Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-12-29
A Legend for Children.
THE DEAR MOTHER N HEAyEl

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good and necessary. Ia the morning the
man went out TO work, and the child re-
NAMED at hume with her mother aud
played, aud the mother tod'her pretty slo-
ries such as she liked to hear, aud csressed
her tenderly; or else she went with her
into the garden, and the child gathered and
ate the sweet strawberries and tie hnely
favored raspberries. Aud when ne father
came home at night they were all nree hap
py because they we're together. In this
way they lived for some time, till Al last the
mother became feeble and i'll, AID had TO
90 to bed. Then the father wert sorrow-
fully TO work in the morning and was more
sorrowiu in the evening, when he saw that
the sufferer grew no better. Blu the child
remained with her mother, and when she
was told tina, she might go alonr into the.
garden she did not wish 10 60. but would
hide her face on her mothers bed and
weep. At last the mother felt that she
must die, and called the child 10 her and
said II shall soon 90 away from you, for
our dear Father in Heaven is calling the to
himself, bu, if you are good and Kind | will
come sometimes 10 see you, my darling.
aud If it is Gods will, take you where
am in Heaven" Soon after, Inc mother
died and was buried in the garden, aud the
father was unhappy aud shed tears. The
child was unhappy too, aud would liked TO
have gone to heaven with her mother, but
as she hoped her mother would come 10 see
her, or take her to herself, she was soon
consoed again. But the father was sorry
for the child because she would have TO be
alone while he went away 10 work, and so
he married another wife to be the mother
of the child. But she was a bad woman.
aud did not love the child. and did not
speak 10 her, nor even look kindly at her
She took no care Of the child. nor did she
wash her clothes nor mend them, and when
she went 10 bed at night, the new mother
did not arrange her little bed for her
This made the child unhappy, and very
often she went into the garden, and sat
down on her mothers grave, and said -
"Ah. dear mother in Heaven, come and
take me away" But when the bad woman
saw the child sitting on the grave. she was
angry and drove her away. for she could
not bear that the child should think Of the
departed one, and she saw plainly that she
had no love for her second mother. And
when she saw the child eating strawberries
and ,ssohe,,;es "a she b,d been acens
,on,od ~ do ,vbsn he, o,yn mo,ber IVA. liz.
;nn sLa hsa, he, .s,s,eIv n, sba would
nn, 10, ,ha ch;ld L,ro Tho be,,;a. hu, wan,
Cd 70 on, ,hen herself A, las, she BEGAN,
so bad to the child thrs she would not lie
her 90 into the garden at all, and when sh,
went there herself, she fastened the chill
up in dark room. Then the child woulC
break into loud lamentations, and weep, 70
she was afraid IN the darkness. "Oh
mother IN Heaven, she sad once "heI
she was shut up ihere,-"oh' come AM
take me away" Then bright hghi cam
into the dark chamber, and me mo'her u
white robes, beautiful and loving Just
she had been IN lie, only muen more oeau
tiiul, took the child on her knee, kisse
her and caressed her, aud told her s'oi'e
Just as she had used TO DO. nut now the
were stories oil Heaven, ABOUT the e'efn,
gardens oil paradise, where impetishaol
flowers bloom and hcurlsh' where heaven'
sweet iruit ripens, where ahgei-en'iute
play joyous plays and dance celestial dan'
es, aud sing their hymns before the 'hron
OF God our Father. The child was hapF
TO dream this, and became stiii ana que
and finally went TO sleep. when Tue ID
woman came from the garden, ana WEI
into the chamber to ieich the chilu' 81
found her pale and asleep IN one eoine
and woke her up WIN hafsh aud unKif
words.
AT evening the chiid ioid her iaiher no
! her mother in heaven mad been to see pc
and what she SAID to her Al ms u
father was thoughtful, and though he 10
= the child that It was only dream, u ma
him heayy'hearted, Tor he had loved MS NJ
wife more than the second, and knew IN
the latter was not good mother TO
= child But as he DID not know now
i she was, he was silent, and said nolh'
:, about 1t. Al,er that, whenever the CHI
10 " a,', and M, e., 10. IA no, .,av 10
n alone in he darlnsss He, mother
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