The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-02-15
a HOLIDAY STORY.

|. II was cold December night. In
q we'll furnished parlor. gathered a,
round blazing 6re, sat mother with
her Ave children. The former was bu-
sily plying her needle. and the latter
were engaged, saIne in reading. some
in arranging their new supply Of toys.
with which father and mother. in the
character Of Santa Claus. had supplied
them al Christmas.
cit IL bleak, cold night" said DR..
!. Wharton. as he entered the room, and
without diyesting himself of his. over
coat and 'mufilers,' drew up chair
near the FIRE.
"And now you have come home for
all night. hope" said Mary, the eld-
est Of the hse.
81 am not sure Of that" said the ia
ther, drawing nearer the fire..
!" No. indeed, you are not" replied
Mary. ther. wish you were not
. Doctor.
"And why soiv asked the father.
because you never have moment
that you can call your own. You have
to ride all day. and you may be called
to 60 away at any time Of night, no
matter what the weather is"
"Yes, but father is paid for it," said
Master Johnny.
4 "Not always" said Mary. !" there
are many poor people who never pay
anything for fathers visits"
! "But." continued Johnny. father
don't get up in the night to travel bad
roads for them"
Johnny" said Dr.. Wharton, so.
!, lemnly :" did you ever know me to neg
!. lect to turn up muddy lane in cold or
! rainy times, or refuse TO get up at night.
I however dark or cold, when poor ia
J mily, who had nothing to pay, desired
!. my seryicesi"
Master Johnny was little discon.
: certed at this grave reply Of his father;
Y for. young as he was. he prided himself
!, on knowing something about business
y and the way to get rich.
8 "Ican't say," he answered "but
8 only thought that they who DO not ex'
! pect to pay physician, have no righ'
! to ask him to put himself to any trou
BILE on their account"
"Perhaps they have no right, in on,
: sense Of the word," replied DIR. Whar
y ton, "but | should be sorry to thinI
It that the instruction Master Johnny ha,
!. learned in Mr.. PLIERS office has made
I him forget his catechism, and the in.
y struction he has received at Sunday
It school. Come, Willy, tell me why w
J keep Christmas"
! This was addressed to chubby littt,
IS boy, Of eight years old.
y Because" replied Willy. "Chris
S was born on that day."
$ "And what did Crist do for uss"
e "Hc died for US that we might b
i saved"
"rhat is right" continued the Doc
Df tor /" and what must we do to be saw
le ed ?"
u "Repent and believe" replied littl
a Ellen.
to "And what elseS"
-e "Be baptized"
le "And what else ?"
Follow His example"
Sc fright, Ellen. and now tell me wha
=. was HIS example?"
IN Going about and doing good" SAT-
er Ellen.
: "And now tell me, children" sal
or DR.. Wharton, looking full in the fac
is OF Master John, "did our Saviour 9
re about doing good only to those who ha,
~ money to pay hims"
mo, sir" said all the children, a
once.
"And now, children" said Dl
d, Wharton, al have something to te
t. yeu."
Those who had been reading close
n their books, the little ones left the
d. play things and gathered around the
It. father. Mrs. Wharton smiled to sc
8, the interest manifested in the children
10. countenances, and Ellen turned to ht
ar little sister Of four years old, and bad
Y her hush, for father was going to tell
u. story.
en- a very short story, my children,
OF said the doctor, /" for it is told in ie
IL. words. 1t is bleak, cold night. III
tu- snow is deep, and the raw wind is pl
MS ing it in drifts on the sidewalk. Fhel
is no moon. and the street lamps bur
dim tonight. There are no sleighbell
FL. jingling the only sounds in the stree
lry are the moaning wind and the creekir
Of signs. Young people and old love
of hover around their comfortable 6resid'
re. as you are doing. for it is dism
ort night without"
N, II am glad we have warm house
ri shsi.s, us tc-niSht." said Johnny.