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

n to pet him any more. A
/ he had only few more rows to plo'
It l went back, telling myself how foo
e ish had been to be afraid.
Twelve o'clock came, but not Da
a vie. | sent Fanny to the spring TO
e the buttermilk, but waited a while
thinking little Dave had not finishes
] as soon as he expected. / went to tn,
field. Little Dave lay on his face il
the furrow. gathered him up in my
arms; he was yet alive; he put one
weak little arm around my neck anc
said, ooh, nanny, Pm hurt. The mule
kicked me in the stomach
II don't know how got to the
house with him; / stumbled over clods
and weeds, through the hot sunshine.
| sank down on the porch in the shade
with the precious little form clasped
tightly to me. He smiled, and tried to
speak, but the blood gurgled up into
his throat and my little boy was gone.
~ would have died of grief if had
not had to work so hard. Big Dave
got too warm at work that day, ana
when Fanny went for him and told
him about little Dave, he ran all the
way home; he was crazy with grief
and forgot the horses. The trouble
and the heat and the overwork
brought on fever. l had no time for
tears for three months.
"That was years ago. We came
West. The country was really wild
then; there was great deal of law
lessness. We didn't get settled down |
for several years; we hired to man
who had contract to put up hay for \
the government and we worked for
him for long time,
"Indians were thiek as feas on a
dog then; some were eamped near US
once, and among them was Mexican
woman who could jabber a little Eng
Iish, Once, when l was feeling par
ticusarly resentful and Sorrowful, /
told her abort my little Dave; and it
vas her jabbered words that showed
ne the way TO peace. wept 8or hours.
1ut peace had come and has stayed
Ambition came again, but different
lind; | wantef the same peace to
'ome to all hearts that came so late
o mine, and l wanted to help bring IT.
took tfas only course I knew Ehave
one to others help every time there
as been a change.
after Fanny married and DaveE
led, / had an ambition to sa.ze up
400 WITH which to buy an entrances
Ito an ODD ladies' home Just Before
got the full amount saved up, +
'und that young Eddie Carwell want
to enter the ministry and needed
Sip to go, to- college l had jusi
1ough, 80 I gave it to him. Another
me had almost enough, when Char
e Rucker got into trouble oves. sonaeI
ortgage BUSINESS so | used what I
I'd that time to help him. Now I'ws
ven up the old ladies' home idea and
n saving up, for the blue SIX dress
ave would have liked me to have
guess Ill die some day and | want i
10 be buried in. | like, to think 4
"a going to my two Dawes; then; ard
won't be hard-especially if l have :.
e, blue silk ON
Just then a sleepy little bird twit-
red outside and the baby stirred d
tie. The first faint light of dawn
as gust creeping up the valley. I rose
d said l must gee back to camp.
RS. O'Shaughnessy and l had both 1
,pt with Mrs. Mortimer over little
I'VE. We have all given up our first
IN little man child; so we felt near
ch other. We told Mrs Mortimer
at we had passed under the rod also.
kissed her toilworn old hands, and
rs. O'Shaughnessy dropped a kiss
her old gray head as we passed
into the rose-and-gold morning.
We felt that We were leaving T.
notified presence and we are both -
us better and humber women be-
use we met \ woman who has bur
her sorrow beneath faith and en-
avor.