The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1846-10-24

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phabel as they called it, il would make
them The like of rich; for then they could
read the Testament lie could read the
reslamen, a little, for he had learned the
letters by FIRE light. 1t was a good book,
was the Testament, never saw any olher
book heard tell of sOplc in rich peoples
houses; but 1t maiIered but lItIle wlIh hlm.
The Testament, he was SURE II wac made
fot nailors and such like. Ii helped him
wonderfully when the loaf was small ON his
liable. lie had but lnde time to read a.
when The sun was up, aud it took him long
TO read little for he learned the lever whe D
he was old. But he Laid il beiuto his dish
at dinner time and fed his hear, with it,,
while the children were eau, Z the bread
that fell TO his share, And whe0 he bad
speI ou, a line Of ,he shortest words, he
read them aloud aud his eldest boy, the one
on The block there, could say several whole
verses he had earned in this way. L was
great comfort W h.m tO think that Jeemes
could take into his heart So many verses OF
The Testament whirh lie could not read.
lie intended 10 teach all his chiden IN Mis-
way. IL was all he could d. Tor them. and
Other hours ne had TO be al the anvil. TLt
mailing business was growing harder, be
,ipV OiI I,ta fo,Y,,ly Ia,ro JI
had 10 vOrk from four o'clock in The morn
ing ti!ten clock al night 10 earn eigh-
teen pence. His wages averaged only a.
bou, Sevsh ShiNings rex and ,hcre were
five Of them in the family TO live on wha
they earn. 1t was hard 10 make up lhe los.
Of an hour. Not one of their hands, how
ever little, could be spared. Jenny wsr
going on nine years Of age, and he.pfl
lad he was: and Ihe poor nan looked at hin
doaliDgly. Jenny could work of a skou>
sand mails day, OF The smallest size The
rent of their shop, tenement and getden, was
i've pound year and few pennies earneo
by Me youngest Of lhem was Of groas ac'
count
Blu, continued The father, speaking cheer
lily am no! the one Ibat ought 10 complain
MANY is the man that has harder lot o
ii than |, among The naiers along .hese hill:
and in the valley. My neIghbor in the
mex! Goor could tell you something abou
| ll,b bou 81 no /, ta =,
in your country. lie is an older man thar
| | and ihere are seven Of them IN his lamiIy
and, for all that, be has no boy like Jenny
here 20 help him. Some Of his lilIle girl!
are sickIy, and their mother is not very
strong, and it mos, all cones on him. lie
is an oiLish man, as was saying, yet b,
does no, only work eighteen hours every
day at his forge, but everS Friday in tht
: ear he 10OrkS ali night long, and aevel
lays of his clothes ill late Saturday night
good peighbor is John SIubbins, and lh'
only man Just in our eghborhood who cal
read newspaper 1t is not often he gets
newspaper, and bread too, in our houses .
! he slme time. Bat now and lben he begs
an old one, partly torn, at The bakers, anc
reads II 10 US of Sunday night. 50 once
10 Two or Ihree weeks We hear Of what is
going on in the worlI-some,hiug abou
core laws and lhe Duke of Wellington ant
Oregon and India, and other places in Eng
Hand. We h5ard !eIl, awhile ago, that tn,
poor people would not have TO make 50 ma
ny mails for loaf ul bread much longer, be
cause Sir Robert Peel, and some other mel
were going 10 take off Ihe port locks anC
,some Other taxes, and let US buy bread q
them that could sell US the cheapest. Whe
We heard this talked Of without kuOWinl
the uuih Of il John Siubbins look penn,
and went TO HE White Hart and bought
drink of beer, and then the Iandlady let hin
ook into the newspaper which she keep
for customers. When he came back, b
told US a gres' deal Of what was goirg on
md said he was sure lhe times would b
better one Of these days.
The man was Interrupted here by lhe en-
trance OF his nelghbOr, who had been al
, lracled N by The sound Of an unusual con
versaton in his fellow ns,ers END of III
, building pullod OF my knapsack an
did what could TO teach them The alphabe