Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1852-12-30
Daily LIVE INC STAR.
TaE GOLD SOVEREIGN.

worth repeating; not for artificial interest,
Uhieh il does not contain, bat for the adj
mirable lesson it conveys to young persons
commencing life.
regret thai am unable to reproduce
the spirit and humsr with which the mimi
table judge graced his simple story; but |
will do my best to remember his owl
words:
Wien vas only eight years old, . s-f"
Judge NJ, "my father and f6~fl.~f Dei's
poor, with half a DOR children Detsef
than myself to tsl,eoare Of, was given to
a farmer ip~<the the town of F, who
designed taking plough BOY of me-, and
,aen;,5| me in his service until / was OF
%.
= "Well, had net very gay time in
Deacon Webb's service; for although he
was an honest deacon, and tolerably kind
man, IN his fAnily, he believed ia making
boys work, and understood how to avoid
spelling them By indulgence.
abundant lack of indulgence to epjoy. 1t
was, consequently, great treat for me to
get enormous sum Of one or two pennies
into my possession by any sort Of good
fortune-a circumstance of such rare oc-
eurrence, that, at the age Of eleven, had
learned to regard MONEY as q blessing be-
slowed by Providence only On a favored
few
Well, I had lived with Deacon Webb
three wears before | knew the color Of any
coin, except vile copper. BY an accident
learned the color of gold. That is the
story am going to tell you.
One Saturday night Dir. Webb sent me to
the village store on some Grand; and, on
returning home, just about dusk, my at
tention was attracted by little brown pack
age, lying on the road side.
81 picked it up to examine its contents,
without the least suspicion of the treasure
within. Indeed, it was so light, and the
volume of brown paper appeared so large,
that undoubtedly suspected that was the
victim of an April fool, although it was the
month of June. tore open the folds Of the
paper, however, and, discerning nothing,
was On the point Of throwing it into the
ditch, when something dropped out of it,
and fell, with q ringing sound upon stone.
81 looked at it with astonishment. 1t
was yellow, round, glittering, too bright and
too small for g penny; l felt of it;
squeezed it in my fingers; spelled out the
that it was gold coin of incaloulable value,
and that, if did not wish to lose it, had
better pocket it as soon as possible.
''Trembling with excitement, put the
coin in my pocket But it would not stay
there. Every two minutes | had to take it
out and look at it. Bat, whenever l met
somebody, was careful to put it out of
sight. Somehow, [ felt q guilty dread Of
finding an owner to the coin. Provided
found none, thought it was honestly mine,
by right of discovery; and comforted my
SCu hkIh SAC oOHAAoa1J ShoS IL WOO LSt LII
business to go about the streets, crying,
EWhos lost?'
"Iwent home with the gold in my pocket.
Iwould not have had the deacon's folks know
what had found for the world. l was
scarcely troubled with the fear of lcosing nay
vast and incalculable treasure. This was
not all. It seemed to NE that my face be-
trayed the secret I could not look at any
body with an honest eye.
These troubles kept me awake half the
night, and projects for securing my treasure
by safe investment the other half. On
the following morning was feyerish and
nervous. When deacon Webb, at the break
fast-table said,
William!"
al started and tremhled, thinking the
next words would be
"Wbere is that piece of gold you have
found and wickedly concealed. to keep from
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