A Touching Story

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 123, 6 April 1893, Page 4

A Touching Story

A touching fatality from the frost h;is occurred in a village near Warsaw. A peasant and his wife had gone to attend a wedding party at some distance, and wore belated in returning. They left their little dwelling to the care' of two small children, aged respectively six and four, both boys. About nightfall the children appear to have gone out to amuse themselves in the snow, and in the meantime the door which opened outwardly, had become hard frozen in the jambs, resisting nil the feeble elibrts of the little ones to regain access to the hut. When the frozen bodies of the small victims Avere found it was noticed that the older child had, in tender solicitude, removed his bast shoes and drawn them over the small feltclad feet of his little brother, leaving himself barefooted. The younger child's body, with fingers in his mouth and tears frozen in icicles on the blanched cheeks was clasped in the rigid embrace of the devoted elder brother.