Busse, H. R.

Just at quitting time recently at the Scott Mine, the little 5 years old daughter of H. R. Busse, mine watchman, disappeared. The entire mine crew joined her anxious parents in a search for the child. She couldn't have fallen into a shaft, for men were working underground at the time. She couldn't have fallen into a drill hole, for they were all covered. Had she been covered in a chat slide? Or, those hogs? Those giant hogs her father owned. Someone thought she may have been eaten by them. After what seemed to be ages to the worried searchers, the child was found beneath the feed box in a manger of the barn, sound asleep. She had been peeved because her brothers were allowed to go to town to a movie while she stayed home, and so the little girl had climbed into the manger and cried herself to sleep.