The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-12-23
EBENSDURG, THURsDiT, DECDNDER %, 1852.
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.E Tile yoes Of strong drink p says the ould
woman, sar.onsly. You behaved kindly to me,
| an urged oaly by the feelin's ev yer kindly ma
ture. have the power to save ye, an viii,
from this hour forward, as long as time exists
1t will be tke fault of you an yours, if nisfor-
tunes, other than those nature demands, should
fall upon yer name for yer faults an vicious
incinations shall be pointed out to you by fairy
power
Lord save US = says me ancesther, fright
ened amos: eut ov iis s;ven senses, ARE you a
fairy?'
- 4 am says she; behold the proof" wid
that the ould rags and fathers melted away, an
instead of 5irty-lookin' hape of deformity and
wretch edness, Connach beheld a diminutive form
scarcely as Big asa blade ov grass, and as bright
as If it had been made out . sunbeams, stand
in and kiss in it's love to him, while the tiniest
an most musical little voice, like the Tinsin' oV
fairy bells, tingled upon his ear, SO small, but
so distinct
Farewell. Counach thou hast had thy Earnin' ;
Profit by ii, an be happy
s.The fairy thin vanquished, an me aucesther
slept upon that identical stone until mornin,
but when he woke up, he didn't forget the fai-
ry's caution for not only did he never touch
liquor but he left it in his dyiE' directions, to
be transmitted from father TO son, through eve
ry generation that both house an lands should
get the name ov drunkard.
CAN to or credit be it spoke, we haven't
had one yet, though some have needed and re-
ceiyed the fairy's warnin for that, as well as
other faults, an its very wonderful the various
ways they took TO tell him, that's been
runnin' through the family histhory since that
time-sometimes in q parable, thin again IN 6
one way, an now another. Me
own grandfather got his warnin in aquare way.
His preyailin' fault was harshnes5, an strong
inclinin to cruel conduct He threatened me
father wickedls durin' his youth, an at last, be
lase he rnsrr; 4 unbekncwnst to him, turned
him right out o7 doors.
0sWeli, it wasn't long afther that, grandfather
was sittin' mopin' alone-for, in spite oY MS
hard natur', he missed his child-whin all at
oncet, whin he was tryin' to nurse UP his angry
feeIin', who should he see come in the door. bat
a favorite cat him, that had just lost her kit
tents, tenderly carryin' in her mouth q bouncin,
young rat. Wei, grandfather naturally thonght
the cat was goin' to make her supper off the
rat but not q bit ov it. What does my bould
puss do, but takes the rat into her basket, an
pets it up, an plays wild it in the most motherly
way!
"At first, grandfather laughed till the tears
run down his cheeks at the fun the thing, to
see the rat taken so much care of; but whin the
cat rowled over on her side, singin' 'pur-roo,
winkin' at grandfather, an putin her paw as
cingerly over the rat as if she was afraid ov
broakin 1t he knew Immediately that there
was some manein in it. 1t was thin that 1t
struck him all al once, that if it was an unna-
turaI thing to see a cat nourshin' creather hat
didn't belong TO her specie at all at all, it was
more unnatural a mortal sight to see father
turnin' his back upon his own flesh an blood
% It's warnin' :! says he.
Tears that he had never shed afore-for he
was a hard man-fell in showers from his eyes,
an he prayed for grace to conquer his faults.
s.Wen, sir, before the night fell, my father an
his purity young wife was in the ould mans
arms, an greater joy and happiness seldom
echoed through these ould rafters (; for next TO
never doing any wrong, the most heart-satisfy
in thing in creation is, to repent the wrong
you've done ~