Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-01-14
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Pocket Book.

- the grOup that had assembled in front OF Thu
:; Green Dragon, the only public house in tn.
10 little village OF Grassvale. There was II,
installing the purport of the assembhge-
box neatly packed in canvass, a gigantic um
breIla carefully patched and dafneJ, a pliI
Of patterns secured in the coriing Of the bo,
by il piece Of tape, plainly told that one o.
the little party WAS about to take a Journey
and that the others had met to say "goot
bye 10 the traveller. The object Of thi
friendly solicitude was Betty Morison-kinl
and gentle Betty hiorsison-who no, for the frs
time IN her life, was about to leave her na
tive village for no less a place than London
1t was a hard task for Betty to part from he.
old widowed mother; bat she acted from Z
sense OF duty and a strong undeuiable hope.
that the sacrifice she was making would
sometime tend to the happiness of the below
, ed author Of her being. Until the present
moment The lot Of Betty Morrison had been
a happy one. She tad been born the child
Of parents who had no other inheritance but
their labor and their cheerful hearts, and who
early taught their child to contentedly edo
her duty in that state of life to which it had
pleased God to call her" When her father
died, Mrs. Hartley, the ]curate's wife, who
took Betty to live with her; and under the
tuition Of that beautiful woman,-too poor to
cgma tho hoe, s.TTrsr, IN M ""na,r ~,
was taroL, IN roaJ and ,yri,a and s. III.
were her requirements and goodness estima-
Ted, that she became The friend and confident
OF half the young girls in the village. Betty
was lhree-and-twenly wtren The curata died.
esek , bon,a i, thn bonse rf ,oar r.ilf.a
Tho s,r,r@iion m".,,o.. I'D IT, ,
= sod ona ;rJssJ aIlbaYrL ,h, '"aI ""o
had pyerteJ b.r.eIf ca a77r,a"I , n,;h s
friends in tho ms,ro,,,is ,L.t n ,',n h.I M
t,iosd a service in I.,ndnn ~, ~ '1
&, sum which sonnlad - tLa "- 3 81, L.
| rst ms,ics Of Crassyslo ne ,ho oo(,, w ~"
err of - fortrrr II yeas 10 alba al, aai
den dream that Es,ty NI1,rison y.,s "Y "a
unr tho arrival or ,Lo9 81 ,.LI,.,, "
Lond,n. ks tho ratle nf tbo uLooI, ="
audible. the moor old widow tock Le- chid,s
had Lot,.oon har -" ooI - = n''u .
ment s,eadtas,iy into her darling Zee. hurst
into tears and sobbed aloud.
..Don,t molber-don,t cry - said Re,tv al
most choked by her own emotion: Nm ao.
irr for both our pood-rm sn,e I am a
wear or iwo's hard v.orl, and ,hen I eh,II
come back to Won with So much money that
I'VE shall he pn22Ied 70 snerd itn
I'm thee has nnVpr bnpn frOm homo
afore. Retry. >, sohbed her motbor ..ard Tnn.
don's a matter Of A hundred miles away. and
how he | to know ic rbea bee,s, wolf ana han
py, nv child! Thee mustn't uo. Bettv-thee
mustn't"
"Fie. morher.r and ,he mar cirl tr;e1 70
smile. ,whv nv noor mistress would tbinE
had crown law and rprr,teCnI nov thu,
she had been in all tho tr6Trhle f., ro, mo a
ever the WAGON comes IN toynl' hesides I
mean 10 mt down in the nocl,et hook that
day. so that When | come home again. (tbs
tears would have way I saw wben come
home arain. | can Sit IN the dear, de,r old
inple Of winter NIGHTS. or in the witbv arbor
in the Garden when it is summer, and read
Won ali have thounht and done II viii ba
like LIVING the lima over aroin with you
motber."9
The coach stonro6-a doyon readv b.Dds
seized Bettv's bo5x-as many vera thrust out
to CLASH her hand.
at be qettinr frosty. Bpttv." said Mrs
Dove. The lanG1,dv If tho Groon IL
-"thee'dst better take this old will n
wran round thee. Thee canet ecrd II bacL bu
waTonn
.9Ave. dime. en- she ran. tboo %, sond :,
back in his BASKET, where thee,d fnJ a hi'
and a sun; and thee'II want hath acora ,bes
rets to Lun'on." chimed in Mr. Dove
@God bless the lass: mind how thee rpts mn >,
..l'ye putten a wbisn Of straw AT Tonr foe,
Betty" said Will Ostler.
..Thee'l take care of her. Mr.. Cnard.r
cried The widow. az the coacbman g,,hered
nm his horses. ..Good.bvo. Gnd Loon tboo
from harm, Betty" And not one Thai heard
the mothers prayer hat breatbod = faryen,
Amen.
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On the EVENING of December 10Th. 1919
Betty Morrison arrived at the house of her