Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-08

times happens with older and more enlight-
eIed people, anger took the place of fear.
To the surprise of her companions, she came
out of the gully. walked straight to the
White Pig, and sat down by him, SO close
that she might have touched him with her
hand without unbending her arm.
"Humph!' grunted the White Pig, in a
friendly way. THAT is better. The Son of
Ben Ali brought some roasting ears before
the sun came out. They were very fine
sweet and juicy. Gooft!" The White Pig
smacked his mouth and blinked his eyes as
If &c show how he had enjoyed the feast.
Buster John and Sweetest Susan seated them
selves near Drusilla.
said tho White Pig. II was just big enough
to hide in the grass and run about without
squealing for my nanny / used to slip out
of the swamp and run into the woods after
the acorns. The red squirrel was my friend
then, and mis- REORGANIZATION are my
friends now. He used to climb the big
turkey oak, and run about on the limbs, pre-
tending to be playing, but all the time he
would be shaking down the sweet little
acorns. He parked at me and I grunted at
him, and we used to have a very nice time
all by ourselves"
"One day. while 1 was out in the open
woods cracking acorns, 1 heard some one
call, Run here, little pig! run quickp l
didn't have any better sense than to do as
1 was told, SO l ran as hard as 1 could to-
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sound in the air. a loud squall, and a noise
as of a tree falling. l ran right into the
hands of a big man. l was terribly fright
ened, and l suppose l must have squealed
as loud as l could. The big man was the
Son of Ben Ali, and he hushed me up by
telling me that he called me because a
wildcat had been watching me from the
lowest limb of the turkey oak.
"Humph-ooft" grunted the White Pig.
the only reason he didn't get me was be-
cause the Son Of Ben Ali struck him with
a stone just as he started to Jump. The
wildcat fell out of the tree dead. His skull
was shivered. You have never seen the
Son of Ben Ali throw a stone? Well, that
Is between you and him. / have seen him.
H killed the wildcat that my nanny
had often told me about, and after that |
came to know the Son Of Ben All well.
Whenever 1 could find him, night or day. |
trotted around with him. and that is how it
happened that when my brothers and sisters
were shot by men and caught by dogs l was
not with them to be shot or caught. l was
trotting with the Son of Ben Ali.
ut was the same thing, day after day and
night after night, the Son of Ben Ali COM
ing and going, and l ~trotting at his heels
or running In the bushes close by. One day,
when the sun had gone down., We were Slip
ping behind the orchard there. The Son of
Ben Ali said he was going to see the Little
Master, and i was to wait for him. heard
a dog bark, and this made me stop. And
then. while / was listening. a man came
upon us-a white man. He seemed to rise
right out Of a dark place in the road. l
lodged into a fence corner before he saw
me. and stood there listening.
Who are your said the Son OF Ben Ali.
His voice shook a little.
That's what the owl said,' answered the
white man. This tickled me SO that |
grunted before ! knew 1t. The white man
laughed, too, and said he was the Teacher
Of the young people at the big house. Gooft.
a Teacher! There was once a school house
they called II that, but II was nothing In the
world but a long cabln-in the woods over
yonder. Every day the Teacher would com
and pound and pummel the boys, and every
day the boys would go out and stone the
cows and hogs. They killed a blood cousin
OF mine.
$50 l said to myself. gooft! II this Teacher
is teaching the Little Master to do these
things. l will keep out Of the Little Masters
way,
"Humph! The Son OF Ben Ali said to this
Teacher: You ought to know me. You
saw me In the SPECTATORS train, and you
saw me sold from the block
The Teacher placed his hand on the Son
OF Ben Ali's shoulder and replied. I came
from far away. and there the people are
thinking about you and praying for you.
Bear that in Understanding about you, and
praying for you. and praying for you every
day and every night. Hundreds. thousands,