Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1850-12-28

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her own firesiGe circle. She was, indeed. the
richest gem in the circle. When the Ions
lashes were lifted from her ever chanein.
cheek, you could look into the very soul o
| he high minded, y-hearted gill ST,
! years before, she had stood in her father,
| low parlor on Thanksgiving eve-she had
| stood between that father and another tf
! whose face she lifted her soul-speaking ewes
| bis bride of an hour, And as the good moth
ers raspberry wine, carefully bottled for lie
| occasion, went round, she dreamed not thai
| in that cup lurked demon that should over.
| throw the altar just erected. Caleb REYNOLDS
was now IIrunkard and a deselter from his
home. He had enlisted, it was thought in an
hour of intoxication- but his wife was left
TO learn it from other lips. He went without
one word OF FAREWELL TO the plains of Mexi.
co--and never since had she heard of bin
Poor Adelaide carried her crushed heart back
to her fathers house, longing only 10 lay it in
the grave. Have you ever seen tree in our
Western forests blighted by 'eirIing,' as the
woodSmen call it-cut of from lis connection
with the llte-giving earh,and then left 10 with
Ell Tor years! never pass such tree with
out thinking of the slow death of the heart. to
which some writer has compared it. 1t was
thus that Adelaide stood among tile other
plants of her fathers nurture Have Won ever
sec% from such eirdled tree, Young shoot
spring out, and striking down its iIres form a
feeble connection with the bark below, and
sustain sure though sickly life in the tree !?
1t W thus that little Robert came. TO bind \
few broken fibres from her early hopes and
dreams to earth
But we are forgetting our THANKSGIVING
none OF the Auntes forgot it, however-or
the cousins, and by the time farmer Talbors
big sleigh had emptied twice upon the old
salt sprinkled stone steps all were brought
home from church, and all were there.
Ai-except two unaccountable stranglers.
The boys as Two sripplings nearly six feet
high continued TO be called, who were cult
waiting the sciences inn college not many miles
away And why were they not there? So
questioned every one, and grandmama did
not answer-only wiped her spectaces ey.
cry few minutes on her apron, and peered OUT
OF her southwest window.
rerflfen I'll The s1tttfn9 ROM, rrluKnrg n rrIarTy
use Of The interlude between service and din
ner There was Robert the eldest son, with
his romping family and notwithstanding wife.
There was Charloile-no, nobody knew her
! by that name = I.0tiP, blooming in her prime,
and managing her little ones to Il charm
There was Philip, the old bachelor though
by no means crusty one. Next 10 him sat
pale, still looking cousin from the nearest
factory village. Last, but not least, though in
truth she was a little one-was the old school
ma'am-the youngest of her fathers flock,
the laughing, un,loging Susie She was not
beautiful as Addie had been, but there was
such world of good nature in her low broad
forehead and dimping cheeks, that you loved
l., Il.
trait, for do not know that she ever sal still
long enough TO have it taken, except in church.
This day she was here, and everywhere.
among the children, kissing one, rompng
with another, and then tossing up Roberts
baby, to the terror of its mother and the de
light OF all others.
"You must let me 60 and help grandmam-
ma take up lie turkey, indeed you must"
cried Susan, laughing, us she pushed. through
the doorway, followed by the whole scamper-
ing troop. One had sprung from the top Of
the arm chair to her shoulder, and sat growing
like parrot on his perch.
As she advanced towards the Kitchen the
outer door was thrown suddenly open and IA
merry thanksgiving TO you" burst from the
lips of the intruders, amid the renewed shouts
OF the boislerons brood.
"Bess me, where did you drop from p
cried the mother, dropping her ladle into the
Goals in her surprise.
"Why, brothers, we never heard your
eighbells," exclaimed Susan, throwing off
her incumbrance, and heartily welcoming the
young collegians.
81 dare say not said Edward, as he knock
ed the snow from his boots. "We chartered
other sort of vehicles hey, VIII ?"
'The fact is" exclaimed VIII, "that we
started with the sunrise this morning, but met
with amost provoking 'hreak down by the
way. So, not 10 be cheated out OF our Thanks
giving, we footed it through the drifts. We've
lost Purson Woods sermon, but we're in
time for mothers dinner and assure you a
walk of eight miles has given as pair Of ap-
petites."
So they sat down to dinner at last, all the
loving and merry ones. Grandfather hushed
them for moment, while he lifted his bronz
ed hands over the huge platter, aud invoked
bountlul Heaven in lengthy but feryeht
'hlessing,' Then followed the usual clatter-
ing, and--but need not describe it all !; YOU
see il as well as do.
The 'wish-bone,' Ia great prize lhat,l fell
to the sbare of the shyest one. little blue eyed
Nelly, who carefully wrapped it in her white
apron MS sacred treasure.
Coz, may | beak with you? screamed
her cousin Harry from the other end of the
table. e
| No, am going 10 break-7--'
'Wltt whom Should like to know
with auni Susie, them said the little dove
nesting timidiy TO her side
Aunt Suse--ha, fu! aunt Susie would
look finely breaking a wish-bone
And why not Master Hany!' said Susie