The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-01-03


Listen; everything rTy precious that God has
made is very mall Tsls the tones; first, see
how very small and rare be ,monds are. and
what immense piles Of sandstone there be. And
the metals how little gold how ouch Iced. And
the flowers; how tiny the sweet violet, how tall
the scentless sun-fower. And he birds how
small the skylark, who,
Singing still dost soar, and scarlps,e ever s.,sst,
compared with the wadiling Cabling great
goose. Aud the animals how smlH. eleNnt and
fiery, the tigress, compared with 'he tame, servle
elephant. All, believe me- everything rare, cost
ly--everything beautiful, elegart-everything
brilliant, spicy, dery, is small Men put their
very piquant spirits and very precious perfumery
into very minute yials; they only put fish oil in
hOgsheads oh, 90 to, you are a hogshead !"
laughed the little one
The giant looked at her from head to foot,
breathed hard, rubbed mirthfalne ., quite uncon.
seiO1ry Innocent of phrenology
@rZoe, yOu-yOa--yOu little Fye1, you, Ill--
III marry you, m be shot II dcfr only to pay
you for this !" +.
Ut wish to gracious you would wish to good
mss you would 1t would be fun live to torment
you to death"
"You torment me, you WIs I, nE you you
,@aH thing, you!'
dyes, my dear giant; ! haze Use, little wasp
drive great OK mad by buzz'nl into lis face !;
his highucss the OK being utterly .slplcss in the
case
"Ah-h3
"Will you put me down, now
"lndeed | am afraid to; | an slail should
inadvertently put my foot on yOn 81 were to /;
| never like to walk about where here are little
chickens or very small women"
Then he took her little head bsi,,een his large
hands, and looked in her eyes as though he wanteI
very much to kiss them but, resp ing her lone.
! illness, he lifted her down, and sic resumed her
seat and her quilt-piecng Hedrts the Old mans
studying chair up before the file and, seating
himself in il, said
"Are women olrays sewing 3.sl 1t used to
be carpet rags you were always cutting into strips
sewing into strings, and winding lit. halls. Now
what is it? thought, to be sure, Eilen that was
DONE that there would be no mo- of it: now.
what are you doing?"
"Making hexagon quilt-donI you see z? 1t
is for fathers bedD
And here, at the name of father he girl sighed
/ heavily, and fell into thought
What is the matter, Zoe ~
ooh about ta'herln
And what about him ~
." The people think him too oldltaw, to teach,
and so they take his pupils from lu If Re re-
commences on the first Of January II will be with
only four pupils What is be TO do what is he
to do lie has worn his life out in C.aseless toll
and now. near the close of it, has moi the where
withal 10 smooth his passage to thegrave To
thinl, Of it The incalculable good he has done
in this reighborhood, and the misemble reward
/ he has got Old soldiers and old sailors, who
have resigned the more profitable PURSUITS Of ag-
riculture, manufactures, trade or the earned pro-
/ fsssions are remunerated in their ole age by the
justice of the power they serve; ut the old
schoolmaster who has spent his days in the most
laborious and the most anxious Of III pursuits
what is TO become Of him. what is - become OF
father?n And the tears trickled down Zoe's
cheeks.
g Don't cry, Zoe, don't Somethns must be
done for him"
"A hat carried around, | suppose sneered
Zoe. with unusual bitterness
"Why. Zoe what has come over you2 That,
not like youlD exclaimed the Coloss IL "wheu
I said that somqhiag must be done for him,
meant Of course something that would not com
promise his dignity
And what will that be? This n3ghorhood
owes him huge debt that can never he repaid
lie has bccn the missionary, the civlizer of this
whole dstrict--yes, and for the mater Of debt,
they owe him substantial dollars and cents not
more than two-thirds of his sOi-dSoR patrons
! have ever paid him.
! "Those debts must he collected-their aggre-
gate amount must be considerable
No-he has sent in his accounts once to each
| He is delicate and sensitive and will not press
those yho knowing his condition. stll put him
to the shame of dunning them" conn lained Zoe
wipiug her eyes, and resuming her D edle.
Brutus Lon unused, sighed, groned, arose
and walked uneasily about the room reared him
self MP against the closed front door folded his
arms, and watched Zoe absorbed in her needle
work. muttered to himself, &" wisl Gertrude
Lion. or ice, ore of these women had some
sense will not however, indulge the folly o.
either much longer so long as their 'aprce only
annoyed me, could bear it but nos that IT i
likely to injure Zoe, it must be corrected" Full
five minutes he contemplated the rather pretty
picture presented by Zoe at her need e-work. liz
resumed. speaking aloud
"S'udy Latin now, Zoe ~
"Yesn
"And Greek
O. No Father says one thing at ime and
am 10 discontinue the Latin lessons his Christ
mas and commence with the Cree this New
Years.
"Wba' ,'"o Of the day, Zoe, does your fathe
give you lessons y
When he comes home in the eve ing he hear
: me reoite tie lesson that have .smmitted &
memory through the day"
"And is it a great pleasure to im to 'eacl
your
cob. yes, father has passion for be classics
he grows eloquent in praise Of the attn. enhu
siastic in cnloeium of the Greek. Gin be says
is the language Of heroes, Greek tie tongue o
gods II.
to himself partly aloud, much ne trouble
no. there is positively less trouble nd mo" 10
terest in teaching cless Of attenti and intelli
gent pupils, than in giving instra ION TO one
and then how much more excellence and amhi
: ton is felt in a class, where there rivalry an'
. emulation. than by single pupil, y ew
"Wel7
" Wouldn't he take a class ~
Zoe looked perplexed. She did mol understand
: r"WhO7 What classP
rTbave been thinking Of forming al reek class
ard gerriag you, father "a sake q rye OF II
{. ;trtlrqe and myself opli form
; with Won small. hut rather an iniert ing class
don't you think so ~
e Zop had been arrested by his paA words &c
, hat oerec, and now she was looking ahim with
absorbing interest.
8" | say, we ali want TO learn Greek bngh'y
) and Gar and myself. and say, we Al ~ anx-
, ious 10 form a cLssp. amt place oursd es under
Q tbs instruction OF your either. MOI DO you
ccmprshendp
q i ia understand yen. xaod Rrutus under.