Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1846-11-14

this way. 1t was great comfort /,
him to think that James could take
INTO his heart so many verses of The
Testament which he could not read
He intended to teach all his children il
this way 1t was all he could do 70,
them--and this he had to do at mcaI
times, for all the other hours he had
to be at the anvil. The mailing bust.
ness was growing harder, he was
growing older, and his family larger.
He had TO work from four O'Clock in
the morning until ten o'clock at night
TO earn eighteen pence. His wages
averaged only about seven shllings a
week; and there were i've of them IN
the family to live on what they could
earn. 1t was hard to make up the loss
of an hour. Not one OF their hands.
however little, could be spared. Jem.
my was going on nine years ofage, and
helpful lad was he; and the poor man
looked at him doatingly. Jenny
could wor!; off thousand nails dav.
Of the smallest size. The rent of the
little shop, tenement and garden, was
five pounds year; and few pennies
earned by the youngest OF them was
of great account.
But continued the father, spoakinp
cheerily, | am not the one that ought
TO complain. Many i the man that has
harder lot Of it than ]. among the
nalcrs along these hills and in the val
ley. My neighbor in the next door
could tell something about labor YOU
may never have heard the like of in
your country. He is an older man
than |, and there are seven of them in
his family; and for all that he has no
boy like Jenny here TO help him.
Some of his little girls are sickly, and
their mother is not very strong, and il
all comes on him. He is an oldish
man as ] was saying, yet not only
works eighteen hours every day al
his forge, but every Friday in the year
he works all night long, and never laws
off his clothes till late of Saturday night
A good neighbor is John Stubbins, and
the only man just IN our neighborhood
that can read the newspaper. II is not
often he gets newspaper; for it is not
the like OF us that can have newspapers
and bread, too, in our house OF the
same time. But now and then he begs
an old one, partly torn, at the bakers,
and reads il to us of Sunday night.
80 once in two or three weeks. we hear
something of what is going on in the
world--someihing about corn laws and
the Duke of Wellington. end Oregon
and India, and Ireland and other places
in England. We heard tell a while
ago, that the poor people would not
have 10 make SO many nails for n loaf Of
bread much longer, because Sir Rob't
Peel and some other men, were going
to take of the port-locks and other
taxes, and let US buy bread Of them
that could sell the cheapest. When
we heard this talked Of, without know
ing the truth OF it, John Stnbbins took
a penny and went TO the White Hart
and bought drink Of beer, and then
the landlsdy let him look into the
newspapers which she keeps for her
customers. When he came back he
told us great deal Of what Mas going
on, and said he was sure the times
would be better one Of these days.
The man was interrupted by the
entrance Of his neighbor, who had
been attracted by the sound OF an I'M
usual conversation in his fellow nail
er's end Of the building. pulled of
my knapsack and did what could to
to teach them the alphabet of the
Kings English with regard to the Ma
tional Debt and all the other burdens
which the poor laboring people had
to bear think succeeded 10 impress
sing their minds with a few salutary
convictions with regard TO the connec-
ton between "military glory and pow
crty." | shall reserve for another
Leaf Of Editors Journal. my exposi-
ton Of the Excise Duty to these hon
est, unletlered nailers.