Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-09

Iatner, m a tone winch always sent the
blood from Ralph's heart 81 want tho
work done, and want you 70 do t. Your
spralned arm is merely an excuse TO be idle
III this stable is not cleaned when 1 return
tonight viii give you cause TO regret IL /;
and positively forbid your allowing Moses
70 touch It."
He sprang on his horse, and rode of at
gallop needless that his son had sunk upon
heap Of laths, and had covered his face
with his hands 10 conceal the tears that
started TO his eyes
Mrs. barrow had been standing by the
kitchen window and bad heard ali that had
passed She now came 70 where Ralph Law,
and bent lovingly over him
" II would not be possible for you TO use
your arm, know, my SON" she said. alt
would be Of no use TO try"
On, mother, it gives me pain to move il
ever so little. But what can lido! You know
how terribly father viii whip me if the
work isn't done, and he won't believe I'm
not able TO do it."
Don't worry about it now, Ralph. We
will try 70 find a way out of it, want you
TO go TO Greenfield after some groceries 1
need, and when you return we will talk
about the stable"
Talking won't do any good, I'm afraid,
mother" replied Ralph, as he rose, and
went 70 put the harness on Dolly. And L
must take the whipping, suppose"
he drove TO the kitchen door on his return
from the village two hours later, and lifted
from the light wagon the basket of grocer
les he had brought.
Where is mother!" he asked Of his little
sister Jennie, who was skipping rope in the
back yard
don't hnow-she's been gone ever so
long" answered the little girl ~ guess
she's in the stable hunting eggs"
As old Dolly's hOofs struck the stones of
the paving at the entrance to the BARNARD,
the doors Of the stable were thrown open,
and Ralph saw his mother standing inside,
shovel in her hand
Back 50 soon, Ralph" she said, cheer
lily.
But Ralph did not answer. He sprauo
from the wagon, gave hurried look about
tho stable, and then, with a strange, choking
sensation in his throat, threw himself upon
a pile OF bay by the barn stairs, and burst
into tears.
"RalphI Ralph my dear boyr' and his
mother bent over HIM, her own tears falling
fast.
"Oh, motheri mother Why, why did you
do iti' he cried, when he could speak
Because love you, my son, and would
save you from punishment you do not de-
serve. IL was not so very much 10 do, my
dear; 1 am not so tired as you suppose"
Not very much! Oh, mother, it was a
hundred times too much 10 do for me-" and
then Ralph sat up and with his arms about
his mothers neck, uttered in broken words
that apology he had longed but been too
proud TO make.
And what a load was of his mind when it
was done, and his mothers tender kiss of
forgiveness was on his check! You may be
sure that as long as he had a home beneath
his fathers roof, Ralph never again ne
elected duty 20 his mother.
IL has been over forty years since this in
cident happened which have related, but
in telling il 10 me only few days ago,
Ralph-grown gray and wrinxled-could
not restrain his emotion as he spoke Of the
long dead mother 10 whom he owed the only
love and tenderness his childhood ever
mew.-biOreaes b. Haliouc1, IN Chicago
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