n a good fire to warm him; but the morning passed, and no sign of
him. She now got very unasy, and mintioned to his brother what she felt,
and Tom went up to the still-house to know if he was there, or to try if
he could get any tidings of him. But, by the laws! when he heard that
he had left that for home the night before, and he in a state of liquor,
putting this, and what he had heard and seen in his house together, Tom
knew that something must have happened him. He went home again, and on
his way had his eye about him, thinking that it would be no miracle, if
he'd meet him lying head-foremost in a ditch; however, he did not, but
went on, expecting to find him at home before him.

"In the mane time, the neighbors had been all raised to search for him;
and, indeed, the hills were alive with people. It was the second day
after, that Sally was standing, looking out at her own door towards the
mountains, expecting that every man with a blue coat upon him might be
Larry, when she saw a crowd of people coming down the hills. Her heart
leaped to her mouth, and she sent Dick, the eldest of the sons, to meet
them, and run back with word to her if he was among them. Dick went
away; but he hadn't gone far when he met his uncle Tom, coming on before
the rest.

"'Uncle,' says Dick, 'did you get my father? for I must fly back with
word to my mother, like lightning.'

"'Come here, Dick,' says Tom; 'God help you, my poor bouchal (*
boy)--Come here, and walk alongside of me, for you can't go back to your
mother, till I see her first--God help you, my poor bouchal, it's you
that's to be pitied, this blessed and sorrowful day;' and the poor
fellow could by no means keep in the tears. But he was saved the trouble
of breaking the dismal tidings to poor Sally; for as she stood watching
the crowd, she saw a door carried upon their shoulders, with something
like a man stretched upon it. She turned in, feeling as if a bullet had
gone through her head, and sat down with her back to the door, for fraid
she might see the thruth, for she couldn't be quite sure, they we're at
such a distance. At last she ventured to take another look out, for she
couldn't bear what she felt within her, and just as she rose and came
to the door, the first thing she saw coming down the hill a little above
the house, was the body of her husband stretched on a door--dead. At
that minute, her brother-in-law, Tom, just entered, in time to prevent
her and the child sh