Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-08-10

we need the money bad enough and
the coarse man laughed, a brutal,
characteristic laugh.
''But, Sam, it seems so horrible to
carry around our WI flesh an blood
fur a show" feebly protested the
woman.
$50 much the wuss, Lcrindy, Of he
war some other %fcllcr's young one
now, but seems he's our'n why we've
got ter make the best ont an get what
we kin outen him. Clearly the man
was troubled with no delicacy Of feel
ing, and his stupid brain was incapable
OF comprchcnding the wifo's %scruples.
''How soon be We goin' ter start,
SAM" The woman's tone had re-
sumcd its usual submissive quality,
and the question was evidently set
tied.
II rcckin | kin get ready next week
TIERS the tent tixin's ter make, an
advertisements an sich truck ter see
TO. an eff you hey the boy ready We
kin start week after next"
I'VE kin, kin we? Wen see about
that, we will. darn ye," and Il great
lair of misshapcn fists were clinche(
and shaken at the speaker.
A rickcty lcan-to joined the mair
part Of the house, and there the sub
jcct Of the conversation crOuchcd nCal
the partially open door.
He was a terribly misshaper
creature, with u head many sizes toe
large for his o%hrunken body, and great
burning. black eyes looked out from
under II crown Of shaggy, uncombet
hair, giving him an air of strang,
fcrocity. Some disease Of the Joint
had enlarged these useful portions o
his anatomy, until they were not onl.
comparatively useless, but hideous',
distorted, and he was far from being
pleasant object to look upon.
Nature. with one Of her strang
freaks of compensation, had given hin
u soul superior TO the uncouth tempt
in which it was placed, and ii poo
Mic Fcdder could have had the ghos
OF a chance in lie, he might hav
been, at least Il creditable specimen @
his race. The great black eyes wer
the index of what might have been in
tcll'ct with proper encouragement
and the uncultiyatcd heart burne
with real affection toward those VIII
treated him kindly, though unhappily
these had becL 50 few in his hard an,
soul-crushins life, that he would hav'
been puzzled to define his feeling
upon the are occasions.
The coarse father had hated and de
epised him from his birth, and kick
and cruel blows had been his porto
from him from infancy. Even tn
scanty food which was as grudgingl
thrown out to him as the bones to Il
unwelcome dog, was accompanie
with railing for the expense Of hi
keeping.
The mother, left to herself, Nigh
have been kind in n weak and unsati'
factory way. but she stood in mort;
tear other husband and was too indoler
to make any decided stanl for RICH
Still, she lacked the co lrsc brutality
the father, and when he had broache
his project OF making a travelling sho'
OF the boy, with a double-headed ca
and another animal making up a pit
able trio of misery, she had made
feeble struggle OF remonstrance, SINGER
as well as %unavailing.
Mic had submitted to curious look
and impertinent questions in his chill
hood with Indifference, but OF late |
had shrunk away from observation
and when questioned had answered,
at all, with a sullen look which b
tokcned rebellion against the petit
curiosity of the world, and when |
understood from his fathers wore
that he was to be made Il public sho,
with no defense against the curio'
eyes he so dreaded, his very soul roi
up in force rebellion against I'll
unnatural scheme. and II he had pc
sessed the strength, it is to be feart
atra scdy would have taken the pla'
OF the money-making trip.
The wagon with its white cover WI
ready for n start on the morrow, Il
tent and poles packed therein. befOl
any thing was said to the chief act
In tho performance, and then, rs mig
have been expected, the subject "
preached far from ~delicately.
See here, you Me, you be
bright an airly to-morrer mornin', !
we're . goin' somewhere" sN I
''Whar we be goln'" The b
furned and looked the man In the ey
~ ovu burning with a fierce light.
s0iA' ses make a BIT
Nla.s--uiih a uneasy laugh.