Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-05-29
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CHAPTER xvl-continued.
IT.
Zone day the OIL squire got me to dig
this grave an put up the headstone an
then he toll me the story. 9e turned
the poor gal out O. doors. God O.
israel! It was in the night-yis, sir
1t was In the night that he sent her
away. Goldarn himl He didn't have
9" Iaore heart than a grasshopper-no,
sfr-not bit I could "a Drained him
with my shovel. but didn't.
Il found out where the gal had zone
an follered her-yis c.d-l,und
her I'm the poorhouse Way ever on
Pussley Hill-uh huhl She jes' put
Ter arms round my neck an cried an
cried. I guess twas cause looked
Find o friendly-uh huh! I toll her
she should come right over to our
house an stay Jest as long as she
waited to as soon as she got we'll
yis. sir, I did.
"She was. sick all summer long
. kind o out O. her head. ye know, an
used to go over hossback an take
things fer her to eat. An one day
when was over there they was won
der'n' what they was goin' to do with
her little baby. I took it in my arms
an I'll be gol dummed If It didn't grab
hold O. my nose an hang on like q
puppy to a root. When they tried to
take it away it grabbed its fingers into
MS whiskers an hollered like a PAN
tber-yis. sir. Wal, ye know I jes'
fetched that little baby boy home in
MY arms. ey uh! My wife scolded me
aike Sam Hill-yis, slr-she had five
II her own. tor her was goin' to
lake 1t back in a day er two but after
It had been in the house three days We
couldn't "a pulled It away from her
with windlass.
I'VE brought him up an he was al
wuss god boy. We called him
Enoch-Enolh Rone-dld ye ever hear
the name?''
a'No.'
II didn't tnink twas likely but Tn
Alwuss hopin'. -
"Early that fall Kate got better an
left the poor house afoot. Went away
somewhcfes- nobody knew where.
Some said she'd crossed the lake an
gone away over into York state. some
said she'd deowned herself. By'm by
we heard that she'd gone way over
unto st. Lawrence county where Silas
Wright lives an where young Grim
shaw had settled down after he got
married.
oval. bout Ave year ago the squire
buried his second wife-there ills over
in there back O. Kate's with the little
specified angel on 1t. Nobody had seen
tina squire outside o his house for
years until the funeral-he was Grip
pied so with rheumatic. After that he
aived all lone in the big house with Oh
Tom Linney an his wife, who've
worked there for bout forty year,
guess.
oval, sir. fust we knew Kate was
there in the house Twin with her IA
fher. We wouldn't "a knowed 1t, then,
ST 1t hadn't been that Tom Linney
come over one day an said he guessed
the OIL squire wanted to see memo,
sir, we wouldn't-fer the squire amt
soctable an the neighbors never dark
en his door. She must "a come In the
might, jest MS she went-nobody see
her so an nobody see her come, an
that's a fact. Wal, one day las fall
after the leaves was of an they could
see corner o. my house through the
bushes, Tom was walkin' the OF man
round the room. All to once he
stopped an p'inted at my house
through the winder an KEEP p'intin'.
Tom come over an said he ca'llated
the squire wanted to see me. So !
went there. Kate met me at the door.
Gosh How old an kind O. broke down
abe looked! But knew her the min
ute I set my eyes on her-uh huh-an'
she knew me-yls, sir-she smiled an
tears come to her eyes an she patted
my hand like she wanted to- tell me
that she hadn't forgot, but she never
Said a word-not a word. The OIL
squire had the palsy, so t he couldn't
use his hands an his throat was para.
ayzed-couldn't speak nor nothin..
Where do We suppose he was when
kound him?'
Elm bed?' asked.
!. "No. sir-no, siree! He was in hell
that's where he was-reg'lar Of fash
40ned. down-east hell. burnin' with fire
an brimstun. that he'd had the agency
for an had recommended to every sin.
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