Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-01-12
Shake Rag Under the Hill.
STORY or EARLY DAYS IN THE LEAD MINES
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sam pulled up; not so OLD, tor lt had
been built only few years, but tho
style was ancient, as WAS everything
attached to it, from the pump in the
back yard away up 70 the host aud
hostess themselves.
A long, frame, white house, with
a wide, covered porch, supported by
huge dorio pillars, running along
the whole front, aud there sat the
landlord smoking long stem pipe,
very much at ease with himsef aud
all the rest of ,he world IL WAS
yet early evening aud all around
was quiet in the sun's setting spien-
dors, for the miners had not get
come in from the "dlgglugS," aud
save u few teamsters VINO had stop
ped for the night, aud the usual few
hangers.on of public places, the
place was deserted The landlord,
seeing Sans passenger, at once
arose aud taking his pipe from his
mouth bawled in az the open door
way: "Maulda! On Mtuldil Come
ERE! Ere be somebody for zee 60
take care 0t" " Then resumiug hts
pipe aud seat went on smoking ~
before She who verei % the
name Matilda, atouce came DustHng
out, and proved to be tjnpAt tne
counterpart of Mrs. .iedder; aud IN
fact she conducted herself so much
IN the same way that 1t would be
but rehearsal of what we have
written of that gpod-soaled person
10 state what next sranspired be-
tween the two women.
Molly "Tonkyus" sat tbas evening
in her room dressed in the worry best
that her limited wardrobe could az
ford, for sam had hlnted that it was
not impossible that Joe fonkyns
might be IN that night from the
Point. To meet after all these long
years, ever since he had left home
to make his fortune oG the soAsl
She was only eight years old when
ne had said good bye TO her aad her
mother IN that pleasant little home
across the water. 81 her ramtn.
brauce of him was very vague. She
only knew of him AZ 4 big, tall BROTH
er, who used TO take her on sundays
10 look at the sen, aud to watch the
white-sailed ships 80 sailing up
Bristol channel, seeming like tiny
specks on the waste Of blue. And
she remembered like dream how
one Sunday whom down by the sea
he pointed TO the ships and said that
be was going away 10 q big snip, to
sail all over the world aud 70 to
foreign lands, and To come back
rich that mother and she might be
tine ladies all the rest of their lives.
Aud she remembered that she cried,
and that when they got home her
mother cried too, aud begged him
10 stay at home O. be a strong miner
like his father bad been, who had
dird long before, even before little
Molly was born; for Molly's father
had been a beacon-keeper, whom
Her mother had married sotue years
after the miner was laid la the rocky
sod in which he had delved al! hls
life long.
But for all their entreates her
brother would 20, for he had been
charmed with the sea, by which he
mad lived all his life, aud he SAID
that maybe, who knows, he would
on be tired Of wandering aud
come back, but that he would slwAys
he restless and unsettled TIL he had
seen the distant places Of which he
had heard SO much from the sailors
who came 10 that coast. lhe went
away, aud the ftyorte walk IN the
years that came, 1T her aaI her
mother was down by the same cliffs
That overlooked the same blue sea,
thai they might watch the ships
come IN, tbinklng that maybe he
might be sailing there h0meW4rd
bpuud. For though for p long tppa
they heard from him occasionally
from some far-oif part, in the later
years they heard seldom from hun,
and when they wrote they sent their
letters to several places 10 bapes
that At least one Of them would ied
him, aud that he would listen to the
plea for bi- return. Aud one day
~he also remembered, uot over long
ago, when they went As usual to
watch the ships come in her mother
! ,aid "My dear, | shall never come
here again except when they bear
me forth; but you viii bury pe on
! this point Of land overlooking the
sea, 50 that it viii seem thAt ! nave
gone u meet him a. be comes back,
for he may come back some lay, but
shall never welcome him with q
mothers kiss" And very soon
. after they did lay her 70 rest on tue
/, cliffs overlooking the sea from whicL
the wauderer was to return.
7 That WAS not mach over year
ago. She had written to her brother
~ ! ~ aat Indian MORT far the Car