Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1846-05-21
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Grlettc0 Gales.
MOTHERS INFLUENCE.t
Ny n. y. Arthur.

have Henry in the gutter. never saw
ICst such another boy. Why can't he
come quietly along like other children
There now he must stop to throw stones
at the pigs. That boy'Il give you the
heart-ache yet, Apna.'
Mrs. Hartley made no reply, but laid
aside her work quietly and left the room,
TO see that their dinner was ready. In
few minutes the street door was thrown
open, and the children came bounding
IN full OF life, and noisy as they could be.
+ Where is your coat, Clarence?' she
asked, in pIeasan, tone, looking her
Oldest boy in the face,
| oh, l forgot, ne replied, checrfully,
and turning quickly, he ran down stairs,
and lifting his coat from where, in his
thoughtlessness, he had thrown il upon
the floor, hung it Up in its proper place,
and then sprung up the atars.
| Isn't dinner ready YETI? he said.
with fretiul impaience, his whole man
ner changing suddeuly. I'm hungry.
1T will be ready in few minutes,
Clarence 4 want it now I'm hungry
'Did you ever hear of the man, said
Mrs. Hartley, in voice that showed no
disturbance OF mind, 'who wanted the
sun to rise an hour before its time =
| No mother. Fell me- about it, wont
your
| All impatience had vanished from the
boys face.
There was a man who had gone up
on journey. The stage coach was to
call for him at sunrise. More than an
hour before it was time fer the sun To be
Up, the man was all ready to 90, and
for the whole Of that hour he walked the
lloor impat!entiy, grumbiing at the sun
because he did not rise. Pm all ready,
and want to be going he said. Its
time the sun was up long ago Don't
)Su ''.'"N hS was (. NSit ioo!isn ildn!
Clarence laughed and said he thought
the man was very foolish indeed.
DO you think he was more foolish
than you were just now, for grumoling
because dinner was not ready =
\ Clarence laughed again, and said he
did not know Just then, Hannah the
cook, brought in the waiter, with the
chldren's dinner upon it. Clarence
spGang for chair, and drew il hastily
and noisiIy to the table.
TRY and see if you can't do that mora
orderly, my dear, his mother SAID in
quiet voice, looking at him as she spoke,
with steady eye.
The boy removed his chair, and then
replaced 1t gently.
I That is much better, my son
And thus she corrected his disordery
habits, quieled his inpatient temper,
and checked his rudeness, without show
ing any disturbance. This abe had to
do daily. AT almost every meal she
found II necessary to repress his rude
impatience. 1t was line upon line, and
prccept upon precep, But she never
tired, aud rarely permitted herself To
show that she was disturbed, no matter
how deeply grieved she was at times
over the wild and reckless spirit of her
BOY.
On the next day she was not very
well. Her head uched badly all the
morning. Hearing The children iu the
passage, when they came IN from sch'ol
at noon, she was rising from the bed
where she had laid down, TO attend to
them, and give them their dinners, when
Aunt Mary said
Don get up, Ann. will see to The
children''
\ |; was rarely that Mrs Hartley let
any one do for them what she could do
herself, for no one else could manage
the unhappy temper OF Clarence. But
so violent was the pain in her head,
tha, she let Aunt Mary 60, and sunk
back upon the pillow from which she
had arisen. A good deal of nose aud
confusion continued to reach her ears,
rom the moment the children came N.
At length a loud cry, and passionate
words from Clarence, caused her to
rise up quickly and go over to the diu-
ing room. Al was confusion there,
aud Aunt Mary out of humor, aud scold-
ing prodigiousIy. Clarence was stand
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