The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-04-08

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story was indicated upon tho face 0f hts ,
auditors It seemed at least to be
brought down 10 the level Of probability
by Mrs Hardaway's impulsive words.
eyes, 10 Is worse than awful, went
on Tim, after a moment, "and &c had
GOODNESS in it that seemed somehow TO
take the heart right out of me. Maybe
some OF you have felt a good strong
earthquake shock, and you know how
sorter weakly that makes you feel.
Well, this gave me Just such feeling
az I've had In earthquakes; and this
Just didn't Let up In a little while, as the
grst two did, it Just kept right on a
Nhirlln' and q blOwin', as II 10 wasn't
ever goiu' to letup. IL blew me over the
snow like a feather, but, as luck would
have it, it didn't take me up in the air.
as I've heard IL does take men some
times I lodged against an uncommon
! high pile Of snow, and there / lay, nearly
| frozen to death I was haviu' a regular
hand-to-hand fight with the storm,
when all Of sudden the cloud of snow
! shat was over me sorter tore in two.
| and / could see a house, or q part of 4
| one, half tipped over, and not a dozen |
| rods away from me. 1 knew in a minute |
! that it must be the little hOuse that Lem |
| and had seen Oh on the skyline
"O-h-hl" cried "Skep' Thompson. |
LES see! that house was six miles of !
at last accounts.
"I don't carel'' insisted Tim, stoutly !
| ''Wheu that snOw-clOud sOrter broke /
/ could have thrown D stone, n I'd had
one, aud hit that house, weak as I was
IL was seein' that that reused me up. It
really seemed TO give ue courage, and
/ orept along toward it on all fours.
Such hash as there wasl There were
pieces Of pigsty and n hen-coOp; and,
as true as 1 live, if there wasn't part Of
baby's cradle!
"LordT thinks T. where's the
babyP Can it be that father and
mother and children have all been
killed.
Il managed to get up alongside. of
the hen-COop, and there 1 had to stop.
It seemed as if I lay there an hour,
J though likely il wasn't half as long as
that. My ears were full of ringin',
! and my eye-balls, and all of me, for that
matter, ached so with the cold that I
felt as though l would rather die than
not-when, all of a sudden, as 1 was a
& lvin', stupid-ike, side of the hen-cOop,
2 the wind stilled down q little, and /
+ heard a noise of cryin' Then the wind
D come MP again, and then there was an
4 other hush, and then come up that little,
D wailin', baby's cry again. Il 1OdS a
e baby's cry, aud no mistake and it did.
seem to me, even if I JCdS all used up,
g as if couldn't let little baby die out
3D. in that cold without trying TO save it.
- So Just gathered up all my strength,
G and tried to make for the noise. Two
or three times 1 keeled over. with my
S eyes and ears and nose full of snow,
/, though ] had been tied up and bundled
k up fit to kill when we started out; but,
s at last, after I'd felt and felt around in
|. the blindin storm and darkness, l found
It her She was q little thing, cOuldn' t
i have been more than six months old,
3; and her little dress was jammed in
Q under the side of the house. 1t was a
% miracle she hadn't been iammed in
l. there, too, but bein' so close under the
a edge was all that had saved her. for
K the house was stuck in so tight il
couldn't move, and it sOrter protected
70 her from the storm. D, she was a
d white, pretty little thingl-not a scrap
le of hood or anything on her head, her
b. little thin dress a-freezn' on her, and
d her little baby hair all stiff with ice
IN She was most gone, / could see that
a but managed to undo my fur coat, anC
s, teat her dress out from under the house
he and then / hugged her up and covered
le her as close as / could with the coat
o, but she was pleased! She snuggleG
10 down, that little thing tight up to me
,fr and sighed long, sObbin' sighs, and shu
e, Eup her pretty little eyes, as quiet anC
p lcontented-hke as if she was taking (
IS nice little nap.
i'd "Then came the worst time of all, bu
le the piece of the house that jutJed oyei
7e us stood firm. 1 don't know how lOnG
it this lasted, for it took my senses cleai
,g away. There seemed to be a noise il
er my head ike twenty Locomotives al
ye lettin' off steam at once, and that wa
Sc the last knew. Ireokon 1 never wa
ne so near the Valley Of the Shadow o
ut Death 1 was Just then"
ID Tim paused moment mOpped hi
'e face vigorously, and resumed. ~
4 'But that last clap was the end of It
oJ and / seemed to come to after awhile
7e with sound Of singin somewhere nea
me. I started little before / though
ID of the baby, and then / felt her lyin
=, heavy and cold inside Of my coat.
"a '''Wake up, little kidd says 1. 'Th
y storms gone down and here we are
- Nay be wen find your folks, but if W
le can't, your Uncle Tim'n look out 70
" you. Wake up!
OF 81 kissed and kissed her little face
. .lT 7 and it was CROWN lighter and lighter
u 1 so that / could see how pretty an
'h sorter tender-liSe she looked; but sh
never moved. Her heart had stoppe
'r- beatin' The poor little thing wa
At dead" A ..0.
a rim stopped again-this time to wip
ne bis eyes; and some of his auditors. WeT
TO suspiciOusly busy over their own.
,.ul but the singin'?' said one, inquiI
ke ingly.
H. ''Yes, Twas goin' to tell you about tha
TO singin', continued Tim. 81 keT
us a-hearin' it and a-hearin' it, and fina0
as laid the baby down, careful-lilze, uI
Ia der the edge of the house, and weE
huntn' around for thet singin. Th
as sky was as clear as bell now, but
ch could see the snow-clOud whirlin' alon
ed down the prairie, and / knew they weI
ys ketchih it further on. / peeked int
he the house, but that was pretty muc
broke up The whole thing had sci
~ arated, so far as / could Judge, into tW
of or three parts, and it didn't take NJ
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