The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-03-20

would not be erased.
One night when Semillant had re-
commenced her wailing, the mother
all of a sudden, had an idea-the idea
of a ferGcious savage. She meditated
upon il until the morning; then rising
with the coming of the dawn, went
to the church. She prayed, Frustrated
| upon the pavement, humbled before
| God, beseeeching him to aid her, 70
uphold her, to give her poor, wearled
| body strength to revenge her son.
Then she went home. There was in
her little yard an old, battered barrel
| which gathered the rainwater from
| the caves.
She emptied it and turned it upside
| down, made it fast in the ground with
| heavy logs and stones; then she
| chained Semillant to the barrel and
went into the house.
She walked then, continuously, in
her room, her eye always fixed on the
shores Of Sardinia lie was there, the
murderer.
The dog howled all day and all night.
In the morning the old woman
brought her water in an earthern Jar,
but nothing else; no soup, no bread.
The next day ended. Semillant slept,
stretched out. In the morning her
eyes were burning. her coat rough and
awry, and she pulled desperately at
her chain.
Again the old woman gave her moth
ing to eat. The beast, become wild,
barked with "A hoarsened voice. The
next night passed. Then, the next day
Mother Suorini begged two bundles
Of straw from neighbor'
She took some old clothes which her
husband used to wear and filled them
with the straw, so that a human body
was represented.
Having stuck long stick in the
ground in front Of the barrel, she tied
TO it the manillin, which seemed IN TINS
way to be standing up. Then she made
a head out Of old cloth.
The dog, surprised, looked at the
man Of straw and became silent
though Goroured with hunger. That
night the woman bought at the gro
GERS two pounds OF meat pudding re-
turned home and lit a wood fire near
the barrel. and fried the pudding.
Scmillant, crazcd, icapcd ana foamec
at the mouth, her eyes fixed on the
pan. from which the smoke entered
her very stomach.
Then the mother made of the smok-
ing pudding q rrayat for the man Of
straw She took great pains IN arrang-
inc il about his neck, as though she
wished the grease to soak in. When
she had done this she unclaimed the
dog. with one bound the animal
rea, ned the throat Of the manikin, and
with her feet on his shoulders began
to tear She fcll back with piece of
her prey ia her NAV. Then She
launched herself again burylng her
fangs in the strings around the throat
and. sriZiug some bits Of food, fell
back again, and then, maddcncd with
excitement, lcapcd again on the figure.
She carried of the entire face by great
bites, tearing the thrOat into rags.
The old woman, mOtiOnlcss, watched
with Illuminated eyes. Then She re-
chained her beast and, having fastened
il again for two days, went over the
strange proceeding. For three months
he accustomed the animal to this eX-
rrcisc, to this meal gained by savage
teeth uttuck She didn't chain the dog
now, bat urged her on with gestures
upon the muniln.
She taught the dog to tear it, to de
your il, even when there was no food
hidden IN its throat. She would then
reward the dog with fried pudding.
Whenever scmiIlaut would see the
mauil,in, she would begin to trcmblc
violently, then turn her eyes TO her
mistress The woman would scream
IVA in a piercing voice, raising her
finger.
When She judged the time come,
Mother Savoriui went one Sunday to
| communion and confession. Then,
having dressed in mems clothes, like
those Of a poor old man, she was rowed
by Sandman fisherman across the
strait.
She carried a large piece Of meat
| pudding in linen sack Scmillant had
| TASTED for two days. Every minute the
old woman made the dog smell the
| food.
They entered Longosardo. The
J Corsican woman walked with a linn
She went TO u baker shop and asked to
be pointed ont the way to the house