Year: 1879

heard the heavy furniture rolled away
and the door opened. The nurse ap.
peared, but with no dead child in her
arms : the little things arms were
clasped lovingly round her neck as she
pressed him to her bosom. The mourn
full assemblage was turned into one OF
joyful congratulation. The woman
would never speak of the means she
used to restore the boy to consciousness;
indeed, although she became from that
hour a resident in the family, and
trusted and valued friend, she forebere
ever referring to the incident in which
she played SO important part. She
lived to see the rescued child married
and with family of his own around
him.


aThe heroine of the second anecdote
was first cousin to the above rescued
child "a young lady of 13 or II years
old. After a somewhat protracted i'll
ness, she, to all appearance, died. The
mother literally refused to believe it,
although the doctors and the other in
mates of the house saw no reason to
doubt the fact. The funeral was ar
ranged, the grave made, and the speci-
fed three days had come to an end.
The mother had never left her daugh-
ter's body; she had tried every availa-
BILE means to restore her, but to no
avail. As the hour approached for the
ceremony to take place, she became
more and more distracted and more
desperate in her efforts to convince her.
self that life still fingered. AS
Last resource. she went for some
strong elixir, and taking out
of her pocket fruit-knife with
two blades-one blade of gold, the 9TH
er of silver-proceeded by continual
working to force the gold blade between
the teeth; when inserted, she poured a
drop of the elixir on the blade, then
another and another, and tried to make
it enter the mouth; but it seemed only
to trickle back again and down the
chin. Still she persevered, becoming
more desperate as the moments few on
to the hour, now SO near, when her
child was to be taken from her. At the
very last, when she was beginning to
dread the very worst, she thought she
detected slight spasm in the throat,
and, on closer examination, she became
aware that the liquid was no longer re-
turning as it did at first. She contin-
ued the application, every moment feel
ing more excited and more joyfully
hopeful. Presently the action of fswal-
lowing became more decided; she felt a
feeble fiutter at the heart, and, before
long, the eyes gradually opened and
closed again; but the breathing be-
came quietly regular, and the mother
was satisfied that now no one would dis
pute the fact; so she called her house
hold round her, and proved to them the
joyful fact that her child was restored
to her, and that no funeral procession
would leave the house that day. Be-
fore long the child fully recovered.
The fruit-knife, with its two blades, is
to this day the most precious heirloom
in the family possessions.


The recovered one lived to form a
deep attachment for her cousin (the
rescued boy of the first story, possibly
from the fact of the strange similarity
in their early history; but his affections
were already engaged by the young
lady whose story we are now going to
relate, the facts of which resemble some.
what those already told. This young
person was no longer child when
death seemed to claim her, but had
reached the age of 18 or 10. She had
been suffering from an infectious and
dangerous fever, and when the crisis ar.
rived, instead of rallying, she, to all ap.
pearance, died. It was the custom in
the district in which she lived to dress
manageable girls as brides after death
and to bury them in their bridal cos
tune. The young lady in question was
therefore laid out as bride, IN white
dress, orange-fower wreath and veil.


The day before the funeral, the
most intimate friend of the deceased
who had been on visit at a distance
came home, and insisted with floods O.
tears that she should be allowed to SEE
her. The mother most decidedly re
fused, explaining that her daughter had
been the victim of an infectious fever
and that she could not allow tht
daughter of friend to run the risk o
catching it. The young lady persisted
and would not leave the house; but th'
mother, much as it panied her. was firm
in her refusal. However, in the evening
the young friend, being on the watch
saw the paid watcher leave the room tx
go down to her supper, leaving the doc
unlocked. She Immediately entered
and, having reverently kissed he
friends pale face, knelt down by tn
side of the bed to pray. There wer
candles at each side of the bed at it
head, and two placed on table at it
foot.


"The poor girl was deep in her pray
ers, when suddenly, without any move
ment or warning, the dead girl sat uI
and said, in sharp tone of voice
'Que fait t,I la ?'-(What are you dc
ing there?) Startled and Mortified t.
the last degree, her friend sprung fror
her knees, and, in trying to rush out @
the room, upset the table on which tn
candles were placed, and became wedge
between it and the bed, her head down
mOous IhCAoI1OdulJ OAthuSiCu, Oh
shrieked loudly for help. The suppose
dead girl had keen sense of the ridicu
lous, and, being weakened from illness
she went off into hysterical fit c
laughter; and the more her poor frien
kicked and screamed, the more sh
kept up the duet by peals of Laughter
The mother and household, hearing tn
noise, rushed up as quickly as possible
The mother was the first to enter th
room, and, being quick-witted woma,
at once comprehended the situation
She flew to her daughter, and, angril
ordering her to be quiet and not laug
at her friends misfortune, she presse
her to her bosom, and, hastily teal
ing off wreath and veil, droppe
them on the floor and kicked thel
under the bed; then, calling assistance
she carried the girl into anothe
room, and put her to bed. The docto
who had been at once sent for, ordere
her to be taken from home without d,
lay, and they started as soon as ws
possible. She perfectly recovered; bu
strangely enough, could never call I
mind the startling events of her retur
to life. She afterwards married tI
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