near, and before rocn the
next day three townships were On the hunt.
Horns was blowed, bells ring, and the poor
baby's name called in hundreds of voices.
The woods and swamps was secured, and
every brush heap ard holler log peeked into.
':The sarch lasted another night and an
other day, till in the afternoon some begun
to give out, myself among the number.
went home and tirowed myself onto my bed
with my clothes on, and slept
as I'd never slept before About
10 o'clock that evenin' 1 woke up
sudden, Just as wide awake as i am this min
ute. Ny mind seemed uncommon clear and
quick That child can't be fur away
huckleberry swamp this summer. The trail
lsadin' to the swamp leaves the main ROAD
not fur f. IN the shingle-tree stump. I'd Of
ten heard that lost children would never an
swer when called, bat ct night, when every
thing was quiet, they'd cry and make a
noise Il seemed as though the hull kentry
had been well sarched, but still believed he
vos sticl.in' sonewheres in that hucklabeTTy
marsh.
..Nov. I don't want anybody to think
was herowire, for I wasn't. think felt
more'n common sorry for Rachel Nyfer, be-
cause I'd had a dislike to her for quite a spell.
1t growed out of an egg trade. L wanted
settttn of goosa-eggs; she had some, and said
she'd let me have dozen for two dozen hens
eggs. Well, we traded, and L s'posed it was
ali right, till one day she come over and said
she thought she orter have about another
half-iozen eggs; for she'd opened a goose-egg
shell and then broke two hens eggs into it,
and il wasn't cutie full. 'Twould have held
easy half another eggi I counted out six
eggs. and she lugged EN- home; then [ told
Miss Luke Wilson and one or two other
women that 1 was purity thick with, and we
made no end Of fun about itwheneYer we got
together.
81 didn't like the general makeup of the
woman. She had five purity children, but
she didn't seem to take no kind o comfort
with EN-, just pushed 'ern one side and druv
ahead with her work She and Nyfer both
seemed to think al the duty they owed their
Young ones was to make 'e1n mind from the
word go, and dig away like all possess, to
make property for 'en. But was there that
evenin' when Ben came home without the
bov, and I saw 'em stand and look in each
others faces, like the end OF the world had
come, and neither one could help the other.
! Then she went about putin bit Of supper
onto the table; but when she set out Sans
little tin plate and mug, all the mother in
her broke loose, anu she flung herself down,
shuddern' and sobbin' in 6 way I'll. never
forgit. Well, seem as how I'd kinder mis-
JUDGED the creetur, for havin' no heart, l felt
pushed to make one more try for that poor
lost kid @ hern; 50 jumped right up and
said ont loud:
'''With the Lords help, III find him YETI
1T Lit nv lantern and shaded il so it let
Just a little light down onto the ground.
Then [ went over the road, just as I guessed
the boy had done, turniu' Of on the trail at
the big red oak stump: and took right down
to the swamp. There I stopped and listened
still as death. Sure as there's mercy for Us
all above, heard him almost right away.
cob, mar Such pitiful CALI Then he
cried and whiInpered, very weak, like his
breath was most gone, and his heart most
broke I followed that sound and found
him easy. He was mired to his aTDl-pits in
mud and water. I couldn't at first see how
I was to get to him. There was
the body of q big walnut tree lynn
back on the hard ground, and the bark was
loose. pulled it off in slabs and throwed
'en onto the huninockS, and so bridged my
way out TO that little yaller head. He strugg-
gled wild when first pulled him out; then
gave up in kind Of faint 1 carried him
home in a hurry. There was still a good
many people at MYERS. They made some
milk warm and put a taste Of liquor
in it, and forced q few drops down his throat,
as you've done to chilled lamb on winters
rnornin' He was bathed and rubbed and
wrapped in softfannin and laid in the baby's
warm nest afore the fire. Nyfer and his
wife stood lookin down at him.
"'Raich,' said he-and she looked up, her
black eyes a-swimmin' and her face all
a-tremble. Then he took her in his arms and
held her cloast-R aich, we hain't loved one
another enough, and we hain't loved our
children enough There's that that's bettern
money and land, and for the rest of our lives
We'll try and keep holt of it.
'And l believe they did. The little boy
had fever, but he came out all right at last
hiss Nyfer died about five years after that,
and he took the family and went back east.
OF course, l wouldn't have told this story
Just as l have if any OF 'em had been
around"
The people had listened closely, and when
Mrs. Lockery put on her bonnet and re-
sunied her seat the hush was SO profound that
, we could hear, high above our heads, the
twittering clamor of q nest Of young tana-
gers, to whom the mother-bird had brought
i worm.
The next to address the assembly was q
nobe-looiling old man with silver white hair.
! It was Mr. Lake Wilson, or Squire Wilson,
as he was generally called. He had a firm,
, intellectual head, and when be spoke his Ian
guage was correct and well chosen.
The Widow Lockery," he began,
''has disclained all right to the title
Of heroine. Do not let the verdict
be rendered till l have finished what am
about to relate. by friend and neighbor
for forty years will, know, pardon me if
for once lift the veil from passage of her
experience to which she seldom alludes, and
of which many in this audience have never
+ heard. Nothing has been told here to-day,
! nothing could be told, more strongly illus
IF