Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-01-20

her only hope of sleep lay In sfr1ng her
self thoroughly by walking, arose, dress
ed herself, and slipped noiselessly down
stairs, intending to go through a side
hall and let herself out on the long shell
tered south porch where she might walk
and walk until she was tired enough,
without disturbing any one.
In fact, there was very little danger
of being heard, once she succeeded in
reaching the long, wide-roofed and lat
ticed porch, cut off as it was from all
the sleeping apartments, so far as she
knew. But scarcely had she reached the
foot Of the stairway, when the front
door" opsned, disclosing Mrs. Redden
also dressed and holding a candle in her
hand
rs the you, Lizzy? Eff I'd a ben
shore yoU was awake, I'd ben upstairs
after you to go with me. | CANT stannut
any longer. Some-h'n must a happened,
ur CoonrOd wouldn't q staid out this
away. l wush you'd put avn this big
shawl over yur head, and come along.
Is yur shoes all right? I've gut pair
good uns h'yur eff yourn wont keep
the worter OUT
Mine are proof against any moder-
ate amount of water, Mrs. Redden. And
besides, it doesn't hurt me in the least
to get my feet wet
ooh, dear! l dasnt to get mine the
least bit wet. Las fall 1 gut one foot
wet en- a puddle, out en- the COW yard,
ell hit thode me ento a chill I'm l had
the fevers fur three-four weeks. Better
slim fhiS linSav cC-'vurt ovor x-ouv 10
drest. White shows too much after
night There, lemmy pin ut good I'm
tight, soce you kin climb roun en- ut eff
you waWnt to, thout ut drappun offun
yuh."
Lizzy had not had time to offer any OBJ
lection, if she had really thought of
ohjecting to this short and usually safe
walk to town. For in those days the
women of Indiana were safe anywhere,
for many and cogent reasons. There
were no tramps. And besides, women
were strong and courageous by reason of
the hard work they did with their hands;
and so were able to make a good defense
OF themselves if needs be-
This endowed them with a courage
that women lack in later days. For, af-
ter all, what we call courage is simply
confidence in ones own powers, physical
or mental
The man who knows or deems him
self deficient in such physical or mental
powers as are to be called into action
III any emergency. is necessarily cow
ard. The man who is confident is also
brave.
What if mother should wake while
we are away, Mrs. Redden? Oughtn't
[ to wake her and tell her?' Lizzy said
as the two stood at the front door.
"Oh, we won't be gone no time at all.
But mebby you better write a little note
ull leave ut by the can'le h-yur avn the
STAN. She'll be shore to see ut eff she
gifts up. I'd hate to wake 'er outen sich
a good sleep as she's a haven jist now.
Gut Il pencil? H-yur's some paper
The ever ready and capable old
Hoosier woman had found a scrap of
fcolscap paper where she had put it
among the leaves of large history of
the world, that, along with some
almanacs and book on ''The Horse"
constituted the whole library of the Red
den family, save the big. brown-ba cled
leather Bible out of which Coonrod Red
den loved to read out loud" on Sun
day afternoon when he had tired himself
with a walk around the farm to see if
the army worm and the ely" We're
making their annual incursions in their
usual force.
Lizzy rapidly wrote few lines, ex-
planning their temporary absence by say
ing that she had gone with Mrs. Redden
at II o'clock. to ascertain what had de-
tanned Mr.. Conrad Redden so long, and
that she would be back very soon.
(To he continuedl