Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-04-20
g,I pTER XXyI.-(Continued.


bod because she was the only soul of /
.ax who was not afraid to come (
lin rnushot eff the dreadful house un /
~, tba Hanging Shaw. Nance rubbed |
t te, werJsds win butter and whisky and !
NJ. rIg1 the 4boOr slave to strike back, !
tba, r. . patiant regarded her with wide,
,'arne ewes of alteration; b1e- she Was far
er,,1a tsving Nanee's spirit
~ nas generally supposed on DePsde
.1,at rld Peaer Chrystie had some very
I'D reason FOR harh0riHe such yermln on
- EARN. He was supposed Ia be pay
80 bI4ckuail for SEINE Of the sports of (
~ yonth. Sawny Beam cafe 4 himself \
lahorpr. but no enc ever saw nam do |
erfrn serious labor thGn making wicker |
5,5skets and twiniug rabbit "grins.' Ira
ms universally agreed that poaching WIS
10 bnneStest part of Sawny' work. And 4
H., was not thought much the worse for
= in tbat part of dne country, whare
r,,.tem1lt of the game laws r. taken into
fhp.svstem in early youth aaong with the
Mothers Questions but there were
asrk whispers d fluaa that ser variouS bur
.-Iorics. minor and major, petty larcenies .
- hons and ducks. and even the crown
mo immunity of Sheep-steaiing, TO the dis
,r9dit of the master of 'Sawny Beans
Hole
Sawny had a iuiibe of children running
abo1t his door. ST close to one another iii
are and size that they seemed to over
lean each other like the caves of house.
He was said to have stolen some of them.
bnt the. accusation dsproved Itself. for 1t
was unlikely that 'SaWny would willing
IL add another 10 the hungry mouths
3bout his dwelling. 1t was much more
FkeJy that sun{iry children of misatlyen-
ture and sin had been, for due considera-
Ian received, a'lded 10 Sawny's flock, for
he had too many iniquities on his head to
feel dozen or 30 to be any additional
burden.
Cameronian minister had made one brave
attempt on him: but Sawny had assumed
his most idio1ic expression and mumned
nninteligble sounds. so that the minister
had passed on, commenting him to God
rs one mentally afflicted 1t was not gen
orally known that at the back >SaWnE's
house abutted upon an old sandhole,
while above the birches and alders of the
Hanging Shaw feathering the steep slope
almost wholly concealed the space. Here
there was most extraordinary collection
Of miscellaneous rubbish; and had the
farmers Of the neghborhood had any
idea of the number of things lifted from
their several farms, they would long ago
have organized raid and pulled Sawny y
rckety erections about his ears. But
things about Il farm have way of dis
appearing temporarily and turning up
again unexpectedly after months or
Years, 50 uEbSL OF IDe IdTHltFS -SilllIlS
grumbed or -SwOre according 10 their
kind and blamed the carelessness of the
men for their LOSSES Here were, among
debris of miscellaneous articles, c0ul-
tiers of all sizes. "Shilbins." or cart rails
Of manifold design, eornfeed dishes,
6uShe measures, luggieS (milking palisl,
harrow teeth. a deer horn mounted on
plate and with an inscription from the
big hose, wandered off by itself at the
spring cleaniag). Deeper in the cavern
at the back of the sand-hole were bar
RES most of them containing dogs of
high and low degree. These had all of
hem followed a gentleman. as the ad-
gertisements say. Generally they fol-
lowed Sawny with their feet braced
against the road, while that kindly gen
teman applied the leverage of compulsion
by means Of rope over his shoulder. and
cndrcing their necks. Sawny had an in
interest in letters, at least as far as the
weekly Cairn Edward paper was con
'erned He went over regularly to Meth
er Neuk on the evening of the day on
which it arrived, and got Peter Chrystie
10 read him out the first column of the
advertisements. Then if there We're any
dogs lost. which We're thought worth an
advertisement, Sawny would turn up at
me place Indicated with the animal in
low. and a plausible tale. but if no adj
vertlsement appeared within three weeks
al the latest, there was n plunge in the
rel to let in the cave. Sawny was
never in any danger of starvation. nor.
10 90 him justice. were the tGwSy chill
,fen who tumbled over each other III
'front.' ct his door. Many an honest mans
children went with empty bellies when
HaWnys surrounded wcll-StockPd
Uf@h,pot. He believed in the good old
nChkiSh plan commCmorated in the bal
lad verse:
Ihc monks Of Meircse made guild kali
yon Fridays when they tasted
Nof wanted they guild beef and ale
As iahS as their neighbors lasted.
mere were few things to which Sawny
g,u'd not turn his hand, except honest
iGoor. An outcast by birth and training.
> var with society was very real.
nU4gh as Yet it had never been a very
r%filI} one. Sawny had. it is true, no
~EuiF me Of distinction between the
S winch he was prepared to commit
%od nose which he could not risk. But
I1a mat kind of animal cunning
n "ngh generally kept him without the OPP
,auot 81 the civil arm, though hardly
n9 Tor 4 single dav of his life wholly
within the law He accounted it. for in
~, ,perIectly righteous to shoot Il
iSS'Htcy or salmon watcher" who was.
ill., 'SSibie, degree more vile in his eyes:
,o. n@'lhS once Travelled to Dumfries to
N.Y.. "h execution, almost the last that
aN ever held there in public, he returned
H., ms Adams apple, and a resolve
nar 8U'hant not to trouble the hang
is.;5 II struck him that ii would be a
b,n'lu,,fI y-uncomfortab thing 10 be
HUI 80 early in the morning. Sawny
lrschi 70 lie lon2 in bed, and in the good
orsIinT seasons he kept decidedly fash
9anrat1e hours. Really. he was in little
Wan ef capture though many trap
7st,s iale Ter him. He had the native
weS .'I Of woodcraft Eyes and ears
IA porn with him which enabled him
10 Lear and see things silent and black
Som. 'l. .Tn,99ner organs. As the spectre
WIKI. lyls us that we do not see the
al,r5., chord Of colors in rainbow. the
VS. .ulet being too delicate for our
VIII e. observe. so Sawny Bean,
came ms ear to the ground be-
-cPe-- wild animal of the wood
cate ~ nerve strung. every sense deli.
could "n ~ refined to perceive what others
d.y b not. Had his life been cast in 4
c-fni.n'e, might have become with his
aals a. instincts the greatest of crimi
jos, 81, [ohably the Whitechapel fend Is
nerj-s IN IN 2 man with. in addition. an APP
lie co ,or blood and a knowledge of city
a;e-1ga..e essponding to Sawnys accurate