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Show 5. The baby xjas s t i l l crying xihen he opened the cabin door. He couldn't see anything for a minute. The only xiindoxj- had been boarded up for the x^inter. no x?ent in, stepped to one side, and in the fading light from the door he sax? the cradle. The baby started to cry harder, and now he could see i t s feet kicking. He x-ialked over to the stove and held his hand out over i t , then put his hand flat doxm on it-stone cold. No bread had been baked in i t this morning. He looked around for something to x?rap the baby in. Taking his jacket off he x?rapped i t snuggly around the baby tying the sleeves together across i t s chest. Bill carrier! the baby doxm to the xiagon. He started to untie the horse and then noticed how heavily loaded xrith boxes the small xjagon was. He propped the baby carefully against the hitching post, jumped up in the xragon>and, pushing the boxes to the back of i t , he dumped them onto the ground. The road to his shack vss upgrade most of the xra.y a f t e r you left the r i s e this cabin had been built upon, and a loaded xjagon xrould sloxr him almost to a stop. Bill untied the horse, picked up the baby, and boosting i t up on the spring board seat, he climbed into the x-jagon and sat doxm by the baby. Holding i t on the seat with one hand, he took the reigns in the other, slapped the horse's haunches smartly xrith them u n t i l i t broke into a t r o t . Then seeing a doxm grade ahead he shouted, "Giddy upJ" |
