The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-10-27
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back. He thrust the letter Into his
breast, trembling like criminal. It
was only the village doctor. an ignorant,
pedantlc old fellow, whose theories were
bad and whose medicines were worse.
Hattie aint gett!n along very fast" he
said. "Wlsht you'd go over an see at
she takes them powders. She keeps
;noddin' off an forglttin' EN-. can't
cure her II she fergits them. And,"
slapplng his. coat pockets us Raymond
started off, II left q bottle over there
that didn't belong. Bring 1t over this
cvenin'.twill your"
Raymond mumbled assent and wan
dered home. chaotic thoughts chasing
themselves through his brain. At the
back fence he stopped. The sight Of the
house, and It's death like silence scken-
ed him. Tho bleak derrick seemed like
4 grim skeleton, mocking at his defeat.
A half built bake oven stood In the
yard, beside n stepped rooted she'd He
had given up the building of 1t in sheer
listlessness. and transferred the task to
shiftless, freckled face neighbours hoy.
a queer continuance on the roof Of the
shed caught his eye. The boy. with the
characteristic industry of laziness, had
piled the roof OF the shed full Of bricks,
and arranged rope and 4 board In such
fashion that by pressing u plank on the
ground the bricks fell one by one, to be
adroitly caught and put in place. This,
In the boys perverted philosophy.
saved stopping" although the task of
carrying the bricks to the top of the
shed might well appal 4 giant. 1t evil
IDENTIFY had formed q full days labor for
tho boy for he lay asleep on the sand
pile. Beside him lay an old shot gun,
with which, between spasmodic spells
Of industry. he had imagined himself
killing mythical polecat. For the
same fell purpose an old steel trap had
been chained to the plank by the shed.
Raymond smiled. II he had come of
such simple, elementary stock as this,
he might have been satisfied here. But.
and the scented letter burned in his
breast.
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