Sunday dispatch. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1845-1854, 1852-03-14

was marvellous how in the long run he didnj
really lose.
One time q year after certain humping
bill had been utterly despaired Of, and the
poor journeymau cabinet maker owing it haC
moved to another part Of the city thing!
grew brighter with him, and he came round
one cool evening to pay up like man and
make Ephraim's wife pretty present OF o
work-box Another time when the long,
long score Of poor woman, with little
children, had been allowed to accumulate
nearly all winter--for otherwise, they would
have staryed-the husband, an Incorporate,
shifJess character, died, and the woman
was taken away by her friends But strange
to tell, who should be engaged, by and by,
as cook in the house of wealthy family
three blocks off, but this very same woman
who grew fat and rosy iu a good place
and not only paid the old score, long as il
was, (although Ephraim himself told her
it was no matter, and might IS well go, now
but the worthy cook began to grow angry
them only did she settle the bill, but
sent her old friend deal Of profitable Gus
tom. The story of his good deeds went to
the ears of the mistress, and thence into
other peoples and you may depend Ephraim
didn't lose anything by that. So with all
his soft -heartedness the man might be said
to gain nearly enough to balance the really
bad accounts; for they were not always
coming back, after he gave them up--those
unfortunate bills
This was the sort of parsonage that the
little flax headed boy was lucky enough to
come to- He didn't seem to have performed
any morning toilet; he was bare headed
and bare footed; finally he was about ten
years old
''And who are you my man ?" said Eph-
riam, for he had never seen the youngster
before, although he knew, or thought so,
every mothers child for q dozen blocks
around
The tow head looked up in the shopkeep-
er's face and answered that his usual appela-
tion was Jack
"And where do you come from" continu
ed Ephraim.
Master Jack looked up Again, but return
ed no reply at all He drew in long breath
and let it out again, that sort of half sigh
that children sometimes make: still keeping
his eyes at Ephraim's
81 want some breakfast" boldly came
from his lips at last.
Ephraim stopped moment in his work of
hauling out before the door his stands and
milk cans; but the bit Of astonishment was
followed by something very much like graft
fed vanity It wouldn't be every man, or
woman either, that q little unfortunate,
might appeal to with the style Of Jacks .la-
conc speech. 1t was not style where e.
frontery or the callous tone of an accustom-
ed beggar struck out 1t was rather like
saying--sir, see that you have good
heart, and that it always delights 20 to do
charitable deed
There was another thing. Ephraim had,
ten months before, been the possessor of a
little white head, not much different from
Jacks, only good deal younger But it
was its fate one melancholy evening, to be the
subject Of the consultation of three doctors
OF medicine, who attended it for five success
sive days. AT the end Of that time the little
head was winter than ever, for it was dead,
So the good fellows heart. theuceforward
warmed toward children with still deeper
warmth than before
Without any more ado, or any talk about
it, the milkman and the cnlld by silent cou-
cont, -eees.Aed- to form mental compact
The new assistant took hold; ana the two
helped each other in all the preparations
and putting TO rights Tow-head sprinkled
the fsgstones in front, and swept them off
he would have done the same thing to the
floor inside-only the owner himself had
done it already
AS he hustled and brushedabout Ephraim
more than once stopped, under the influence
Of q meditative abstraction; he probably
weighed in his mind the chances of the new
comer's honesty he looked closely at him
from time to time. What particular notions
fitted through the tow head, now forget.
And yet ought to know something about
it, fer | was myself the forsaken young vag-
abond, who found friend in that pearl of