The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1840-02-01

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/ might have managed him differently: |
might have got him off it-gently, may
be: but the pride got the better of me, ,and
] thought Of the line I came OF, and how
had married him who wasn't my equal.
and such nonsense, which always breeds
disturbance betwixt married people; and
| used to rave, when, maybe, it wouldhave
been wiser ii had reasoned. Any way,
things didn't go smooth-not that he neg
lectcd his employment: he was industrl-
GUS, and sarry enough when the fault was
done; still he would come home "ttcn the
worse FIR ,rink-ani now that he's dead
and gone, and no finger is stretchedto ne
but in scorn or haired, think may be !
might have done better; but, G I'd defend
nc, the last was hard To hear "OE!, boys"
said Ellen, 'if you had only heard her
voice when she said that, AMI seen her
face--pnor ould Lady Stacy, no wonder
she hated the drop, no wonder she dashed
down the whiskey."
"You kept this mighty close, Eilep,"
said Nike; 81 never heard it before"
Il did not like coming over it," she re-
piled; "the last is hard to tell.' The girl
turned pale while she spoke, and Lawrence
gave her a cup of wafer. sit must be
told" she said "the death of her father,
proved the effects Of deliberate drunken
ness. What have to say, shows what
may happen from being even once unable
TO think OF act.
Il had one child,' said Stacy. 'onc,
darlint. blue eyed, laughing child. | ne
yer saw any SO handsome, never knew any
so good. She was almost three years ould.
and he was fond of her-he said he was,
but il's a quare fondness that destroy what
it ought 10 save. II was the Pattern Of
Laly-day, and well i knew tnat Edward
would not return as he went; h. said he
would, he almost swore he wculd; but the
promise of man given to drink has n"
more strength in it tIian rope of sand.
took sulkv, and wouldn't go; if | had
maybe it would no, have ended so. The
evening came on, ans! thought my baby
breathed hard in her cradle; took the
candle and went over to look at her; hcr
little face was red and when laid my
cheek close to her lips so as not to touch
them, but to feel her breath. it %as>hot-
very hot; she tossed her arms, and they
were dry and burning. The measles were
about the coc.ltry, amd | was frightened
for my child. 1t was only half mile 10
the doctors; | knew every foot Of the
road; and su leaving the door on the latch,
/ resolved to tell him hnw my darlint was,
and thought should be back before my
husban;;'s return. Grass, You may be sure,
didn't grow under my feel. ran with all
speed, and wasn't kept long, the Doctor
sait-though it SEEMED long to me. The
moon was down when came home, tho
the nirht was fine. The cabin we lived in
wa, in hollow; but when was on the
hill, and looked down where knew it
stood dark mass, thought saw white
light fog coming out of ii; [ rubbed my
eyes, aid Earlca forward as wild bird flies
to lis nest VIXEN il hears tie scream af the
hawk in the heavens. When | reached
the door, | saw il was open; the fume cloud
came out of il, sure enough, white and
thick; blind with that and terror together.
l rushed to my child'S cradle. found my
way to that, in spite OF the burning and
smolhering. Bat E!;en-E!Ien Murphy.
my Child, the rosy Child whose breath had
been hot on my cheek only little while
before, she was nothing but cinder.-
Mad as felt, saw how it was in a min
ute. The father had come home, as cx-
pected; he had gone to the cradle to look
at his child, had dropped the candle into
the straw, and, unable to speak or stand,
had fallen down snd asleep on the floor
not two yards from my child. Oh, how
flew to the doctors with lvhat had been my
baby; tore across the country like ban.
shce; / laid it in his arms told him if
he didn't put life in it, Id destroy him and
his huuse. He thought me mad for there
was no breath, either cold Or hot, coming
from its lips then. couldn't kiss it in
death; there vas nothing left of my child
to kiss-think of that snatched it from
where the doctor had laid it l cursed him,
for he looked with disgust at my purity
child. The whole night long wandered
in The woods of Newtownbarry with that
burden at my heart"
"But her husband, her husband" !" in
ouired Larry in accents of horror; "what