Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-09-15


for many mouth to csme-go to your seat
Glad cnongh of the ungracious perms.
siou, and answering not a sound, the child,
crcpt trembling to Ills bench. lie felt very
strangely, dizzily-more as if he was in 4
dream than in real life; and laying his arms
on his desk, bowed down his face between
them The pupils turned to their accustom-
cd studi"s, for during the reign Of Lugare,
in the village school, they had been so used
to scenes of violence and severe chastIse.
mcnt, that such things made but little inter
ruption in the tenor of their way.
Now, while the intervening hour is pass
ING, we will clear up the mystery Of the bag,
aud Of Young Barker being under the gar
den fence the preceding night. The boys
mother was widow aud they both had to
live in the very narrowcst limits. His father
had died when he was six years old, and
little Tim was left a sickly cInaciatrd infant,
whom no one expected to live many months.
TO the surprise of all, however, the poor
| child kept alive, and seemed to recover his
strength, as he certainly did his size aud
good looks. This was owning to the kind
| offices Of an eminent physician, who had 4
! country scat in the nrighborhood, and who
had been interested in the widows little
! family. Tim, the physician said, might pos
sibly outgrow his disease, but everything
was uncertain. 1t was a mysterious and
battling malady, and il would not be won,
dcrlul if he should in some moment OF ap-
pxrent good health, be sudden taken away.
! The poor widow WAS at first in continual
state of uneasiness, bat several years had
now elapsed, and none of the impending
evils had fallen on the boys head. His mo-.
ther seemed to feel confident that he would
live, and be 4 help and an honor to her old
age; and the two struggled on together
mutually happy in each other, and enduring
much of poverty and discomfort without
revining, each for the others sake.
Tins pleasant disposition made him many
friends in the village, and among the rest a
Young farmer named Jones, who with his
elder brother worked large farm in the
ncighborhood on shares. Jones very fire.
quently made Tim present of bag oI
potatoes or corn, or some garden vegetables
which he took from his own stock; but, a:
his partner was i. parsimonions high'tcmper'
ed man, and had often said that Tim was an
idle fellow and ought not to be helped be-
cause he did not work, Jones generally made
his presents in such a manner, that no one
knew anything about them except himsel
and the grateful objects of his kindness. II
might be too, that the widow was loath tc
have it understood by the neighbors that she
received food from any one; for there i:
often an excusablc pride in people Of heI
condition which makes them shrink from
being considered as objects of charity, al
they would from the severest pains. Or
the night in question, Tim had been tolc
that Jones would send them a bag of pota
toes, and the place at which they were to b'
waiting for him was fixed at Mr. Nichols
g"rlcn fence. 1t was this bag that Tim la'
been staggering under, and which hat
caused the unlucky boy to be accused ant
convicted by his. teacher as thief. Tla
teacher was one little fitted for his importan
and responsible Office Ilasty to decide
and infexiby severe, ho was the terror o
the little world he ruled so dcspotically
Punishment he seemed to dcIig hit in. Know
ing little of those sweet fountains which il
chldren's breasts open quickly at the call
gen,leness and kind words, he was teare'
by all for his stcrnncss, and loved by none