Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1846-12-10

give them the letters, or the alphabet as
they call il, IL would make them The like
OF pieh; for then they could read the Tes.
iauen,. lie could read the Testament
4 lutte, for ho had learned the letters by
frs-hgm. i, was good book, was the
Tesln'"enl ; never saw any other book
--hca'd tell Of so'Ue in ,ich people :
houses but 4 Da,iered but li.tle wnh
h,m
Tho Tesfsmem he was sure il wss
made FOR nsilers and such like. II help
ed INN wonderfully when the loaf was
small upon the table. He had but h,.
tie time TO read IL when the sun was up.
and II took him long to read a linle, for
h" learned the letters when he was old
But he laid IL beside his dish at dinner
time mud fed his heart with Il, while the
children were eating the bread that fell
tn his share. And when he spelt out n
line Of the shonea words, he read them
niuud. aud his eldest boy, the one on the
block there, could say several verses he
had learned in this way. II was great
"omios, 10 think that Jeems could take
ifso hts heart 30 many verses OF the Tes-
s~meni which he could not read. lie
intended 10 teach all his children in this
way. ii Vas all he could do for them !;
-nd this he bad TO do at meal times for
NIL the other hours he had to be at his
anvil. The mailing busines was growing
harder, he was growing old and his fsint-
R large. lie had 10 ,eork from toar o.
clock ~ the morning I'LL Ten o'clock al
night 10 eorn eighieen pence. Ills wages
averaged only about seven shillings n
week; aud there were five Oft them IN the
ia'nhy 10 1--we on what they cout earn.
II was hard to make up the loss OF an
honr. Not one OF their hands could be
spared. Jenny was gong on nine
y~ars of age, and hopeful lad he was
Hnd the po"r man looked at him doaiing.
W. Jenny could work off a thousand
nhiFI day, %. the smallest size. The
rent oi their ln,le shop, tenement and
garden, was five pounds a year and
few prnn,rs earned by the youngest Of
th-m was of great account
Bni, continued the father, speaking
chrrr!y, am not The one tha, ought to
complain. Many ~ The man that has q
harder 1T oi it than among The naIers,
along ihcs- hills and ~ the valley. My
nrishbnr ~ the next door could tell you
something about labor, you may never
have heard the like M your country. He is
an older man than !, and there are seven
al them IN his family, aud, for all that, he
has 10 b"v like Jenny here, to help
him Some of hts little giIls are sickly,
stsi ,hcir mother is not over strong, and
all Comes on han. lie Is an oldish |
man, a | was saying, yet he NH only
works righlern hours every day at his
i.rge, bot cve,y Friday IN the year he
s"rks al n1ghi long and never LAYS Off
clothes iIll lat. oi Saturday night. A |
gnod nrighbnr i. John Slubbins, and the
orlv man ju,i IN our ueighboihood who |
",n read newspaper. II is not often
hr gets a newspaper and bread too, in
thc house AT the same time. But now
md then he begs an old one, partly torn
hi lhe bakers and reads It to US OF a |
Sunday night So once IN two or three
~r'ks We hear OF something that is go
the c"rn-ldws and the Duke of yelling.
t"n. and Oregon and India and other
places IN EngIan We heard tel,
while ago, that the poor people would
n"i have io make 30 many nails for a loa {
of bread mnrh longer, because Sir Ro-
bru Peel, aud some other men, were
gong to take oh'ih- port-locks and other
taxes, and let us buy bread of them ,ha,
c""hi sell US the cheapest. When we
heard ihs talked of, without knowing
ihe irulh of u, John Slubbins took pen
ny aud went to the Whue Iart and
h"uehi n drink Of beer, and then the
lnnd'ady let b'm look into the newspa per
~hch abe Keeps for her custo ners
When he came bnck, he told us a great
deal oi what was going on, aud said he
was sure the tunes would be better one
Ot these days.