The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-01-15

yrte EN- warnin and firm support.
Law, father, SEE she, taking hen
hands cut of the dough, how do yor
know that?'
~ feel 1t convincin, SEE /, and she
never said a word agin it. Some
how we didn't talk much that morn
in. / took to flxin the garden, and she
swept and busted andgot things ship
shape, as if we was expectin some.
body. Every wheel we started and
ran to the gate, but it wasn't till
after dinner that there come any
message. Then man come gallopin
mp on horseback, and it was worse
than feared. Mile was sick, had
been pinin for months, and they'd
brought her back to the sea, hopin
it would help some. Could we be
ready for her and nurse that night
and not let on to the child there was
anything the matter?
1--WE sent word back we was ready,
and in about an hour they brought
her in an easy carriage, and ! knowed
it all at the first look. That child
was dyin of inconsistencies for the
sea. The nurse told us all about it.
how she began to fail along about
Christmas time, and they took her to
one big doctor after another and tried
to get her to eat and to build her up,
and how that Richards got the most
expensive toys and sweetmeats for
her and sat up nights watchin her
sleep. But it didn t do any good, and
at last the doctor said. Send her off
on the yacht, and then Richards
thought awhile and said, Would you
like to go to She lighthouse, Marina?'
He always called her that outland-
ish name, out of play, and he said
it meant sometilin about the sea.
When she heard that, she ran and put
her arms tight around his neck and
cried out, Oh, uncle, c,tn I, can ~
And so he knew that she had been
longin to go all the tine and hadn't
understood it herself. as how should
she, bein the mere baby she was?
You see, she hadn' { ever been out of
sight and sound of toe sea, bein born,
as she was, almost on the water.
I've knowed strong men give in to l.
and droop right down if they tried to
give up follerin the sea and live in
land, and here was leetle child agoin
that way, and nobody in all Bosting
knowed enough to help her.
"Waal, she come, and mother she
behaved real quiet, OWN principally
to my havin given her warnin, I
s pose. 1t was jest pitiful to see that
child's happy eyes, follerin us round
or starin out at the sea. She was too
weak to talk much, but she sot up till
after supper to see the lights lit, and
she would sleep in the west cham
Der SOS she could lay and look at 'em
till she fell asleep. There amt much
more to tell, but can t bear to hurry
it somehow. Folks here SEES it's i'm
possible for child to die that way,
and she must have had kinder con-
and I don Z know as there's
any name for her complaint. Did
you ever happen to hear one, sir?"
Yes, " said I, more to myself than
my auditor, lit is called nostalgia in
the books, believe. But then this
flower has long name too. don't
see that that helps to know it."
I'm a-comin to them flowers, sir.
7 amt forgot 'em. Mile began askin
about them the next mornin.
Daddy SEE she, lis my little
blue eyes out yet? Iwant to SEQ 'em
SO. They've got lots of flowers up to
Bosting-big pink roses and lilies and
some that look jest like beetles and
butterflies-but they put 'em on for
dinner, and You can't pick EN-, so
they amt very much good to any
body. I want to 60 out and pick lots
Of blue eyes and play with 'em like I
used to. Can't I, daddy?' /,
Yes, yes, soon as they grow
seq !, kinder careless and gulpin down
my tears, cos l was afraid if / gave
in there'd be no holdin mother, but
they won't be out this week.
Every day it was the same. She
was always talkin about goin out to
pick flowers, and for a few days it did
seem likely enough. She frightened
up sight and rode out little ways
IN the sunniest part of the day and
into the lighthouse itself. But the
nurse wouldn't hear to her standin
On the stone floor more than min
ute, and so she was kept very close.
It was only a short spell, kinder like
a CLEAN of light behind cloud, for
here came a cold wind, and she wilt
I'd right down again. Then I took to
yoin out to hunt for them blue flow
BIS, for I made up my mind she
should have 'em and pick 'en too. /
Jest dug up the plants with buds on,
ind I planted big patch of 'em there
outside the yard when she didn't