Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-09-11
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"The Young folks had best pit mar
r;od tbo,,ol, of thov,ro n,;n, a.. ho,h
90 a., - w,
VI en- ~ no rear ier oehiiie an
Ensign. lhey IL git on all right, as far
as they let folks git on that works for u
livin', and if Lucy loves Mr.. Annelsey
Ts,nosn that's ali r;rbt too ond Oh,
boJ hotto, wit. fo,. h;,,, - oo,, 40
D- VIZ mn, W eo,no anu
seo her ae once ei ne doh want her to
gettanned up with campin' out in the
foothills"
Mrs. Parsons tbought tho ybo1e s;t-
nation over and over aoain and % aoain i
All nfgbt she Law awake tbinking of
their chanred circumstances and of her
husbands words. and in tbe morninu
she did substantially what he Ind snof'
pested-she wrote her danghters teil-
ino them the ranch was ioo3ad and do
stroyed. that tbe cottoge itself wonld
be untenable before many davs, Init
forbiddino them 10 return bome r.,t;i
they heard further from their parents
.'Your father and I do not vet know
what we shall do.n she wrote. ..There
seems no niace for ms to 90 to Some Of
the neiphbors. whose houses are on
hiober Ground than ours have offerod
TO LET ms stav with them until wo con
find n place TO rent. but we can NOT
lonp be n tax ON the hosnitalitv of those
who have themselves lost eyorvthin~ a.
except the shelter over their heads and
who must. like us. soon seek other
homes.
s.Wc are talking of ooino down into
the GREAT valley and rentin9 a nl.co of
some Of the hiI LANDLORDS INT + is vow,
hard to think Fl working MI the rest G ~
our lives without hone OF aver having a
place of our own, cain. and if we can
lind a little place anywhere that is for
sale, if it is only few acres with moth
ing bdt n shanty on il. we had both
rather buy it than to rent. even if we ro
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 if too
much.sdears; and Won must not come
home until YOU hear from us aoain.
which will not be lone for we musf do
something. and that 0uicklv.
II OH could not help much III Won
were here until we know what we are
to do, and would probably be more en-
penses here than there. and we will
write you again lust MS soon as we de-
termine where we shall 90"
Then she added. in a postscript.
You know how much your father
and love YOU and how anxious we are
to have YOU ALWAYS with MS: hnt this wc
Know can not be, and if the men whom
Eou are to marry urpe Won to n sneedy Y
union you have our consent. and II may
be hest sou ~ ~ Y -,
This letter John Parsons mailed at
Phippsburg, a little town on the river
ten miles above the landing where thew
usually did their trndir.r.
When johnny saw his father nrenor-
ing to start he began TO crv niteoyisIv
and begged him not to lcavc then, to be
swallowed up by the terrible flood.
The poor child was not only nervous
but actually frightened. He had sal
proppedsup in his little wheeled cot AT
the low window and watched tbe slow
iy rising flood until il had crown to
seem a thing of life. n friobtful mon
ster, such ms he had read abo,lt, in fairy
stories, only a thousand times more
horrible, ready to swallow them oll
alive;s and his pale face grew paler
still, and his ewes. large with suffering
grew larger vet with fear and he would
not consent that either parent should
remain LONG ont of the room, and al
night, went to sleep HOLDING to his
jathers hand only to awaken when all
was still with screams of fright at the
things which he saw in his dreams.
Then John Parsons would arise and
sit -by his side and talk to him. and tcll
him stories. and sootbe him until his
sobs ceased and gradually he dropped
of to sleep again. only to- sec once more
the horrid shapes that peopled his sleep,
ing fancy, and awake in an agony OF
fear and trembling.
And now he beooed and cried until
his parents feared he would 90 into
commissions at his fathers leaving. but
there seemed no other way. for they
knew that the neighbors were ei.hel
busy trying to save something from the