Kenosha tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1855, 1855-01-11
KENOSHA, WIS, THURSDAY JANUARY H. 1855.

Jacks assistant, had already commence
his inventory, and Oby, seeing that grie
was, the order Of the day. had taken Il
fcrying quietly over waisteoat piece. Tn
| der these circumstances there was nothing
left for Lie Jake TO do but to take, NOR,
snuff, and i'll treat the long suffering whit.
I hat worse than ever. A ts. s6T
MY poor father, cried the widow in hel
anguish, oft said that th' prison or TIA poor
house wor nit built that should held any 0
his BARNS. But mum gang till bailli-til
bath, Air. Seotforth, and tn lille bairns--
the creetur that Gamma walk nor speak, ane
/ Oby SO ffile and delicste. III piver rise
again, Mr.. Scotforth, l IL niyer rise again.
It's hard 10 bear, my LASS quoth Lille
Jack; scruel- hard tosbear. But we a. ha
our burdens, and mum bear them. And
yet, he added despondingly, there's auld
Middlegate humping Wilson up att bank
wi MAR goud than wad fill thy house. and
Miss Slurk, t mantymaker WI hundreds,
and Sangate Gregson, that smells O brass,
an yet nit penny for thee aaa
If it war nit for T. BARNS | wad gang for
service. / wad work i th' crefts the fields,
in the shippons and meddons; but can /
leave these bonny creeturs?' .sdI zoos I'D
.Puir body. puir bodyp murmured Lille
jack, doing the white hat mortal INJURY.
Can coin goud? Can max siller DOT
o. barley meal?' asked the widow despond-
inglyu aeaara1 g ssugaj aa
LIS hard qaoth Lille Jack, wrenchine
button OF his waistcoats Its bitter hard,'
he continued, maniirstng strong desire
to tear the brim of the white hat from the
body. Its doDaed hardP cried the compass
sionate broker, throwing the white hat in
to the Fireplace gHsy str,a ass, &.
But5thc inventory was completed, and
Jack had his BUSINESS to do. lie spoke the
widow fair, and promised to exert his ut
most influence with that hard man and tea
dealer, Smell O. Brass, with but very faint
hopes in his own mind, however, of making
any impression on that auijlerous person.
He was about departing, and had beckoned
O6y to him, with the intention of patting
him upon the head J, and slipping soyer-
eign into his hand when the child ran. to
him, and caught hold Of his legs. h5u1
Use gang yam wi thee, he cried. Lem
me gang yam WI thee, thou lie mon.'
may, nay, nv BARN, answered Lille
JACK, shaking his head kindly; there's big
ger BARNS nor thee at yam that sup a. the
partitch can find meal for. Thee can
not come wi me, Obyn or
Use gang yam wi thee, Ise gang yam wi
thee repeated the little boy, looking up
imploring ly, his blue eyes swimming with
tears, into Lille jacks face.
The compassionate broker looked towards
where the white iIat-was, as if to ask that
iii used article Of apparel for advice. But
the white hat was groyelling in the dust and
ashes Of the fire place, as if in profound
disgust tits maltreatmcnt, and Lille Jack
not being able to avail himself Of its coun-
sci, followed instead, that Of his own true
heart.
Lille Jack spoke, as Ire had promised, to
tie redoubtabe Smell o. Brass. | fancy,
however, that be spoke to him much as the
gentleman with the illegible. but glorious
and delightful signature, who is connected
with the Bank of England, speaks to Mr..
Matthew Marshall OF that establishment.
At all events, the widows sticks we're
released, and she was enabled to resume
her humble business. But she did not live
long, Worn oUt with sorrow, privaton,
hard work and ili-hca Eth, she soon reioined
her harmless, rachiic husband, the tailor,
and her weakly baby followed her soon af-
terwaris. Then Oby was left an orphan
indeed.
An orphan! No He went home with
Lie Jack, and in the heterogeneous house
hold of that good fellow, found a list of re-
latiTcs as loUe as that in the Prayer book
which enumera,es persons man may not
marry. The man that WAS nearly an hum
dred years old was a grand father to him,
the pockman's niece was his aunt; and he
found an uncle in the white horse, and cous-
ms in the rabits, and brothors-in-a law in the
starHugs. In Lille Jack he found whole
CONSUMPTION Of fathers.
The child grew up to be thin, pale, tall,
delicate lad Lie Jack had him taught q
plain decent education Latin an Greek.
an sic, like thirty gigs he said, were good
for nowt 18th warhin' warP.' 4 -Aeo5
When Oily came TO be about twelve, he
was bound prentice to Dick Heelband, the
principal tailor in Dodderham, but he made
such progress, and turned out to be SO in
genious, active, industrious. docle lad.
that Lille Jack announced his intention OF
sending him 10 London. and making gen
tleman of him. a great London auction
eer with whomJa ck was in CORES ondenee,
offered to take Obadiah into his counting
house for three years at a moderate prem
ium and the great squire Rigg member for
the county, ted Lie Jack that he was an
honest man (which, from so great squire
was commendatinu indeed tina. he should
take upon himself to pay the lads preui-
um, and the expense ofcapcelling his in
dentures with HecIbsnd, and that Jack
would have all the more TO leave Oby when
he died. ~
The boys Ill health, and the manifest
disincination Of Lille Jack TO part with a
being 70 whom he had grown to love as the
apple of his eye, caused the journey to
London 10 be deferred from six months &c
six months, and from year TO year ill Oby
was nearly eighteen years of age. At last
Lie Jack made up his mind to part with
his darling, and Oby with great difficulty