The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-10-09
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SARAH GOODWIN AND HER BOYS.

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SARAH GOODWIN AND HER BOYS.
Sarah Goodwin was the name Of poor
seam stress, residing in the city of New
York. She was not wholly friendless,
but those whom she knew, and who would
have aided her in her struggles were very
poor, and could not. So she. widow
with four boys, from the ages of four TO
nine years, struggled through winters
cold and summers heat, providing her
little family with bread, and that was all.
Meat and luxurios were denied Sarah
Goodwin and her boys. The latter were
good child rem. always in their homes al
ter nightfall, and giving their mother ev-
cry cent of their little earnings as often
as they found work to do.
AT last The mother fell sick, and through
a weary illness she had no other attend :
ancc, save the occasional help Of a neigh
Dor. and the constant aid Of her poor
little boys. They were never from her
side, and it was touching to behold their
sympathy, their gentle ministrations ev-
erybody prophesied that they would be
be blessed in coming years, for their
thoughtful kindness toward their mother.
The widow recovered, but it was now
the heart of bitter winter, and their little
stock of fuel was nearly gone. AS soon
as her strength permitted, she walked
through the cold Of a cheerless day to
the shop of her employer, and told
her p:tiful story. But it was hard times ,
her illness had made room for others as
destitute as herself in fine, they had not
one stitch of work to give her. With a
sinking heart, but praying to keep her
courage up, the poor woman toiled on
from shop to shop until it became late,
and what with her tears and the dark
ness she could hardly see her way home.
/" If Mr.. Hart himself had been there" "
she soliloquized, bending to the strong
wind and drawing her scanty shawl closer
about her form, /" know he would have
given me work."
b. As she whispered thus through hel
chattering teeth, tall man, with a long,
gray beard, passed by her, and as he did
SO, something fell to the sidewalk and
laid upon the crusted snow. Sarah paus.
ed; she had heard the noise made by the
little packet. and a mysterious impres.
sion led her to search for it. Oh, Joy
twas purse, heavy and filed to the
brim yellow and shining laid the gold
within its strong meshes, as she carried
it towards lighted window.
"My poor boys, they shall want fooc
no more" she calculated fervently "thi
isgold! God put it in my way-he saw
Twas despairing." ti'ha i." '4ea
Suddenly, like fash of lightning, th'
thought occurred to Sarah that not on,
cent Of the new found treasure was hon
es1v hers. But a moment she fingered
pressing the money with her numbed fin
gers the sorrowful tears chasing dow
her thin cheeks then starting forwar,
to find he owner of the purse, she walk
ed bprliediy up the street, fearful tha
the temptation. should she arrive at he
poor room and see her hungry children
might prove too strong for her integrity.
Opposite the great hotel, as she stoo'
hesitating what way to take, she saw tn
stranger enter. She knew him by hi
long singular beard and timidly cross
ing the street, she made her way into tb
billiard hall, and there, bewildered by th
light, knew not what to say till twice ask
cd by servant what she wanted. @
course she could do no more than describ
the stranger by his tall stature and strang
beard. But he had already gone ou
again /; she must call on the morrow
they said, and ask for Mr.. Ashcroft.
The next morning, having eaten M
thing, for she could not touch farthin
of the gold, she was admitted into tt
room where sat the stranger. He aros
as she entered, and gazed with curior
air till she presented the. purse. The
he started with pleased Surprise. lai
down his paper, took the gold and dell
erately counted it over.