The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-07-24
GRANDN0THER'S DREAM.


DWeshall have visit from the Indians
Jeforc night" remarked my grand.
mother. looking across the breakfast table
Il grandfather
swell. ] hope we Will " replied grand
fathcra little doggedly you are etern.
allv predicting an Indian raid, and just
e. please son | hope we shall get call
froll at least q hundred. %
look ont, Peter Barnes! You may
have cause to regret that speech befor
YOU are half a DAY older. ! dreamed last
night Just how they came, what they dld.
what we did. and it makes my blood ru
cold % think OF it
Grandfather made uO reply, realizing
that Sine always had thc better of him ~
argument. and the meal was finished 30
silence
a wear before my relatives, both OF
whom were nearly 80 years old, bur
strouc and hearty. sold out their farm IL
Ohio and located IN western Kansas
Their children were all married off ana
tho oll couple were entirely alone They
had stout and comfortable log cabin
Good farm and had already made many
imnro,omcnt-
Tho location WAS not thought to be q
dangerous one. although a few miles be
low the last hamlet ia that section and
three miles i'm advance of the location Of
the previous settler The Indians had
raidcd this part of the country the year
bafor,. but the soldiers had given them d
severe rcbuEc. and it was not believed
tbat they would dare to venture back
again Grandfather was certain that h.
would not be interrupted i'm his peaceful
pursuits and was annoyed that grand
mother should croal OF evil.
Moro bocaue. 30 was the custom than
from ans iu.atlct he would ever have
any u.o for BE-. cauiiother kept a rifle L.
the house aud me Jay when settler
who ul- oNiu- Mm money and could
notllv. brought 20 revolver 70 him as the
only offset he could offer grandfather
took 10 and laid ii up on "a shelf.
In her young days grandmother had
been am emphatic "romp.' She could
skate. play ban. pitch QuoIts. ride at a
gallOp shoot rifle, ana even 10 the DAY
She Was married went by the name Of
Bailey Iombov vet. alter all, she
made "a good wife. and was the max
ing" o.. Peter Bano,
Sb. stood i'm the door that morning aud
watched Peter bring his horse and plow
and drive of through the fields to his
work half mile away. Then she
looked to the west. back at the sun, and
went in and took the rifle down from it,
hooks Ii had been loaded for months,
and she drew the bullet carefully wiped
the barrel and loaded the weapon again
as nicely as a hunter could have done 1t.
Placing 1t in a corner, sine went toan old
chest. iishcd ont powder, lead, caps and
bullet mods. and soon had fifteen or
twenty shining bullets ON the table
Then the revolver was got down, cleaned
M. loaded. and finally the woman went
~ the door to look for her husband.
She could SEQ him following the pillow
in the distant field. and the happy songs
of the birds were ANYTHING but harbingcrs
Of a coming aflray in which more than
one Of those shining bullets would find a
human target
Peter Barnes, You are an idiot
spoke the woman, watching mm a mo
ment. Il dom want harm to come 10 a
hair OF Your head but you VIII get b"
fearful lesson before noon TINS DAY
The arms beng ih sood order inc
woman shut the door, nailed II up ana
then nailed boards over the WINDOWS o.,
the inside. The south door fastened win
bar and she was SATISFIED WIN H3
strength. She went To- the spAhg' ilieo
two pals WItL water. picked up ana car