The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-11-25

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doctor, "Where shah I 60 to, for T
don't want to go too far away so
that you can't attend to my child"
Then the doctor named little by-lane
few miles outside Of the city, which
was a favorite camping ground Of the
Gypsies, and said: "Go there and I
will come this afternoon. and attend
to your child" My grandfather turn
ed round with a heavy heart that day,
and finding the old lane, pitched his
tent at the end of it, and then turn
ing to my grandmother, he said, "You
stay here in tho tent with the four
children that are well, and will take
Emily, the sick child, and turn the
wagon round 80 that you Acan see into
the open door, and we win call that
the hospital, and ! will stay there and
nurse. Emily the best know how. /"
When the doctor came to see the sick
girl he discovered that the eldest boy,
named Ezekiel, also had the smallpox,
and he was taken over the line and
placed in the wagon so that my grand
father had now two patients. My
grandmother would 60 to the village
and get what food she could, and then
would prepare it. over the campfire,
and carry it half way to the wagon,
she would lay it on the ground, and
call for her husband to come for the
food. She dare not 60 any nearer, for
tine reason that she might get the
dreaded disease and so take. it back to
the other children in the tent, and
as her husband would come for the
food she would inquire about the sick
children. Sometimes when she would
rall for my grandfather there would
be no response probably he>was busy
attending to the children, or perhaps
re had gone for walk, and then in
the anxiety Of her loving heart she
would wonder if the children were
worse, or if her husband was sick, too.
And then she would walk up and down
the lane in distracted condition,
wringing her hands and crying, "My
poor children will die and ! shall not
be able to go near them" You could
not keep mother very long away
from her two first born children. And
unconsciously she got closer and closer
to the line until the day came when
she was sick, and when the doctor was
sent for, he had to tell them the aw.
ful news that grandmother had the
smallpox, too. Ny grandfather was
TOW in a dilemma, for he had now to
look after both sick and well, and hs
could not keep them seperate an,
longer. So he hitched up the horses
to the wagon and pulled it alongside
Of the tent, and there they lay side By
side. A few days afterward a littl.
baby was born in the home, and nov
my grandfather had his wife and baby
and his two eldest children all will
the smallpox. God only knows JUS
now he stood it. For thirty days ant
thirty nights he never took his clothe.
Of, and never eaw o human person
to speak to except the physician a.
he made his calls.
One day going into the wagon ant
noticing how chin his wife was get
ting and noticing the hollows in he,
eyes and the sunken cheeks, he trie,
to smooth the clothes to make he,
more comfortable, she raised hersel
up in bed and putting her arms aroun,
his neck, she said, "Cornelious, I an
going to leave you soon. want 20,
K promise me before ! go that 20,
will be better father to. the children
want you to promise me that 20,
won't drink 30 much" Promise her,
he would have cut OF his right arm
II he could have helped her. And the,
not able % contain himself any longe
and fearful Of breaking down in he
presence, he ran ont Of the wsgo,
ana threw bimsslf On e. ground b