The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1885-09-17
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The young folks had best git mar
ricd, though. ef they're goin' TO; both
of EN- I've no fear fer Jennie an
Ensign. They'll GIT on nll right. as far
as they lot folks ~, on that works for
llvin', and II Lucy loves Mr. Annelscy
s'posc that's all right, too. and she
had better write Ter him 10 come and
got her at once ef he don't want her 20
got tanned up with campin' out in the
foot hills
Mrs. Parsons thought the whole sit
nation over and over. again and again.
All night she lay awake thinking OF
their changed circumstances and OF her
husbands words. and In tho morning
she did substantially what he had sug-
gcsted -shc wrote her daughters, tell
ing them the ranch was Hooded and do
stroycd, that the cottage itself would
DO untenable before many days. but
forbidding them TO return homo until
they heard further from their parents.
Your father and do not yet know
what we shall do" she wrote. There
seems no placo.for US TO 20 10. Some Of
the noighbors, whose houses are on
higher ground than ours. have offered
10 let US stay with them until We can
find a place 10 rent. but we can not
long be a tax on the hospitality Of those
who have themselves lost everything
except the shelter over their heads, and
who must, like US, soon seek other
homes.
1--WE are talking Of going down into
the great valley and renting place OF
some OF tho big landlords. but Il is very
hard 10 think Of working all the rest OF
our lives without hope OF ever having a
place Of our own again, and u we can
lind little place anywhere that Is for
sale, " IL Is only few acres with moth
ing but a shanty on II. we had both
rather buy II than 70 rent, even u We go
IN debt for Il; but we do not know Of
any such that is safe from the overflow
of these terrible mines.
..You must not worry about II too
much. dears; and you must not come
home until you hear from us again.
which will not be long, for We must do
something. and that quickly.
"You could not help much II you
were here until we know what we are
TO do, and would probably be more OK
pense here than there. and we will
write you again just as soon as wc de-
terminc where we shall 60,
Then she added. in a postscript;
.'You know how much your father
and love you and how anxious we are
10 have YOU always with MS; but this we
know can not be. and II the men whom
you are ~ marry urge you to speedy
union you have our consent and II may
he best so. I"
This letter John Parsons mailed at
Phippsburg. little town on the river
ten miles above the landing where they
usually did their trading.
When Johnny saw his father prepar.
ing to start he began to cry plteously
and begged him not to leave them to be
swallowed up by the terrible food.
The poor child was not only nervous,
but actually frightened. He had sal
propped up in his little wheeled cot Al
the low window and watched the slow.
ly rising Hood until II had grown te
seem thing OF life, frightful mon
ster, such as he had read about In fairy
stories, only thousand times more
horrible. ssady to swallow them al
alive; ana hia pale face grew palel
still, and his eyes, largo with suffering
grew larger yet with fear, and he.woult