Wichita eagle., 1888-07-29
mist, but through it all came one thought
thrilling, startling and electrical

mist, but through it all came one thought
thrilling, startling and electrical
Ihave mother too I'll 90 to her.
So the weary feet trailed away through the
silent streets till they landed him at the gate
OF the Canongate burylng ground His thin
frame easily got through the bars, and then
he was at home
/ Most children would have been terrified to
enter slch place, but next to the jail
Freddy knew no place 50 attractive.
Down in the weedy corner at TIE back he
found rest for his body, and an eager and
loving listener to his sorrows and sufferincs
At first there were only the usual responses
of keep up your heart, Freddy; I'll take
care OF you" but BIZ and bt the voice became
moro distinct; there was strange pulsing
under the snowy turf and, 10! from the earth
there arose the fl1ny form of an angel mother
his mother; mother Of loving arms and
sweet lips, who bent down and drew him
/ softly into her bosom, and wound her arms
about him, as she whispered close into his
ear: an take care of you; now sleep and
rest, for she shall never get near you again."
and great balm OF peacefulness flied his
soul, and he chung close into the warm bosom
and slept.
When the grave di-gers found Freddy in
the morning, half frozen and nearly sense
less, and took him into the tool house TO
give him share of their hot coffee, he cried
bitterly to get back to his mother inside the
grave.
He had seen the earth parted, and felt her
touch, and heard her speak, and he insisted
that she never tod a lie, and her promise
that they were never to be more parted must
10 Ia "a fbat
would only make a slight incision with
spade in that frozen turf his mother would
come forth and make.it all right. He told
them again and again Of her loving kind
ness the night before, but could not get them
to act on his suggestion.
Indeed, one of them only noticed that
Freddy, who at first had been cold as ice,
was now burning hot, singularly bright of
eye, and hurried and incessant of speech,
and that when he tried to stand he only
dropped helplessly on the floor. Ee, there
fore, much against Freddy's viii, lifted
him in his arms and carried him up to the
police station.
There the mist crept in On Freddy, and all
The faces were shut out in the magic way,
and, finding himself in bed, and seeing q
clear path through the wall back to the
burying ground, he fitted eagerly thither,
not even needing to use his feet.
There single word made the frozen turf
part as before; but as the angel mother came
forth he threw his arms about her neck and
entreated her never to leave him again. And
the arms and eyes and lips responded as only
a real mothers can, and he felt himself borne
up from the frozen earth, higher and higher,
till they reached the pearly gates of q great
ard glorious poor house, where stepmothers
could never come.
Mrs Ford easily convinced every one that
Freddy had gone all wrong with vice and
crime, and brought about his own death, and
she went about happy and content, and
pleased with having done her duty by him
more than if he bad been her own flesh and
blood. For months she formed noble speci-
men Of the unchanged murderess, TIL she
CHANGED one day te take SO much drink that
she did not know which end of her was up
permost, and lay down the stairs instead
of up, and so choked herself
But little Poll, the baby whom Freddy
saw still lives. he is a servant out at
Blackford, a good, trustworthy woman, who
viii one day make q warm hearted true
mother She has heard of Freddy, but has
no recollection of him, but | feel sure that
her big, bright eyes VIII grow moist and dim
when she reads this account Of his misdeeds.
james MCGOWAN in Sheffield Telerrauh