Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-08-25


with me- It's awful for strangers to
upset you SO, yet that boy looked like
cherub sleeping
The operation was successful" said
Norman Gray the next morning. as he
drank the coffee l offered him. But
you can't make me believe anyone Is
quite the same after losing a portion OF
their anatomy.
In the week that followed, l lived 20
times 20 years. Such a racket in
the house. The bird sang for the first
time in years, and such a whirl as
Nibsey led me!
Bless his little heart, there's really
some good in that boy. after ali.
Strange, he took to me like a duck
ling to water.
Late in the afternoon of the tnIrd
day Nibsey was missing. / got not
and cold at the same time. William
said l tore round as though the boy
belonged to me. But 1t was sheer
nervousness, nothing else. By happy
chance / telephoned police headQuar-
tiers and found him at Station No 2,
sitting on a bench with his little head
ON my old carpet bag, fast asleep
I'd brought that bag down from the
attic in the morning to cut up for the
rug. How he got it and carried it
such a distance was a mystery.
''Nibsey," l called, softly.
"Ohi NTH Newman" he cried Jump
ing up and throwing himself into my
arms, Il toudent find DR.. Johnson
Find DIR. Johnsoni" I exclaimed,
knowing his mothers doctor lived en-
the other side of the city.
.'Yeth, NTH Newman, he div me i've
cents the udder night and said If I'd
come and be his little boy 1 tou'd drive
his horse
We'll, where's the five cents?"
"OhI" he said, beginning to cry.
81 div to-the-man-on-the-car
olded-nIm-I-wanted-to go to Dr.
Johnson's and after-a-long-time-h
put-me-off- and-toIded-me-to wait-In-
ere-fOr-my-mamma."
1 took his little hand and then
picked up the carpet bag, which was as
heavy as lead. In it he had put a
train of cars, an old broken kite, a
lump of wet clay and a dead sparrow.
Dr. johnson didn't know what he'd
missed.
I Rugged the boy all the way home,
and believe I'm getting as idioLic
over him as William. When loves
=
and is awakened by little innocence
who falls pell-men right into your
frozen, numbed, old heart, you begin
to realize there's something in life
besides yourself, your dog aid your
hoard1ngs.
Then came that awful day. 1t was
Friday. Black Friday indeed.
1t appeared that one of the men
driving sprinkling cart through the
park was sunstruck. Norman Gray
working near the spot, jumped upon
the seat to drive the impatient team
and wagon back to the stable. The
vehicle was an unusually high one,
and always kept in a shed built for
It, This Norman did not know, so,
while driving in the stable he was
caught between the low door frame
and the high seat of the cart, which
doubled him up and killed him in
stantly.
The poor, young wife recovered and
bore her great sorrow like the brave
little woman that she was. When it
came time for her to take Nibsey, who
chung to me like young tendriI
around an old oak, / concluded, and
so did William, that the best thing
for Nibsey and his mother (who mad
got position packing flower ceeds)
was to make their homes with u.s.
Copyright. 1906. by Joseph B. Bowles-)
Her Friend.
''She's awfully well informed. isn't
she?"
Il don't think So
''She can quote from all the ancient
and modern authors and is right in
touch with all the affairs of the day
But she's not well informed; she