Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-03

snop is like the church Yard; We be all
bound to 90 there one day or t'other.'
Well. sir, If you believe me, when they
brought her home and hung her again
she almost knocked my eye out. There
was three or four more women looking
on. and | mind all on us skreeked bit.
and our hands went up in the air as if
one string had pulled the lot: and says
Bet Morgan. the carriers wife, Lord
sake. gle me a bucket somebody. and
let me milk herI' Nay, but thou shalt
milk me- said I, and a pint Of fourpenny
I gave her. then and there. for cOmpli-
menting Of my COW. VIII Hope, he's
everybOdy's friend. He made the Colo
mel q crutch with his own hands. which
the Colonel can use no other now. Wal
ter swears by him. Miss Mary dotes on
him; he saved her life in the river when
G good word, though he is very strict
with them; and as for Barley, it's my
belief he owes all his good luck to viii
Hope. And to think he was born in
this village, and left it a poor lad; ay,
and he came back here one day as poor
as Job, seems but t'other day, with his
bundle on his back and his poor little
girl in his hand. / dare say [ fed them
both with whatever was going, poor
bodies"
What was she like?"
"A poor little wiZened thing. Shehad
beautiful golden hair, though"
Like Miss Bartley's?"
Something, but lighter"
Have you ever seen her SInce?"
NO; and Inever shall"
"Who knows?"
may, sir. I asked him after her one
day when he came home for good. He
never answered me, and Returned away
as if l had stung him. She has followed
her mother, no doubt. And SO now
she's gone he's Well-to-do; and that is
the way of it, sir. God sends mouths
where there is no meat, and meat where
there's no mouths. But He knows best,
and sees both worlds at once. We can
only see this one-that's full of trouble"
Monckton now began to yawn, for he
wanted to be alone and think over the
schemes that fioated before him now.
you are sleepy, SIR" said Mrs. Daw-
son. III go and see your bed is all
right"
He thanked her and filed her glass.
and left him to dOZe in his chair.
DoZe, indeedi Never dida mans eyes
move to and fro more restlessly. Every
faculty was strung to the utmost.
AT first as all the drGn1dtis persOng he
was in search of came cut one after an
other from that gOSsips tongue, heWas
amazed and delighted TO find that in
stead of having to search for one Of
them in one part of England, and an
other in another, he had got them all
ready to his hand. But soon he began
to sec that they were too near each 9TH
er, and some Of them interviewer, and
ali the mere dangerous to attack.
He saw one thing alta glance. That
ItWOuld be quite a mistake to settle a
plan of action. That is sometimes a
great advantage in dealing with the un-
guarded. But it creates a stiffness.
Here all must be supple and fitted with
Watchful tact to the situation as it rose.
Everything would have TO be shot fly
ing.
Then as to the immediate situation.
Reader, did ever you see a careful setter
run suddenly into the middle of covey
who were not on their feet nor close to-
gether, but little dispersed and repos-
ing in high cover in the middle of the
day? No human face is ever SO intense
or human form more rigid. He knows
that one bird is three yards from his
nose, another the same distance from
either ear, and, in short, that they are
all about him, andito brighten one is to
brighten all.
His tail quivers, and then turns to
steel, like his limbs. His eyes glare; his
tongue fears to pant; it slips out at one
side of his teeth and they close on it.
Then slowly, slowly, he goes down,
noiseless as a cat, and touches on the
long covert, whether turnips, rape, or
clover.
Even so did this designing cur couch
in the Dun Cow.
The loyal quadruped is waiting for
his master, and his anxiety is disinter-
ested. The biped cur was waiting for
the first streak of dawn to slip away to
some more distant and safe hiding-piace
and sally port than the Dun Cow, kept
by woman who was devoted to Hope.
to Walter, and to Mary, and had all her
wits about her-mOther-Wit included.