Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-10

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walk "a. Thage fs4ections \ we're, Kol
Within nearer viision! found sfsdid nol
quite like to think how sorry mother
would be when she came home tina,
night and could not ind me anywhere
tried to imagine Just how her face
would look,aAnd thon hastily decided
that would think OF that no more, but
would imagine how II would ltok when,
after missing me al those long, long
years, l should walk ii. There was {
little immediate bitterness In the
thought thatsnoSono seemed to miss me
from the piazza over the way and come
in search Of me. Sbut / refiected that
save for the glare OF the fre-balls the
night twas dark, and thoy probably
thought was among tho groups OF chill
dren whose voices could hear. ~
might venture to watch tho. balls for {
little while, SO pushed open the door
of mothers room. In + p +
Shall ] ever forget the sight that me,
my frightened eyes3 The room was 4
blaAe Of light and tho soft white cur.
tains not only, but the bed and tho little
stand beside 1t were In flames On the
floor just under the window was ono Of
those great balls blazing away with all
its might and looking like nothing so
much as an awful eye Of Are glaring a,
me. E:.' -,-.
What did I do9 hardly know. Yes,
! shut the window on the opposite side
OF the room; l remember that, because
q light breeze was blowing. and l knew
it would fan the flames. brought the
water pitcher and poured its contents
on the blazing bed; for the rest
yelled with all the strength Of my
strong young lungs: Fire! fire! lre"-
yelled to such good purpose that In less
time than it takes mo to tell it the
room was filed with people, with voicea
with water, with smoke. with confusion,
and the fire was out
III 1t had not been discovered In
mediately," said my father, mot only
the house but tho whole street would
have gone; the wind Is rising rapidly
and the hre-balls would have helped
along; As it Is, l don't see how We es.
caped.''
"How did you happen to come into
the room. Isabella2 What were you
doing in the house, any way9 !
thought you came over to Mrs. Frank
Inns" It was my sister Mary who
no. -
questioned me at all; she stood with
both arms wrapped around me and one
hand smoothing back my hair. She saw
that the fire had frightened me very
much. .,
burst into tears and sobs, and tried
to talk at the same time II didn't 70
to Mrs. Franklin's; l ran away mean
meant to. was never coming back
until was gray. and had had some
teeth pulled. was going to live In the
attic always. all alone, but I don't mean
to, don't want to; | don't want ever to
60 away from you one minute!"
Isobbed out this remarkable story In
jerks, with many tears between, and at
its close burrowed my head into my
mothers breast, as though could hide
it forever from view, and cried as have
never cried since. It seemed to me that
I had almost lost that blessed mother.
"Well, If ever heard any thing like
that in all my life," Mary said; but
mother smoothed my hair and muir
INJURED: "Poor little grill did she want
to run away from mother?"
1t was perhaps nearly an hour after.
wards that went to the attic for some
needful things, father going ahead hold
ing the light close behind with my
hands clasped in mothers and the re-
mainder of the family bringing up the
rear. How we'll remember their faces
as they looked around upon my prepar-
atoms for housekeeping How we'll !
remember the intense shame l felt II
almost ought to say that you must sleep