Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1906-01-18

Once in a great while I'd see Layola,
and though she'd speak me civil, it'd cut
me to the heart to see that she'd a SOFT
Of contempt for me. Yet knew that
she was ADDING her duty every day,
and saying no harm of me to anyone,
and don't know as it's any shame for
me TO confess that my pillow was wet !
with tears many time on account o
all this.
Well. cold weather began TO come on.
| The frosts came, and grew pretty nip
ping. | trapped young bear, that fall,
| and gave him to little Juan May. The
boy thought a good deal Of him, was
tanning him first rate, when one day the
bear got away.
Juan came a-hollering over TO my
house to tell me that he'd lost his bear.
He showed me which way he'd gone.
! took my rife and rope, and started
right after him.
The eondurned think had gone upon
Kiarsarge. The Summit House wasn't
built then. and there wasn't a living
thing on that mountain but rattle
snakes in summer, and bears in win
I
I ter.
, Well, | got the bears track, and !
. | climbed half way up the mountain
after him. when my feet caught IN my
I iope. and | went headlong over the
D ledge. and came down with leg under
d me. that snapped like pipestem. Wen
!. | found out that my leg was broken
d and then | saw that il had begun
snowin'-snowin' sir, and the wind
n piping shrll enough to pierce your
: head through, that wind, sir, soundel
e, TO me like my death knell laid and
y listened TO il with feelings | never ike
&c remember
r II didn't snow long, 1t was getting
u TOO cold. When felt the cold nipplng
m me knew what | had TO fear and l
tried to fire on my gun, hoping "
y, hiring some help, but it was too great
+ agony TO stir. | tell you, | suffered
The next hour seemed like a year.
e. Then Il began TO grow dark or ] go'
nd sleepy with the cold, and lay insehsi,
| HE till dark don't know whieh-bu'
re an the night help reached me. and the'
found me more uedu ina" -"
no Well. sir, my leg was broken, ah'
Of hotb my feet were frozen. had al
ed awful SMELL Of sufferin'. and by the TIM
la. !, was some over began to see thihg
ne n,ettv clearly. There lay, fiat on m
Cd. hack with broken leg and feet ina
d NIGHT have to be cut of, my OLD motn
EN- :, worn down. with nursing, and Mon
"a cleared out without so mucn as
ma eood-by. The Mays had moved eles
but ont n the neighborhood during 10
the ,fr,. I was i'm the worst danger.
ana Thought of Layola and groaned som
ola gpess for my old mother sittln
70 the hearth, began TO cry Don
10 uo,hewi DON'T" said she the go'
ne Lord knows what's best ior us'
= Well the fire burned low ana me
= = orod rcd ON the wall. and mother We
40 sleep in her chair By-and-oye !
o'h- soor onened softly, and woman
ura came quietly in. She looked a.
hNe "a and some strange feeling n
ere shame. half stubborness, mace me ,
80 tend TO be asleep. But ! watcheu'
-, saw I.ayola kneel down on tlie heai
ra blow by the fire, spread sha
over mother and then come 70 III!
~, ~ ,ov ia been through good deaf
met have looked pretty haegaru
,irute I felt her hand on my 10
'HaF, nod and its light touch seemed :
s",u hlow ON my heart. tried 10 SUI
$50 a. on thought my breas. ~o
hurst with the shame and griei w
&c in II. Though my heart seer
~ leaking with love for her WIS
thaI Girl a thousand miles away
ABOUT me. n,,nute she put her face az
each. IN minus
Mo- close 10 mine.
little Mathew sne
h the stay?" ,.. >
Then my heart seemed melting
ort a. within me. nodded, ana 'ne
- ~ I, mashed nv face. felt that she
= nor zen me and that she loved me-
herd was too humble to speak
river Wen sir. her nursing saved my
assure I'm lame, but not the cripple ! ~
that 10 Layola snd we're marIieu
= ana smnne Begging your pardon ma
a" - san,ot make me believe Tn
bless sny other woman the equal OF my
soYoo ~ mink so. too? Thank YOU ma
.a,he- r,,o,,d like to see Layola, ana
@na hardq Well. then, well stop
= o. ~ - we go back. Thank
under aere we are at Eeho LAM
mighty Peoples Home jour ma