The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1853-10-06
f From the Miss Dennison's Pictures.
POOR BETTY,S TROUBLES.

clares she must stay, even if l give her no
wages. was quite affected at her man
ner, and allusion tony kindness, and could
not helpweeping,
"Only give me your cast-off clothes,
ma'am, and the yictuals l eat, and let me
stay, Please God, will never leave you.
An how can 60 from the babies? 1t
would be tearing soul from body, sure"
I told her could not take her on such
terms, that she-was able toget high wages
and she had better go to some good place.
"An where could find one like this?
Oh! mistress, don't let me leave you, and
indeed will work for you till I die--in-
deed will /, and if the gentleman gets
rich again, you may give me wages. But,
indeed, I can't leave you
Her manners was so wild, and her grief
so strange, that l suspected something
more than common lurked under the ap-
partment meaning; so l questioned her
closely, and with many tears and lamenta-
tions she told her foolish story.
Poor Betty! while she poured out her
sorrows, felt forcibly that we are all of
one kindred, the lowly and the proud, the
rich and the poor. With many sob and
tear, the poor creature, in her own sim
pie and unaffected manner, narrated the
most narrowing events of her yonng life
for Betty is not yet twenty -four-and in
that manner, as nearly as | can, shall
rccordit.
Il came to Ameriky just four years
agone, an was. not SO poor neither
There was many sailed over in that great
ship that was distracted, desolate creatures
enough, God help 'eml but had good
friend and rich lady who took me to her
work when I was little, and kept my wa
ges for me-a real Cork lady, who treated
her servants more like some folks do their
own children, so when l got the notion in
my head that would come to Ameriky,
she took me by myself and she talked to
me like Christian as she was, and told
me that I had thirty poun' now, an that
were great sum for a lone girl, SO she
would fix for my passage, and make me
something could hide my money in, and
carry it tied about myself.
II thanked her for that an all the ad-
vice she give me, and when the time come,
if hadn't gone SO far, I'd stayed with
her still. Oh! why didn't 1? Sure I'd
been better off now.
Though I was a steerage passenger,
had things fixed more comfortable than
many of the poor creatures; but yet it was
SO clos't and unpleasant like down there
that 1 always was most of the time on
deck. lui h"-'
"Well there was nice, tall comely look
ing man, dressed in peacent clothes, and
that had eyes blue as the heavens over
us, (truly was they, ma am that took a
good deal of notice Of me the first few
days, and we'd sit on the deck and watch
the dark water turn white as the vessel
went on so smooth an swift; an he'd tell
me such sweet stories about his home, and
a nice little black-eyed sister he'd left in
Ireland, who looked the very image, he
would say to me, of myself-an' that's
why he said he liked me. Yes, he told
me, at the very first, it was for her sake he
liked me-" -
Poor Betty wiped few tears from her
face, as she. murmered few words, but
continued: =" 49,
'.Ineyer talked SO much with any man
before, especially with any that had the
soft tongue like his; and when the other
passengers laughed and called him my
man, I'm sure felt distressed; for I did
like to listen to the very sound Of bis foot
steps as they came nigh me; | never
thought for moment that one who knew
SO much more than did, and was so long
years older than myself, would think me
any different from what he did of that
sweet sister in old Ireland.
"But my good mistress had made me
promise not to say single letter letter o
the money I'd about me an hardly car
think how come to tell him of it now
but somehow he had the way with him tt
make me say every thing knew, felt Sc
safe like by his side-I never dreamed
of harm, indeed never did 1.
at may ha' been perhaps week wher
the storm came on-a terrible storm, ma
am, that made the vessel shake like
crumb in the water, toosing it as if it wen
over, and the passengers was all sick ant
obliged to keep their beds, SO that for {
long time they wouldn't even hold theil
heads up.
n'"It was distressin' time; for littl'
children were taken and cried day ant
: night, and many of the women swore Sc
badly thatI was afraid God would sink tht
ship. But most of 'em got well enough
in time to crawl up to the deck. wa.
no longer sick than any of therest.
Zone day laid in my birth justlike any