Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-08-20
SHENANDOAH HERALD
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NATURE AND ART.
The Touch that Makes the Whole
World Kin.

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World Kin.
(Bill Arp in the Atlanta constitutional
Nature can beat art sometimes.
I've been to the theatre afore now,
aad the players acted the play so
natural aud sympathetic that / got
all tangled up and excited, aud
would cry or laugh just as they did,
but nature can beat art sometimes.
Just about sundOwn, the other even
ing, while we were all sitting in the
piazza calm and serene, there was
a wild shrek down at the corner
Of the garden, and 1t was Carl call
ing, and he said, run here to Linton,
Linton is killed; run, papa; run
somebody, and we did run, and Mrs.
Arp and the girls cried, Oh, mercy!
Oh, good Lord and all sorts of in
reflections and cOnjunctions at
every step, and there was wild
and fearful panic when we got to
the boy, and he was lying pale and
senseless on therocky ground, with
big limb across his breast. He
had fallen about twelve feet from
the top Of venerable apple tree
that, they say, was planted by the
Indians about sixty years ago. |
heaved the old broken limb off OF
the boy, took him in my arms and
then up the hill to the house, and
my escort oh, oh my escort, with
their cries and screams, demoral-
lied Inc fearfully. lie was a stout
lad of thirteen, this grandson of
ours, and as tough as a pine knot,
and knew he was hurt, badly hurt,
but ] can always keep calm aud
serene on such occasions if the wo-
men will let me. Laying him gent
ly on the bed, Mrs. Arp ripped his
garments with trembling hands and
motherly sObbings to find the fow-
ing blood and the gaping wounds,
and broken limbs, but they we're
not there. He was shocked and
senseless, and breathed hard and
gurgled in his throat, and groaned
and sighed, but 1 had seen those
signs before with the other boys
and had faith. And, sure enough,
in about an hour he came to himself,
and looking around upon the ex-
cited family asked what was the
matter, and said "Grandma, |
dreamed was falling from the ap.
ple tree.r The doctor came about
that time and found his arm and
shoulder badly bruised and one rib
hurt, perhaps fractured, and said
he would be awful sore for a day
or two, and then get well and be
ready for the next skirmish. But
Mrs. Arp was not satisfied, and
watched him all night, and as he
slept she listened to his breathing
and felt his pulse and imagined
that something was internally
wrong. The boy carries his arm in
a handkerchief now, and can't go
IN a washing nor shoot a sling nor
climb a tree, and he and Carl have
to stay in the house and read story
books and look at the pictures
But the like of this has TO happen.
1t is part of a boys raising. L
wasent much account until | fell
down a ladder head foremost and
was picked up for dead. | told my
wife | wouldent give cent for q
boy who had never fell out of an
apple tree or got his arm broke or
his head gashed or something OF
the kind. If man has never had
. any narrow escapes, or any wounds,
l or any broken bones, or been thrown
from a horse and picked up fol
p dead, what kind of father will h'
/ be! What has he got to tell hl'
p little boy, and excite his wonder
and admiration | had lots Of mis-
haps myself, and as | grow oldel
. Mrs. Arp says they grow more big
D ger and more numerous. Well, o
!, couIs Sc. Nobody wants to tell th'
$ same old thing the same old way
j. thousand times. Amplifcation i
e a sign of genius. Being knocked
+ down and added, is big thing
0 but to be picked up for dead II
y heroic.