Beadle's Frontier Series #25: Indian Jim—A Tale of the Minnesota Massacre — page 17: what you’re looking at

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—_— UNCLE JOHN AND THE ARTIET. > ie | that. three persons occupied his wagon, and he ‘eats ange i ; pected their identity. “Whoa, Dolly, whoa!” and he stepped quietly forth ad teok the horse by the bridle. ‘ Is that you, Adolphus ?” “Tell me whether you have a firm hold of the horse ¢fuore , Trepiy. Yes, it’s I, Uncle John, come to see you. sg '. And glad, indeed, I am ; jump out; run right in the hous —~give us your:hand—here’s your valise ; run onin. [Fl be there as soon as I put away Dolly.” ‘Phe three travelers—if young Brainerd may be classec a@ ie eaeeae not slow to follow his invitation, where they met @ most cordial greeting from the lady-like, genial Mrs. Erai- re : nerd. Maggie had left-the piano upon hearing their approuch, and sprung forward to meet her brother and friend Marian; but she shrunk back upon encountering a stranger, It wae not until his name was pronounced that she recognized in him the playmate of ber childhood. The-artist held out his hand, and greeted her in his free, off-hand manner, that tended m chy to-dispel her embarrassment. | -“ We waited supper for you,” said Uncle John, entering the. door, “ and it is not. necessary to ask you whether you hi a ‘any appetites.” ' “Tt will not take me long to demonstrate that fact to you,” | | said Halleck, laughingly. “Marian. there, has given me such ~ 8 shaking that I lost my appeute altogether for a time; but if ia slowly returning again.” : “It was a bountifid meal before which they all sat, and there : were keen appetites that insured justice being done it. . Uucle John abounded with sly humor, and was one of those excep-, tional persons who could tell a funny story without even ag much as smiling at it himself. Young Brainerd, modest and manly, inherited the same fun-loying propensity, but it was — yore upon ‘the surface, and more demonstrative in its charac- _ ter. Mrs. Brainerd; mild and dignified, merely smiled, and, when her own family exhibited undue elation in their manner, interposed a quiet reproof, which, it must We confessed, had . fittle effect upon her husband. - Young Maggie was modest and retiring, scarcely speaking,.except when directly appeaied = : : - to, although Halleck, in his free, self-possessed manner, occa — sionally succeeded ee @ remark from her. Nothing — Eomichoo Ss a