The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01

We're, on the cruel cold floor and she laid
her hand ON me again. and she says low,
sorry-iike but sweet -3ef
"'Sam! Come back, Sam, and help me
take care of him - 5
Colonel, I bruk right down. didn't
know afore that there were amy cry in me,
but that fetched it. Ye see, were weak
from drinking an not eatin' nothing am it
or something unsettled me- 'i''' .'te
.'She knowed me from hearing him talk
about me. They'd come sooner than ex-
peeted, because of sickness in her fathers
house, an fear the baby might be took
with it. l went back with her, sir, an
helped the leftenant up, an did all | could,
but | daresn't look him in the face. An
her-I didn't dare even TO speak to her.
So little, so light, 50 brave-seemed as
though my big, rough voice would hurt
her. I never counted her as human bein',
just as some one come from Somewhere
from up above, maybe-.just to keep me
from KILN him: an watched an watch
ed, a-'spectin' to see her vanish every min
ute.
II done what could that night. an then
laid down on the floor an tried to sleep.
Next morning were mighty low an shaky
an couldn't hardly move my head. The
leftenant were bout, but never said a
word of the row. she come an made me
get up stairs inter my bed, an then she
brought me tea an soup, made by her
own hands.
can that ev min she sat up there with
me, an twarn't no preachin'. nor yet
prayin', nor yet iist like talking-what She
said warn't. It kind of come over one ike
the music used to sound of still Sun
day ey' min, when a Teller We're a-layin out
ON picket, an the bands, way back in camp,
would play some of them hymn-tlnes, an
the soft wind would carry it over the tree
tops, till you thought it was-l often did
when Ia shut my, eyes-the bright angels
a-slngin quiet, happy songs way up m
the sky An when looked i. at her, seemed n
as though one OF them angels were a-settln
there beside my bed ..t.....a..-.,t.....z.,
An then she asked me, fur her sake to
promise wouldn't never touch rum no
more, an did promise what wouldn't 1
a-promise, Eve kept, an will Keep, so help
me God ~ ...,.s
''What times them was, Colonel, when
she and him was here ! Seemed to me,
when she We're round, as we weren't here
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at an couidn no more ca a-llousnl pau
'ho'siiI' OF a-saiu a pau ~ofa nor oo''l'
a a. ne[: ,i useu 70 plich ihyseii a.. an
~ohoei II were me feiii inns oe
were aii ABOUT me iiNe 81 NUS an ye'
MIN every place every ilere ' oiioe I'D.
Il knowed it couldn't last--it didn t.
She didn't belong here below, She knowed
she were gong me doctors iowed II
were coistlilip 4 kio"eu pctHtVefiiri nc
l1ora Wallteo her up apoYe7-7l1p Wiiere sl if
4, o7ooi looh for the Wnoie year an laofe
sue were lere' i9f III poa'. q'iie' fIi
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even EYE ieilt oilil lt faNe ttiIiie
never Fouchea NOT even i4 hfi oress ! anl9
care rare 70 = an sohe ~ M.ei siie 10y
her hahd Oh my snouiaer, lusii eei7 iiei
IKE TX as as were Soil away out Il 3n
T,S One, Sunday night she'd been a7singinl
hymns here right in this very porch. She
heard little Forty7eight up a eryinl in the
bedroom, an she gets up an says. In
called !; an | looks zap at her face Just that
minitT1just n like an angel s. face it Were
"a ian she says Good night sam HI m
yassNext morning the lieutenant come ont
here, where was; He were white am all
of a-treuible. He beckenedi me. and led
me, into the bedroom. There she lay
dead, Heraittle babby asleep along side of
her. her pretty. little thin hand ,ameng
babbvis, brioht, eurIs. unnd tho sweet happy
smile. on her Inns. list as tlloaslr she were
dreaming of holy sights. There she law.
not a bit altered. and I knewed she mare
a-seeina holy sights. and were happy "a She