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The first speaker was Nick Ribsam, and the second was the father, the mother immediately adding: "Why the poor child came here is more than I can understand, but He doeth all things well." "Oh, mother! Oh, father! Oh, Nick! It is I, Nellie! I am so glad to see you!" And the little wanderer flew like the wind along the bank of the creek.
Happily there are few little girls in this favored land who are called upon to go through such trials as fell to the lot of little Nellie Ribsam when she was but eight years old. It created much talk in the neighborhood, and she was complimented on the bravery she had shown, while the glad father became more confirmed than ever in his favorite belief that God helps them that help themselves.
But it was in such a crisis as this that little Nellie Ribsam showed that she had not forgotten the teaching of her parents: "God helps them that help themselves." With scarcely a second's pause, she whirled on her heel and dashed down the stream with the utmost speed at her command.
It had become like night around them, except that, as has been shown, the gloom was of that peculiar lurid nature which can hardly be described, and can never be forgotten by those who saw it. Even Nick Ribsam was impressed. It could not have been otherwise, for any one would have been lacking in natural sensibility had he failed to be awed by the singular sight.
With all this, he found opportunity to practice with the rifle and to prepare his lessons for the morrow, so that it need not be said he had little idle time on his hands. On a bright Saturday morning in November, when the smoky haze of the delicious Indian summer overspread forest, stream, and country, Sam Harper came to the house of Nick Ribsam according to appointment.
But he was up again like a flash, and toiling with might and main. Rafts as generally constructed, are not capable of much speed, and though Nick Ribsam got out all there was in the one which he had managed, it was not to be expected that he could compare with the velocity of a strong, healthy bear. "He's coming, Nick!
Nick Ribsam also thought the indications pointed that way. The belief that they were close upon the bear threw the boys into a flutter of excitement, and they walked slowly as they approached the tree, up which the hound was barking. As has been stated, it was what was known as the red oak, very large, with branching limbs at no great distance from the ground. "I see him!
The elder Ribsam took several puffs from his pipe, his eyes fixed dreamily on the fire, as though in deep meditation. His wife sat in her chair on the other side, and was busy with her knitting, while perhaps her thoughts were wandering away to that loved Fatherland which she had left so many years before, never to see again. Nellie had grown sleepy and gone to bed. Mr.
Ribsam was leaning on the gate-post, as was a favorite custom of his, and the tobacco smoke ascended in clouds and rings, as though he was a locomotive tugging hard at a train, with the wheels continually slipping. He looked at the boys without stirring or speaking, as they passed out the gate and gently closed it, so as not to jar the old gentleman leaning upon it.
The oak barred his progress, stopping the head and horns when they were almost against the body. Then the buck reared and struck again, trying all manner of maneuvers which his instinct suggested, but providentially none of them succeeded. All this time Nick Ribsam, who had been so badly bruised, was oblivious of the efforts against his life.
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