Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-11-19
MISCELLANEOUS.
MOSS-Side.
BY PROFESSOR WILSON.

GILBERT AINsLiE was a poor man and he
had been a poor man al The days OF his life,
which were not few for his hair was now
waxing gray. He had been born and bred
on the small moOrland farm which he now
occupied and he hoped to die there, as his
father and grandfather had done before him,
leaving a family just above the more bitter
wants of this world. Labor, hard and unre-
hitting, had been his lot in life; bet although
sometimes severely tiled, he had never re-
pinned; and through all The mist and nlooln.
and even the storms that had a>sailed him.
he he'd lived on from year 10 year in that calm
and resigned conicntment which Unconscious
ly cheers the hedrth-slone of the blamcle,s
poor. With his own hands he had plowcd,
sowed, and reaped his Often scanty harvest,
assisted, as they grew up, by three sons, who,
even in boyhood, were happy to work along
with their father in the fields. Out of doors
or in, Gilbert Ainslie was never idle. The
spade, the shears, the plough-shalt, The sickle
and the fail, all came readily to hands that
grasped them well and not a morsel Of food
was eaten under his roof, or a garment worn
there, that was not honestly, severely, nobly
earned. Gilbert Ainslie was a slave. Inn, i
was for them he loved with a sober and deer
affection. The thraldom under which he liy.
ed God had imposed, and il only served IA
give his character a shade Of silent gravity.
but not austen; to make his smiles few or,
but more heartfelt; TO calm his soul at grace
before and after meals, and TO kindle il IN
morning and evening prayer. p
There is no need to tell the character or the
wife Of such a man. Meek and thouohtCuI.
yet gladstone and gay wilhal, her heaven was
IN her house, and her genller aud weaker
hands helped 10 bar The door against want,
VI ten children that had been born 10 Them,
they had lost three; and as they had fed,
elothed, and educated Them respectfully. so
did they give them who died a respectable
funeral. The living did not grudge to give
up, for a while, some Of their daily comforts.
for the sake of the dead and bouVbt. Win
the lille sums which their Industry had saw.
ed, decent MORNINGS, worn on Sabbath. and
then carefully laid by. OF the seven that
survived, Two sons were farm-seryants i'm the
neighbofhood, while three daughters and two
sons remained at home, growing up, a small.
happy, hard-working household. =
Many cottages are there in Scotland like
Moss-slde, ard many such humble and yirtu.
Gus eottagers as were now beneath lis roof or
straw The eye OF the passing traveller NAV
marx men, or mark them not, But they stand
Peaceiupy IN thousands over all the land.tand
nus peauVlul 90 they make it, through all
ns Wide valleys and narrow glens-its low
liolms e%ncircled by the rocky walls of some
% bpnny burn-rts green mounts elated with
their little erowning groves of plane.trees"
US yellow corn-helds-its bare pastoral hill
SIDES and all Its healthy moors, on whose
black bosom lie shining or concealed glades
OF excessive yerdnIe, inhabited by flowers,
and visited only by the fai-Aying bees. Moss.
side was net beautiful to a cafeIess - 49,
eye; bot whsa looked on and SURVEYED z
seemed a pleasant dwelling. Its roof over
grown with grass and moss, was almost a.
green as the ground out of which its weathe,
stained walls appeared TO grow. The moo,
behind 1t was separated from a little garder
10y a narrow slip Of arabic land, the dark co
Tor of which showed that it had been wor
rom the wild by patient industry, and by pa