Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-10-06

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As the woman, with preliminary
wipe on her apron of her soapy arms,
proceeded to accede to his request, the
girl standing on the threshold allowed
her gaze to rove absently over the scru-
pulously clean little room. 1t wandered
from the ruddy pot of balsam in the
small diamond panned window to fine
robust colored picture traced on the
opposite wall of the childhood of the
royal family, where Ii. r. III. the Prince
of Wales was represented playing with
an orange setter the precise hue of the
late Prince Consort's waistcoat till it
reached a broken discolored old bone,
with several irregular markings thereon,
lying on a shelf of the overhanging fire
place. The science that would peep
and botanic upon its mothers grave"
could not, of course, resist the opportu-
nifty of investigating further.
'May 1 look at that, if you please?"
At this the patriarchal Arcadian hob
bled up with amazing cerlerity from his
post at the door.
"Sartainly, Miss, sartainly. Betsy,
you go along and fetch the lady the
wa-ater, dye hear? There be sight Of
money bid for that bit of bone, / do as
sure you, Miss. Look well at it, lady,
it's worth it. At least so says the young
man as came here this morning. He do
think power of 1.-THE cackle ut the
remembrance changing into groan as
he stretched upward to the chimney
shelf "Roomatics, MiSs." in apologetic
explanation as he handed down the
bone. Its my legs, Miss. I'd be
Young man if it was na for my legs.
They've got old for the rest of me. I'd
be as gay young spark as any o. them
if it was IA for my legs" looking down
with melancholy pride ut those Offend
ing members.
.'Yes?" family. As she turned that
broken fragment of an animals horn
over in her hand, her heart, after the
first sudden stoppage, beat with the
sickening haste of great emotion.
'sDid / understand you to say that
that the gentleman wished TO buy this
from you?'
"Jest so Miss. At first he aXed me
one' 'arf crown, then another 'arf
crown. then 'arf sovereign. But ma,
ma, SAYS L. If 1t be of such yally amt
going to part with it to the frs bidder.
i knows what doc to myself and 1t.
I'm keepin' it, with increasing hilarl-
ty, still / makes up my mind II ITS
worth my whiles TO let it go"
From whence did you get it!"
"Yon big mound, jest after them lot
who come in vans had left''-So IN this
irreverent bean-feaster fashion desert
bing the respected members OF learned
antiquarian society i'll their handsome
two-horse waggonetteS. Il had Just
topped the hill and sat ne down for a
little, being a trihe blown. l be short
winded. Miss. / stretched out my old
legs" bringing those appendageS again
to the front, much TO Miss Gorlng 5
secret disgust, ''and knocks my lett 'un
agin summat hard IN a lump OF alrth
| that the folk had iroSened 50 reaches
/ it to me and breaks it open with my
sticks, and 1 finds this bit of bone
with the queer little scratches on II
when peel away the dirt"
"Are YOU sure that these carvings
scratches. | mean," hastily correcting
herself. were on it when you first DIS
covered it? Are you sure, quite, quite
sure?'' breathlesSly, yet with the edu-
cational tone of the high school very
perceptible in each well articulated syl-
liable. 'fCan you give me your sacred
word of honor that, TO the best of your
belief, no one could possibly have
touched that bone before you took 1t
from the tumulus?"
"Ain't sure. Miss? Amt l speakin'
rospel truth? Well, here / swears on
the book, - bringing his right hand down
with a hearty thump on the well worn
cover of an adjacent Bible, THAT no one
could have laid so much asa little finger
ON this ere bone afore l fetched 1t out OF
Won mound. or toOmlee as the gentry calls
it." promptly and proudly enriching his
vocabulary.
"Thank you." almost inaudibly.
"Well, L will come again and nave
another talk about it. In the mean
time don't let any one, no matter what
they say or promise, induce you to part
with that bone" emphatically.
You can depend on me, Miss. l
rayther think that 'ere young gent
won't get the inner side of jeremiah
Mugrins-which is me, Miss" lifting a
polite finger to his forelock.
Mechanically bestowing small silver
coin in Mr.. Muggin's outStretched
palm, and utterly obiivious OF the glass
of water coming from the well at the
back. Helen left the cottage. Thirst,
heat. fatigue, all physical sensations
were lost in the tremendous tumult
evoked by the sight of that old scratched
bone. Was it possible? Did that simple
old peasant indeed hold for the present
what Helen Goring was determined TO
Obtain for the future. perfectly unique
specimen of the carvings oil prehistoric
man? 4 figure etched by sharp iilhI-
headed instrument on the horn OIL one
of the prehistoric oxen slaughtered at
tbe chieftain' S funeral feast, whose body
had laid under the harrow at the top OF
Chadbury Hill A portrait of primitive
man of the newer stone age by himself.
Doubtless SO depicted during pause III
the bideous riot of his blood-stalned BAN
ouet A severely archaic sketch, mainly
Consisting of straight and horizontal
strokes. vet with certain rude force III
the upripht attitude, with two out
snreSd arms. terminating in i've lines
that represented somewhat dispropoI'
tionately large hands; a circle Tor lace
inclosing two smaller circles Tor eyes
and a slit for mouth. What was thal
much-lauded prize, the drawing OF the
mammoth on its own tusk by tha'
Landseer of remoter days, the cavemall
Of tine Dordogne, to this? The first for.
mulated forerunner of the frieze OF the
Parthenon, the glories of the 'eI Renais' IS
sance. cut clear and sharp, despite It's
be.rimed condition, as if it were DG'
Yesterday. Poor prehistoric artist soul,
nent. darkened, striving, after Its owl
manned fashion, to give utterance 70
divlner impulse than the brutal every,
day life of his fellows, the feastlng, Ine .
hunting. the slayingl What would not
the members of that Archaeological asSo.
citation who pottered around ana S, aIo't :
if. unseeing and unSuspectlng, oniy
few months ago, have given Tor sucH p,'l
matchless antiquarian treasurer oll
the rapture of reading a lengthy papel
on her stupendous discovery to GiIelt q .hs
Of Of open-mouth graybeards with all tnt nt
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