The Trinity times., 1855-04-14

ed to send me to school without any break.
fast, SAID Jessie, hanging down heI head. as
if afraid of the confession.
Here said Annie, after SLIGHT pause
untwisting the paper in which were deposited
her first earnings, won't go in with you.
for your mother might not like to receive il
from little girl like me; but'-and she put
two shillings INTO little Jesse's hand that
is to buy something to eat, and a Gre and,
if your mother can sew ~ well as can,
said Annie, with pardonabe vanity, / can
tell her how to get plenty Of money to pay
for both
No wonder Anne's riches increased; the
first investment was good one. Never.
theless, the concealing it from her parents
she knew to be wrong, she feared they would
dsapprove OF 1t and she added TO her little
prayer at night, after the usual ending Of
God bless father and mother-and forgive
me for keeping secret that helped Jessie
Wilson, Could the Recording Angel carry
up purer prayer to heaven!
OF course, Mr.. and Mrs. Linton very soon
discovered that MIR. Seamwell, of the Ready
made Linen Warehouse was the grand source
of Annes wealth. He said there was no
one who could work like her, and said that
he would give eighteen pence each for the
finest description OF slirt-making. This was
no great pay for Annie's exquisite stitching
and thirty years ago it would have brought
her three and -sXpente shirt. Bet Annie
is of the present not Of the past; and as she
could complete shirt a day, her fingers
flying swittar than weaver's shuttle, she
earned nine ehliings week.
sEnol wife , cei1 NJ, | it,srD tt,yo oro mot
so poor but that we can maintain our daugh-
ter until she is twenty, and by that time, at
the present rate OF her earnings, she viii have
a little fortune in the bank But this little
fortune Gmassed but slowly. for Annie sell
dom had nine shillngs at the end Of the
week-there were other Jessie " ilsons' who
required food and fire.
Had Annie been a poet, she could assur-
edly have written, not tie song, but song
Of the shirt; for once when she was question
cd as to the Gull monotony of her work
Dull Delightful y said Annie, in ad,oca
cy Of her calling why, with this rare linen
and fine thread, my stitches seem Ike string
ing little pearls along the Wristbands and
collars! What an ant-eong OF the Shirt
might not Annie have written
Annes eighteenth birth day was celcbra
ted by tea.par,y 10 all the seamstresges oi
MIR. Seamwcll's establishment, where she was
now forewdman; besides being a cheerful,
kind.hearted little creature, beloved by ewes
rybody, it was a compliment, Mr.. Seamweli
said, She well deseryed-hcr Admirable su-
perlntendence Of the department allotted her
having increased his business ienl0id
Sometime after, there was q great d9y Of
rejoicing in the firm of Seamwyll y Co.,
The father had taken lis sen as partner,
and the son took u partner for lle-the in
deiatigable little scamstress, Annio Linton.
There never was u bdther bridal. Annie
herself having risen from the ranle-hai
a present for every work woman. Indeed
1t WAS a day Of presents, for on that very
morning, and in time to bJ worn al the we'd
dmQ, shawl arrived for Annie, all thc way
from lndia--an India shawl that duchess
would have envied Upon it was pinned a
paper, on which was written :--' " ear Ills
ior the sake Of one who is now rich aul Aap-
py, but who never can forget the services
YOU rendered TO tho poor school g.ri--J,sso
Wilson,
Annie said young Seamwell after tie
marriage, tell in love with you when you
were child, and came to our shop for your
first sewing also happened to be passing
when you gave part Of your first earnings TO
Jessie W lsOn; / was a boy then, but ! said
10 myself: If were a man, I'd marry Annie
Linton; not because she's so pretty'-herc
Annie blusAed most bccomingiy moi because
she's so industrious, but because she's 20
kind hearted