The bee., 1908-08-27
WIN G'S
WHIP PING
ny Phil sInms.


prison doctors stable boy had seen It,
and a glitter OF intense hate flashed
in his eye as he turned away NUT
I tering
"He tried to get away Tonight
I'm goin and I'll stay gone, or"
ooh Wing, Wing!" called a baby
voice back Of the trusty and Or
Pills." the fve-year-old pet of the
prison. son of the doctor. came run
ming up to the black
The hunted CLEAN vanished, soft
light came in its place.
Wing" fed the doctors horses.
drove the cows in from the pasture.
hitched the visiting preachers mule
to the buggy and left in direction Of
the prison.
But he lodged into a side path lead
ing toward the swampy creek, and
stopped before a huge tree. He
thrust his am into hollow and drew
forth n bundle.
II contained trousers, shirt. soft
hat cheap revolver. some cartridges.
a long knife. stale food and a little
money. The collection had taken him
months.
Soon, rock Weighted, his prison gar.
ments lay at the bottom Of a deep
pool.
Southward the Alabama river, north
ward Birmingham. Skilled by virtue
OF many sham escapes" in evading
the stockade bloodhounds. he waded
Into the creek.
Free! Free! Before him the sweet
smelling woods. glorious in dogwood
blossoms and honeysuckle. Behind
were prison bars, a 20-year sentence
and a beating.
Wing" fondled HIS revolver. He
would never go back!
Or Pills" had Disappeared
Bedtime came at the doctors
house and still no sign OF the boy.
The prison was alarmed, likewise the
village near, but no one had seen
"Dr Pills"
The stable boy was called for at
the prison. The astonished reply was
that when the count had been made
the guard thought Wing" at the doc
tors. detained as he sometimes was,
after hours.
So Wing" had escaped! "Dr. Pills"
missing. too!
Had he been murdered3 Kidnapped?
Past midnight, Wing" still keep
Ing to the shallow stream, stumbled
on.
His escape now was sure. He had
gained the most dismal spot in all the
untrod swamp, and here he might rest
for a day. then leisurely make his
way.
Suddenly he stopped and listened.
He thought he heard a voice like the
wall Of a child There! It came
again. and so weird was it out there
In the swamp Wing" heard his own
heart beat
Again It came-a child weeping
surely ~ siRl
He wadsd in to the bank, calling
softly, and instantly a glad cry an
swered:
oh. Wing I'm so glad! knew
you'd comet"
Al. AAAos ne HuIlciOQ.
To leave the child there he knew
meant It's death. But It was not his
funeral. Should he take him back,
himself to be beaten? To serve HIS
20 years more? To give up his free
dom for which he had planned so
long
Never!
Please take me on your shoulder
Wing" pleaded the baby voice "rm
30 afraid"
"Why'n thunder didn't YOU" he be-
gan, surlily, but ended with: How'd
you git heah7"
81 crawled up in the back of the
preachers buggy and went to sleep.
When woke up ! was skeered awful
and just jumped out and started back
along the creek, an'-An'-that's all"
ut was a pig trail, honey Pills, an
hit don't go no whar You never seed
dis path befo!"
The first lights of rosy dawn shot
athwart the low country and touched
the miSts that hung low and white
above the creek. The hounds had
failed. Wing" was gone and "Dr.
Pills" with him.
The doctor and his wife were be-
side themselves with grief.
Suddenly the dogs whining in the
yard sent up bay and a moment
later tall. tattered, wet. muddy and
scratched-up black. a sleeping child In
his arms, staggered up the walk, the
hounds knowing him, leapins joyfully
about him.
Doctor, warden, prison guards,
neighbors. started 18th amusement,
while the mother with a glad cry ran
forward
Il fetch I'm back. missy" Wing mur-
INJURED, and sank exhausted on the
steps. I'm take my whuppiH'"
But he never got II.
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