convenient for her with a cow given by the President. None others need apply."
It was but the very next day after the "ad" appeared that a wagon drove down to Twinrip, with the father and mother of the baby.
Didn't they cry and kiss and hug the lost, the found child! They lived on a farm in Palestine, a few miles up the river. A little stream ran into the Ohio close by their door, and the baby was often tied in her carriage and placed on the bridge under the charge of a faithful dog. It was a great amusement for her to watch the ducks and geese in the water. A sudden rise swept bridge and all away. Search had been made everywhere, but nothing had been heard of little Minnie. It had seemed like a return from death to read Connor's advertisement.
And was not the brave lad that saved their child a hero! Again and again they made him tell all about the rescue. Of course they had to take their daughter home, but they made Connor promise to visit them at Palestine.
Soon after the happy parents left, a watch came by express to the Magan homestead, and when Connor opened the hunting-case cover, after changing its
position till he could see something besides his own twisted face reflected in it, and after wiping away the spray that would come into his eyes, he read:
CONNOR MAGAN.
From the grateful parents of MINNIE RIVERS.
Was not her name a prophecy?