Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1851-06-19

tie Mary had learned to read and spell, she
must be sent to school for the more elabo-
rate process of learning arithmetic geog-
raphy, &c.
Now, julius Hasen, said Marvel to his
only neighbours son, don't you want to call,
as YOU 90 by days, with your little sister,
and take our Mary to school | guess she
won't be a trouble. She could 90 alone
but, somehow, mother and should feel ca
sier, as the river is to pass, &c, if YOU are
willing
A kind boy was julius; and without hes
itaton he promised 10 take Maryel's treas
ure under his convoy. And, for the two
years following, whenever the district school
was IN operation, Julius might be seen con-
ducting the two little girls down the hill that
leads to the bridge. At the bridge they loi-
tered. Its charm was felt, but lndefnable.
1t was a spell upon their senses; they would
ie-14p and down she sparkling stream till
II Nlnded far away from sight, and at their
own pretty faces, that smiled again in them,
and at julius, skittering the stones along
the water, ia magical rustic art y That old
bridge was a point of sight for pictures,
lovlier than Claude painted For many
year, the old fingered there TO recall the POI
cry Of their earlier days; lovers, to watch
the rising and setting of many star, and
children To play out their uoon-tlme' and
twlights. Heaven forgive those who re-
place 1t with dark, dirty, covered, barn
like, of bad odor in every sense The worst
kind Of barbariaus, those who make war
not upon life, but upon the life Of ile-its
innocent pleasures
But, We loiier with the children, when
We should 60 Oh with them through the mar
row lane Intersecting broad, rich meadows,
aud shaded by pollard willows, which form
living aud growing posts for the prettIest #
our northern fences and round the turn by
the old Indian burning ground Now, hay-
lug come to the piain,' they pass the SOL
cmu precincts of the village church, and
that buryng ground where, since the lndi-
an left ms dead with Us, generations of their
successors are already lam. And now they
enter the WIDE village street, vide as Il Is,
shaded and empowered by dense naples and
wide stretching elms aud euiyened with
neatly trimmed court-yards ami hower-gai-
deus. 1t was pleasant walk, and It's sweet
influences bound those young people
hearts together. We are not telling a love
story, aud do not mean to intimate that tins
was the beginning of one-though we have
heard Of seeds nature implants terminating
at rs carly a period as thus, as we remember
boy six years cid, who, on being reproyed
/ by his mother for having kept his book open
at one place, aud his eyes fixed on II for
I half an hour, replied with touching frank
ness
Mother, | can see nothing there but
Caroline Mitchell
Lutte Mary Marvel had no other senii-
ment for julius than his sister had. She
thought HIM the kindest and best; and much
as She reyerenoed the village pedagogues
she thought julius learning proiounder
than theirs, for he told them stories from
the Arabian Nights-taught them traditions
OF Monument mouutan-made them Learn
10y heart the poetry that immortalIzed them
aud performed other miracles of learning
and teaching to which the school-maste
dIdut approach.
Chdrens judgments are formed on sin
gular premises, but they are usually JUS
conclusions. julius was an eXtraordInarl
boy, aud-uot because he was slckly an,
could do nothing else, (uot uncommon
grounds was destined for liberal educa
he succeeded IN every thing, aud withou
being charge To his father. lie wen
through college, was graduated with homo
studied law; aud when Mary Marvel wa
about 10, he came home from his residence
ia one of our thriving cities for vacation
being foil of legal business.
HIS first vlsil was to the Marvels, where
; be was received with as much warmth as n
: his fathers home. As he left the house ,hl
said to his sister Anna, who was with hun
How shockingy poor Mary Is lookngl
Shocking Why, expected yol
a would say she was SO pretty +!
e Pretty Ny dear Anne the rose on you
i cheeks are worth all the beauty that Is lel
, IA her pale face. What have they done L
: her When you were children, she was
: round, robust litIle thing, and So strong an
y cheerful, you would hear her voice half
T mile ringing like bell, and now rs liar
u from the tomb dolelul sound = When
2 last saw her-let me see-iour years ago
= she was-not perhaps lIebe--but whole
v some looking grl.'
= julius What an expression
= Well, my dear, it conveys my meaning
e aud therefore is a good expression. WhI
e has been the matter Has she had fever
: Is she diseased
d julius No is that the way the Wester
i people talk about young ladies Mary
i in poor health, rather delicate but she doe
o not look SO different from the rest of OF
girls-l, YOU know, am an exception
d Thank Heaven, you are my dear Ann,
Is and thank our DEAR sensible mother, wi
$ understands the means of health
II But May's mother is avery sensible W
man too
E. Not in her treatment of Mary, | a
10 sure. Tell me how she lives. What h
m she been about since ! was here ?
he Why soon after YOU went away you kno
I'd | wrote to you that she had gone to the
II school. You know her parents are wiliI
to do everything for her--and Mary was '
I'd ~ ambitious. They are hard students
ell the school. Mary told me she studied Gro
as eight to ten hours day. She always Q
nj sick before examination, aud had to SCI
be home for lots of pills. remember Mary
I'd at once sending her four boxes of Bran
or reths at one time. But she took the fir
IN honors. AT the end of the first term 81
II, came home, looking as you say as If she hi