The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-10-08

the man she had fed and then she
missed Tote for the first time and
went out 10 look for him. while Farmer
Oleson took his horse away.
Tote, Tote" she called again and
again, but there was no answer. This
alarmed her. for he never strayei far
from the house, and OF course she as
ISOLATED his disappearance with the
tramp the first thing. But he was
there. under the tree. sitting up now.
his hands clasped about his knees and
his rough. towsled hair only adding to
his wild appearance as he watched her
coming back with her husband.
'Have you seen the chiid?" Farmer
Oleson demanded. striding toward him.
Tibet baby? No, what's come of
him?" he asked, getting upon his feet
OlesOn looked at him sternly. ''He
seems to be missing" he replied.
Tibet baby missin'? / amt seen
him since l went ter sleep here; but
Wen find him if he's missin'."
He shook himself together and his
large-built. but emaciated frame,
cropped lis weak slouchiness and be,
came ali activity so quickly that OLE
son was Immediately ashamed OF his
suspicious.
"He amt big 'nuT TO GO fur" he
said, following Oleson briskly to the
house. "Hain't nowher he could fall
in is there"
.'Oh, the wellm exclaimed Mrs. OLE
son.
What well?" the man asked, star
ing hard at the pump close by.
The bored we'll" answered OlesOn.
as he hurriedly followed his wife.
But he couldn't have got in that.
It's too small-not more than two foot
across" but they hurried to the spot
few hundred yards away.
Mrs. O.esOn was there and little
hat lay upon the clayey mound of
earth.
Hes down it! Oh, my baby. my
baby. He is down in that hole" she
shrieked.
1t was only too true, for in response
to their call there came faint cry
from the bowels of the earth as it
seemed-a faint. stifled cry of Mann
ma, mamma.
For one Mortified instant there was
hesitation, but as the distracted mother
rushed for the small circular opening.
the tramp took in the whole situation.
Keep back. LIZ that little un' down
Their well get him out, but don't you
rattle so much's grain of that dirt
down on him or he's gonerm and he
caught her arm just in time TO keep
her foot from disturbing the earth.
Ring yer farm bell Send fer
spades and pickaxes an wormers, an
witnesses. an pipin', an ev'ry thing
fer sinkin' shaftin' A holes got ter
go down side of this s quick as can be
dug"
The farm hands were just in for din
ner when the big bell pealed out.
blossoms bell was known for miles
about and now its quick. sharp strokes
after dinner hour told that there was
trouble. 1t was not long before the
community gathered in and willing
hands made ready to work their very
best. A feet horse was sent TO the
village three miles away for every
possible appliance for the labor OF
rescue.
Wen try tie wOrmer first" the
tramp said. Strange TO say. il was by
almost tacit consent that he was let
take the lead in all the arrangements.
Perhaps not so strange either as his
cool. calm, sensible directions indi-
Gated such practical knowledge of
what he was about TO undertake that
the place was given him by virtue OF
his superiority in this over others.
So while waiting for further aid they
had yielded to the distracted mothers
pleading, and the wormer was tried.
for every moment seemed an hour and
every faint cry OF the child heart
stab. Carefully it was lowered to
grapple for him. Then something was
caught-they knew not what-raised
little way--then dropped. A cry OF
horror went up. Was it the boy whose
tender flesh might have been torn by
by the wormer-and had it given way?
II was too horrible to contemplate. and
to add TO the horror the cries seemed
weaker thereafter.
That would never do. Even the
agOnized mother now dumbly waited.
There was but one way-tO sink the
shaft and endeavor TO reach him from
below. But work as rapidly as they
could all things could not he got in
readiness for the beginning of the
work before late in the afternoon.
Then it was commenced with will,
but it was precarious undertaking.
The well which Oieson had under
taken TO bore for q better SUNNY of