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AROSIANCB OF REAL LIFE.


The following facts possess some striking
points Of interest. We may promise that the
story isstrictly true the names only, for OBJ
vious reasons, being suppressed
In the year 1897, young woman, Of decent
parentage, engaged 10 the service Of clergy.
mans family in the west country, became ac
qusinted with and formed an attachment to a
young man in the neghborhoOd. A child, the
result Of this attachment, was ultimately, from
the inability of either Of the parents to support
it, consigned to tine care Of the grandmother on
thefathsr's side, The mother had frequent Op-
portunities Of seeing and hearing of her boy
whilesbe remained in that quarter Of the cOun-
Try; but some time afterwards, she left the
neighhorhOod and removed to a distance. There
after the father left the same district also, and
removed to Ireland, taking the boy along with
him. Some years passed away; and being mu
tually ignorant Of each others place Of residence,
the mother, after using means t., discover wheth-
er her child had been removed, gave up all
hope oi obtaining the much desired intelligence.
She cohducted herself well in the gentleman's 3
famiIylin which she served, and in a few years
thereafter an offer Of marriage was made to her
| by rbspectaDle tradesman, which, after can
didly relating to him the circumstances Of her
previous life, he was, by reason OF his attach
ment 10 her, induced to repeat, and she CRATE
| fully accepted the offer. In the prosecution Of
his business he soon thereafter removed TO Glas-
gov, vhere he commenced business as an en-
ginees The father Of the boy, 10 the mean
time, had also married, and by him the youth,
when be grew up, was sent to and completed
bis apprenticeship with an engineer in Ireland.
subsequently tne lad went to Glasgow in search
Of, and obtained employment, bysR singular
coincidence, and Withouta knowledge on either
sids of the Relationship, from the engineer, who
we have stated, had married the boy 5 mother;
and from the fact Of her not having seen him
sihce be was an infant, she never suspected, and
indeed could not possibly have recognized him
as her long lost boy.
4 appears that abrother Of the lads father
happened to keep booking Office for parcels,
&C., in the city, and TO him, among others, the
father had sometimes, in his letters, alluded To
the mother Of his boy, and his natural curiosity
to know what had become Of her. The young
mar was occasionally In the habit Of calling
on Bis fathers brother, and reading or talking
oyerany mutual letters they might receive from
his iather in Ireland II cbanced one day that q
elI-dressed and even lady-lke woman entered
the office to book parCsl. The man fixed biz
ewes upon her, and said be had some distant re-
collection Of having seen her before, and begged
with ell eivility to inquire whether, in her youth
she had been ia employment as a servant at q
mans ii the west country, which he named
The isay replied hatshe had; and, ever anxious
lregsrding her boy, and having no reason fol
consealment, eagerly inquired Il he could Civ,
her any tidings Of her SON.. or if he knew any
thing concerning him. The man told her thai
he was the brother Of the boys father, that hav.
ing seen her 10 former years, he remembered and
! recognized her cOuntenance, and ii she would
call at his office on the succeeding evening al
seven o'clock, be would make arrangement
whereby her son would be in attendance, and
she might zee him. The interest and anxiety i
may Be imagined, Of this woman was great. ShI
had not heard Of her boy, after many vain en-
deavOrs. for the long space Of Twenty years-no
even By letter, and here, BY single accident
|, when she least expected it, she was on the fol