Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-08-19

of the severe chastisement he sho uid
now be juBtilied in inilicting, kept
working himself up to- a greater de-
gree of. passion. In The mean time,
the Child seemed hardly to Know
what 10 do With himself His tongue
cleavcd to the roof of his mouth
Either he was very much frightened
or he was actually i'll.
Speak, Fl say.' again thundereq
Lugare; his hand, grasping his rattan,
lowered above lis head in very $i s.
nificant mahnei.
4 hardly can, SIR said the ? por
fellow, finJly. Ills voice was husky
aud thick. i will tell you spmf--r
some other tine Please to let me
go to my scat amt we'll
ON, yes that's very likely and
Lugare bufged out | is nose nd
cheeks with contempt. DO You
think to make me believe your lies?
I've fonad you out, sir, plaihly
enough; and | am Satisfied that You
are as precious a little villain as til ERE
is in tie state. But ! win postpone
settling with you for an hour yet
| shall then call you up again, nd
if you don It tell the whole tratll !, |
will give y gu something that will
make you remen.4er 1Ir. Nichols
melons for many month to CD me
go to your scat.
Glad en- ough Of the ungraei3us
permission, and answering not a
sound, the child crept trembling to
his bench. He felt very strangely,
dizzily m ore as if he was in q die Rm
tlian in real life; and lhying his al ms
on hi4 desk, bowed tloEgn his face be-
tween them The puEiis turned I'd
their accus stolned stul lies, for during
the reign of / Lugare in the vhl4gq
school, they hAd been SO used 70
scenes Of Violence and severe elias
tisement, that such things made but
Etth interruption in the tenor Of
their way.
Now, while the intervening hour
is passing, we will clear up the mys-
tery OF the bag, and Of young Bar
ker being under the garden fence on
tie preceding night.
The boy's Mother was widow,
and they both had to live in the
very narro owest limits. His father
had died when le was six years old,
and little Tim lEas left a sickly, ema-
ciated infant, whom no one expected
to livd many M ontlis. To the snr-
prise of all, hoEever, the poor child
kept alive, and sqemedto recover his
health, as he CERTAINLY did his size
and good looks This vas owing to
the kind othqe$ Of an eminent ply
sician who had a country seat in the
ncighborhood, dnd who had been in
terested in the widow 5 little fymilyl
Tim, the phy$id IAN said, might pos
sibly outgrow His disease, but eve ry-
thing is uncertl in. 1t wss-a a mystic
rious and bafh hling malady, and it
would not be wonderful if he should
in some moment Of apparent health
belsuddeily taken away. Tie poor
whlew WAS at FIRST in t; eontinualstate
of 1neasiness; but everal years had
now passed, and none Of the impehd-
ing evils had fallen upon the boy $
lead. His motherRseemed to feel
confident that he would live,. and be
help and an honor TO her old. age;
and the two struggled on together,
mutually happy in each Hfother, and
enduring much Of poverty and dis
comfort without repining, each for
the Others sake.
Tins pleasant disposition had
made him many friends IN the village,
and among the rest a yeung farmer
by the nbnie of Jones who with his
older brother, worked a large farm in
the neiohborhood on shares. Jones
very frequently made Tim a present
Of tag Of potatoes or cor, or some
garden Vegetables, which he took
from his own stock, bat az hispTt1
nef was a parsimohious, high-telA+
pered man, and had often3s;hdi tfat
Tim wastt an idle 4 fellow, and ought
not to be helped, because he did not
work, Jones generally male his
gifts in shehfa manner, that no one
knew anything about tilein, except
himself ahd the grateful ehjectl zoE
his kindne4s. 1t might be, too, that
the widow WIS lo;lih toliafeit' anilert
stood by her neighbors, that she ret
ceiyed food from ANY ionei for there