The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-04-09
Reaping The Harvest.

NDANS11@SA~D = AsNSA 1850
aWhat is it, uncle2" Len cried,
toward the door.
''For Gods sake, don't 60 nigh
therer' Uncle Leonard cried, "hell
knock yer brains out. likes not.
There amt no one but his mother
that kin manage him, and he nigh
Almost kills her sometimes"
The shouts grew louder and louder,
and presently horse dashed foaming
and painting into the yard, and man
swayed and feeled in the buggy seat.
Aunt Emily darted to the horses
head, turning with low words and
gentle pats to rea, sure the frightened
creature.
Lem alone or I'll hit'im." drawl.
ed the drunken man, furnishing the
whip above the quiyering horse.
aOh, Harold, my dear boy, please
put down the whipp Aunt Emily
cried. "Put down the whip, and let
me come and help you outl"
"Commere'n I'll hit your he shout.
ed, bending far out Of the buggy.
The muscles in Lens arm twitched,
and he started toward the door.
.'Let'em alone, Len, mind what |
say to ye!' his uncle called, rushing
out of the back door, while the tears
| ran down his cheeks
"Trot along!" shouted the brute.
"Oh, Harold, my dear Harold,
come, be good boy and get out!'
Again he yelled, in halfearticulate
sentences. The frail old womln
covered and begged, yet moved near
err, step by step, as though she dared
| not do otherwise than obey, AS sh'
drew within reach of the long, 1.-THE
whalebone, he stretched back his arm
and before We could comprehend hi
design, he brought it down around
his mothers slender shoulders, th,
lash ceiling entirely about her, anC
raising her, by its singing fore ;, eE'
| tirely from the ground. III
| With one W Id dash and shout Lei
was upon him, and caught him h
his collar, hurled him to the grolnC
land kicked him half way across th,
iyarb. The rcsounding blows seemet
to sober him, and he gathered him
iself together and reeled to his feet
My blood was boiling, and thougl
| Aunt Emily chung to Len, and erie,
| aud enireated him not to hurt her boy
| ran out and handed him the WHIP
"Horseswhip the scoundrel, Lef
Lash him to within an inch of hi
| lifep / cried.
But Aunt Emily threw her weigh
upon Len, and chung TO him like
tigress. The enrsged man spran
toward me with fearful oaths; / dodg
ed him, and turning, dealt him a bio
with all the force Of my right arm
He screamed like a woman and re
membering how silently bis mothe
had borne the blow be dealt her,
grew more furious, and rained blol
after blow across his back and aboI
his legs. Again and again tine his
ing lash cut the air, and he shrieke
and howled like some wild beas
At last he dropped to the groun,
aud throwing the whip from me,
saw Aunt Emily in q dead faint
Lens arms. W..
We carried he= in and applied II
storatives, and presently Unele Leon
ard came creeping back, his faC
quiyerIng with tears. and then ii
drunken man was carried in an
thrown On his bed. All night Aur
Emily tossed and maoned and Gale
" her boy. Don't strike your moth
er, Halle; for Gods sake, don't d
that" she cried again and again. BJ
in the morning she rose and wei
silently about her domestic duties. -.
relieved her of all the work possible
and watched, as now and then lie
went into the iuebriate's room. A
bout four o'clock he woke and shout
ed loudly,
"AiaI"
Aunt Emily sprang to her feet il
SANITY, aud hurried to him.
"What's the matter with me! VIII
dIdn't you undress me la I night
he yelled as she opened the door.
Behind the closed door we hear
low voices, and every now and the
a woman's stiAed sobs. BY and
she came ont and prepared the coiFt
that had stood all day ready TO h,
hand, and-with some warm milk az
water she disappeared again.
"Oh, IL was wicked, wicked, Ha
old, il was inhuman to cut my be
up like this" / heard her sob.
Len and I looked in each other
faces--with one impulse we arose on
went into the room. -
Harold-for this brute was really Il
bright, sweet boy Of twenty years IS
--sat on the side Of the bed. his sac
and arms exposed. and long lines
dried blood marked the track Of Il
whip. He had worn onIy seersuel
er coat over his shirt, and the blow
had pIuwed their tracks ali aero