New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-25
he brushed hh hair from his forehead before he

He brushed his hair from his forehead before he
said:
IL amt seen Ole Pink sence er nour BY this
mownn'. come fur my breskfus'. an she war
gwine jis then She rcckoned she'd 90 shIlop way
she reekoned she mought 60 ter preschIn' fore sh9
come back She reck0nsd Of / war or mine ter !
mought tok care the babby, or ef want or mine
Ter, she said 1t mought git long s 1t could, fur she
war sick of bein tied to hit. So she said
We did not know wha. to say. and so were Silent
Ristus was tying some of the strings on his coat
amt used ter baby much,' he went on, " an
she's cried mighty sight an she wont ca, pone
thout asses au' amt CURT no lssscs an s shes
right smart while, am, an when Teller carnt do
nawthin' else, l reckon prayin IS what he'd ought
ter be at Prayin' IS better nor preachin say Ole
Pinks sot outer preachin. She said she wished she
taken :. avn when ss Tsa
at , she as as p pGo tos BS
Ristus was speaking in half whisper and gahc,
ing every moment back al the cabin, rearing tnat
the child would wake The dogs were h an C %ss VII" IT,,
wretched moIse of humanity which had been for
saken by It's mother Kistus said thai II . ne dust
he would run up ter Miss Ayers an beg some milk
fur the child but he should hate ter have 1t wake
an not find him"
Hearing this, we volunteered to bring milk and
what else could be spared. When we returned.
Rstus was walking in the sunlight before the cabin
carrying the baby in bis arms, his whole aspect one
sight Of us
There is a dinerancc in the clay of which we are
made and this small formed of the
poorest kind She yellow and pallid, and had
already, about the wzened mouth, a dreadful look
like her mother. We could not tell whether It wero
six months or year old, It was such a stunted
shrvelled thing. 1t dranE the milk as Il 4 were
nectar and then its head sunk the boys shoulder
and II asleep almost Immediately.
We said of Ole Pink would return by night.
The morning while at the breakfast table
shadow passed by tie window and then Ristus
entered. lie wore his sunbonnct and he had the
baby In his arms, and the baby wailing.
Where's that childs mother'' asked Mr. Aver
sternly.
Dunno was the meek answer Ter preachin'
reckon"
ITO preaching repeated the gentleman, and I
But he only forcibly and brought out from
closet large dish of mutton broth. Some OF you
pour that into the baby, will your he SAID, and
put IN his head and Give Ristus his breakfast"
1t is three days since then, and Old Pink has not
returned Some of the mountain people who have
fire seem to think 1t Is a joke that Ristus should
take "er Ole Pinks young 'un.' They said he
need not do 1t "'thout he had mine ter. Ristus
want nawthin; no ways
what time he can get and In payment he and the
baby are to have their eatn's' here. He comes
early In the morning If the child will consent, It
Is put down on a bundle of roughness' while Its
guardian mlks 1t has not sufficient life to be very
mischievous yet though even now we can see that
1t has improved with the different food.
somtimes It falls over its back the
husks, and lies looking up at the sky. 1t never
cries hard, only walls II is Of the boys
sight When they were here last night the twins
said that thoi7 sister said that Ole Pink could Mt
eff she Ole Pink, she would Mt come back"
She never VIII come back said Mrs. Aver.
Then she looked at Ella and Ellen and said
earnestly, But your sister wicked woman
speak like that"
"Yesum" said Ella
"Yesum' said Ellen.