St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-10
-sKEERY LUCY.


| dow at once.
-SKEERY LUCY.
| Alderman Plunkett Tells Another
Story Of War Times in Georgia.
Atlanta Constitution.
"Skeery Lucy-that's what they called
her," said Plunkett, as he chunked the
fire and seated himself in the corner.
Gas little girl at school the teacher
| called her 'Timid Lucy but all the
+ scholars knowed her as sSkeery Lucy
| for she went by that name among all the
settlement folks.
when she growed up and got mar
| ried she was just the same, and when
John, her old man, would be a little late
in getting home at night he'd find her
shut up tight in the house, with the
doors all locked and every table and old
bench and chairs piled up ergin them,
and when John would knock at the
door and tell her who it was. he'd have
to stand and wait till she moved these
things away before he could open the
door, and then he'd Scold her for being
such Ounce, but she'd just laugh and
say:
"'You knowed l was ''skeery" fore
you married me-
''The name of 'Skeery Lucy chung to
her for long time. and ! guess she de-
served it, for she'd squeal at lizard Or
frog, and take fit, almost, if she seed
snake, but when old Sherman come
down here she done what most any man
would erbin erfraid to do, and they quit
calling her 'Skeery Lucy after that,
and that's what want to tell you er-
bout.
'sShe was left with four little children
to scuffle for when John went Off to Vir-
GINA, and it was mighty hard getting
along at best, but as the armies got
! nearer things got scarcer and scarcer,
big guns could be heard for long time
before we seed the Yankees, and Lucy
just looked like she couldn't stand it,
and the folks in the settlement said
she'd die some day, just from fright and
anxiety.
''But everybody had to scuffle. and
one morning Lucy walked up with not
crust of bread in the house, and the
children were swinging onto her dress
and apron crying for something to eat,
and there was no other way but for her
to start out and get little meal for 'em.
She shut the children up in the house
and put out across the field to the mill,
and they, poor little things, had been
taught by their nanny to be afraid,
and there they sat, all in huddle. as
scared as rabbits at everything that
| cracked or made fuss. and whispered
to each other.
'Sherman's army was on the move,
making for the rallroad-they' got
| down the night before and Lucy didn't
know it.
r. "Hardee's army was moving to meet
the Yankees and to keep them from the
railroad. and Lucy didn't know nothing
| erbout that.
"She had just got to the mill and
stepped upon the platform when down
| through the woods came Hardee'S line
| of battle at double quick, and before she
| had time to think they were past,
| throWed out skirmishers, and were eX-
pecting every minute the Yankees.
.'Sherman's line was coming toward
Hardee, and it was only question of a
| few minutes till the fight would begin.
Lucy thought of her little children
shut up in the house, and knowed how
| scared they'd be when they heard so
| many men marching.
| "She started in run toward her
| house, intending to get there before
Hardee's troops did. But old Sherman
was coming, and it would only be a
| minute till there would be warm times
| between Lucy and her house.
The skirmishers began to pop their
| guns up and down the line, and here
! come a battery dashing through road
! in the woods and unlimbered in a
| twinkling and let in, and then the fight
| had started.
"Lucy's house was between the two
| lines. She seed shell hit the chimney
| and scatter the bricks and recks. She
| thought of her four little children that
were huddIed up and couldn't get out,
| and she didn't stop.
s.The balls were flying thick from one
| line of battle to the other, but she
dashed through Hardee's line and went
| up through the cotton patch the same
| as deer. The soldiers screamed:
Come back! Lay down! You'll be
| killed!' and such like, but through it all
she went and dashed ergin the door,
| and fell in ermong her little children.
''JuSt then bomb struck one corner
| of the house and scattered splinterS
everywhere. The children were cling
! ing TO her and were screaming at the
| top of their voices. Another shell hit
| the house and tore away one gable end,
| and the MIME balls were pattering the
same as hail. She grabbed the smallest
| child up on her left arm and made
| the rest line hands, and then took hold
| of the end child's hand, and out they
dashed into the open field between the
| two armies.
1.-The Yankee line was the first to see
| them as they went stumbling, falling.
and rolling over the cotton rows, and
| they yelled like madmen:
IA truce, a truce, trucen
s'Then Hardee's men seed what was
the matter, and they waved their caps
and jumped up and down and yelled:
"a truce, a truce. a'truceo
Sin less time than it takes to tell you,
the firing ceased and a hundred men
|. from Hardee'S line rushed for the chill
| dren and Lucy, and the first ones to
| them grabbed 'em in their arms and
were back over the hill in minute. aud
| then the fight went on.
ssShe's never been called 'Skeery
| Lucy from that day to this, and old
| Sherman said the next day that he
would erIost the battle rather than to
have killed SO brave woman. But
There are others who say that any
mother would erdone the same thing"
The Women Of Central America
| Costa Rica Letter.
The country women evidently believe
| in '.beauty unadorned," the universal
,garb of the mestizas (of Indian and
Spanish blood being a single short.
scant skirt over a low-necked chemise.
Perched behind their SeroneS of fruit
and vegetables, their wedges of cheese
| and loaves of coarse brown sugar,
or beside q double row of bottles
| of puarapo fthe fermented Juice of the
| sugar cane. they expatiate upon the
merits of their merchandise in glib Cas-
tiliano. The young women of Costa RIGA
| are decidedly handsome, with regular
features. fine compilations, and full,
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