Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-26

delicious strawberries, bag of sugar,
lot of fresh rolls, some cold meat, loaf
of cake, provision enough for day or
more.
Working diligently all the afternoon,
and aided by a rough sled that Ned con-
structed ont OF packing case, they con-
trived to get the last OF their goods
ND TO the house before dark, and made
themselves fairly comfortable for the
night.
They awoke the next morning to the
sound of loud halloo, which seemed TO
come from the direction of the brook.
Sending up an answering shout, the
boys hurried on their clothes, and were
soon on their way to the stream.
DR.. John had been unable TO return
and give them his assistance the after
noon before, as he had intended, for he
had been called long distance into the
county, and had not come back until
late at night. The thought of the chill
dren, in that isolated place, thrown
upon their own resources, had worried
him not little. With the earliest light
of dawn he had arisen, and not waiting
for his breakfast, taken passage across
the brook. They found him standing on
the bank and looking about him in be-
wilderment.
''Where are your goods, and where
did YOU sleep last night?'' lie demanded
of the boys as soon as they came in
sight. He had quite expected to find
the young people camping beside the
stream and cooking on an open camp
fire.
"Oh, Ned and 1 got everything up to
the house yesterday, - replied Martin.
"Well done, boy said the doctor
aloud. His inward comment was still
more cordial: "Three hundred yards,
at least, up hill, through q thicket of
weeds! Plucky fellows! They II do.
"How do things look? l suppose
you we been all over the place. -
"why, no, sir, :" said Ned. "There
was too much to do yesterday. We've
saved that for to-day
Another unspoken compliment, not
less hearty than the first, passed through
the doctors mind.
"She is up, and has a fire, - ex-
claimed Ned, pointing to breath of
blue smoke curling up from the low cot
tage as they approached it.
AS they neared the house the little
girl, her face shining, and with a neat
Bingham apron drawn over her wooden
uresS, came out inset lueu.
"Hope, said DR.. John, "can't you
give me cup of coffee and mouthful
of bresd2 I'm hungry
al shall be glad to, DR.. John, re-
piled the child trying hard to disguise the
shyness che felt at exposing their simple
ways of life to a stranger. This morning
was only q makeshitt at best. The table
linen was at the bottom of a trunk, and
she had spread newspapers on the table;
but she brought out few pieces of old
china that had been in her mothers
family nobody knew how many years,
and the doctor noticed and admired
them, and he praised her coffee, and al
together they made merry breakfast of
it.
Now, " said the doctor, pushing his
chair back and declaring that he had
made heartier breakfast than he had
enjoyed for months, 81 propose that we
start on a tour of exploration "Whyl
what is this? Have you dog?'
A huge shadow darkened the door,
and there stood the great Newfoundland,
looking up 10 the doctor with the same
beseeching eyes he had turned upon the
children when he rst saw them.
eve found him in the house, - ex-
planned Ned.
'sIn the house2" repeated the doctor,
looking puzzled. "Was there any sign
of anything else-any human being
aboutT''
"No, sir,' said Ned "But it looks
TO me as if the poor fellow had been
there a long time. He has a bad leg.
There was path worn down TO the
water that think he must have made"