The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1850-11-20


win ahundsnre nf meat. Il IS not rscorsl.
ed u Moore thai he manifested any aver.
sion lnward the senlson lrasis which his
better half provided xilh 50 much labor.
however much he had been opposed 10
the use Of such worldly means himself. as
The expenditure Of one neediul lhopgl,l Cor
The morrow.
The Wild rrsion Of the Missouri a. las.
settled up. sunay fields. waving with
golden grain, siond in the place af The old
green woods whirh had furnished shelter
and snsiensnce Tor me cnpious game. The
buffalo aed farther of. deeper into the
grand prairIes. nearer IN the Rocky Noun
iains. The moon beams fell broad and
bright ON fle open bottoms where Inc
brown bears nsed 10 nestle among the mat
ted canes. The red deer had been scared
away by the sharp sound Of Collins ares.
u became necessary that Fanny should
move. She sold her slender I. improve
ment" on The banks of The silver Usage,
Tor cart. yoke Of oxen and small SUN
OF ready money; and loading The crazy
vehicle with six children and her !. jerker"
believing Tom. she started for Arkansas.
In this new country. then a territory.
she selected locality fifty miles from
any settlement. Here wild animals roam
ed IN the greatest plenty. and her rude
board table proaned benea,h 20 tlem)
savory luxuries. This wonder Of wife
now added rapidly 10 their humble pro-
periy. Her rare worn. wasted figure grew
roun,ler; her step. as she saddled the black
poney, more elastic; and the whistle bIiih.
er by which she summoned her WOLF
dog TO The daily hunting foray. Even the
laugh sometimes rang oni as in the merry
lhonghlcss hours OF her early youth.
ongs loud and clear as the sweet tones OF
bell metal.
One thought ola most gloomy character
alone disturbed the calm now Of her ioy-
GUS reflections. her children were grow
ing up with the rapidi,y Of hasiy summer
weeds. and utterly without education, or
even The prospect Of any opportunity TO
obtain il. The idea haunted her day and
night. She turned il over in her mind in
every conceivable way. bat still could find
no solution for The iorinring problem. She
learned TO spell. wheu a child. at an old
field school--ihat is to say. she had gone
as fac III Dillwor,h as three syIlables,
which. BY the way, was nearly The ex
tent oi her Tame teachers accurate infor.
nation in The pedagogical art. But her
memory had long ago lost in the inverse
ratio Of IFS acquisitions. ill she could
scrcely be said TO know her letters. Often
did she bitterly regret her idleness in the
early school house. and exciaim, as she
fondIy kissed her children, on returning
at night from the ioilsome hunt" il had
only learned to read then. could now
teach YOU, my dears." And her tears would
drop like rain.
Al length an incident occurred. that
brought with il a suggestion shaping itself
into fixed plan. which enabled her final
ly to vanquish The perplexlng difficulty.
The an,hor cannot do better than give the
anecdole in her own arless words. as re.
lated to him, in Texas, some twelve
months ago:
| used 10 cry about il every night"
she said, /" hetore going to sleep. and then
| would dream il all over again; for indeed
il was sad To think Of. knew that by
hard work we would. after awhile, be well
enough off 10 move into the settlements,
where decent people live; and then
thought how shocking il would seem for
my young ones To have no more learning
than The wild Indians. The boys were !
gs.sing more than half as tall as their faith.
sr. and Peggy's pretty head was even 10
my shoulders. Ii was enough TO make
Iond mother cay. ! was then in the habit
,f going every two or three months 10 iit-
lie Rock with pack Of pelfres. to buy
salt and other things that we could not get .
along without. One time brought back |.
some lunches Of raisins for the baby.
They were wrapped up in large news
paper which contained number Of Curl
rus pictures. The sheet was gazed at
VIII WUHucI W tuc pVuf Cicdtufcs, WIN
had never seen snch an object in their
ives. Little Tommy asked me, with
sparkling eyes. if il were not bird!
ried TO explain the matter 10 him; told him
hat il was; thai it.contained.a tale about
he whole world; and that when persons
earned to read il, they could know all az
airs which were going on across the blue
and the big rivers. and away
,ver the sea, as well as the sights they
'aw every day before their own doors.
"Oh! ma. won. you learn us TO read,
10 we can hear from our old play places
n Missouri said Peggy, who was then
almost woman.
i" The question liked to have broken
ny heart. remembered how lazy had
been when girl, and the idea was a sharp
pain, splitting my side into my
very soul, wept like child, till even
nv own children strove TO comfort me.
However, my tears did me good. Tears
always relieve the heart; they commonly
rlear the head also. A sudden thought