Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-08-04

quiet peaceahle WAYS, never taking offense,
always ready to oblige He would constantly
fall into fits of moody thought when not en-
ployed, and IN these moods he had a trick Of
unconscionsly mutterng to himself, one
talks in his sleep, Often and often. Kit came
to his side where he sli on the porch, in the
pleasant evenings Of those summer months,
and heard him murmuIng:
But promised her III try, and, God help
ing ME, wiill'
Then she would speak to break his gloomy
revery.
What were You saying, fatherf Did you
speak 10 me:'
And be would always answer. with a start
and dreamy smile, putting his hand vaguely
10 his head:
81 was thinkin' . George, Kit girl-think
ing o George
Then she would chat TO him, with simple
but artful speech, and laugh too, very mei-
rily, often with a heart that was anything
but glad and ewes downcaSt TO hide drops
that would glisten when she glanced at the
| broken face, So lined with the marks of LIES
| hattie and defeat
| Sometimes be would say:
Come, Kit, put away that work You're
workin' too much, an next thing you'll be
| gettin' pale and thin Come or an' let's go
| an get breath OF ar I'm rhoked for free
| blow, Kit. Oh the blue water
Then they would take the Foam and put
her away for the light, if the wind was fair
| or beat out slowly. down the long, narrow
| harhor Through the inlet. then round the
| low light house CA the bar on To the north
| through the broad hay. and 50 to the fresh
hree2es and tumblnE waves of the open
sound beyond Somehow the Foam would
always take Gall reef IN her course. sooner or
later, and, standing eff shore ii It blew, GIale
would shu@7 her where the shin went down or
If the water vas smooth, would run IN close t.
the reef ami show Ler tie rock on which h.
and his mate We're thrown that night, and
rom which his first and best friend, Geors,
Giaiwm, dropped to his grave
So the months passed, as morhhs will
Lii-lle came rradually, as lie grew more ac
custamed 10 be less moody, aud to feel les
| repugnanc,- t. his new calling Erew iinaly
to take a pleasure that surprised him. II
watching the wonderful processes by viici
the crops grow through the infinite stage
Of tender shoot, green blade and rIpcne,
fruit Kit was always the same, cheerful
active-dOin- everything in a quiet, Cievo
} way, that ii would ,ln voI good IL see Thing
prosprred with them, and the pr,Spe
: seemed every day more promising. The III
l terest on the mortgage was regularly paid
, | the stock Of the farm increased, and some
= thing was laid by toward the payment OF til
9 | debt
| For two years and more they slowl
| prosperei Then the tide turned, rs Oral
b said once before The flood was pa.
4 and the ebb was swift and sure Tn
q third winter the troubles began I'll
- sheep took 10 blind siaggers, got Wea
i in the knees. fell down and got u
/ again many times, then lay stNi and died b
l. twos ana threes. Potatoes, saved for hiEhe
T price in the spring, rotted in the cellars. o.
. | Bill. the big bav. went well into the stab
Y one night. and the next morning lay stark
/, | his stall. with a moose q his halter draw
II | tight around his throat \ raSCallv Slo7
V captain took their hay 70 market when Il
1t harbor opened and cheated them ri half II
"a money 4 terrible snow storm came
ID March, when the young lambs wanted 81
IN and southwest winds, and the poor uulu
As things lay dead by iives and tens in ui-i
ID 1t rafucd truuhttA-poured swiftly [
d cloud came back Z lne faIher iace-seJtt
Of there. heavy ami low.rinc It fretted +
vi cea~elessiy, wear ngh She had trouh
Is of her own. tao \ til inIer storm killed b
Is coSliugs IN III. ,h,lL Bet th-oi sow, ma
Id a breakfast tvea- thee times oil a brood
It chickens. Tn. mifk q the new COW turn
1t out t. be ropy. and II . cl,urn would 90
OF hours tozethor-I4if day sometimes a
n may be no butter then for their pans
nd But she never tinchNi or faltered
rs brave heart beat in that slight girls bre
ed As ever of soldier CHIEF who keeps flaE fyI
OF over lea-uer,>i fortress and fiauutS dctia,
no from the p-rarar, though famine and ~
ID lruce stalk -aHut within the walls. and
IN wariar on tue tower i-~,rIeS no h'ip" no
fe' Col knows bow she area through 1t. a-sI
TO such oIi-, hidiu- a sore. SEX heart benin
ar bright, brave face