Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1841-03-11

who could buy half the country. What said he
Why, he was poor hmself-the scoundrel =
nobody knew how poor, and had been forced to
make rule to give nothing to beggars ay, he
called me beggar. l might 60 to the Union, he
said, that the fttest place for me. To the
Union, the workhouse Oh, the precious rascal
The son of my fathers brother brought up in
my fathers house-worth ndndred thousand
pounds, and would have sent me to the work
house; me, his only living kinsnlan. Oh, this
world this world
"Then-for | was resolved to try them all
sought out my old school-fellow, Nicholas
Hume, the spendthrift, whom | bailcl in my
young days, when little richer than himself, and
saved from prison by paying his debts. What
was his gratitude? Why he, forsooth, h,d never
heard my name. Michael Norris Who was
Michael Norris Oh, they knew me wellenough
twenty years ago, when l returned from the West
Indies rich man, husband of a wealthy Creole,
master of flourishing plantations, to visit my
early haunts, help my poor relations found
them all in distress, way or other-ard shake
hands with my old friends. Nobody forgot me
then. But noo that come back ragged Grip
pie, houseless and friendless. And theo man
paused, and lifted his wretched hat from his thin
grey hairs, and passed his tattered handkerchief
over his furrowed brow, with an air which proved
| that he was much oppressed by mental suffer-
ing, by Indignation and dsappointment,as by the
sultry heat of an August noon.
@There are none left now," thought old Mich
ael to himself, exhausted by his vehemence,
he sunk into milder mood, "none left for me to
apply to now, except the three orphan children of
my poor nephew, William Leslie, thecousin of
these hard-hearted Collinses, and their mother,
and they, fear, are themselves in great want and
great trouble. He, lately dead, after series of
undeserved mslortunes, and long and wasting
| illness and she, working hard as ever woman
did to keep herself and her family out of the
| workhouse-thc Union to whose comforts my
precious cousin Anthony tenderly consigns
me Poor things, they may well deny any
knowledge of me, for they never saw me and
| have good sample of the slight impression
that benefits conferred leave behind them. VIII
liam was only eighteen when | left England and
returned to Jamaica after my last visit A fine,
to take him with me. But my poor sister would
not part with hi.n. She had married again after
the death of her first husband, Williams father,
and wretched match she made; for this second
husband proved to be an hahtual drunlard,
always half-mad when intoxicated, who broke out
al last into desperate frenzy and but for my inter
position, would have murdered the poor boy.
| seem to see the struggle now,' thought the old
man. closing his eyes !; " he finging himself upon
William with table knife, and rushing between
them just soon enough to receive the blade in my
arm. | bear the mark of the wound still. The
madman was sent to an asylum, and there soon
died. And my poor sister, well off for her station,
could not part from this only son. lie was fine
lad William, spirited and generous; and when
she also died, he already attached to the girl
whom he afterwards married. helped them too,
for loved the boy. ] helped on that match, for
it was one of sincere affection, and they were in
way to earn handsome competence there
must have been some imprudence, or great ill
luck, TO have reduced them to such poverty"
So the train of the old eripple's revere. 60
never suspected it he never wrote to me and
l, engaged in my affairs, and with children
then Of my own-Well, will see them, how
ever. They are in this field geaning.-sSo said
their neghbor. Yes This is the field There
they are III see them, thought Michael Norris,
81 though it is probable that they too will know
nothing Of me-" And, opening the gate, the old
man imped slowly across the burrows, and began
gathering the scattered ears Of corn in his with
cred hand.
! We have said the field, although after passing
the gate which admitted him between the two
high hedges that bounded it on the northern side,
the wide expanse from which the wheat had-just
been carried, assumed the appearance rather of
large open ridge of arabic land, bordered by the
high road, and terminated by distant village,
| than of the small wooden enclosure so common
in the midland countries. pretty scene it was,
as it Law before him, bathed in the sunshine; and
lovely group was that to which his attention
| was immediately directed A pale young woman,
whose regular and beautiful features received
| additional interest from her close widows cap,
| stood before him holding fine infant in her arms
very pretty girl of twelve or thirteen was
fourishng a tult of wheat ears before the baby s
ewes, smiling herself at the smiles she excited !;
while her little brother chung to the mothers
petticoat in momentary fear OF two high fed dogs,
attending a gentleman and lady who were riding
slowly along the road,
The poor cripple drew back and sat down
[ al,,,.,.. 81 manila and hawthorn uau with