The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-03-07

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nov. Annie.
Ito uc wont nS'ru.
"ur.s God-fearjuS man, Anni",
like his father before h'm II you
can only got him 10 take the pledge
now that he feels himself Slt7piu
bach II you only can.
"Oh. God. nothing counts.
'Shh. tell YOU it, just The hole
IN his hear, that drove him home that ,
way last night"
And don't forget the NIGHT before, ,
and the night before that. Three run
min nights.
rs q drop 10 warm HIM. Annie,
before he comes homo these hrst !.
, NIGHTS TO fnd his little one not here. ,
Just a drop 10 warm him.
And what about me: What about
me- DO | need drop to warm me
for sitting here day in and day OUT
my baby gone" 90 |"
IL was always Il sin before the
Lord I used to say, Il man ShouIu
crowd the whole world out OF MS
hear over child. and his being taken
this way proves it. 1t was sin be
fore tho Lord how he banked on that
child. running il with too much love.
No good can come OF il. always SAID
and ~ hard to live 10 see the day
how right | was.
"Tbcrc-,hcrc just never was
father and baby like them toScther'
Lido. You know for yourself there
lust -nCvrr--was.
"Now. now. dcarjc..'
l.,,. ,srJ ,,~aN
rnurs till his big bones ached. ldddy.
urfjny horsic for tho boy 10 ride him
-rnr hours. l.iddy. till used TO got
scared tho baby wouldn't sleep from
: c<circmrn'. and grab him up and OIL
I his rircl old back.
"Tha'S just wha, I'm SAYING 20 YOU
Annie. It's these evenings with MS
baby gone have drove him back BIT.
. Tho thirst amt III his bones. ten
, ,ou. lis only he's low. aud whom a
big mans low. he
, no. 10. Iiddy. tell you he's got
! tire taste OF it on his Tongue and inc
! hrrn Of !, on his iusidcs again after
these three years. Tic says h'mSel!
4 the burn is like Il pain that don't hurt
4 when when he gets that way. Says
a = himself when tho shame is on him
and and hc tries too make X VI
{ 70 me-.
X IT'S one drop too much can send
. Steve off. Annie Two glasses make
!. him sillv where another can carry SiS
>. and YOU know It. Steve never goI
i rough from it in his life; I've seen him
silly. but
0 cod! Id rather Il" came home
beating mo than than IN" silly va!
r. hn does when ho's-'ha' way, God
i when he gets silly"
Is But"
<. II tell you it's his stiffness. Llddy
a and the way he gets talking 10 nun
y SELF scares me more than his Scthn:
ID rough would. You remember tina
night he took all that cider over
or Joe's halloween. T.iddy, and how
III ran Over 20 YOU clear across the raj
road tracks when 10 came home TAN
Is ing TO himself and tryin to
Now. now. Arnie. that's all fou
10 years passed. and
K Passed. Like Il flash when see
h. him come through tho Kitchen dVo
these last three nights. his eyes a
I? red: like a flash. tell YOU, Il come
back 10 me.
III Annie. Annie. i'll come all rlGh
he roll YOU. Wasn't tho one predtcte
ne /, was the child being born would 81
him intemperante, Annie. ana dldn
Il" For them three years wasn't Il
So breath as sweet as hay. and didn
ep predict it, Didn't I" YOU was hapl
al them three wears. Annie. and
Is, "ILappy." \ fresh rjvulct or tea
is, flowed sCaldinC over her words. enc
jr- speech. "W-hy. T-why. there
pr there Just WASH thing about the
three Years. Liddy. II wouldn't ~
ep over again. with our baby born. Ii
Tor DIV. all Of sudden Steve So' like OF
he himself When he came HON" mSh
ed. the way he used 10 com" in llk"
ne choochoo. full Of play, for me k'd
nj and oh, my God.
Ike Annie Annie.
lie was Il new mar, lHddy. II "
my ONLY ten months after he was DO
his and on Of Il clear Sky that they ma
him assistant foreman 4: tho Wor:
i.idd,. aud ain't told I"u ihousa
we times il was was the baby done
.ou T.scd 10 say. Just 20 tease him. II "
Tor his sonny gave him tho raise.
ar. Put il was sin. kept saEit
\nnjr. 4 man should
II didn't care. Liddr. that he d>d
.ou seem 10 love nothing on Gods gre
lIc earth but that child. knew that.
yil. deep down in him 70; him TO kno"
OK. he WAS loving me. too, With every H
,-'n no gave the child Loyin' me for be
rs mother. never cared |
SIS. .iddy; when he cam" huwe evrnln
lou know how big and clean ne c
? look
rim Wasn't = town tain when he wa!
self boy how MAY Wellington used to dr.
he past our house every evening III
swell phaeton just for Giimps"
him in the YARD
can Her and nor long nose, With
;ids her money. Steve couldn't see p
er's that
nar Jus, the Same. y"u wasn't III" O
wa ono could hav" married above {!
icy. Annie
y mover Used 10 care. l'ddE, |
,nu. when ne used 70 come homo "v
,air my after evening and kiss the CO
- = dozen times before hc oven see.
yin Standing by ard waiting Tor min'.
.l,c; never cared. rddG:. 80 long a. nj
ont after nigh' ne walked 'hom" biz
>.ronc aud sfrad>. and my baby 20
al louh tight GoHn INFO his dadd!'s .
liks the, Vas cjs'a;us aud Sgr 10