Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-06-06
CHAPTER xvI-contInued.
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this grave an put up the headstone an
then he tol' me the story. He turned
the poor gal out o. doors. God o.
Israel! 1t was in the night-yis, sir
It was in the night that he sent her
away. Goldarn him! He didn't have
no more heart than grasshopper-no,
sir-not bit. / could "a Drained him
with my shovel. but / didn't
II found OFT where the gai had gone
an / follered her-yis | did-found
her In the poorhouse way over on
puss!ey HiIl-uh hlh She jes' put
her arms round ny neck an cried an
cried. l guess twas cause I looked
Find O. friendly-uh huh / toll her
she should come right over to our
house an stay jest as long as she
wanted to as soon as she got we'll
yis, sir, did.
"She was sick all summer long
kind o. out o. her head, We know, an
used to go over hossback an take
things fer her to eat. An one day
when was over there they was won
derin' what they was goin' to do with
Ser little baby. / took it in my arms
an I'll be gol dummed if it didn't grab
hold o. my nose an hang on like a
puppy to a root. When they tried to
take it away it grabbed its fingers into
nv whiskers an hollered like a pan
ther-yis, sir. Wal, We know 1 Jes'
fetched that little baby boy home in
my arms, ay uhl My wife scolded me
like Sam HiIl-yis, sir-she had five
of her own. toll her was goin' to
take it back in day er two but after
1t had been in the house three days We
couldn't "a pulled it away from her
with a windlass.
1--WE brought him up an he was al
wuss a good boy. We called him
Enoch-Enoch Rone-did ye ever hear
the nameY
"'No.'
81 didn't think twas likely but I'm
alwuss hopin'.
"Early that fall Kate got better an
left the poorhouse afoot. Went away
somewheres-nobody knew where.
Some said she'd crossed the lake an
gone away over into York state, some
said she'd drowned herself. By'm by
We heard that she'd gone way over
into st. Lawrence county where Silas
Wright lives an where young Grim
shaw had settled down after he got
married.
oval, bout five year ago the squire
buried his second wife-there it's over
In there back o. Hates with the little
epeckled angel on 1t. Nobody had seen
the sqzt--o outside o. his house for
years until the funeral-he was Grip
pied so with rheumatic. After that he
lived all lone in the big house with OF
Tom Llnney an his wife, who've
worked there for bout forty year, 1
guess.
wal, sir, fust we knew Kate was
there in the house Twin with her IA
ther. We wouldn't "a knowed it then,
If it hadn't been that Tom Linney
come over one day an said he guessed
me o. squire wanted to see memo,
sir, We wouldn't-fer the squire amt
sociabIe an the neighbors never dark
en- his door. She must "a come in the
night, jest IS size went-nobOdy see
her go an nobody see her come, an
that's fact. Wal, one day las fall
after the leaves was off an they could
see a corner o. my house through the
pushes, Tom was walkin' the oil 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.
Siosh How old an kind o. broke down
she looked! But l knew her the min
ute set my eyes on her-uh huh-an'
she knew me-yis, 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 OF
squire had The palsy, so t he couldn't
use his hands an his throat was para
iyzed-couldn't speak nor nothin'.
Where do We suppose he was when l
found him?"
"In bed?" / asked.
NO, sir-nO, street He was In hell
that's where he was-reg'lar oil fash
toned. down-east he'll, burnin' with fire
an brimstun, th4t he'd had the agency
Aof an had recommended to every sin
ner In the neighborhood He was set
IN In his room. God o. Isr'ell You
"gto seen the motions he made with
MS hands an the way he tried to
speak when l went in there, but all l
Seuld hear was jest a long yell an
Alnd Of rattle in his throat. Heavens
an airth! how desperit he tried to
spt out the thing that was gnawin'
.lis UFals. Ag'in an ag'in he'd try to
ten me. Lord God how he did work -
All to once it come acrost me what
Is "anted-quick as We could say scat.
oe wanted to have Hates headstun
.ooA down an put away--that's what
ne wanted. The stun was kind o lay
u on his stummick an painin' Of him
aay an night. He couldn't stan 1t.