Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1844-02-23

dark old trees The houses did not
sland on the street, but we're bnill each
in heir lutte garden, so The pare had
an irregular bu' very lovely appear
ancs was studded with fine Old rrlss
through whose Vlslas the yellow after.
noon unbsoms came drow.ly down,
giving TIA quiet and dreamy aspect,
strangely a,Urlng 10 one who. like that
Old man, wac weary with trsvel and sor
row, and would fam repose 10 some re-
tired corner uDlIl death released him
from his tolls
He paused at the entrance OF the vii
sge, and 10 ked around. Here and
there o. me door ways females were al.
ting, either knitting or sewing. From
the gardens behind The houses. came lhs
sIeepy hum Of bees, ocrsslons'y drown
cd 10 the merry voices ol children play
ing the whole scene had an air Of
such domestic quiet and happiness, hat
the old man BgsIn laid down his bundle,
and sat on the rsiling OF the bridge.
with the tsinl hope that some one wcu.d
lake pity on bis grey hairs, and offer
/ him q supper and bed in this sweet
spo'. And as he sat there many thoughts
passed through his mlnd He recalled
The time when hs too had been a care
less boy, like those he saw sporting
through the village, with no thought ex'
cepl that sometime he would become a
soldier and 60 forth into tho world to
make name and fortune, and then come
back and enjoy II 10 his native village.
He remembered how he had sci out,
with sangulne hopes, TO realize this
dream, and how he had met dIsapponl
ment alter disappointment. unll a.
length, sor:owed and detected he had
come back to a more quiet life. Then
he thought Of the lew, the very few
years OF happiness that followed, unt,I
hls wfs died, and he was lett ruined in
his humble fortunes, with family oI
helpless lnnocenn.
lie saw again the day on which
with that little group. he had sci forth
10 distant land, in the hope Of there
repairing his fortunes; and then, iasl
aud thick, subsequent events crowded
on him; how his eldest daughter haC
married agsins his consent, and gone
he knew not whuher; how one by ont
OF his children died, how his scsnlV
property wasted away; and how be hst
i, at length departed, old and in poverty
, with the determination to beg hrs wa,
back TO his native parish, and there die
As these things came up to his memory
:, as he remembered how much he ha
already Suffered, and how far he ha
# vet To 90 before he could hope 10 see hi
d journeys end the tears sgaln came int
his eyes, for he felt that he could nj
d bear up much longer.
TO day. ne murmerPd, 'lhOvs gon
. diunel less, snd God knows whether
= hal find a meal TO night. An old man
hairs. cannot always win the crumbs {
4 a table or project him from insult. All
= if my poor child was yet living, | woul
# have some one to protect and aid M
d tor she ever loved me was 100 mars
10 (orbddrng her marriage with Henr,
who, IN ough a wild lad, wasa good on
d az" " 10 ''T''' "a' ''ouo "o' " WV w. =" "
= ho'oa"u' Ee'"aP' "! eu'Se - Nv" y
u ac''ue oP'" NV '0''. 'o' ""o"' ~
N " WIZ sooo o' o'''' "o SOW WI" " W
q o"e"o'y s'g" as 10 rose '0eu'y o"u W. y;
Is up MS ooou'e; ! 'ee' '"'s "'u ,''"e :
oil "s WY II 'ou'o 'e"e" ", PN'''"
mys", n"o SU"1 'O'%o' o'qun,"Ia"'U va, .
O"o'o me oeo W u'' ""' W, '"a'
"o''! Oe' ''a' WI, '0'o' oo' ~ 80 -
'""I,"s '""Ja'4. VS. U.s. - ~. AJAX wIr 70 NV 10
l. IL, ~ '"' ~
Of F =,
-