San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-17
MADAM MOULTON'S STORY.


eygre at Hampton, whereby my father,
Robert Moody, came to S end-his boat and
he being lifted inland they sayd, almost in
sight of our home and then drawn down to
death by tn mighty arm O. the deep seas.
Well l mind our home. IT'S a small place
where three little pines stand in a row, the
length of a meadow from tn common field,
and cure next naybOur-a solid, low house
under big trees and well set about with fences
and paliSadOeS-the Garrison house they be-
gan to call it that yeare.
My mother, Mistress Betty Moody, could
scarce abide in cure house before my fathers
Dreadful daye-so fearsome was she of red
skins. For allie tn world doth know that in
that yeare-'twas ten years before King
Charles died-the red men harried allie New
England. After the eygre she grew so pas
sionatelie afeared that if hen did but cackle
on a stone step tn cloud would grow upon
her features like a sea turned upon tn land,
and she would catch up tn babe, CHANGING
fearfullie at my brother cutting wood or hoe
ing the patch, and at me upon the dye tub
knitting. And of mOonlit nights she would
stare from our lattice upon the deepe woods.
Child, she has said to my brother often,
as wee all peered together, ready dressed for
N'o NAV D"0't Lio'.' -h''i'iiih'
It's tn color of tn pale ground"
Inc Indians torayed In white, to simmer
aI"hg IN Tn lrlendlle silence OF the stlll moon
IKE vapors lying next the ground.
Deare my MOTHER" my brother would
say, looking Dlgge as ne could, but trembling,
700, ChOuSn ne Sayu twas because the april
hl6ht was chill ana the WOOD pile too small
'oF brave neat Hast thou not meet
A,,l thn Il
An" the Garrison mouse so near Robert
biWale' added this last, though he was
Grave dark BOY, Ike our father IN S face,
straight proved and I"o%Ing with level eyes.
IL would cry when ne iondied tn babe such
hi|hO'- twas a sweet girl babe and white
INC OH mother And finally, when one
.A5ht came man riding hard TO tell that
" aluhaHto"cJ-WhO had long disputed
'"'I'"'isI'H VAS ON the Witrpath win mamie
braves, M brother was tam for ale his Serl-
O"' TAX I" lay hoid OF as many trencherS as
couIu carry anu order me 10 bring I'll bed,
our hlolheF l"HoWIhS win her babe.
mere came no Indians ana wee went back
J. the home NIT day But the spring was
nara To Dear robert dld well; but one day
me i4st " Sihlh5 he came and dld throw
"!hN'h heaulonS on TIL hoor IN sweat.
I'oSe! SATIN he, there Is but one hen With
"hoIe SUN oI feathers, saith he. Indeed a
hUEralh hah settled upon our poor fowls, CIV
ing Chem naked crops ana backs which bills
,F''i III" sun Ana all the maze be yell
'"", SalIh n" There Is no hill that Is good
and greene; and thou knoweSt how | have
N"tcred II.
1t was hot afternoon, with shore wind.
Oar mother halr chung to her pretty temples
III Intel damp rings, as she 2ewed at tn bed
vnlence, sweet with laveHder-our mother was
ecr dainty IN bedding.
lie, rest, my good lad, saith she. when
/" sun 5 down lose and will help carry
water. know how to dig about tn roots.
lhou shalt not lose thy maize" And she
smiled such a tremulous SmiLe-as ones still
civil u acquaintance on tn day Of ones dis
treSN
hen that 1t was cooIe, our mother was as
g"od as word, carrying full plgginS from
I'll spring with haste, for fear o. tn babes
awakening. A shoes were bad and they did
leIi upon III stony ulrt' the SKIN reddenlng
I'll Si'CS, ouC 80 sue only lew the faster, her
a. us 81 CHILLY WIN her IOau'' linen would
she IAN 10 ana dlS, while tn damp settled
anu i"a' I'll pools cIatnored And then
H. when we could see blade no more, with
mana at her back bedraggL led and footSore,
Dut with klnue, white looks at Robert and
INC "o we raised LaNeu III a'heS OH the SUCK and
"Gt'heu I'll bread
Dut our maze was lie er to be harvested
Announcer leH story came to Hampton Of more
inuIaiS coming from inland Wen, l wot
now my " mother paled ana screeched Robert!
robert! When the naybur body told it,
SnloOthlhs ner Primers by cure hearth. My
oroCher rusheu III from the patch; but he