The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1851-12-04
WESTERLY, R. l., DECEMBER 4, 1851.

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said Susan, very calmly; but you are for
given, and you may get me the coal.
George looked at the face of his wife,
and as he met the tender gaze of her mild
eyes now turned to him, he felt the tears
rise in his own He rose up, and as he
put the money in o his wife's han s, he
said, 'There are my weeks wages. Come,
come, hold out both hands, for you have
not got all yet. Well, now you have every
farthing Keep the whole, and lay it out
to the best advantage, as you always do. l
hope this will be beginning of better do
ings on my part, and happier ones on yours !;
and now put on your bonnet, and I'll walk
with you to pay the baker, and buy BUSH
el or two Of coal, or any thing else you may
be in want of and wher we come back
I'll read chapter of the Bible to you and
the girls, while you get on with the needle
work
Susan went up stairs to put on her bon
net and shawl, and she remeined little
longer, to kneel down on the spot, where
she had often knelt, almost heart broken in
p aver prayer that her heavenly Father
would turn her husbands heart, first to his
Saviour, and then to his wife and children +;
and that, in the meantime he would give
her patience. She knelt down this time to
pour her heart in thanksgiving and praise.
The pleasant tones of her husbands voice
called her from her knees.
George Manly told his wife that even
ing, after the children were gone to bed
that when he saw what the pence of the
poor. could do towards keeping up fine
house; and d, essing out the landlords wife
and daughters and when he thought Of
his own hardworking, uncomplaining Susan
and his children in want, and almost il
rags, while he WAS sitting drinking, anc
drinking, night after night, more like I
: beast than a man, destroying his own manly
5 strength, and the fine health God had give,
him, he was so struck with sorrow an(
: shame, that he seemed to come to himsel
/, at last. He made his determination, from
r that hour, never again to put the intoxicat
c ING glass to his lips, and he hoped he mad
T. it in dependence upon God for grace ant
strength to keep it.
= It was more than a year after Mrs
a Crowder, fthe unch-bowl, had first miss
| ed regular customer from her house, ant
$ when She had forgotten to express hel
= wonder as to what could have become o.
the good looking carpenter that generally
spent his earnings there, and drank ano
, spent his money so freely.
There, get on as fast as you can, dears
run, girls, and don't stop for me, for my
$ Levan.ine is a French silk, and won't
, spot
= These words were screamed out as louc
as her haste would permit, by Mrs Grow,
der, who was accompanying her daughters
one Sunday evening, to the tea-gardens
sShc was answered by Miss Lucy, 'Yo'
know, ma, we can't run, for our shoes are
a so tight
: Then turn into one of these houses
dears,' said the mother, who was bustlln:
: forward as fast as she could.
e NO, indeed replied the other daughte
who found time to curl her lip with dlSdaln
u nOtWllnsldnuluS Hcl HS'9'C 49,
Ill not set foot in such filthy novels.
| 'Well, dears, here is a com ortab)e
r tidy pace cried the mother at length, a
G they hastened forward here III. enter
4: nor will stir till the rain is over; com
: in, girls, come in. You might eat off thes
t boards, they are SO clean
y The rain was now coming down in tor
e rents, and the two young ladies gladly fol
d lowed their mothers example, and enter
S ed the neat and cleanly dwelling. Thei
}, long hair hung dangling about Their ear:
), their Grape bonnets had been screened /
) vain by their fringed parasols, and tn
e skirts of their silk gowns were draggle
le with mud They all three began to STAN
upon the floor of the room into which The
Is had entered with very little ceremony; b'
r the good-natured mistress of the house fe
moe for their disaster than for her foo
70 and came forward at once to console an
a assist them. She brought forth elea
clothes from tho dresser-drawer, and 81
- and her two daughters set to work to vii