The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-08-26

VAN ' Jul AACoASs
AN then there was Shindle crick.
No place hereabouts like Shindle crick,
I can tell you. Us children useter have
picnics there, and I low it was some
of a treat when we could AXE our
baskets an walk six miles to eat u
vittles to Shindle crick!
"Oh, my, 10Y I visit I was there
now! Seems like I might feel chirk an
likely agen eff I could get back to
Bethelbury for a spell. Law! I feel so
homesick times, seems like I must take
to get there somehow. But I amt got
money fort, an so I calc'late I'll hev
to stay whar I be. Eff I was Jest a
mite more forehanded-but laws! I've
source enough now to keep myself i'll
vittels-folks is so dretful near-much
less go way for a spell. Who cares
for me-a pore stranger eatin' bread O.
charity!'
"Oh, don't say that" broke in Miss
Janet, i~nterrupting the long-drawn wall
with a sympathetic diclaimer. I'VE all
feel for you and I'd not be in the
ANoSS ouA pA1oSu l. q way Wei OpCllCu "
you to go and see your old home and
get we'll n strong again. Here, let
me put this cold compress on your head.
And if you will swallow his tablet
I am quite sure it will help you. 1t
always does me when I have a nervous
headache"
Shortly after Miss Tweed left, her
brain busy with a project whereby she
might alleviate the nostalgia. of Nancy
Knowles. A few days later the little
tenement was closed, and Nancy had
started upon four weeks holiday.
Now she a returned, and Miss
Tweed was all eagerness to see whether
the old spinster had renewed her youth
amid the scenes of her childhood, and
whether her draught of happiness had
satisfied the thirst of her heart. Miss
Janet never dreamed of gratitude. 1t
would be sufficient return to witness
the joyful woman's life.
She stood Upon Nancy Knowles door
step and piled the knocker with a gen.
tie persistency. Presently she heard
a shutting of feet within the entry and
a moment later the latch Of the door
vas lifted and she and her beneficiary
stood face to face.
HIN, it's you is it?" said Nancy,
grimly.
Miss Tweed's radiant smile faded.
"Ah, Nancy" she said, gently, II
came to hear all about your delightful
time. Has it done you worlds Of
good?"
"Ef you have a mind to stop jest
step in. The flies swarm dretful this
time O. rear. Good time? No; I amt
he'd anythin' of the sort. Oh, HIM! I
visit I he'd stayed to hum!"
"Why, Nancy, didn't you enjoy the
beautiful lanes?" asked Miss Tweed.
You were looking forward to seeing
them again with so much pleasure. You
longed for them So"
me? Oh, I dunni's I longed 'ticlarly
after ennything. Leastwise after sech>
like. Hoy d'you low I was going to see
fields an them sorter things to a teown
like B~ethelbury, with trolley cars a.
runnin through it SO you don't dare
stir?"
"Why, I thought your old home vas
quite out in the country, on the top Of
a hill, with an orchard at the back,
and"
"Wal, who said it warn't? The house
is there, but laws O. man! Dye 'spose
I was goin' to stop long Of Joel's folks
all that spell? Why, I never see sech
children's Joel's. Sech noise and pes
teration! SEEMS like I should go crazy!
Sides, Joel's folks hev done suthin'
dretful destroyin' to the house. Why,
it's the miser'blest old rack O. boards I
ever did see. The chambers are all 80
small an the Collins so low seems like
you'd smother. An hot! Land O. love!
How hot it do be! Not a breath, nor a
breeze; No, l."
But, Nancy, didn't o see the or
chard and that lovely natural seat on
the old apple tree, and"
Yes; I see the orchard, and got a
smart nip O. neuralgy a-settin' under
the trees one day. Wish'd I'd v
went. No; I declare fort"
but Shindle creek" urged Janet,
surely you went to Shindle creek?"
"Shindle crick? Now. how in the name
o. natur' was I goin' to walk a matter
Of six miles to get to a place damp
enough to chill yer marrer with malary,
soon's you set yer foot in it? Joel's
wife did carry me over onct in the wag-
on, but the looks Of the place give me
the cold shivers. It amt a mite what
it useter be, an I wouldn't be hired