Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1852-09-10
Vol Whole No. 1894.

planted would have its harvest time then
smiled and passed homew ards.
Please, sir, will you give me one of
those pretty flowers for Mamma? She is
very i'll, and we don't have flowers now-a-
days, and the child questioner raised her
large dark eyes imploringlv to mine.
Thank God the prosperity that was His
gift had not chilled my heart; so paused
and gathered some of the fairest and most
fragrant of the spring blossoms and placed
them in the eager little hands 1t was
touching! the quivering of the little fell
lows lip, and choking of his voice as he
tried TO thank me but there was something
in the delicate tracery of the blue veins
across the fair, pale brow, that arrested,
then fascinated my gaze. knew not
where, but had seen a brow like that be-
fore. 'Will you take me to your moth
er's 2 | asked, for his threadbare garments
suggested to me that my visit might be op-
Fortunately made. There was a glad,
grateful assent.
1t was long walk, but it terminated at
last before a diapldated dwelling in the
suburbs of the city.
Mamma, mamma have brought YOU
flowers, beautiful flowers and the child
sprang 10 the bedside of lis mother. She
was propped up in her couch in that scan
tlv furnished apartment, but a CLEAN Of
wild Joy stole over the pallid features, and
The wasted hand was stretched with trem-
bling cagerness as the boy placed his bo-
quet before her. There was quick, con-
sulsiye sob, and then other drops than the
dew lay among the crimson petals.
She was unconscious of my presence ;
it was well that she was so, for could not
have spoken. | had recognized her at the
first glance. ! should have recognized
her had she been ten-fold more changed
than she was. The pale, high brow had
lost much of the pride of its girlhood in
the shadows that had supplanted it, and
the pallid lips, much of the scorn that lay
around them IN by gone time, and the eyes
/ that had flashed in anger at the " insoIent
/ little pauper," whose wistiul, blooming
/ eyes had rested for 4 moment upon the
/ parterres around her luxuriant home, had
grown mournul and sunken.
| stood awed and silent in the presence
Of the woman, whose words, twenty years
before, had produced an entire change in
my life and character, and who then
would have regarded the L" hem Of her
garment contaminated, had il brushed
across mine. How changed were our po-
sitIons Verify, He putteth down one
and setteth up another"
/ Alarmed at his mothers emotion, the
child had not directed her attention towards
me, and so | moved noisclessly and undis-
covered from the threshold 10 commune
! with my own heart and be still.
The evening of that day the mother and
lie child were removed TO the home where
the childhood Of the former had been
passed. / had become its possessor the
/ previous year.
That home was left in a few weeks for
another and u narrower; but she who thus
/ left it, never dreamed, when with her dy-
( ing breath she committed her child to the
protection Of the stranger, that for the roof
that sheltered her, for all of comfort and
luxury that were gathered around the
closing days of her life" she was in
debted To an ''msolent little pauper."