The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-07-25
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 it's just DII or story, SIT, that don'I sound mucn 10 strangers, out I'd like to tel you al about lt, If you have tune to listen, tor they ve all forgotten Boo5ery down here, except me !; they're poor folks you see, and tnlngs diltt out of folks heads when poverty drifts in.
 Boooeiy Yes, SIT, mat was his name least~ays, the Dame we gave hlm down nere. AS to father or molhsr r he never had any, thluk; never had any one Ia the wide world to belong to, ex- cept our two selves-Bob0e:y and me was the eldest, two loog years older than him -out then was bind, you see so the years uIdn't count for much, and Boooery got ahead of me after the tune when the longs days Of pain slipped into long nights, and God shut me out of the woIi1 no, that srumbie, SIT i've given over that; and Boooery was such d good tellow 10 me that pernaps l oldnt miss so much, after all.
 "i grew to fancy things, and make be- leve saw great deal; particularly at- ter Robbery took 10 working at hls trade snoe black, SIT ana sometimes when De- Came accustomed to being always ln the o4rk, 1 weat out Wlth Soooery and he'd the money that he made.
 Wcil, not much, perhaps, but enough for Us two, aad the httie room we had down at K ugstown, over against the nver only Boooery was an extrAvagant lad-not ln drlnk, SIT, we we're always a sooer lot, but ln oranges.
 Cn-y were aim )st ms ruin, Sir-thoSe oranges. He used 10 come up stars sucxIng them softly, so that might not hear, aad tnIaKlug 10 deceive me; bat somenow smell oranges, and It always made me sharper to Catch ooooery whist lag iittie tunes to himself on ms way up, just to put me off
 '' He made deal of me, did Robbery along ot being bind, you see-snd so dio the neIghbors but l was rare proud oi nlm. You dou know wnat It IS, SIT, to slt alone Tn the dark all day, and then, on sudden, to near a fellow call out, Here we are again. Come down and feel the sun set, and we'll count the coppers.' It would make you love any one, SIT, who had a voice like that, let alone fellow Ike BJobery.
 Perhaps you didn't happen to be in klag s.own, SIT, last spring wnea the floods hid rIsen, and the land was under water for mhes around. Boooery had to wade ili,ie gong to his work, but he rather hked II, ne said and ne used 70 tuck up hls trousers and call back to me and laugh, as tue water crept around his feet, and ne saia folks wouldn't want their boots olacked, as ne feared for the water would soon take oil the polish.
 ''i used to sit on the window-sill to teel the sun, and If listened very hard l could near the ripple-npple of the shal- low water al every step that Robbery made, and II nad a pleasant sound, and made kind Of company feeling; hut when he was out of nearing and it s,lil kepi npphng up against our waiis, the company feeling vent away and left me loneiy, anu sometimes thought the waler nAIelul, because 1t lay tor so very long De. ~eea me aud Robbery.
 Well, once vas sitting alone on the window siil, and the o4y was very quIet- So qulet that did not even near the htte nppnag waves; and in the quiet l grew frightened a, last, and in the quiet Stretched out my hands across the sill to feel my way down. felt something that made me shiver and draw back out of the lhgnl-tnst made my whole dark he sro~ suddenly beautiful and pre- clous tning; 1 felt the water npping al most up 10 the level of the sill, ana l was quite alone, and Robbery would never know.
 '' did not call out or go mad with fright, as thought at first might do oni, clept away, in my everlasting dark ness, from the warm sunlight, and sa down on the bed where Robbery and | slept together, and put my hands over my ears to shut out the roar of the waters. How long sag there don't know, but think II must have been for hours, for felt the sunlight sianting on my iace, and the rushing around me before moved again. 1 vas hungry, too; but when tne to get down and reach the cupboard, the water took me of my feet, and crept back to the bed and on to the shelves of he dresser, to be out of the way. said my prayers two or three tunes. and l said some prayers for Bob- bery, too; for knew he would be sorry