Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-01-11
THE BURLINGTON VT FREE PRESS FRIDAY JANUARY 188!

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/ strV'S fall "t+et-wil ye,'
Never" said the young man passionate
/ ", "until he knows that it was not my
hand that fired that shot.
McKmstry painfully struggled to his ell
/ bow. at took me yer", y he said with
slow dclibcration rs if answering some pre-
viouS question, AMI pointing to his hip and
il kinder let me down when | started for
ward AT the second call. -
But it was not who did it, McKinstry,
| swear it, Hear me! For Gods sake, say
you believe me
McKinstry turned his drowsy, troubled
eyes upon the master a. if he We're vaguely
recalling somtthing. 'Stand back thar
mint. will ye he said to Harrison, with
languid wave of his crippled hand, Il want
ter speak to this yer man.
Harrison drew back q few PAGES and the
master sought to take the wounded mans
| hand, but he was stopped 10y gesture.
where hev you put Crcssy"' Mckinstly
| said slowly.
II don't understand YOU" stammercd
| Ford
/ "Whcre are YOU hidn her from me?' re-
/ peatcd Mcknstry with painful distmctness.
| ''Whar hcv YOU run her to, that you l."
rcckoniu' to iine her artcr--arter-this>'
II mn not hiding her. | am not going to
! her! do not know whore she is. have
not seen her since parted early thiSmorn-
/ Ing without word of meeting again, said
the master rapidly. yet with a bewldercd
establishment that was obvious even to the
dullcd facutie, of hi, hearer.
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ms hand upon the master sh"uluer ana
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CHAPTER NV.
OF the various sentimental falacies en-
tcrtainod by adult humanity in regard to
childhood. none are more ingeniously mac
cuate and pratuitously idiotic than a com
| Portable beief in its profound Ignorance of
the events in which it daily moves. and the
motives and characters of the people who
surround it. Yet even the occasional reve-
| Iotions of an cufot,t tciribje nre as nothing.
compared to the peilous secrets which dis
Greet infant daily buttons up. or secures
with n hook and eve. or even fasteus with a
safety Din across its gentle bosom. Society
can never cease TO be grateful for that tact
and Observation-Disclosures more often
Joined with childish intuition and percep-
lion than with matured observation-that
they owe to it: and the most ACCOMPLISHED
man or woman of the great world might
take a lesson from this little audience who
receive from their lips the lie they feel too
palpable with round-eved complacencv or
outwardly accept a. moral and genuine the
hollow sentiment they have overheard re-
hcar,ed in private for their benefit
If was not strange therefore, that the
little people of the Indian Spring school
knew parhaps more of the real relations of
Cres,y McKinstrv TO her admirers than the
admirers themselves. Not that this knowl-
edge was outsuoken-for children rarely
gossip in the grown-up sen,e-or even com
mInicahle by words intelligent to the ma
tured intellect. A whisper: a LAUGH that
often seemed vague and unmeaning. CON
viewed to each other n world of secret sig
uiticancc. and an apparpntly senseless burst
of Inerrimcul in which the whole class ioin-
ed and that the adult critic set down to
..animal spirits''-a quality much more rare
with children than generally slpposed-was
only a sympathetic EXPRESSION of some dis
coverv happilv obliyious to older preoccupa-
tion The childish simnlicity of Uncle Ben
perhaps appealed more strongly TO their
svmpathv and although. for that very
reason they regarded him with no more re
| spect than they did each other. he was at
times carslessly admitted to their confidence.
II was esrociallv Ruuert Filgee who extend
ed kind Of patronizinp urotectorate owe,