Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-25


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-. h. 80 4, the h;y xi,tinr soo,n with
49,. IN his ewes and ro .xea Lizzie Ann
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.;rht .go hal hem ,ouai Il e...g. =.
,-S;,s md Laoon.,i. his s....... III
:.,. h.L,,;sh Mo, my. the day he arrived
u,ara now dim a, | hollow. aud his ono.
chubby hands we're thin and nervous Il
WAS like DAVIS waa and wear, g..s... a.
not Ike the real Da,-y at all.
Poor old imbe il. Isaac, who ha
II the countyss children TO
year,. noticed the change In tho . = d.
meanor. He looked at his white face md ~
naembered that it had been round and gloW-
ING a short time before and understood that
he suffered. He was too old AMI imbecile to
have the cause Of it all straight in his mind;
but sorrow has its own lanyulge more elo-
uueut than words, and this he understood.
as he patted the boys head Then as his
sympathies overwhelmed him he bent and
kissed the shiny face of Davy's doll, leaving
its painted cheek stained with the tears that
rolled from his withered ones.
They all gathered around Davy-surprised
and pleased at his silence and patience. They
were a strange company of CONSIDERS
crazed, crippled. woe begone, clad in mean
garments and owning nothing but their i'm
perishable souls and their battered bodies.
Yet all that they -kindness-they gave.
Each one forgot his own grief, whatever it
was, in the presence of the boys more un-
bearable one.
Davy said nothing to all their kind words,
He only held Lizzie Ann close to his breast.
as though there was comfort in her compan-
ionship, and rocked the harder.
The next morning he rose with drv eyes
and made heroic effort to be hopeful. ISIS
it to-day 90 homeY' was his first question
His lips trembled when told that it was not.
but he shed no tears. John Keller appeared
early on the scene and removed one of the
black beans from the string which now
ornamental DAVIS person as a necklace.
Yet the bow did not seem hopeful He was
only quiet. His tears fell no more Init his
silent patience was even sadder than his re-
bellious lamentations Not being a creature
of stout will, his spirit was as wretcbed in
woe as it had been buoyant in bapniness He
seemed to have suffered bevond the noint
where a raw of hone brings strength He had
changed his wall. II want to 90 home to
'Im going home but he said if without
spirit and apparently without hone. and II
was. if possible. more beartrendinp than his
first wall
His spirit was broken and ca uas bis nbvs-
ical health. He had GROWN so wal, be ro,,ld
not sit nm long at a time and 60 would Ta
hours of every dav on his cot st.r;p, Of tho
wall, though seeing II not His ewes ere
looking into some realm outside Of oil n,ota-
rial THINGS for thew had charged s+ronool,
Instead of the s;mnIe vacant lool, Of he
pleasant DAVIS thew had ,ro,yn deor .rd
luminous. with that Wonderful baautv which
is seen in the aves of tboso y,bo hova EEL
great anouisb of shirt
And SO the DAVIS went nm unt;, all tho ,o.rs
were gone from the strino Int ons and +ho
next dav would he Cbr;stn,as
Jobn Ka,lar haJ oo,,,.taI a.,