The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-06-20
THE BABIES lN THE sroRA.
From tAe FreseA of vieser nass.l

He could not have told himself. He wax not saved from the swAmpy shores, eu, he found himself face to face with the tempest. the winter, the night. | He looked ss the earth, seeking a path
 Suddenly he stopped.
 He had discovered track. in truth, a footprint It was bare foot. smaller than mans, larger than a childas. A woman had just passed that way. The child SCI himself to following her steps. Unfortunately the nArAs grew less and l ssS disnnc. The tall of snow was frightfully dense Suddenly they ceased. There was nothing Su, a white sheet over the earth and black one over the sky. The child stopped and locked in vaia.
 He saw nothing.
 A wall w2s near him. A human cry was floating in the invisible
 As he hesitated between an instinc; thai urged him to fly and an instinct shs; told him to stay, he saw in the snow a, his fee: a sort of a mound of the size of a human body.
 Al the same moment the voice cried.
 The child knelt before the eminence and began 10 dig away the snow. Sud denly under his hands appeared a pale face. It vas not the face that cried. Its eyes were shu, bu, its mouth open and full o. snow. The woman vas dead. The C id continued to remove the snow. Suddenly he telt feeble movement; something small was buried there and was moving. The boy quickly took away the snow and discovered a poor little body, blue with cold, snll liv ing. naked, on the bare bosom of the dead woman.
 l, was lirle girl.
 When her face telt the asr she uttered a sooblng cry of distress. The mother was surely dead noi 10 have heard that sob The nudity of those breAs,s was pzthe, ic. A, the point ot one nipple was a white pearl. IL was a frolen drop of milk. The forsaken boy took the infant L. his arms ar when she felt h,s clasp she ceased her cries. The purple lips of the nurSling pressed the boys cheek as they would breast. Her mother had already impaTted to her something of death Her feet, hands and arms were paralyzed with cold. The boy fsl; this terrible chill, and removing his cloak wrapped the little girl in il, and now al- most nakedshimself, with the little one in his ar ms he resumed his journey
 The baby, warm once more, with her mouth againsi the boys cheek, slept IL was their first hss This httle burden was the drop hat caused his cup of dis- tress to over flow. He knew not what would become of him. He staggered on slowly, painfully, guarding against any sip or misstep, before the cruel wind ,ha, pushed him, seeking a dwelling. He came to a village and knocked at many doors as he passed through the streets Nobody opened to him.
 The lost child, carrying the found child no longer walked, but dragged himself Al las, he saw candle shining through the door of cabin or wagon As Ae drew near he heard a growi, a chain dra~n tight, and suddenly under the door between the wheels appeared ,wo rows of sharp white teeth. Al the same moment head passeI through the opear ing in the door.
 "Shu, up '" said the head.
 The growling ceased.
 "is so nobody there :"
 The child replied yes.
 "WhoF'
 @In
 ~Who are you ?-'
 " am ,ired," said the child.
 What time IS 1t F'
 I'm coldn
 "We can't all be as happy as lords, !" answered the head "Co away"
 The head disappeared The boy raised the sleeping baby in his arms, bent his head and summoned hts strength to con- tinue his journey.
 But the door had opened and the voice cried :.grily, %Wen, why don, you come in! The child then entered the abode of Ursus, the philosopher, and of Homo, the wolf
 I He had heard them both growl. He pnt his bundle down on a chest carefully for fear of wAkening and frightening it. With f-verish haste the old man tore of the boys vet garment, gave him others of his own, pushed him to the sto 'e and SCI food before him. The child absorbed in the two necessities of heat and food was wholly insensable to tha, violence of language so tempered by charity of action. Al this moment a ia- menfable cry arose from the chest.
 "Valley of Jehosapha; The bundle IS crying! What has your bundle to cry for!7
 ~Whai's this P said the man. Heres another! Will this pevez end You see she's thirsty; she must have . dnnk noWo
 He tore of the scAnty rags in whicn she was rolled as he had taken of the boys clothing. He 6lied a besale with warm milk, introduced a sponge into il, then took the bottle into his night hand and h the left the distracted little bundle that continued to scream. He pat the sponge to her mouth. She drank eager. H. The boz had dropped his fosk. He watched the baoy come to hfe. The poor hre fellow raised to Ursus his eyes, moistened by an emotion he could no. sxpsess.
 Come, nov; eat, win you -
 @Wsnt you eat, too ?" asked the child,