The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-01-21
Mistellaneous.
Begger BOYS.

"At The very first stopping place after
we had gone over the hills. there came
upto me such winning little beggar as
never took my money before. ItaIy,wiih
all its car1ta. and pei amOye di Santa Ma
rta make one hard. hearted. kept my
money in my breast-Pocket, buttoned
tight over my heart had learned to
walk boldly about, without losing but
ton for pleading eye. The little Hun
garian rogue took me by surprise; | had
scarce seen him, before he walked straight
up beside me, aud took my hand in buth
his, aud kissed il; and then as | looked
down. lifted bis eye timidly up to meet
mine; and he grew bolder at the look
gave him, and kissed my hand again
mOfie me1m ieclbUS cor est ciOlabHe tells
and it suffer this shall be conquered
thought l. and | looked down at him
sterniy. He dropped my hand, as if he
had been too bold; he murmered two or
three sweet words ofhis barbarian tongue,
and turned his eyes all swimming upon
me. with look Of gentle reproach that
sabdued me at once. did not even try
to struggle with the enemy. but unbut-
toned my coat, and gave him handful
ofkreltzers.
Now, before could put my money
back, there came running up one Of the
wlIdest-iooking, unprecedented little
nymPhs that ever wore long. floating
ringlets, or so bright blue eye; and she
snatched my hand, and pressed her little
rosy lips to it again aud again-so fast
that had not time 10 take courage be-
tween, and felt my heart huttering, and
growing, in spite Of myself, more and
more yielding, at each one Of the beauti-
tul creatures caressesses; and then she
twisted the little fingers of one hand be-
tween my fingers, and with the other she
put back the long. wavy hair that had fal-
len over her eyes, and looked me fully
and joyously III the face-ah! semper-
Semper causG eSt cur ego SemPer amem!
"lf had been of firmer stuff should
have been TO this day, FIVE kreiizers the
richer. She ran off with a happy, ring.
ing laugh that made me feel richer by a
zwanziger; and there are twenty kretz-
ers in zwanziger.
81 had bultoned up my coat, and was
Just about getting in the coach, when an
old woman came up behind me and tap
ped me on the shoulder, and at The same
instant little hoy she led, kissed my
hand again. | do not know what might
, have done in the current of my feelings,
! for the poor woman, if had not caught
sight, at the very moment cfthis new sp-
peal, of the red nose, and black whiskers,
and round-topped hat Of Cameron, with
J, as wicked laugh on his face as ever
turned the current of u good mans
thoughts It's strange how feelings turn
!. themselves by the weight of such triflng
. impulses. was ten times colder than
when got out of the coach. | gave the
poor woman most ungracious refusal.
h All! the reproaches of ofcomplaining eyes!
Not all the pleasure that kind looks or
that kind words give. or have given in
+, life, can balance the pain that reproacifu'
:. eyes occasion-eyes that have become
e sealed over with that leaden seal which
lifts not; how they pierce one by day time
and more dreadfulIy by night-throngh
and through Words slip, and are for.
! goiten;but looks, reproacbful looks fright
: ful looks. make up all that is most terrible
; in dreams.
Il hope Cameron in some of his wan.
derings over the moors in his blue and
white shooting jacket, had his flask Of
= mountain dew fail when the sun was
}, straight over his head-and that between
= that time and night, gray night, damp
night, late night, there came never birt
- to his bag-not even wandering field
fare-because he laughed me out of my
,, charity to the old beggar-woman of lily
:. - ria.
/, HE insisted, however, that there was
!, nothing uncharitabIe in laughing, and thai
i there was nn reason in the world why
!, genuine benevolence should not act d,
i freely in the face of guyety, as of the de
! mure-lookingfaces with which,he Scotcl
presbyters about the West Bow, drol
= their pennies into the poor box. Tel
! thousand times in life, one is ashamed u
- being laughed out of a course of action
u and never stops to think whether the ac
- tion after all. Is good or bad. | neye
yet met man who hadn't pride enoug
8 to deny his sensitiveness to ridicule.
h will be seen that was in quarreling hu
Is NOR with Cameron, and we kept the beg
r. gars fresh in onr minds, and on ou
tongues, for an hour or more, when W,
appealedto Monsie Jr le COmte, who look
ed very practically on even the warme
7. feelings of our nature.
Monsieur lie Comie thought the mon
ey to the boys was we'll enough bestow
It. ed; to the girl he would have given hin
self, had she been a triae older
"And she had kissed your hand as sh
did mine--
i, But as for the old woman, she di
not deserve it. He was behindthe coacl
while | was in front, and had seen tn
. mother send forward--frstt the boy-the
the little girl--and alieriaking the kreitz
e. ers from both, had come up with tn
CT third!
he "Happily. Cameron's laugh oftriump
q. was drowned by the noise of the postl
IA. liou's bugle, as we dashed into the cour
al yard of the inn of Adelsburg. --Ftes
re Gieaai@gs &c,