Snapping His Heartstrings.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 272, 13 June 1888, Page 3

Snapping His Heartstrings.

'On, paw !' wuilod out a big Aikansas boy, running to meet his sire, who had been to ' the store ' six miles tnvay to trado six dozen eggs for ' hall" a pound o' brown sugar an' the balance: in smokiu' terbackcr.' ' Oli, paw , the hou&o i* done burned dow n to the ground '' ' eou don'l sa;\ !' said the old man with a start, ' Wai, wal, sonny ; it wasn't nothin' I)ul a oh* slab shanty, noliow, ;in' we kin all turn to an' build another one as good in a few days-.' ' But all our duds is done burnt up, 100, paw 'That so: Wal, that's bad: but they wa'iit \eiy good duds, nohow ; and we j don'l need diuU much out hyar in the wi'd'ue-s Them we got on our baelo'll last a good while yit '' , ' Hut maw got awiul bad burnt qe f tin' a ; tew things out : all her hair got burnt oil', an' she ea\ n't see outen one- eye. ' 'Wal, I'd thought your maw'd been ■•spijer'n to uit burnt like that. Hut tnen, j l.a'r'll <now out again, an" if got one good eye left it's ir.oro'n some wimniin has : an' one eye's all a body needs to see the little theie i-» going on 'round hyar !' 1 Hut tho Keow an' our mule was. burnt up in the shed baek'n tho house !' ' Wal, I'm blamed if that ain't, tough ! Hut thai old keow's elar dry now, an' ne\e"didgi\e much, nohow, and was too tough tor beet. An' tlmL blamed old mule got what he dcsirud for Uickm' me over the tenee Li^t spring. I allus said I'd irit e\ en w i(li him !' 1 Hut, oh. paw i' l oared the bo\ , turning pale, '}om spotted bull-pup got burnt clean ler ashes.' The --tiicken man, hisheart'.s eoiu touched at lail , loaned again&t a tiee tor suppoit, clapped hi 1 - hands to his wildly-throbbing held and heart, and gasped out — ' Hreak it tow me gintly, son : break it few to me gintly. Veou say my spotted bull-pup's burnt to fliudeis '' Yes '' (Ut me a little somethin' tew drink, boy — soukthin'tew stirldy me ! I'erncd if this ain't trouble ! This is wat \ u maj call snappin' a fellei's heartstrinus ! That pupwa'ii thalf in hi~pi ime\ it, but he could liekany* liin'mihi^ eountty. If he'd been spared he'd made the nobli-.st figlitin' dog ole Aiknnsis. e\er tinned out. An' he's gone! Sou, you light out homo an' tell em I'll diay erloncr hiuieby. ' ■ t ief like mine wants ler be all alone toi a Hit's too -acred ter anybod\ ter sfan an' gap at '"