Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-04-29
.y.pTER xVl-continued.

10
Tls u1. on, nut I'D the headstone an
sI'' .,T me- the story. He turned
% gaI out O doors. God O
r. was in the night-yis, sir
1a n +ba night that he sent her
va CoIdarn him! He didn't have
~. baart than a grasshOpper-no,
M. could "a Drained him
s 7. nv shovel but I didn't.
., .l,,a ont where the gal had gone
toIIpred her-yis 1 did-found
? tbe poorhouse way over on
y HfII-uh huh! She jes' put
- .9s round my neck an cried an
7 guess twas cause looked
I~ frpndly-uh huh! l tOP her
~ .torId come right over to our
- en- stay jest as long as she
VA Fl as soon as she got we'll
i Sir, did.
.,to vas sick all summer long
~ ont o. her head, We know, an 1
"a 90 over hOssback an take
-, for her to eat. An one day
Twas over there they was won
-, - what they was gOin' to do with
r,tla baby. took it in my arms
I'M bp goI dummed if it didn't grab
'H6 nv nose an hang on like
nv IN q root. When they tried to
81 -. n away It grabbed its fingers into
= rbiskprs an hOlIered like a PAN
s.,-vis. sir. Wal, We know I jes'
l.,Asd that little baby boy home in
:, arms az uh. My wife scOlded me
=. Sam Hill-yis, sir-she had five
IEsr own. I toll her l was goin' to
40 f back in a day er two but after
had been in the house three days ye
r-iDt a pulled it away from her
nh windIass.
we brought him up an he was al
MS good boy. We called him
roch-Enoch Rone-did We ever hear
be name?
$40
Z didn't think twas likely but I'm
LTuss hOpin'.
Early that fall Kate got better an
# the pOorhouse afOOt. Went away
ENTHUSIASTICALLY knew where.
Sne said she'd crossed the lake an
me away over into York state, some
I'D she'd drowned herself. By'm by
" heard that she'd gone way over
-0 st. Lawrence county where Silas
Wright lives an where young Grim
aag had settled down after he got
nlHed
'EaI bout five year ago the squire
uiad his second wife-there it's over
there back O. Rates with the little
gec5Iel angel on it. Nobody had seen
be squire outside O. his house for
FaS until the funeral-he was Grip
li So with rheumatic. After that he
i7si all lone in the big house with OF
Ton Lnney o. his wife, whO've
TfEei there f. bout forty year,
Jess
Wal, sir fuSt We knew Kate was
As,e in the house Twin with her IA
-I We wouldn't "a knOwed it, then,
] hadn't been. that Tom Linney
1le over one day an said he guessed
be OIL squire wanted to see memo,
& We wouldn't-fer the squire amt
slable an the neighbOrS never dark
@ bis door. She must "a come in the
-glt Jest as she went-nObOdy see
G 60 an nobody see her come. an
hats fact Wal, one day las fall
Tier the leaves was off an they could
y corner o my house through the
NaeS Tom WAS waIkin' the OF man
ahd the room. All to once he
i'Hel an pinted at my house
-o-gA the wlnder an KEEP p'intin'.
Nl come over an said he caTlated
squire wanted to see me. So
'aI there. Kate met me at the door.
a4. How old an kind o. broke down
Il looked But l knew her the min
*ISet my eyes on her-uh huh-an'
Il Anew me-yiS, Sir-She smiled an
ais come to her eyes an she patted
Y land like she wanted to tell me
ny she hadn't forgot, but she never
va wora-not a word. The oil
ne mad the palsy, so I he couldn't
= lS hands an his throat was para
S0-couldnt speak nor nothin'.
'-'Ie 10 We suppose he was when I
lind hlm?
N bed?" l asked.
no. eIr-ao, Stree! He was in hell
1.'S where he was-reg'lar oil fash
-'~ uoWn-east he'll, burnin' with fire
UlaStun' that he'd had the agency
AZ mad recommended to every sin
u ule neighborhOOd. He was set
u MS ROOM God o. Isr'el! You
seen the motions he made with
--ldS an the way he tried to
,,'a when | went in there, but all 1
w near was jest Il long yell an
n " d rattle in his throat. Heavens
>. 'W how deSperit he tried to
Va. the thing that was gnawin'
.'a-$ Agin an ag'in he'd try TO
~, an LORD God . how he did work ~
= " once 1t come acrost me what
,'I'ed-Quick as We could say scat.
\. 'sN'eu To have Hates headstun
'"u an put away-that's what
-1'td' The stun was kind o. lay
~ Nummick an painin' of him
~ ~ night. lie couldn't stan it.
y, - -, mat he was gOin' to die purity
"a that Kate would come here
~. an that everybody would
&. S'',hln here by her own grave,
:, .-O.t'ed him. 1t was kind O. like
his belly.
S-,>>' Too. lie couldn't bear the
szs, 'ay'a DOWN fer his las sleep
:. s --' hell hole he'd dug fer Kate
{ Rs,s 'e know. mister, I jes' shook
49, I'LL never let on that ] knew
- IN IN mean. mn let him wiggle an
81, -. " worm m hot griddle, an
"a. .1s 'u- hull til he fell back in
n nm it don't give him no
49,. ''.eS 10 tell everybody he
~ s.- what they say. He bel
Ia s,- ~ night an if you go down
y, , ~ " oei.er to you an you'll know
Tan a''lt but the others don't.