New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-28
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nom us resting place beneath her under lip, 70 some
other position in her mouth.
After a moments hesitation we said "howdy'
also, and then waited She leaned on the wheel. and
continued her observation of u.s. with such caimness
and such answering ntcntncss, that was fast be-
coming rigid. To try II could make movement
! pinched Amabeps arm. and she responded IN Nnd
Somebody must speak felt that we might become
enchanted. was beginning to think that anything
possible among these mountains. To our great
surprise the woman spoke first. She said IL was a
fright Iooty evcnn'."
Changing her position, she lifted foot aud rested
It on the hub Of the wheel Then she asked us II We
were rcck min to scttle.'
Amable said desperately that she did not know
whether should settle or not but boy from
the Junction had undertaken to drive us 10 MI
Ayers, who lived a mountain somwbere In Lime
stone township and Il had turned out that he didn't
know where Mr. Ayers house was. And we didn't
krow either. Did she know1 The boy had gone
back to the Junction that Is be was going 10 Try 70
get to the Junction. We thought we should ma
some one or some one would come along. even II
Alck should not come back
Then We waited for the woman 10 speak she
was IN no hurry. She took her foot from the hub
and put I'D the other one. Now we noticed that her
feet were clad In mans boots very much shouled'
over the Sides that the heels scarcely touched
the ground. At that moment the baby,
few yards away under the tree. stirred
and whined. The mother turned her head
over her shoulder and said: Hold your jaw
Impossible to tell whether the baby knew the mean
Ing OF these words but It stopped whining.
Thurs a boy ben cr comm fur his eatin. ter my
house last week. she said ne war er powin Iuf ao
ole Penands reckon he SAID ln1 war or e on the
Busbee 1t war er man who had an idee as weIun i
s sn n. PsS ap pneg
So aS yoAs that we both felt
a disgrace tina, We had inquired for MI Aver
9Th Then We You u don't know where Mr. Aver lives
asked Amabel dejectedly.
Occap sSO BY rosSmns her dp study Of us
the the VEST Mes SOUS Our hunger hunger was increasing.
But that boy who was piowlng Tor the fenianos
exclaimed Amabel eagerly. He knows where MI
Ayers ys. house is''
Then if we could that boy on,y to think tina,
like tonic TO us. We asked IL TINS woman
until this precious boy could be produced: To our
surprise she not only seemed willing 10 90 So Du.
she s ns gnS .T OF cabn %ss
she also made the somewhat ambiguous rehsrA 'nae
she hadn't got no old man tis now ana added the
information, that hogs my meat an WhsheyS my
But this knowledge could not daunt us, Hog and
sooner we started the better II would be for us.
The caught the clay bank horse without any
difficulty. She said might either OF us ride But
neither my friend nor myself had any confidence ia
our powers to ride on mans saddle along me sac
of these mountains. The stranger mounted and asked
us to hand up the baby. She then directed that
the two saches be fastened together with one Of the
fastened they were flung over the horse behind its
| rider. Amabel carried the btsd-cage. So we went
slowly 0 and Nobodg sSoS SsTn word Ne watched the
horse deliberately bracing its front feet with every
step It took We also braced and dug our heels INTO
| the soft. dark soil We went on an hour like this;
After a while the path, descending all the time curved
we had been descending but sti perilousy like the
| pitch of a house roof were few acres Of deadened
Trees and in the midst, log cabin spotted oiack
and white dog came galioping out to greet US An
ashhopper was at one end OF the cabin dncie was
The woman rode up 10 the open door and We foi-
| lowed. Xso
puled the saddle from him and threw IL inside the
| door, then turned the animal loose.
he gifts r aur %o h1sr her Without he
least knowing what she meant -. .. o. .
Before She removed her sunbonnct she went 10 a
table in a corner of the room where stood dish
with some cooked fat meat She cut of thick silce
ereedily: 1t sucked contentedly after it vas laid
the bed, which was sack of straw with some
We sat down on a bench which stood against the
wall There we're no chairs only stool in front Of
the fire place where some logs were burning duly
The wind blew in through the cracks, and soon maze
be open for there was no other way OF admitting
light OF course we had read about these hovels Dc
fore but being In and reading about one are TWO
different experiences. So different, In fact that l
feel that the temptation TO go on describing Is a
temptation 10 be resisted.
Our hostess had removed her sunoonnet, showing
how full of veins her dingy neck was, ana how how
shrunken Showing also thai despite her wrinkics ana
her salowness, she was not old. She revealed what
woman LOOKS like who works at the pillow, who cats
hog and drinks whskey who sucks al wad OF snuii,
who is as lcentious as the worst women IN cines.
1t was easy TO guess at many of her sins. 1t was
also easy that she had the virtue of hos pthty
Plainly She enjoyed mixing the corn pone and frying
the bacon and both soon down on Goals before
| the fire She told us She hadn't any tea or coffee,
| but she would steep US some dttany which she con
sdered fully equal to store tea specially with re-"
merlasses inter IT," 49,
We ate the pone and bacon and drank the dittany.
We ATE so much that hostess once actually smiled
her wide almost lipless mouth looking strange in the
| process.
| body dew much better at eaun's'