The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1845-11-21

! mo SIT, Sdlu tho IVY,
involuntarily.
what do you let it 20 out for, and
then come to trouble the neigh
bors? suppose you live without
eatingp
While the gentleman was speak
ing, his little daughter, child Of
seven years, slipped from the room,
and aSthc boy came out, drew her
hand with cake, from beneath her
apron, and holding it out to him,
said, with her red lips trembling,
and her bright blue eyes full of tears,
take it, Willy, and don't be an
cry now
THANK you, Lucy said he: 'but
| can't take your cake, oh, MOP and
he hurried away.
The little girl wept bitterly, and
he, as soon as he reached home, and
had LAID his coal on the hearth, crept
away beneath hedge of currants
in the garden, and cried till he was
quite sick. .., .....
Mr.. W, when he thus forgot
his manhood and stopped to taunt a
noble boy with poverty, which, had
it even been the fault of his parents,
could not have been reproach to
him, had no conception of the cruel
ty of the action, of the deep enven-
omed wound which his words had
inflicted. Men do not appreciate
the sensibility Of children. have
often wondered at the inconsideratc
manner in which they speak to them,
and act towards them, as if they
were not only ignorant of the deep
and keen sensibilities Of childhood,
but also of the fact that the children
now regarded and treated like dumb
animals, will, in a few years be men
and women, occupying the position
from which the present actors in
life's drama will have passed away,
and bearing on the hearts tablet the
indeliblc impressions Of love and
fear, esteem or aversion, written
there while the heart was tender,
and every impression consequently
deep and abiding.
Poor Willy felt agonizingly at the
taunt of Mr.. W, and with it the
kindness of little Lucy was chroni-
cled enduringly. Although the Of
, fer Of the cake at the time was bit
: ter to his insulted pride, and proud
D ly rejected, yet the tenderness Of
4 heart that prompted the offer, was
/, dear and precious to his wounded
S spirit.
:. He could eat no breakfast that
n morning, but he forbore to wound
I the feelings of his parents by repeat.
! ing to them the words of his neigh.
. Dor, and he resolved to use every
$ endeavor to rise in the world tina
he might one day be able to look
: down upon Mr.. W from nobly
+ won cminence.
5 The wealth in which Mr.. W
Z prided himself, he had inherited from
u his father, who from blacksmith
Il apprentice, became, by industry ant
parsimony, the proprietor of flint
y farm. He married late in life, anC
Il this one son was his only child
The old man endeavored to educate
u him well. but he forgot to Undue hi
u childhood with kindness, generoslt.
and truth.
&c The old man was very proud o
- the ailiuence which he had won s.
- painfully, and the Difference whic
people are always ready to pay t
the possessor of wealth, however i
;, might have bend acquired.
as 1t is by no means wonderful tina
is the son imbibed an exalted opinlo
II of himself, as sole heir of so fine
D. property; and affected the societ
,e of those whose estates had been &C
ir cumulated by grand-fathers an
I'd great grand-fathers, and were thu
i'd one or two grades removed tn
ay WORKING CLASSES.
70 Old Mr.. W had determine
H. that his son should have genie,
"a education. He was accordingl
ly sent to college, whence he emerge
with superficial knowledge of m'
a ny things, yet without having ma
CHI tered one single science; and bein
tie no book worm as he said, he soc
IL forgot every thing that the poo
n professor had been at such pains
write, line by line, and prccept VI
lat on precept, upon a mind hard
n iron to the pen of instruction, al
he which, like ice, lost every impre
BY sion as soon as the sun and wind
nd the outer world acted upon it. B
as he had 'been to college, and he fe
his most bitter contempt for eve
sat one who was not 'liberally educa
he cd,'a contempt which he was at |
k pains to conceal. He had marie
to daughter of q merchant of the cit