Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-14

hearth and, lifting the cover, looked
at the steaming, savory cruel. Then
she brought a spoon and tasted it.
"Yes, that will do. Most burnt my
tongue off, Sam! Ow-w-w!"
That's what girls do"
after Sally had fixed" it, favoring
it lust as her mother liked it, Sam said,
"Give me taste"
"Ow-w-w! he exclaimed. cts hot!
It's hot! Burnt mel"
That's what boys do" remarked
Sally.
While Sally was in the little bedroom
refreshing her mother with the Cruel,
the kitchen window kept winking at the
sea, as if it were bright eye, and say
ing, anybody out there on the dark
water? Come this way and get warm"
"sam," said Sally, "guess I'll go out
to the wood-pile and get big stick.
Have it all ready for father, when he
comes. Got no more in here"
what do grown folks care for what
you girls %" said Sam snappishly, still
standing like Grandpa Bowker. his
hands behind him, his back to the fire.
Dunno" said Sally pleasantly.
Only I'm going to get a stick" She
pulled over her head little red shawl
and stepped out into the chilling air.
"Boom-m-m-m" went the sea all
along the shore from Black Pointto East
Cove. Then it would start again, and
60 "Boom-m-m-m!" the other way, from
East Cove to Black Point. Sally could
not see anything save broad bridge of
light reaching out from the kitchen
window into the black, misty night.
She hurried to the wood-pile, picked up
piece of the keel of the Laughing
Jenny that came ashore the year before
in anything but a merry way. Hark!
She hears step in the hilly path lead
ing up from the gray sea sands. She
startled. Then the thought, "What is
there to brighten me?" What was it she
saw before the window? A man strid-
ing over the bridge of gold reaching out
into the night.
"Father!" she exclaimed, springing
forward. ooh, Tn so glad you've got
home!"
Here I am, Sally!" said Skipper Ben
Bowker. Had hard time getting home,
but when the mist lifted could see that
winder a-winkin' at me and sort Of
sayin', Come this way!"
"I'm so glad, father. You come into
the house. I got this stick of wood for
YOU"
"You did? That's good gal Who
pulled that curtain back?"
~Oh, a friend"
"Then can guess, Sally"
"You tell, father-you tell mother
you got home and I'll rouse up the fire
and bring your supper to you. I've got
it all hot in the oven."
It did the fisherman so much good to
be thought of, to be warmed, fed, COM
forted. A huge man, six feet tall, it
seemed as # it would take very big
thing to affect him all over. How he
was affected, he told his wife in the bed
room.
"Any better, Sukie?" he said, laying
his big hand gently on his wife's fore
head
ooh, yes, Benny! Sally has taken
good care of me, real good"
81 say, Sukie, we grown folks amt
much more than children in big clothes,
are We? We feel pleased and like to be
taken care of, don't we? Now I've got
home, and I'll take care of you. Dread
full sorry to be so late, but the mist
bothered me. Had to stay to git a
leetle bread for you and the chicks.
We are all right now" And then he
laid his big hand tenderly on her fore
head, and she cried and guessed she was
not herself much more than "a leetle
gal."-The interior.