The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1844-10-26
MISC LaIhLhEAN ANlAOUSs
BRI IDG l. + p A TIL l. o w.
A TALE.
(Gonciuded!)

(Gonciuded.)
The good old prebend was absent
from L'ncoln; SO it was only from poor
'bInd Saul she could bo row scanty
sum. which sum was the more needluI,
as she had 10 travel OUT Of the high road
O lItJle town where her DEAR brother
Tom now lived. He had ran away from
home soon after B'iaget had left, and
II er many ups aud downs in those few
years was now become ha,f clerk hall
servant IN the hou'e Of a country at'or-
Iey. lisnilure was moe plssrve than
hat oi Is ldget's, more yielding, less en-
,rg"l,c having been from childhood
weak 10 body, he had scarcely beltered
MS condition IN changing one scene ol
Irudgrry for another. In The little par
tour ol he country inn his long sad tale
If passive Suffering was told TO The sis
'er's ear. Ii she wep,, it was but for
nom nt;hen talking cheerfuly Of wha
Inc luDure should be-how they would
work together, how they would be dear
friends, how they. in London would
nave one common home, and asking
nothing from The world, still pay to il
one never'fiilng debt Of cheerluInes>
and sy mpalhy; how they would do al
his they said so many tunes, that the
supper grew cold, and poor feeble Tom
aughed Outright. Tney parted thai
summers nigh,;lhere was comfort when
Bridget promised that letter should
comes o.. She did not even hint The
Joy HAT should be ia it.
Oocr more in London she began that
v'ry week TO build home for Tom. -
BY a little help from her Long Acre
friends she procured some few pupils,
whose parents being ambitious 10 adorn
their parlour walls at The cheapest rate
had their children initiated into the mys
cries Of art al sixpence the lesson
sixteen lessons week made eight
,hillings-lillle enough TO exist upon;
mi it yet hired room and broughr
read, and something like the consciou,
IeSs Of Independence. Al night, too.
here were hours 10 work In-tnd then
he practice Of wood engraving wen,
,mbIy on.
In returning home once a week from
dislant part OF London, Bridget had to
PASS in an obscure street an old book
Nail. She sometimes stopped 10 look
a pon il;she always did SO when she had
zen upon il an old lhumbed copy OF
B 'rw:ck's Brush Birds. In those rar
tIl.p eces, that never were surpassed,
one who knew all the difficulties of HE
,rl found infinite delight. she was oh.
served one evening by gentleman who
had come up 10 the booksrsll some min.
uels after Bridget; like her, too, he was
curious in art, and wondered what this
young poor clad female could find of il
Iere,s in one or two small pictured pa.
ges, not hastily turned over, but dwell,
upon long, minute after minute. lie
GLOVE bat her lghl step soon left her
FAR behind: he came agaIn-Ihere she
was, on The same day week. with thai
same Old lhumbed Bel wick. Week
went by in this manner, ill The sal
keeper, remembering her oiren-seen
ace, bld her buy or else not touch The
books ogain;' and B'jdge', creeping q,
way Ike one gully of a misdeed, saw
not that The curious ger ten an had boz
he books, and now followed her with
speedy foot. This time he might have
found her home, but that, in a street
eading into HoIborn, some papers fell
from the little roll Of drawings she car
ried;he stopped 10 pick them up--in The
moment Of gIancing at them she was
ost 10 sight
Now that night labor had made her
somewhat proficient in the art, she tried
to gel employment; bal for weeks with.
oul success. Specimens sent in 10 en-
graveIs were returned. letters to pub.
fishers unheeded; letters or specimens
from Long Acre were o! surety mad
missible. The master who had taught
her was dead. AT last there was poin-
ed out 10 her an advertisement in one
of the daily papers, that engruvers upon
wood were wanted for the designs Of a
cheap publication. There was reference
10 person of whom Bridget had hcardi
50, sending frs, ior permission, sh. 49,,
llulToduced ~ lhr adv'itS' A So II,
lluI illustration W : chcs,I, g,d .l.ur.
placed Ia heI hand. WL,n ,he u,sg.