Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-08-15

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her life. But have you not seen, husband,
that God always makes the orphan happy?
None SO little lonesome as theyl They
come TO make friends o. all The bonny and
sweet things in the world around them,
and all The kind hearts in the world make
friends O them. They come TO know that
God is more especially the father O Them
on earth whose parents be has taken up to
heayen--and therefore il Is that they for
whom SO many have fears, fear not al all
for themselves, but go dancing and singing
along like children whose parents are both
alivei Would it not be SO with our dear
Hannah ? So douce and thoughtful a
chiId-but never sad nor miserable-rea-
10y it IS true 10 sized tears for little, bbss::
as ready to dry them up and break out
into smiles | know moi Why it is, hns-
band, but this night my heart warns to-
ward her beyond usual. The moon and
Issars are at this moment looking down
open her, and she looking up TO them, as
she is glinting homewards over the snow.
| wish she were but here, and taking the
comb cut O. her bonny hair and letting il
all fall down 10 clusters before the fire, to
melt away the cranrench!''
While the parents were thus speaking
OF their daughter, loud SUCH of wind
came suddenly over the cottage, and the
ieafess asb-tree under whose shelter i,
stood, creaked and groaned dismalIy, as
it passed by. The father started up, and
going again TO the door, saw that sudden
change had come over the face of the
night. The moon had nearly disappeared,
and was just visible in dim, yellow,
glimmering den 10 the sky. All the re-
mote stars were obscnred, and only one
or two family seemed in sky that hall
an hour before was perfectly cloudless,
but that was now driven with racks and
mist, and sleet, the whole atmosphere be-
ing in commotion. He stood for a single
moment to observe the direction of this
unforeseen storm, and then hastily asked
for his staff. thought l had been more
weather-wise--a storm is coming down
from the Cairnbraehawse, and we shall
have nothing but wild night" He then
whistled Oh his dog--an old sheep-dog,
too old for its former labonrs--and set off
to meet his daughter, who might then, for
aught he knew, be crossing the Black
moss. The mother accompanied her hus-
band TO the door, and took J long fright
ened look at the angry sky. As she kept
gazing, it became still more terrible. The
last shred of blue was extinguished-the
wind went whirling 10 roaring eddies, and
great flakes Of snow circled about in the
middle air, whether drifted up from the
ground, or driven down from the clouds,
the fear-stricken mother knew not, but
she al least knew, that it seemed nigh,
of danger, despair, and death. " Lord
have mercy on us James, what will be-
come of our poor bairn!'' But her bus-
band heard not her words, for he was al
ready out OF sight in the snow storm, and
she was left to the terror Of her own soul
in that lonesome cottage.
Little Hannah Lee had left her masters
house, soon as the rim of the great moon
was seen by her eyes, that had been long
anxiously watching it from the window,
rising, like a joyful dream, over the
gloomy mountain-tops; and all by herself
she tri2ped along beneath the beauty o.
the silent heaven. Still as she kept as.
cendiug and descending the knobs that lay
10 the bosom of the glen, she sung to her
self song, hymn, or psalm, without
the accompaniment Of the streams, now al
silent 10 the frost; aud ever and anon she
stopped 10 try TO count the stars that lay
10 some more beautiful part Of the sky, OF
gazed on the consultations that she knew
aud called them, 10 her joy, by the name,
they bore among the shepherds. Their,
were none to hear her voice, or see be-
smiles, but the ear a1d eye Of providence
AS on she glided and took her looks from
heaven, she saw her own little Preside
her parents waiting for her arrival-th.
bible opened for worship--her own listl.
room kept so neatly for her, with its mir
ror hanging by the window, 10 which Il
braid her hair by the morning light-heI
bed prepared for her by her mother
hand-the primroses in her garden peep
ing through the snow--old Tray, VIII,
ever welcomed her home with his din
white eyes--the poney and the COW -
friends all, aud inmates of that happy
household. So stepped she along, Will,
the snov-diamonds glittered around he,
feet, and the frost wove wreath of luciC
pearls around her forehead.
She had now reached the edge Of thu
BIack-moss, which lay half way between
her masters and her fathers dwelling
when she heard loud noise coming dow
Glen-Scrae, aud in few seconds she fei
on her face some fakes Of snog. Sh'
looked up the Glen, and saw the snow
storm coming down, fast as a flood. ShI
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