and else it is for except himself and one of his brothers who was to accompany him part of the way none of the family slept the exhibited deep sorrow and although he made a show of firmness felt now that the crisis was at hand nearly incapable of parting with the boy the conversation of their friends and the cheering effects of the enabled d by the poor scholar them to his loss better than they otherwise would have done and the hope of seeing him one day an ordained priest more than either to them when the night was nearly half spent the mother took a candle and privately withdrew to the room in which the boy slept the youth was fair and interesting to look upon � the locks of his white forehead were divided yet there was on his otherwise open brow a shade of sorrow produced by the coming separation which even sleep could not the mother held the candle gently towards hia face it with one hand lest the light might suddenly awake him she then his long and affectionately whilst the tears fell in showers from her cheeks there you lie she softly sobbed ont in irish the sweet pulse of your mother s heart the flower of our flock the pride of our eyes and the music of our hearth an how can i part you my son sure when i look at your mild face and think that you re the world on your head to rise us oat of our poverty isn t my heart d by tbe scholar a we ll have t jou i goin out or io at or abroad your voice won t be in mj ears nor your eye upon me an thin to of what you may suffer in a land if head on what breast will it lie or who will bind he ribbon of comfort the i taken from a sketch called the irish b the sa a thia � the ia the head the by a very formal serious process called the head this is done b a ribbon the puts round the repeating during the a certain prayer or charm from which the operation ia to derive whole the is performed in the first instance to that its are separated by disease or to speak more plainly that the bones of the head are absolutely opened and that as a natural the head must be much larger than the patient is in a state of health the of the first is marked npon a ribbon after � she the charm that b io remove the and measures the again in order to by a comparison of ths two that the have been closed the charm successful and the removed it is about but be that aa it may the writer of this has the operation performed in such a way aa to � the must aye to detect any appearance d by the pi round it or wipe your fair brow in oh blessed � hunger sickness and sorrow may come you you ll he far from your own an from them thai loves you this melancholy picture was too much for the tenderness of the mother she eat down beside the bed rested her face t her open hand and wept in but bitter grief at this moment his father who probably suspected the cause of lier absence came in and perceived her distress said he in irish also is my son asleep she looked op with streaming eyes as he spoke and replied to him in a manner so exquisitely affecting when the circumstances of the boy and the tender made by the mother are considered � that in point of fact no certainly no irish heart � could withstand it there is an old irish melody in pathos simplicity and beauty � named in irish tha ma s na me � or in english i am asleep and don t me the position of the boy the of the old melody to flash into the mother s d by the poor heart � he simply pointed to as the words in a low melodious murmur but one full of from her lips the old sacred association � for it was one which she had sung for him a thousand times � until warned to by his deepened the tenderness of her heart and id with difficulty whilst held over the candle to gratify the father s heart by a sight of him i was him before my eye she said god knows but it may be the last we ll ever see him our own roof i i can t part him from my then how can i he replied wasn t he my right hand in every th ing when was he from me ever since he took a man s work upon him and when he d finish his own task for the day how kindly he d begin an help mine no it goes to my heart to let him go away upon a plan and i wish he hadn t taken the notion into his head at all it s not too late maybe replied his mother i think it wouldn t be hard to him off of d by i the it the s own heart ie him to lave q he has borrow upon his face where he lies the father looked at the expression of affectionate melancholy which shaded his features as he slept and the perception of the boy s internal against his own domestic in his first determination powerfully touched his heart said he i know the he won t give it up and t would be a pity � maybe a sin � to put him from it let the child get fair play and his if he fails he can come back to us an our 