Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-02-03

Old Procerb.
:.Isn't he fine fellowr'
'Handsome is, as handsome does; he'll never
come to,good-he's markell out for evil; only
look at his hand.'
This ominous answer to my good-natured adj
lnirel's question was made by an old woman, my
mothers next door neighbor, as she gazed gloo-
mily on me few days after my birth, (which
cost my poor mother her liie.) She piqued her
self on her oracular and prophetic powers, and
wss looked upon with great awe and respect by
tn whole village.
sLook at his hand, say; and mark my words !
OLD as | am, | shall live to see that boy hanged.
He has the mark of Cain and he'll die his
DEATH
| suppose the old ladys historical recollec-
lions not being very clear, and her opinion be-
ing formed On poetical justice alone, she far
cied Cain had very properly ended his days ON
the oallows.
"first and foremost, you see he has been the
cause of his mothers death before he was DAY
| old-there's beginning. OH foresee it all !:
| he's born to evil, and to be a disgrace to his
! friends. Good luck to the fever that carried of
poor Birch if he had lived to see the day that :
coming, it would have broke his heart, an hon.
est industrious man that he was: and a happy
thing it is that poor Sarah is gone likewIse;-
and instead of hugging and kissing the UnIor-
tunate babe in that way, you'd do better to be
down on your knees praying that he may be
taken before he is able to accomplish all his
crimes"
s.La! Mrs. Grum, how you do 90 on How
could the poor babe help his mothers dying?-
1t was Gods will she should go, poor thing, ant
as to disgracing his friends, he has few enough
left, in all conscience, poor innocent. Bless his
little hand. these marks are as common as tc
have five fingers
"Well, well-you never did believe me wher
| foretold and warned you of any thing. Re
, member the pedlarnan-who was right there
Bot we'll see-well see'' and taking up hel
worldly wealth in the shape of basket of APP
pies, the produce of her small orchard, and cas-
: ting another gloomily -forebodng look at me
she finally took her departure.
My kiud-hearted neighbor, (who having. NJ
children of her own had, partly out of charity
and partly from the wish for companion, un
dertaken to bring up the friendlessN nd penny
less orphan,) though not in the les st convincet
OF my terrible destination, was involuntaril,
$ saddened, as in the dead silence of a hot Angus
|, evening, she sat alone gazing on the helpless
being who had been thus accidentally thrown O
her protection. Not that she regretted my a
q doptIon for an instant, or that the old woman
: foolish fancies made any impression on he
: mind; but though the words themselves ar
follydn her ears, they had taken away he
thoughtless and sanguIne pleasure in the pres
: ent moment (that great secret of happiness;)-
S they had made her reflect on her own and m
n position and prospects, and rejecting on the fu
/ ture can only be cause of anxiety or sadness
s to those who know not, at most, what yea
may bring forth. She had now, it is true, VIII;
;. she had long wished for, a nearer and create
IL interest in life than the toing to supply he
$ own Jew wants: there was now being O
y whom she could lavish more love than was re
L CURED in the generalizing benevolence of mel
re 'neighbor.. She had the pleasure of feeling tn;
IS she was no longer alone in the world, that thei
I'd was some one who depended entirely on her
a pleasure which every one feels intensel
Though whether it proceeds from the generos
e. ty or the pride inherent in our nature, it wou
a be difficult to decide.) The strong hale old wi,
l. ow, with her garden and cottage, as long as ST
" could see to work. ~ herself alone to wo
d for, was always above Iute want. Tho
who have no one in VIII Sc Iylstence their 10
he would make void, who 1eel that the only CO.
sequences of their quitting the world would b
TX that for an instant there was man the less
it, may be as reckless as they please; or,
speak of those Of a better nature, as content
S, as possible; but the question:" What will
do when am goner-legible on many an an