The Wingham Times, 1885-06-19, Page 7amoi•awr
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Vitoor three minutes, , See here,
Davie, parl.i.ig, I've go. to go and
get a doctor to come and see you.
I've got to go just. up to Bassets, you
know, and 1. needW.t, have to be
gone—'
'0, Minty, don't leave ; don't
dots% 1'
40li, just for two or three minutes,
won't you lot rag, dear ? 1 want to
get the dootor, so lie can give you some
medicine to get you well. Don't you
kno v, Davy 2'
'0, Minty, dant you leave !
0, Minty, darling, don't don't 1'
She reasoned with him, and coaxe&
him, for a lung time, but it .was of no
use. All she could get in return was
that one despairing cry : 'Don't leave
me 1'
Finally she gave Lt up and sat look. .
ing straight ahead, her beautiful face
held rig;c1 with thought, There's (
something got to be done,' she mur-
tutilied.
After a little she rose, he clutched
at,lkekdress and set up that ;,pitiful
cry again.
'netthere, dear, I'm not goiug.
'm not going to Bassets. I'm just
.goini, out of 1;2 e room ksecond, 1'11
leave the door open.'
She ran •out of the house to the
barn. There stood the old sulky that
David and her had laughed at on the
first night of, their arrival.
She dragged the sulk e out into the
road and stopped close to the door.
Then she ran in, laughing. 'Corns,
Davy, darling, you are going to rUe.
The carriage is ready,'
Slit got ( he poor fellow into his
clothes, talking merrily all the time,
Then she helpedhim out of the hose
and into the sulky. She fitted up a
bed of hay in it and co tered him with
her Shawl.
Ileek**as so exhausted, and near
fainting that at first he hardly noted
anything. When she placed herself
betweerLthe shafts, and began drag-
ging him slowly out of the yard, ho w
ever he set up from behind a pitiful,
sobbing cry t • ,
'0, Minty, you ainta dragging me ?
Let me get out. 1 won't have it.
I1inty stop—you must stop !
She turned around an' looked at
him 'Davie, if you don't lay back an
keep stil', HI—leave you.
He did lav hack at that and said no
more. Indeed i1e,e was too weak to
prolong the struggle. Minty:Rressed
along. Her pretty face was a deep
pink all over ; the prespiraticn
down her tleeki. .
It was three miles to Bessets.
There was not one house all the way,
and the road was not much travelled.
After a little while David seemed
asleep, or in o. stupor. He lay very
dill, at auv rate, and never spoke.
Every little while Minty looked around
to see V he was sefe. Her face was
wonderfnl with thove slut, strong
-patience shiring through it. Those
days of watching over the honest,
distressed soul, whose love for her
was so unquestioning, .had caused all
the good elements in her nature to
-work out a change in it. ibis was
Minty's true flower time. Everything
worthy in her was awake, and astir,
and gloving. She dragging her sick
husband like a beast of burden over
those.routili country road, was as per -
feet a woman as she ever Would be in
this well&
She reached Bassets about noon.
She drew 'the sulky into the yard of a
large, white hoae, the first that she
cam.kete, and knocked on the door.
*Crn §u—tell me— where—the
doctor lives 2' s1i aoked the man who
opened it.
She was leaning ag,ainsethe house,
panting ; her face was almost purple.
Wt., man Olood staring. He a 48
old and large, with sunburnt face and
white hair.
'\V'iiat in Creation,' said he at last,
+does this mean ? Who axe ye, aey
way ? 'What ails him I poithing at
David lying back with deadly face in
the/ sulky.
Minty told hint the pitiful little
tory int few panting word. Then
she asked again where the. doctor
tied. The felt almost as though hor
strangth was failing hor, now that tho
streak W as so .r over.
TH
'You don't mean to say,' Said the
man, 'that you dragged that sulky all
the way here ? It's good three miles,'
'VS, it wa'nt much
(Goa Lord ! Mother, come here 1
lils wife and daughter, who had
been peeping, came to the. door with
wondering tees.
'just look here, mother 1 This
young woman's come all the way from
the old Shaw house'below here. Drag-
ged her ruck husband in that 'ere aulky
to see the doctor, she says.
'Won't you please tell me where
the doctor lives ? asked poor Minty.
'What's your name?' questioned the
old woman,
'May.'
'They've come over a hundred mile,
looking for work, she says.' the man
went on, 'and they've beeu
dowu at the old Shaw house; and she
wanted to get the doctor, and he
woula'nt let her leave him, so she
dragged4 him here in the sulky.
'Does the doctor live far from here
asked, Minty, piteouely.
'I-Io's asleep, aint he I asked the
woman.
guess so— I want to get to: the
doctor's'
'An you dragged him,, all the way,
yourself ?'
All of a sudden the women stepped,
forward toward Minty, and away, as it
were, from her New England, suspi-,
cion and curiosity,.
'You poor thing: said she, with the
tears streaming down her. sallow
cheeks and her. Wide, thin , mouth
working. '1 neyer :heard anything like
it in my life, You:conie right in, and
we'll get him in, and then Cyrus will
go for the doctor. Mary. you can go
get the .bect ir, the spare room ready.'
The daughter went in wiping her
eyes. She was thin, and sallow, like
.her mother, and ,wore a black oahoo,
gowu Her own husband. was dead,
and she had come here to live with her
father and mother. While, she was
making up the bed in the best bed-
room, her tears dropping down on the
white sheets.
'1 would have done as much;for him
if he had needed it whilst he lived.'
she sobbed to herself. .
Iu a little while poor Davie 'May
was lyicg comfortably in that clean,
cool bed. Minty was resting and they
had sent for the doctor He was a
skilful man for a country town, and
did his best foc David for his wife's
ske.
The .tpry ot the journey in the *Icy
spread fast through Bassets. Wlit,t,
ever,there was uf sweet romance.
whatever there was of sweet human
sympathy in those simple, country
folks, was awakened. Poor, pretty,
faulty 'Minty, dragging the sulky with
her sick. husband in it, three miles to
Bessets. in the heat and dust, was to
figure henceforth as the heroine of the
unwritten folk -lore songs, which are
bands down,froth mother to daughter.
Everybody Wits kind to the poor
young couple. When David began to
mend,.and there was more opportunity
for them, there was no end to the
kindly swvicoswhich were proffered.
One day when they had been there
about five weeks, and David waa,de-
cidedly convalessent, Mrs. Marsh, the
woman who had taken them in, was
standing at her door,, talking to a
neighbor, who had just brought over
somecustard for the sick man'
eygs she said, 'he's got through
the worst of it now, if he's careful.
'You are going to keep them for a
while longer 2'
'Keep them I 1 guess 1 an! Fm
going to keep them until he gets real
well. She's the most grateful person
yea ever seen, and drew:U(21.y afraid of
making trouble. Stu) . keeps saying
the guesses he is tenet well enough
for them to be starting. But 1 tell
her, ; you're going to stay just
where you are till he's able to be out.'
'I heard Sampson was going to let
him have wdrk in the tub factory; as
soon as he gets well,'
Yes; he came over shout it If
they wern`t tickled, There going to
live upstairs in Mrs. Eaton's house.
They've got sate things they left in
the place they used to live in, and they
are going to send for them. He keeps
fretting became she has not gut any
more clothes hero. He seems to think
a sight on her ; wants her to have
everything and be dressed ay. They
seentjust as happy as the day is long,
new. Hark 1 there she to, singing'
Minty's voice rang out frons the
best bethrootn, 'dear and. Pweet, in a.
joyful psahr tune, The two women
stood, Listening.
cleelaro,r said the neighbor, Anally,
'she has a pretty voice, hasn't .she
All I can think of is a bluebird sing.
ing. when he Conies back in the
spriag,'
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