The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-03-22

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shei: animals ~ the renee gathered
about the IEres. Fanrexa5is were heaped
upon the bonHras NJ freely as though
they had been ordinary cordwood. The
men brought corn from the adjoining
field and parched Il on the cob, either
by burying the ears In hotembers or By
t0asting them ON q stick. Armfuls q
corn were also brought out TOR the
horses. One seemed In Q camp OF Mis-
souri jayhawkers.
Men on foot and ON horseback had
been coming In all night, and q consid-
erable number were still arriving, some
from farms ave and ten miles Distant.
Altogether nearly 800 men. young and
old, were I'm the field. There were pres
emit Representatives or about 30 families
all nearly related to the lost child, with
old Enoch Lewis. the Quaker grandfa-
ther, at the head.
News was sent to the mother that the
child had not gone out int the prairies
that her tracks were being followed
southwark among the cornfields OF the
farms surrounding the village Of West
Liberty. This was news that would re-
lieye her mind from fear OF the packs OF
wolves that had been yelping In the
prairie to the northward. The cowardty
i brutes would not venture southwark
past the bonfires and the crowds OF men
about them.
About . o'clock I stole away from
the camp and went in search OF my
cousin. / followed the main fence lead-
ing south. / came to where the fence
formed the dividing line between the
Gregg and Bozarth farms, but still had
not found my man. Climbing the fence
OF the Gregg farm into Q great corn-
field, I again moved along the line of
the central fence. had gone about 10
rods when | was brought to q halt by
the voice of my cousin, the light OF
whose lantern I had long been straining
my eyes to see.
well, which way?'' said he. ! look
ed about me on all aides, but In the dim
starlight could see NO one.
Where are your" ! asked.
D Here, = said my cousin. sit down.
STOPPING, ! peered into q fence cor
ner and found my man lying among the
grass and weeds. What are you doing
here in the dark"
waiting. Ny lantern went ont Just
here"
.Well, why don't you come mp TO tht
: camp and get another? If the child II
4 mot soon found, she may chill to death. !
d "Oh, mo-; she has on y her dress Z
D good thick cloak. Her father told mi
t that. She's all right. She's found
o "Foundi Where lie shei"
. "Not far away. She is taking anoth
a or bit OF q nap Just now.
d Good Lord, and you lying here y
q Let her take q nap while her father
mother and all her people are wild abou
her. Where liz the poor little thingp"
d aSomewhere ont in this cornfield.
have not yet seen her"
IL you haven't seen her, how do yo'
d know where she Isl"
"I'llst tell yen how / know. ] tracks,
her ont OF her Uncle johns corn6eld .
il this cornield on the Gregg farm. iSh
it first went b little way into the prairi
ID II don't know how far-but turne
and came back to the fence, ~ / wa
10 sure she would, Tor the rise I'm the praa
RE inst there would make all befog
.. her the same as blank. She would tur
10 about la search Of some object familia
ID to her, and seeing the fence wonl
1t come back TO 1t. Just ahead was th
ia cross fence Of this field, which woul
ia bar her way, % 4 came ON and SOC
liz found where she had crawled throug
be II, leaving behind o little wooden mi
IN ten. traiied her along the limo I
IN fence to this spot. Here she 4urned mi
~ the cornfield, and ! had not sstollowe
90 her 10 feet before my lantern went on
a. 30 / Just halted here on the trail m
he curled up In the fence corner TO wa
be for daylight"
tie "But how do you know she's ali,
and sleeping?n
ok well, half an hour ago / heard b
sft cry for a moment, just M children I
RS dc times when disturbed In their slice
ss. I started up, but q she ceased cFyii
h almost immediately I lay down aga
j with my ear to the ground. About da
ks light, when d little breeze starts up,
he viii be colder, and she will cry agai
ne Then I may get her; IL not, I'll find b
,es as soon as ii is light enough to see z
Is. trail. She Id NOT 500 yards from I'll
Ice spot, but ! don't know the direction 9
be actly."
til lyon take things very coolly. {
lin me go and GET another lantern. Thil
Is. OF the wretchednsss Of the parents. =
he sides, the child may chill to death.
I'd "No fear Of her death from the col
go These little prairie youngsters are We
all hotblooded. have not found y CO
in lying here In the weeds and grass.
to told the father I'd find his child, g
I'm not going to have all that rabl
ut, rushing down here, tearing through
nd corn like wild men. Now, 60 back
VI camp. About daylight let the chill
me uncle, Clark Lewis, ON On his hol
ids 10 the cross fence. Then you come
Id. here. and we will go and get the child
res sBnt the father, what shall 4 !
lie him2'
Give him this little mitten. q
In him that I have not lost the trail, q