Plymouth banner. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1852-1855, 1854-06-22

send me- Her face clouded for an in
stant. then frightened again i'll the sun
shine.
Poor blind pet. so far as | can make
out her story from one thing and another
she is the child Of missionaries in India
Poor creatures, they could not bring be-
owe. themselves. and dare say she was
getting no good in that heathenlSh land
so il seems they put .ier in charge OF an
English lady. name I've forgotten. whc
Sc, out 10 Join her husband, somewhere
in Canada. But she sckened and died
before the harque Sally reached England
and the poor thing was left friendIess. -
I What lie captain and mate of Sally were
thinking Of. don't know; but they pat
The child on dry land, with the passengers,
and set Off withou, ns much rs loohicg up
q New York packet Alone in liverpool,
! and is 10 piece fer blind child, sir, to
say nothing Of one that's got syes~~l
found her. amusing herself pretty mitch
as you see her now, with t:.s Of chivs,
at the corner Of ship yard! How the
creature had lived, | can't say. III be-
Iieve after This, shipinate, there's God
in the sky, whs. as she says keeps watch
over children; if he don't over Us grown
up sinners. j. seems she had never wan
ted for birth nor mess. i want 10
so 10 New York, she would say to every
strln9er who spoke 10 her. | coudn',
have left the little lhing-but | don I
know where I'm ,aking her. Ii | can't
anchor her safely. I'll keep her for first
mate Of the Down, hey, sea bi!dT
What could you do with her in tha,
terrible storm OF Cape Clear? shuader
to reCollect tha night
We'll. sir. while you were lying fiat on
your hack. and the res, of us were hurfa
ing and pulling hither and ihi,her. work
ing for dear life against the winds and
/ waves, the pretty creature was rolling
about the cabin floor, clarring hti hands
as though she were in IN oprle tree swing
and found i, capital fun. When tum
bied down to my locker for FIVE minutes
rest. found her on her knees in her lit
tie night wrap. saving. Our Falher. ami
ielt sure no storm would sink tue shi p
with HER or it,
Poor mother of Mtiie. how her heart,
was wrung a, sending her blind. trusting
child fsomi her arms. But her brother in
America had written. telling her that he
would provide for Mittic--poor sig'itless
Ml'tie. who could learn little in that un
civilized innd- So with many tears ar'i
prayers. that missionary mother had pack
ed her Mites small trunk. and placed
her IN the core OF n friend--the English
lady before mentioned-to he trans ported
TO our country What but mothers
prayer guarded The helpless darling in her
lonely wanderimss,
On arriving a, New York. Captain /
and Mr.. l. made inquiry everywhere
for Mr.. Wythe. Directories were search
ed, streets ransackcd AMI questions repea
ted hundreds of times to no purpose.--
M relative of The poor blind Mtlie could
be found.
leave her with me. captain said Mr..
Il -. i em soon to return to London,
but before sailing will place her in an
Asylum fox The blind. and see that she is
com fortabiy cared for
'"S'N""' '"N'Ni' w p'oNin, .hit'iN al
the State Asylum Of New York, her friend
took her to southern city. where he had
business connections, and left her in one
of those beautiful retreats which nature
aud art have combined to adorn for these
whose eyes tell not night from day. nor
beauty from deformity.
Kind voices welcomed the little stran-
ger. but they were voices she had never
heard. nor hoped to hear. For the first
time since she had sobbed good bye on
her mothers lap. her hope and faith fal
tered. She felt that she was alone in
the world, and she sought out corner to
cry. Had the uperintendent particular
ly interested himself in the child, he
would have found ou, her history. and
probably have sought some comnunica-
lion with her parents. But setting down
her name as charity scholar, he forso,
that she was not an orphan.
And Mr.. l.? His sympathies had
been strongly enlisted. and he really in
tended to find out the IN, stery. But he
was a man of the world and Immersed in
it's busy cares. Having placed sum of
money for her use In the hands of the di-
rector. with permission to apply to him
in any emergency, he returned to his Eng
liSh homeland only remembered the
blind child of the voyage at moments
when his own laughing Carrie climbed in
to his lap.
One among hundred children. Mittie
was well educated in all that the blind
can learn. She was taught TO read the
Bible from which her Mother had read to
her. by passing her small finger over the
curiously raised letters. She learned to
sew. TO braid. and to write strange
thoughts that young head used to frame.
for that unsteady hand to joi down in its
crooked wanderings over the paper. Sh.
learned TO sing the sweet hymns of her
schoolmatcs and to touch for herself the
keys OF ;he piano. whose melodies had
almost made her fancy herself in Heaven,
only that Sue had been told in Heaven she
should see like other children! Sometimes
in her dreams. she would find herself ON
soft couch, with strange perfumes and
sounds about her. and would feel warm
teais dropping one by one, on her fore
head, while dear arm pressed her close
ly