The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-14
THE SQUAW.

Nurpbefg AZ the time was not 80 much
exploited as IL has been since then. Irv-
ing had not been playing Faust" and
the very name Of the old town was hardly
known to the great bulk of the travelling
public My wife and being in the second
week Of our honeymoon, naturally wanted
some one else to join our party, so that
when the CHEEKY stranger, Elias p.
HutchesoR, hailing from Isthmian City,
Bleeding Gulch, Maple Tree county, Neb,,
turned up at the station at Frankfort,
| and casually remarked that he was going
1 on TO see the most alfred old Methuse-
lah OF town in Yurrup, and that he
guessed that so much ravelin' alone was
enough to seud an intelligent, active citl-
zen into the melancholy ward of daft
j house, we took the pretty broad hint and
suggested that we should join forces.
| StralghtWay Amelia and | found the
pleasant benefit; instead of quarreling,
as we had been doing, we found that the
restraining influence of a third party was
sncn mat we now took every opportunity
OF spoonlng In odd corners. Amelia de-
ciares that ever since she has, as the re-
SUIT OF that experience, advised all her
IriendS TO take a friend on the honey
moon. Well, we did" Nurnberg to-
gether, and much enjoyed the racy
remarks OF our transatlantic friend, who,
from his quaint speech and his wonderful
STOCK OF adventures, might have stepped
out OF novel. We kept for the last OBJ
lect OF interest in the old city to be Wis
1teo the Burg, and on the day appointed
for the visit strolled round the outer wall
OF the CITY by the eastern side.
The Burg is seated on rock dominat-
ing the town, and an immensely deep
4 TaC no. ~
ditch mas not been used for centuries and
now It's base is spread with tea gardens
and orchards Of which some of the trees
are OF quite respectable growth. AS we
wandered round the wall, dawdling in
the not July sunshine, we often paused to
admire the views spread before US, and
IN especial the great plain covered with
towns and villages and bounded with a
blue line of hills, like a landscape of
Claude Lorraine From this we. always
turned with new delight to the city it
sell, with its myriad of quaint old gables
and acre-wide red roofs dotted
with dormer windows, tier upon
Tier. a little to our right
rose the towers of the Burg
and nearer still, standing grim, the Tor
ture Tower, which was, and is, perhaps,
the most interesting place in the city For
centuries the tradition of the Iron Virgin
of Nurnberg has been handed down as an
instance OF horrors of cruelty of which
man is capable; we had long looked for
ward to seeing it; and here at last was
its home. -
In one of our pauses we leaned over the
wall OF the moat and looked down. The
garden seemed quite fifty or sixty feet be-
low us, and the sun pouring into it with
an intense, moveless heat like that of an
4 oven.
Just below us was a pretty sight-a
great black cat lying stretched in the sun,
while round her gamboled prettily a tiny
black kitten. The mother would wave
her tail for the kitten to play with, or
would raise her feet and push away the
little one as an encouragement to further
play. They were Just at the foot sof the
wall, and Elias p. Hutchinson, in order
TO help the play, stopped and took from
the wall a moderate sized pebble.
See !',>he said, II win drop it near the
kitten, and they will both wonder where
it came from"
"Oh. be careful, saidmy wife; ''you
might hit the dear little thing!'
sNot me, ma am, = said Elias p. "Why,
Pm as tender-heartyJs as a Maine Cherry
tree. p Lor, bless We, ] wouldn't hurt the
poor ,pooty little critter more'n I'd scalp a
BABY An you may bet your variegated
socks on that See, I'll drop it fur away
on the outside SOS not to go near her -
Thus saving he leaned over and held his
arm out at full length and dropped the
stone. 1t may be that there is some at
tractive force which draws lesser mat
ter to greater; or more probably that the
wall was not plum; but the stone
fell on the kittens head and
shattered out its little brains then and
there. The black cat cast swift upward
glance, and we saw her eyes like green
fire fixed an instant on Hutchinson; and
then her attention was given to the kit
ten, which lay still with just a culver of
the little tiny limbs, while a thin red
stream trickled from the gaping wound
With a mufded cry, such as a human be-
ing might give, she bent over the kitten.
| licking its wound and moaning Suddenly
she seemed to realize that it was dead, and
again threw her eyes up at US. She looked
the perfect incarnation of hate Her
green eyes blazed with lurid fire, and
the white, sharp teeth seemed to al
most ashine throu III the blood which
dabbled her mouth and whiskers. She
CRASHED her teeth, and her claws stood
out stark and at full length on every
paw. Then she made wild rush up,the
wall as If to.reach us, but whenfythe.
momentum ended fell back and further
added % her' horrible appearance, for she
fell ON ths kitten, and rose with her
black fur sHieared with its brains and
blood Amelia turned quite faint, and
| had to lift her back from the wall
There wasa seat close by in the shade of
"a spreading plane tree and here l placed
Eher while she composed herself Then |
went backto Hutcheson who stood with
out moving, looking down on the angry
cat below.
i AS joined him, he said:
bs Wall, i guess that air the savagest
beast ever see-'cept once when an
! Apache squaw had an edge on a half
breed what they nicknamed 'Splinters'
COS of the way he fixed up her papoose
which he stole on raid just to show
that he appreciated the way they had
given his mother the fire torture. She
got that kinder look so set on her face
that it jest seemed to grow there. She
followed Splinters moren three yearstill
at last the braves got him and handed
him over to her. They did say that no
man, white or Intun, had ever been so
long a-dying under the fortunes of the
Apaches.' The only time ever see her
smile was when l wiped her out. KEN
on the camp jest in time to see Splinters
pass in his checks, and he wasn't sorry
TO go either. He was a hard citizen, and
though 1 never could shake with him af-
ter that papoose business-for it was bit
ter bad, and he should have been white
man, for he looked like one-1 see he had
got paid out in full. Durn me, but took a
piece OF his hide from one of the skinnip'
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