The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1849-12-26


She then look The meal 10 prepare
-. and Mary was sent 10 CALLER
some sticks 10 kindle The IRE. The dough
Was then placed before The smoky, sean.
| ~ fire, and lie impatient children lowered
around % watch lis progress. Long,
however, before il was sufficiently baked.
iiley sna,ched ], piece BY piece away, I'LL
nothing but the empty I'm remained.
Tie lille hnys, with their hunger
srarrely satisfied. then lcil Tie house 10
hitler. IL usual, in tie streets, while Mary,
n she saw her mother becoming every
moment more incapable nf attending 10
Tie wants 81 her infant, lonk Tie poor Iii.
ne creature. and in trying 10 soa,p rs saf.
lerings, half Iurgut her avn. She had
jus, succeeded in lullIng lie baby when
/ her father rniered. lie had been III lie
meadow picking The eranberries, which
had been preserved during The Minicr m.
der The snow, and which ronld now be
sold for few cents quart. Though
once sllong and arliEe man, 20 degraded
had he become thai lew persons we're VII.
ling 10 employ him; and lie resorled 10
| picking cranberies AZ The only means left
him Of obtaining what his appetite 80 i'm.
/ perinusly demanded.
On entering The room. and seeing the
state his wife was in, he uttered loud
curse. anil IL The same time babe Mary
leave The crying child, iba, his entrance
had awakened, pni on her bonnet. and
llrsien 10 the village 10 sell the cranher'
res. amt on her relu call al the yellow
shop.
Mary left the child. got on her bonnet,
and with a trembling heart commenced
her walk. 0nher way she mel her broth
err, and stopped 70 tell them, that as llleil
father was then II home, they had beliel
keep away from the house I'LL her return,
She then called from door 10 door; bu
., every place her iimid inquiry, . Ds
.ou want any rranberries here |" met III,
same chilling answer. No."
Al length, wearied ont, and fearing tha
she could no, dispose Of them a, all, sh,
sat down by the roadside and wepi Bit
ierly. Bu, the sun had long passed IL
meridian, and was gradually lowering Il
the western sky. She must 90 home
and what would her father say If she re
turned with Tie cranbcrries unsold! Thi,
she could not do; and she determine,
! to exchange them al the shop, for llt
, spiril her fatser wanted.
!, After wailing some time at the cnunie
| ill the wants Of this and that wretche,
, victim were supplied. she told her GRAND
! and after much hesitation on the part q
|, the shopkeeper, and much enireaty on he
] own, the cranberries were exchanged 70
, rum. Mary then rapidly retrared he
steps homewaId, and with beating heal
4 entered The cottage. Her father was No
!. present, bni her mother was, and, on in
|! curing where she had been, insisted 0
{ Mays giving her The spirit. Mary n
Z fused as long as she dared, for she kne,
{ how terrible would be The anger Of he
!. father, should he find the quantity dimir
!. i>hed on his return. But The mother, rt
|. gardless Of every thing except The graft
Q ca,iun Of her own appetite, seized u
i vessel from ihe child, and drank larg
e portion Of its contents.
r. II was scarcely swallowed before he
e husband entered; and, enraged al seem
n The spirit so much lessened. lie reproacl
|. ed first Mary, and then lis wife, in III
i most bitter terms. The provoking replis
d OF The latter excited his rage almos. b
d yond his contlol and Mary, fearing L
J. lhe safety OF herself and brothers, rreI
i with them into an empty closet. wheI
r with their arms around each other, the
en,ained almost GREATNESS with ALARM
'..g atlheir fathers loud threats, al
screams Of their mother.
In the tliscord was hushcd, AZ
chi, except The low groans Of Il
wife, and The cries Of the bel
De. The children then crept fro
hiding place, 10 seek for some lo'
& they LAID themselves down upe
yetched bed, 10 forget their fea
le in sleep. But in vain did iht
crust 81 hreai or cold potato
:ould find nothing but the renal
meal she had procured in I
Il, il was too lite TO alien
Ter cake. The fire was q
iii, and i, was loo dark 10
wood So the hung
their wants unsupphe
lay themselves down
e in which Mary's parel
,ched condition Of The Ian
attracted attention but
parents seemed so hopele
i was made 10 persuade Ill
Il their iuinous habits, ill
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