The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-20


blossoms--that is kind o. bluahin an
bright, aud not large enough 20 seem
coarse do think they're tho prot
tieat blossoms that is. Well, Frank
Benton always minded me o.
them. She wna little slip Of
q thing, o Gnttery, now here,
now thoro, never still, with her
brown hair a-bobbin' an that pretty
flush comm an goin' on her face.
But thon, she wasn't very sensible
that 10, she was that easy scared, like
a rabbit, an then che was perfectly
wild. But Willie liked her, l didn't
know how much-I jest said to myself,
He's jest amused with her,
she's such a pretty little thing. Why
she's only a baby
"Thero was a big building going
up in the same block. There was one
between It an Drumleys, or expect
! wouldn't DO here to toll You about
1t. Somebody said, when they we're
diggin' for the foundation: 1T looks
awful close TO that other building,
look out you don't undermine it.
But nobody paid any attention. they
! just went on diggiu'.
"Barnum come TO town that sum
mer, an all the girls was crazy to 60
see Jumbo. So, for a wonder, Drum
ely Bros. unlocked the door at 10 that
morning SOS we could 60 see the pro-
cession. Most of the girls went, only
a few of us staid to sew, an saw it
from the windowa Frank Benton
staid. 'Twasn't like her, but I'd
noticed she was kind O. down all the
morning, an didn't so round in that
hippity -hoppity way O. hers Her
eyes was swelled an red, too, an !
noticed her and Willie didn't speak,
M didn't hardly look at each other,
only when the others back was
turned. knew it was mean, but !
couldn't help feelin' kind O. glad.
'Twas just ten minutes to IL, for
mind lookin' at tue clock. The per-
cession had just gone by, an the
music was dyin' away mp the street,
an we'd all left the windows, when oil
at once come the awfulest crashin' an
thunderin' an grindin' 1 ever heard in
my life The buildin' we was in
shook, an we could see the walls on
the east end a crackin'.
'Most of the girls run an screamed
Fire an made for the stairway. But
it come over me, all at once, how it was,
seem the floor was solid. It was the
other buildin', not Drumley's, a-iallin' i
but, of course. bein' 50 near an
higher, the timbers an brick fell onto
an 'gninst it and Jared it a heap.
An Jest as I'd thought that, see
Frank Benton a-runnin'and screamin'
The doors lockedl' (but it wasn't t,
, an maxim for window. I knowet
J in a minute what she'd do, poor girl
I was there most as quick as her, cryin
] as I run. Frank Frank don't Jump
don't jumpl It's oil right! Help
, HelpP says For that silly girl
/ crazy as she was with the fright, waI
goin' to jump out o that three tor!
l window. reached her jest in time t,
t ketch her dress as she went over th
t ledge. An held on-she may thank
9 her lucky stars her dress was slou
9 enough-but she was light littl
a thing
r "But, oh didn't she get heavy be
t fore anybody come! KEEP talkin' t
her, but she would struggle, an mad
j it so hard to hold her. Seemed Ike
F.; my nailL was comm off, an the blooc
u nd start from my mouth and fiage
ends. I couldn't draw her in; it wa
J. jest all I could do to keep her fror
il falhn' down ont that hard pavement
k At last-it was only few minutes G
! course -one Of the cutters got there
It an reachin' over me, pulled her up
nm jest as turned l see Willie comil
o on the run, with look like death o
i; his face. An thinks I, I'll see, L
4 know for sure whether he does Low
IS her, or not Willie says I, It'll
IS Others was busy attendin' to Franz
* for she'd fainted), 4 saved her--io