The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1857-11-18
From the New York Dispatch.
BREAD UPON TIE WATERS.
nY ngLEN FoRREsr GRAVES.


and pale.faced child was its only inmate.
She was confirmed invaid--you might trace
that in her hollow cheeks and the strange,
unnatural lustre of her large blue eyes-the
flame Of life was burning very low on the
altar Of her childish being, yet here she was
alone. The old armchair in which she re-
clined wascushioned with one or two pillows,
and rude pine box was the sole support of
her tiny, blue-veined feet. There was no
carpet on the mouldering floor, and in more
than one place door and window had yielded to
the remorseless hand Of decay, and presented
most dilapidated aspect. Yetall the scan>
ty furniture was arranged as neatly as pos
siblc, and there was even some faint attempts
at taste. as in bit of gayy colored chintz
spread over the child's lootstool, and a solitary
flower placed in the window seat, where the
sunbeams could touch its emerald leaves.
That flower! 1t had been poor katy's com
panion long. II royal beauty and luxuriance
seemed strange and out of place in the squalid,
low-ceiled room, yet it grew and flourish ]
there, as il its roots had been nourished in
| the velvet sod Of Bendemeer's stream. And
little Katy lay back in her comfortless chair,
and looked at the splendid rose which quiz
yered like ruby drop among inc leaves,
and watched the sunlight writing its golden
message on the crimson folds Of the blossom
with vague feeling of wonder.
1t was so strange that the radiant sun,
whose glory lay on marble pillars and stately
dwellings far away, should come to peep into
her lonely. lonely room!
Il that you. jamie :" she said, softly, as
the door opened, and boy Of twelve came in.
"Yes. DO you feel any better, Katy
Are you tired Of being left alonef"
Aud the locked tenderly into her blue
eyes. and parted the auburn hair from her
forehead, with loving touch.
| mot very, but there is such weary aeh-
/ ing round my heart, and sometimes il seems
all on fire. How cool your hand feels.
Janiem
"Neyer mind. Katy, I've been saving wood
and earned whole quarter, and I'm going to
lay il out in apples aud oranges to sell down
town. I'll make mint Of money, and then
won't we have a good supper when mother
comes home from work 7 shouldn't wonder
il we had bit Of cake and bunch Of grape:
over and above the medicine that the Dis
pensary doctor ordered for you"
Katy smiled and shock her head, as II de-
precating this piece Of extTayagance.
i "Yes We will, Katy" resumed her brother
"'taint often that we taste anything but DIR,
bread aud cheese, and hayn't forgotten that
it's your birthday, sis-you're ten years old
to-day. Besides, you need something 10 pu
shade Of color into these pale cheeks; tht
doctor said yon must have something to temp
your appetite"
/ lie bent down to kiss the marble forehead
as he spoke
allow lovely that rose is, to be sure! IT,
almost as good as company to yon, Katy, lsn'
| ita Are youwilIing | should leave you alon
again for little while, dearF'
) "Yes, jamie, don't mind it much" sh'
answered, with deep, weary sigh, "but b,
! as soon as you can, please !"
t And her wistful, hollow eyes watched hin
, from the room, with that earnest, startlin
, look that we only find beneath the very shad
, ow OF Death.
Down at the piers all was confusion an
. uproar-busy passengers hurying from new
j IN arrived boaIs--turbid waters flashing an
rolling against messy pnsts-swaying crowds
aud loud, dissonant voices, created SINAI
, Bedlam arOud the docks, and little J7ml
] wandered around with his board Of fruit
! feeling very lonely aud bewildered. lie ha
I piled up the golden oranges with their sun
{ NEST sides upward--he had polished the red
, checked apples until they shOne like mir
rors-yct nobody stepped to buy.
"Carriage, sirl" "Take you to the Asto
. lloasc;r "Up Broadway in twinkling
ma'an !" "'Ere's your 'Erali, Tribune an
] Express. Latest steamer from Europe
Have paper, sir Z"
Poor Jamie amid all this tumult, whs
chance had he Of being heard or nOticedf II
had picked ont The very bunch Of grapes tha
he intended for Katy, in Taylor's window, .
he came by--a plump, apoplectic bunch
dangling from crimson thread, where IN
sunshine lay full cn the purple bloom, an
amethystic shadows lurked among its fullncs
;. Of frgitagc. Just at present the temptln
morscl seemed very FAR OF to Jamie's imag
nation!
Determined not 10 give way without vic
orous effort, however, jamie stepped bOldl
forward to the FIRST person he saw, and bel
up his wares with modest, /" Buy an oFang'
sirf7
Now, as ill.fotsune would have it, thi. pos
sible customer was fat, ill.tempcred, purs
old man, whose choler had just been inllaine
to fever heat BY the inadvcrtent descent q
heavy nailed bOot.hcel on his iayori.c corr
At all times. he considered orange boys nu
sauce, but just now his slender quota of n
tienee was entirely exhausted. lie aimed
lmutlered oath aud furious blow at the taiI
haired boy. and rushed past, to catch . re
treating omnibus.
jamie sprang aside just in time TO escaf
the brutal blow, but il descended tuIl upo
his stock in trade. scattering apples and ofal
res far and vide lie was standing close
the edge Of the pier, and most oi the lrl
lew into the water, where Il went bobbin
up aud duWn with the tide, N most tantaill
ing manner A few spples rolled undsr u
feet of The crowd. but Il VS. iupVssible
secuFc thgm Sgaiu.