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THE LAST urRRINc

FROM Vfzage Taies.' by Stacy @. Pssts, E.o
IL was Saturday night, and the wi.
dow Of the Pine Cottsge, sat by her
blazing faggots, with her Eve tsttered
children al her side, endeavoring bv
Listening to the artirssuess Of their ia
veniie prattle. 10 dissipate the heavy
gloom that pressed upon her mind.-
For long year, her owe feeble hands
had provided far her helpless family.
Tor she had no supporter--she thought
she bad no friend IN all the wide world
That mysterious Providence, the wis.
dom OF whose ways are above human
comprehension, had visited her with
evasiing sickness, and her little means
had oscome exhausted. IL was now.
too, mid winter, add the seow Law hea.
w and deep through all the surrouad
ing forests, while storms seemed GA
ther,og IN the heavens, and the driving
wind roared through the bending pines,
and rocked her puny mansion. The
last herring smoked upon the Goals be.
fore her; II was che only article Of food
che possessed; and no wonder If her
desoiate state wakeaed ia he's lone bo.
som all the anxieties Of mother. when
she looked upon her children, add 40
wonder, forlcrn as she was. If she suf.
fered the hesrt-sweIlings Of despair to
rise, even though che knew that He
whose promise is 10 the widow and the
orphan, cannot forget his word. Pro.
violence had. many years before, taken
away her eldest son, who vent from
his forest home 20 try his fartuus on
the seas. since which she knd heard no
note or tidings Of him, and in latter
times had, by the hsnd Of death, been
deprived Of the companion and STAFF of
worldly pilgrimage, in the person Of
her husband. Yet 10 this hour she had
been upborne; she had not only been
able 70 provide for her little Cock, but
had never lost one opportunity Of min.
istering to the wa0ts Of the miserable
and the destitute.
The indolenI may we'll bear with
poverty while the ability to gain Q sus.
tenanee remains. The individual who
has bat his own wants 90 supply, may
meet with fariitude the winter Of wants \
has elections are not wounded. his
heart not wrung. The most desolass
IN POpulOus cities may hope, for ehari-
~ has not quite closed her head end
heart, end shut her eyes on misery
But the mother Of helpless and de.
psnding cbildren--far from the reach
Ut hsmnn charity, has none Of these 10
console her. And such an one vas
the widow Of the Piae Cottages ysl,
as she bent over the IRE a0d iook up
che lsss seanty remnaBt Of feed Co
spsssd before he's ehiIaSss, hss spirits
seemed 60 brighten up 80 BY sams sud
dsa and mystssi0ps impalse. Cow
psF's bssatiful lines came useaIled ihis
her mind
"Judgs mol tiss isrf by feshls ssas,
Bui tFust bina for hts grnse,
Bshiod . frovning Providence.
hs hides smilsag fase."
The smokisg herring vas scarcely
laid upon the table, when q geusis Fnn
e the deer and Iced hapking q the
doE, attracted the attsnsisu Of the e. |
mily. Tka ebiidrsn new te opsn il,
and z weaFicd travsiieg. ia fsfisFed
garmeuts, sod sppaFCatly indiaessat
health, catered and legged iodgisg. |
and . moutAfst Of foSdI .fof,' ssid be,
sil IL twsnty-four hoeTs since tasted |
bread The sidow's heart bled anew
at q fresh complexities II distretses
See her sympathies fingered aot aEoaad
hag hrsside, She hesitsted oct sven