The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-03-04
.An Gttellent Storp.
HETTY M'KEN ZIE;
Every-dny Incident in Broadway
nY HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT,

% "Now, take you care, you little plague, you!
that you don't come home empty handed, like
you did yesterday; leastways if you do, ELL see
il so be can't make you spryer; and, more's
good, you don't get no supper! now take your
broom and make tracks,"
Such were the words delivered in that high
pitched, harsh, half thrstihg tone which is so
't,uly odiousa thing in women, to pale deli
cate looking little girl, who seemed as 1t She
might have seen better days. by tall bony, an
gularly made animal, whose tawdry feminine
habliments alone Indicated her female, at the
head Of flight of rickety, filthy stairs, in one
:or those wretchcd aboles ofpenury and wretch
'elness which are q blot-a daily increasing blot
to the city. .,.s g
"please I'll try, Aunty Patience!" replied the
chd who seemed to expect cuff from the
great masculine hand, which rendered her the
snplement Of her daily debasing labor. "But
please lnaynt see motherjust minute"
"Dtat you and your mother too" answered
the woman almost saVagely, "quit whinln and
make tracks, else Iii lam you!--'
The pale child chokeI down the rising sob,
aud tried to smile away the gushing tear, as she
looked up wistfully into the face Of the she-ty-
rant But as we'll might she have smiled in the
fsce of hyena. Hungry and cold she turned
on her little heel, ana tottered heavily down
the stairs, mournfully thinking on the past, or
the future.
~ Shs was, as have said, small, pale delicate
soJking child. judging from her attenuated
limbs and slender frame, you would not have
pronounced her above twelve years old at the
utmost; but had You looked at that wan sharp,
prematurcly- face, at the abundantly fair
hair, wilicheou hardly be restrained beneath
the tattered sunshade; and at the earliest means
ling of that sad blue eye, you would have per-
csived at once that something of the sensibili-
ties of womanhood were mingled with the cares
Of childhood, and that she must be several years
older than hcr appearance indicated.
" Sorrow and suffering, and want and weather,
had worn the lines, and sharpened the features
of face, which must originally have been very
pleasing it not absolutely pretty; but it had not
hardened the expression, which was still soft
ana innocent; nor had they branded on the linz
eaments that sharp keen, piercing character
the stamp Of that premature knowledge, which
is in itself SIM
Though wretchedly clad so car as the qianti'
ty and quality of her raiment, which was sin'
4 - ~. tbo of
weather, she was perfectly and unscrupulously
c,ean The miserable frock, and thin calico
cape, which coverediher lean shoulders though
patched and patched again with threads Of st
many different kinds and colors that they nigh
have passed for Joseph's coat, were newly wash
cd and spotless. She had stout boyis shoes or
her small feet, often-clouted; and worsted nit
tens ON her skinney arms. Y l}lslAF
What she had been before she only and one
y 0ther--the sick helpless mother, whomtshe had
I. yainiy longed to see-knew IN this world Of sor.
row. But ONE above knew, who knoweth+ ant
N considereth all things.
10 What was she now? She a frail delicate
girl--an educated girl, in. soma degree, for TIL,
first words she uttered were well spoken ant
Spphonious, and free from any Vulgar accent
a she, now almost woman.daasal padaaao.
e,s@ Eternal shame to the fifty city, be It spoken
Ito the great city of the great free land!--the
I, city Of the merchant pfinces!7-=the city whose
alderman sup nightly, at the citys cost, on can
gdss bects aid game tho city, which cannot 0
its @ealthafBordthe common luxury of cleanli
ness to its inhabitantsi Eternal shame to tht
ascity, and itsdwellers,sbe itspokep, that girl
almost womans was sastreet-sweeper a scay
a enger! a aas s.l ~sitsr rafli9s3ps ' !
III YEARLY, though her tolls had not YET com
Il fnenced; wohlly, though the tay was dawnnI
Y glorious and iulIof brilliant promise n the East
Il hopelessly, though her age wasthatof easy.kin
III died hopes, and transient sorrows, the SHE PA
I RIAH Of New York plodded her way through
nlthy byerstreets, 70 her accustomed crossing
Shewas sshamedA-she who was accustomed
v rsn 70 and fro almost beneath tho feet
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