The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1846-03-13
How Gar have YOU walked o.day ,

tonight, and Win TINS rest, and your soou
ale, shall do so with ease IL is but four
miles, believer
-Four and quarter. But forty miles
to-day, and 10 90 four more, and the sun
just setting No, no You shall have q
room here to night, and supper and break
fast, and start fresh in the morning..
You are very kind, but, my dear mad.
am he answered IN a manner courteous
and grateful, have bu, li:sle means and
-
Don't talk Of pay, sir. ! know young
men that walk forty miles a day haven't
much silver 10 their purses What little
you have, keep. you must lodge and ca,
somewhere to night. So stay with me and
save your money
How good you arer answered the young
man, with real emotion. q know not how
| shall ever repay you ! will remain
with great pleasure. You are indeed gene.
rous to place such confidence in a stranger
/ know how TO read people by their ia.
ces. haven'tkep tavern seventeen years
without learning something of human ma
ture know you are just what your face
speaks you. I'D be willing TO trust you to-
morrow TO carry hundred dollars into the
Bank, when you go 10. lsyour mother Inv.
81 ;,
Indeed cannot tell you, madam.
wish | could he answered, a sad express
sion coming over his fine features.
Dame Steiner thought 10 herself that It
was very strange he did no; know whether
his mother were living or not bu, she had
too much delicacy TO press the subject. She
sat a few moments knitting 10 silence. tie
placed the iankard upon the table aud then
glanced towards Jeanette, who still looked
very steadily out oithe window, as lfiearing
again to encounter the dark, admlrlng eyes
of the young man. Her heart fiuttered with
uDwonted throbbngs.
You have asked If have mother a,
length said the young man. am, be-
iieve, an orphan. Your kindness calls for
confidence on my part. | will tell you all
| know about myself
Jeanette bent her ear 10 listen.
Indeed didn't mean to be curious, sir,
said the dame, alphabetically.
You were no, so. | AN an artist By
profession. 10 this pack is contained all
my worldly wealth, save a silver dollar and
some few pieces Of copper which | have in
my pocket. But have health and know
ledge Of my art, and do no, fear for the
future : he said, with baamlug and inge
nuous looks. have come in the last five
days from valley in the Western par, Of
the State, where | have dwell, from boy.
hood with one who has been more than
mother to me, You remind me OF her ~
your goodness TO me. When | was about
seven years Of age, so she has often told
me, vas discovered 10 small skfi float.
ing down the Susquehanna, about sunset.
Her husband, Who was boatnan and for.
roster, THAT is, cut timber 10 the majestic
forests upon the rIyer, and rated II down tc
q market Undiscovered the SIX # hoatng by
his attention being drawn to IT by a dog
standing upon tho bow, and violently bark.
ing, as If 10 attract his notice. Supposlng
it contained only the dog, he sprang into
his boat and pulling out into the rapid
stream, came to II, and discovered to his
surprise boy lying 10 Tue lotion, qui.
city sleeping.
That was YOURSELF sir observed the
dame.
Yes. He took me into his boat, ind
towing the skfi ashore, haslened with me
TO bis humble home. Ills wife, kind and
good like yourself, received me with Joy ful
surprise and, as she had no children oil
her own, she resolved TO adopt Inc # no
one came for me-.
Yes you must have been not long be.
fore with your dear mother said the good
dame with tenderness.
Yes. The r for miles above flowed
through wilderness, and onIy here and
there was woodman's hut, When nv
father, as called the man who found me,
went Up the river after timber in the fall,
he made every inquiry, bu, in vain. He
could hear OF no one who had lost q child
within seventy miles. &c. be and his wife
resolved 10 look upon me as their own. Nv
dress being different from that of the chill.
dren oil the toreslcrs, II was thought bv
them that mus, belong TO some family
emigraiiog e The west. and that, 10 cross.
irs the riys', ! had been separated from
the party. As for mys~s''T, the account |
gave was tina, lived in large house. upon
the river, and that had left my father aud
mother TO play by the water side, when,
getting in the boat with the dog, it 20,
loose, and was drilled down by the cur.
rent. But as nothing could be heard of
such family for upwards Of seventy miles,
my account was supposed TO be incorrect,
and that ! was really TOO young to give
true relation Of lhe facts. As nv Few
mother became very much attached to me,
she did not anxlousy prosecute the search,
and by and by The afFlir was forgotten in
the neighborhood, aad | was looked upon
as her son. | grew up with this family as
son. In my twelfth year, her husband
was drowned 10 the lower Susquehanna,
and became her only solacs and Deepen
dance. So far as my age and strength
permitted, devoted myself TO providing
for her comfort.
About this time | began TO evince q
taste Tor drawing, and though my sketches
rAl -