Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-06-23
CHAPTER Win.
The WiIted Blossom.

The WiIted Blossom.
Don't nothing put the heart in broke
down woman like little loving
Miss Selma Lue.
Bonnie, honey, run up the hill and
tell Miss Cynthie that l wish't she
would come right down, fer Blossom
amt so well; and stop in and ask Mis-
Kinney to come and sell the suppers
fer me, cause l don't want to leave
the baby
ooh, Miss Seliny Lue, is she much
sick?' Bennie's freckled face drew
up into knot with anxiety, for Bios
som was the core of the green apple
that at his age passes for a heart.
Yes, honey, she's pretty bad, and I
feel l must see Miss Cynthie a bit.
Now run along; and if you see Mr..
Alan, send him to me, too" Miss Sc
line Lue's strong face was grave and
sweet, but had none of the disfguring
marks with which anxiety ravages
many countenances. As she turned
Mr.. Alan entered the back door.
'Row's the Blossom?" he asked anx-
iously as he deposited his kit in the
corner.
Looks like l can't even want a
thing IN my heart without when |
open my eyes there it is" said Miss
Selma Lite softly. The baby amt so
well, l am Altered, and | was jest
mean and selfish enough to send fer
Miss Cynthie to come down and worry
with me. I never did hold with shar-
ing worries, but I didn't expect you
back till dark, and it jest seemed like
had to have one or t'other of you
while"
What did the doctor say?" asked
Mr.. Alan as he came and stood by her
in the door
There was strength and comfort in
the very sight of him, and Miss Selma
Lue frightened visibly as she an
sWered
We'll, Mr.. Alan, it do beat every.
thing to me to see man-dOctor
founder around and hunt for what's
the matter with a baby It's plumb
painful. But this young teller, what
you and Miss Cynthie say is a spe-
c1aler with babies, done pretty well,
with my helping him along. He says
1t is pneumony with longnamed
side issue to 1t, what l call Jest plain
being threatened with bad Group. II
1t was one Of the Tyneses now, or
Lucia Kinney, l would think sure
could pull 'em through; but Blossom
looks like she wasn't mixed outen the
same ingrejints as the other children
on the Bluff, and somehow" Miss
Selma Lue's voice faltered for a mo-
ment.
Mr.. Alan took her hand in his and
said gently: "She is a very special
sort of flower is the Blossom, and we
all feel that. Did the doctor say he
would rather have the trained nurse ?"
II asked him faithful cause prom.
Used you. but he jest looked at me and
he said there wasn't no SIGH nursing
as she had to be bought in the city
And course he knows about you walk
ing her nights and Miss Cynthie
a-spelling of us both Looks like to
me, too, that they amt no nursing in
the world that can do as well as
what comes from the hand of love-
if it is guided by common sense"
Eyes, but skill sometimes is needed
in some"
well, amt skill another name fer
common sense? I've done had ex.
perience with the lack Of 'em both.
When Ethel Maud was six months old,
Mis- Dobbs fed her little strawberry
preserves, and I thought her time had
come when | seed the spasm she went
into. After spell when I got her
emptied out and full Of hot ginger tea
she woulder quieted down but her
mother set her afire with a candle she
was holding to see if she was a-breatk.
ing And, lands alive, the child was
most burned to death fore could put
her out! And what with the straw.
berry poison working on her at the
same time she almost passed from u.s.
And there she is alive and asserting
by Blossom as quiet as a mouse to
call me if she baby-loving and
tending was horned in that child"
Miss Seliny Lue," called a small
frightened voice, which was followed
by a hoarse cough.
Watch fer Miss Cynthie and bring
her back to my room. There comes
Mis- Kinney to sell the suppers! Can't
you kinder keep her talking out here1
She do make the baby jump So"