Connecticut western news., 1919-03-13
\ Took 1t in My Arms.

\ Took 1t in My Arms. an I'll be gol dummed if it didn't grab hold oi my nose an hang on like puppy to a root. When they tried to take it away it grabbed it's fingers into my whiskers an hOllered like pan ther-yis, sir. Wal, ye know l Jes fetched that little baby boy home 1n my arms, ay uh! My wife >scolded me like Sam Hill-yis, sir-she had five of her own. I toP her [ was goin' to take it back in a day CT two but after it had been in the house three days ye couldn't "a pulled it away from he1 with a WindlaSS.
 "We brought him up an he was al. wuss q good boy. We called him Enoch-Enoch Rone-did ye ever hear the name?"
 "sNo.'
 s'I 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.9
 "Wal, bout five year ago the squire buried his second wife-there 'tis over in there back O Rates with the little speckled angel on it. Nobody had seer the squire outside O his house fo1 years until the funeral-he was crip. pied so with rheumatiz. After that he lived all Tone in the big house with ol' Tom Linney an his wife, who've worked there for bout forty year, 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 the OP squire wanted to see memo, sir, we Wouldn't-fer the squire ain't sociable an the neighbors never dark.
 
 night, jest as she went-nobody see her go an nobody see her come, an that's a fact. Wal, one day las fall after the leaves was off an they could see a corner O my house through the bushes, Tom was walkin' the ol' man round the room. All to once he stopped an pinted at my house through the winder an kep' p'intin'. Tom come over an said he ca'llated the squire wanted to see me. So I went there. Kate met me at the door, Gosh How old an kind O broke down she looked! But I 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 ol' squire had the palsy, so t he couldn't use his hands an his throat was para lyzed-cOuldn't speak nor nothin'. Where do ye suppose he was when l found him?'
 i ''In bed?" asked.
 "NO, sir-no, Siree! He was in hell that's where he Was-reg'lar or fash toned, down-eaSt hell, burnin' with fire i an brimstun, that he'd had the agency | for an had recommended to every sin ner in the neighbOrhood. He was set tin in his room. God c Is. -aI! You orto "a seen tI:n motions he made with his h&nds an' the way he tried to i speak when 1 went in there, but all i could hear was jest long yell an a 1 kind of a rattle in his throat. Heavens an airth how dcsperit he tried to spit out the thing that was gnawin' h's vitals. Ag'in an aGin he'd try to tell me. Lord God how he did work !''
 "All to once it come acrost me what he wanted-quick as ye could say scat. He wanted to have Kate's headstun took down an put away-that's what he wanted. The stun was kind O lay in on his stummick an painin' of him day an night. He couldn't stan it. He knew that he was goin' to die purity soon an that Kate would come here an' see it an that everybody would see her standin' here by her own grave, an it worried him. It was kind O like a fire in his belly.
 "l iEUV:&, foo, he couldn't hear the idnc CT layin' down fer his las sleep beside that hell hole he'd d. " v, ----.,t .