Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-09-13
ANGEL.
The Peculiar Story Of . Boys
Unique Pet.

"D-a-v-y, oh, D-a-v-y, c-o-m-e home;
m-a-m-m-a wants you"
The mothers call rang out clear and
good-naturedly shrill over the long
garden where the convolvulus bells
were closing, and the nasturtiums
nodded theiryellow heads, and reached
the ears Of a little boy who was play
ing AL by his lonesome" in the old.
fashioned summer-house at the foot Of
the garden.
"Tummin', mamma" came back the
quick answer, and Mrs. Pond, Davy's
mother, went back TO her pleasant
sitting-room and the company Of .
neighbor who had called.
Hes a strange child, Davy is" said
the mother.
This was no gossip she was talking
to, and 1t was q relief to speak Of
Davy's peculiarities to one who would
listen to her and aid her by advice or
sympathy. The childs father looked
upon his fears as the expression Of
rank heresy His Davy-his little man!
There never was such bow In the
world-none as bright and eomnanion.
able, At the same time the father
knew that his boy was not quite like
other children, or why would he prefer
to play alone rather than with the lit
tle ones NJ tbe na;ghhorbood
"Yes," Mrs. Pond was saving, ''he
talks to himself nearly all the time,
I can hear him In tbe arbor and
have stolen down there often. hut he
was ALWAYS alone. plavinp with the
leaves or talking In a low voice. And
he has hallucinations. | know It. be-
cause he talks in his dreams Of q play
fellow he calls ANGEL"
"Perhaps," suggested the neiVhbor,
cautiously, "he really does see the an.
gels. read in book once story Of
an old lady who had died but couldn't
rest in her grave because she had hid
den her will, and her neice, to whom
her money was left, could not find II.
So she came back to earth to try and
show her where the will was, The
girl could not see her. but walked
through and through her, but the dog
could see her and the child In the
cradle, and It reached out its hands to
her.
THAT" said DAVIS mother, ITS only
a book story. conldn't bel;eve Il nj
tried.n
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uDavv doesn't know
Another year has passed over Davy's
yellow head. He Is in q new country,
but he knows little Of it. From
the garden of Iowa to the garden OF
Michigan is not great change to q
child who Is so III he must be carried
on pillow all the way. lie had fallen
sick and faded from the day, almost
from the hour, when the family left
their old home, and he was torn, sob
bing and unhappy, from the old arbor
and his dear angel"
His mother had been very patient
with him and the kind neighbor who
came to see him off told him that angels
went everywhere; they were not SUBJ
ject to rules like other people, and did
not need to be conveyed by steam cars
or boats from one point to another !
But Davy was not comforted
1t was strange then and 1t seemed
stranger afterward, when they
thought about 1t, although none Of
them suspected the truth. DAVIS
father took II for granted that the bow