Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-08-14

/ had fondness always for all cars
and trains The earliest, the pleasant.
est recollection have Is of the noise of
the coupling of cars rs they were made
into trains In the yards. No music was
ever so sweet 20 me as that. | used to
spend all the time could watching the
trains made up and going. No moved
ever pleased me So They made me
go through college, you know. have
never regretted it, but then l wanted
to be an engineer. That seemed the
only place worth having.
Then you went abroad and mar
ried. have always 30 regretted tina
you never knew Mary"
The doctor interrupted: You mus
not tell me this II it will distress you"
1T does not. want to tell you;
have so many times wanted TO tell you /
about her and ALL 1t Is easy to see |
her now as she used to sit sometimes
with her head upon my keee and her |
big blue eyes looking in mine SO trust
fully She had faith ia me" And he /
paused little.
"Of course, said the doctor, and 1t
was deserved. too"
Yes, and it gladdens me SO now to
think il was. Matters too, looked well
for us then. Success seemed worth
striving for Mary was Jealous a little
OF my love for the railroad. always
loved il. as | said | was In h;lsiness
then. but our little home was close by
the line. | could hear the trains 20 by
all night II | happened to be awake
You can see the house now from the
window yonder Lift me up little
So Mary ut first hated the railroad. but
she grew used to the noise and think
after little she paid no attention to it,
She furnished our house prettily, and
we were very happy; but she would
ask me to conquer my liking for the
railroad She feared that ! could not
be fit for anything else, my thoughts
were so occupied with ii. but laughed
gently at her and went ON in the same
way and with the same hopes She
never doubted my love, and she used
to say that some time | would obey her
slightest wish and follow her wherever
she might lead. 1t may be there was a
little complaint in her manner.
When the baby was born love OF
the railroad seemed to have been born
In her. She would as soon as she could
clap her little hands at the sound ot
the engine whistle. AS she grew Older
3 we called her Mary, too-she would
. ask me in her baby way to come early
2 to see the trains GO | needed no urg
+ ing, and when could | would Out
there on the grass we would sit, and
would tell her OF all the strange places
+ we sometimes would go on the cars t.
. see. Even then in fancy little MARY
and would go with the trains all Owe
I the world Ii was rare sport 10 her
|, Dorsey had spoken as rapidly as ht
could. but now he talked more slowly.
I "One day was i'll at ease. Nothing
A that had to do seemed worth while
] only wanted to be at home; onl,
o wanted to feel them near me, and safe
p But, try US would. it was late in til,
Is long afternoon before could get away
: IL was warm, but as | hurried home
q gentle breeze met me. IL was a bright
i beautiful day, just such a summers da,
. as this IL was SO peaceful, and tin
leaves SO kissed one another in tn
. light breeze that was Gained, and tn
d feeling had suffered from all day lief
n me was glad that we lived in tn
l. country. | was glad TO be alive at all
. The sun was almost behind the western
/ hills. and all that side of the valley wa
in shadow. but ON our side it was ligh
y and everything was rarely beautiful Ii
o the sunlight The slanting rays mad
y our house brilliant and glorious In il
Il color.
Q AS l neared home Mary came to tia
9 door, and | could sec her welcomin.
g smile. Then, shading her eyes with he
"A hand. she looked over toward the rail
!. road. and in minute screamed an,
a ran rapidly from the house. Alarine,
! and wondering, ran after her Dow
! below on the track stood little Mary
: her curls and all her pretty ribbon
e iiuttering In the wind Around tin,
{ short curve came suddenly the fast er
5 press, and the child. rs she saw tn,
! great engine bearing down upon he
and heard the startling whistle, wavet
her little hat as though in greeting.
r Another minute and Mary woult
. have been in time Her dress caught
. in something. orshe stumbled and wa
, so delayed; but she recovered hersel
J quickly, and hurying ON caught littl,
Mary In her arms, and then--it ought
10 be easy TO tell it now.
; For some little tiIue Dorsey was 81
! lent. The doctor did not ask him e
5 continue nor did he urge him TO STOP
when Dorsey began again:
For Mary il was over at once, but
pur Child. held firmly ia its dead moth
! r. arms, lived little while. think SHE
> must have been hurt as have been.
r She could speak, and when they
brought her TO me she put her little
arms about my meek and said i am
going with the cars now
lit may seem strange 10 you, Dor
sey went ON shortly, but the railroad
had greater fascination for me than
ever. I stayed about the ears and trains
As had In my boyhood. ! almost
feared they would order me away from
the yard
My business went to nothing just