The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-03-11

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sure confidence. She had no
n been there long before sh
O had both parents in bed.
y She kept giving the baby warm tel
n she had made with. herbs, until tn,
I threatening jerks were over, the pee
' wish whining ceased, and the chile
slept peacefully on Grandma's lap.
watched her, fascinated. There wa
never bit of faltering, no indecision;
everything she did seemed exactly
what she ought to do.
"How did you learn it all ?" asked
her. "How can you know just what
to do and then have the courage to
do it? l should be afraid of doing
the wrong thingl"
why" she said, "that is easy.
Just do the very best you can and
trust God for the rest. After all, it is
God who saves the baby, not us and
not our efforts; but we can help. He
lets us do that. Lots of times the
good we do goes beyond any medi-
cine. Never be afraid to help your
best. | have been doing that for 40
years and am going to keep it up till
de-
Then she told US story after story
told US how her different ambitions
had boosted" her along, had made
her swim when she just wanted to /
float. 81 was married when l was 16,
and of course, my first ambition was
to own a home for Dave. Ny man
was poor. We both took
to work like duck to water. Some
years it looked as if we were going
to see every dream come true Anoth-
er time and we would De poorer than
at first,
when little Dave was II years old,
he had learned to plow Every one
Of US was working to our limit that
year, | plowed and hoed, both, and
Dig Dave really hardly took time to
sleep. You see, his idea was that we '
must do better by our children than !
We had been done by, and Fanny, our
ldest, wax IS. zone of our !
leighbors had been sick a lot that
ear and his crops were about ruined. {
t was layIag-by time and we had {
inished laying by our crops-all but
bout half days blowing in the e
orn. That morning at breakfast, big }
lave said he would take the horses
nd go over to Henry Boles's and d
low that day to help out-said he 5
ould finish ours any time, and it III
idn't matter mach if 1t didn't get I
lowed. IL
Fanny and I went to- milk, and all ,e
lie time | could hear IitsEe Dave beg b
ing his father to- let HIM finish the e
lowing. His father said he could i'll ii
said so. Ii
II will never forget his eager littlel n
ace as he began on me- He had al HI
cap of freckles;' remember noticing q
lem that morning; he was barefoot a.
|, and | remember that one toe was d
Sinned. Big Dave was lighting his l
pe, and till today remember how it
: looked as he held the match b his Z
pe, drew puff of smoke and said, it
Jay yes, mother So l said yes, and Il
tile Dave ran to open the gate for
IS father. te
AS big Dave rode through the gate Ii
II boy caught him by the leg ana W
lid, 4 just love you, daddy. Rig, al
ave bent down and kissed him, and M
nd, You're a man, son. How proud W
tat made the little fellow d
parents should praise their chill bs
zen more; the little things work hard ca
n few words of praise, and many tn
them never get their pay. I
About 10 O'Clock, I took M
pail of fresh water down to the OF
cid. | knew Davie would be thirsty, ou
I'd | was uneasy about him, but he
as all right. He pushed his ragged sa
d hat back and wiped the sweat of
ON his brow just as his father would ca
I'VE done. petted him little, but lie,
} was so mannish he didn't want me de