Show A Story of Abraham Prom the New York when I gave my Bennie to his that not a father in all this broad land made so precious a gift not The dear boy only slept a just one little minute at his post I know that was for Bennie never dozed over a How prompt and reliable he I know he only fell asleep one little second he was so and not that boy of he was as tall as aDd only and now they shoot him because he was found asleep when doing sentinel Twenty-four hours the telegram said only twenty-four is Bennie will with his heavenly said let us God is very should be Bennie I am a to think I never used this great right and he held it out so proudly before me my when it needed Palsy it rather than keep it at the my I God keep you God has kept I and the farmer repeated these as if in spite of his his heart doubted the apple of his doubt it Blossom sat near them with She had not shed a Her anxiety had been so concealed that no one had noticed She had occupied herself mechanically in the household Now she answered a tap at the kitchen it to receive from a Jr's hand a is from was all she It was like a message from the Owen took the M could not break the account of his trembling fing- and held it toward helpless of a minister opened and real as ther this you I shall be in rt seemed awful to tal Ve about it so iv that has no me but that I may meet my death like a I thought it might have been my and that when I it would be fighting but to be shot down like a dog for nearly betraying it to die for neglect of I wonder that the very thought not kill me But I shall not disgrace I am going to write you all about and when I am you may tell my I can not know I promised Carr's I would look after her when he fell I did all I could for He was not strong when he was ordered back into the and the day before that I carried all his besides my on our Towards night we went in on double and though the luggage began to feel very everybody else was and as for if I had not lent him an arm now and he would have dropped by the I was all tired out when we came into and then it was Jemmie 's turn to be and I would take his but I was too I could not have kept awake if a gun had been pointed at my but I did not know it until- until it was too be interrupted knew Bennie was boy to carelessly at his tell me today that I have a short given to me by circumstances to write to our good colonel he only does his he would gladly save me if he could and do not lay my death up against The poor boy is and does nothing but beg and entreat them to let him die in my cannot hear to think of mother and Comfort them Tell them I die as a brave boy and when the war is they will not be ashamed of as they must be God help it is very hard to God seems near and dear to not at all as if he wished me to perish for but as if he felt sorry for his broken-hearted and would take me to he with him and my Savior in a A deep sigh hurst from Owen's he said in the early I shall see the cows all coming home from and precious little Blossom stand on the back waiting for but I shall never come God bless you Forgive your poor Late that night the door of the opened softly and a little figure glided and down foot path that led to the road by the She seemed rather flying than turning her head neither to the right nor the looking only now and then to and folding her as if in Two hours the same young girl stood at the Mill watching the coming of the night train and the as he reached down to lift her into the wondered at the tear-stained face that was upturned toward the bright lantern he held in his A few questions and ready answers told him and no father could have cared more tenderly for his only child than he for our little She was on her way to to ask President Lin coln for her brother's She had stolen leaving only a note to tell where and why she had She had brought Ben-nie's letter with no kind like the President's could refuse to be melted by The next morning they reached New and the conductor hurried her on to Every might be the means of saving her brother's And in an incredibly short Blossom reached and hastened immediately to the The President had but just seated himself to the task of overlooking and signing important without one word of the softly and down-east eyes and folded stood before my he in his cheerful do you Bennie 's please faltered Who is They are ing to shoot him for sleeping at his and Lincoln ran his eye over the papers before It was a fatal You it was at a time of special Thousands of lives might have been lost for his culpable my father replied poor Ben-nie was so and Jemmie so Ho did the work of anil it was Jemmie's not but Jemmie was too and Bennie never thought about that he was is this you Come here I do not and the kind man caught as at what seemed to be a Justification of an Blossom went to ho put his hand tenderly on her and turned up the anxious face towards How tall he and he was President of t lie United A dim thought of this kind passed for a moment through but she told her simple and straightforward and handed Lincoln Bennie 's letter He read it taking up his wrote a few hasty and rang his Blossom heard this order given this dispatch at The President then turned to the girl and my and tell that father of who could approve his country's even when it took the life of a child like that Abraham Lincoln thinks the life far too precious to be Go or wait until Bennie will need a change after he has so bravely faced he go with bless said Blossom and who shall doubt that God heard and the Two days after this the young soldier came the House his little He was called into the President's private and a fastened upon the Lincoln then soldier that could carry a sick comrade's and die act po of his and Blossom took their way to their Green Mountain A crowd gathered at the Mill Depot to welcome them back and as Farmer Owen's hand grasped that of his tears flowed down his cheeks and he was heard to say Lord be |