The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-12-07
shoes. Mar RAM Dey look nifty rusty. :"
Painting. laughing. questioning, he stood
before his adored owner.

shoes, Mar RAN Dey look nifty rusty. !"
Painting. laughing. questioning he stood
before his adored owner.
4 Liza's appearance simultaneously with
Abrams caused diversion of aston
ishment in her direction. Strong was
regarding her darkly; Chambliss with
perplexed, impersonal curiosity.
! Strong scarcely waited for her TO
reach his side.
! What is the meaning of this, Liza?
Why did You not stay at my housef
You are Or, nched.
| "Yes. drenched If it had not been
for Abe there | should have been dead
with fright by this time; so drench
ing seems slight by comparison. l got
lost trying to find my way back to poor
little Fancy. Abram found me, and
here am.
She was composedly shaking the rain.
drops from her hat. Its removal had
brought to view charming disarray OF
moist brown waves curling tightly
about her blue veined temples. Randall
Chambliss was regarding her with that
inscrutable smile that had set her cheeks
TO tingling with wrath the day before.
"Caliban and Miranda, he said mus
ingly. Then, conventionally, II am
sure ! ought TO be very much obliged to
you, Miss Martin. 4"
For what!"
"For restoring this ragamuffin tc
my arms Life is barren without Abe. "
II assure you / had nothing to dc
with your boys restoration. He has
done me great service, and | did tell
him you had got home. / hope YOU
will keep your word about furnishing
him. -
Il believe l have contracted bad
habit of keeping my word always, As
for furnishing Abe, he inflicts punish
ment much oftener than he receives it.
Don't you, Abe? Speak, you buff col,
ored tatterdemalionp
Abram, standing respectfully aloof
from the little group of ''w'ite folks, -
showed a faultless set of teeth at this
challenge, grinning with happiness. His
adoring eyes bad never once left Ran.
dal's face since that first ecstatic wei
come. Between master and man OBJ
tanned an indissoluble bend IF mutual
affection and mutual dependence Each
had need of the other.
Mars Ran, he said in voice of
solemn rebuke, II liz ben had a mighty
rough time Sence you ben gone is
dat Mr. Foulksis, he put me to ginnin
Wen l git up firm de measles, an |
don't know nothin tall bout ginnin
Den Mr.. Foulksis, he put me to pickin
cotton but de driver tell him ] ain I
with my salt as picker. Den Mr.
Foulksis, he put me TO splittin fence
rails down closet To dc woods, an dc
devil he peeps out'n boiler tree one
mawnin, an he say Abe, you kin sleer
in hero wild me NV nights, an you kin
scrimmudge 'roun fur simmons an pa
paws to live on tell Mars Ran git back
An | say, All right, Mr. Satin, an ]
stick my AK in rail an light out Jus
so. But the simmons gittin mighty
sceerce, an the hawgs beats me getherin
papaws all holler, an | would er ben
mighty boiler inside right now, Mars
Ran, Of little mistis hadn't gle me "A
whole paper full er vittles. ! reckon
'em all up yit. Fore finish my dinner
yhere somebody cryin sof lax, outside
en- my dinin room do, an / peeks out
an thar was little mistis, JUS as white
bout the gills as fresh w'itowash
fence and a-cryin cause she was los and
skeered. | done lef' or heaps er dem
vittles in dat holler. Reckon | better 90
back arter 'em, Mars RAM
Randall laughed his lazy, indulgent
laugh Abrams irrepressibe sense OF
fun was one of his highest recommen-
dations in his masters eyes He was
the kings jester
No, sir. You can leave them there
until you take to the woods again. "
Abram rolled his eyes reproachfully |
until nothing but the whites of them
Were visible.
fro BE CONTINUED.