Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-04-23

WELL" thought 81 even pity cul
without a homr, m such night as this
> So looked around meaning To whistle tC
the poor dumb brute. and if he ~ouid follow
me home, the few squares had let: TO walk
to give him house room until the morning
at any rate. II was an odd idea; but thf
time was odd, and the cold made one think
kindly even of another mans dog.
But when / looked, there was no dog to
be seen. No, there was 10 dog, but there
was little boy irotting along b. hind me
trotting along on two little bare feet, black
with dirt and cold.
Icaught his profile; it was handsome
face. A tsrterei cap hung upon rather
than covered the back of his head. and the
hair escaped beneath it 'hich and brown. Ii
was hair that a weslty mothers pride would
have turned into Hyperion curls; but he
was child of the poor, and If was matted
into elf locks about his forehead and eyes
But the forehead was smooth aad open, and
the ewes so sorrowfuliy sweet, that you
wondered how two such rarely lustrcus gems
such an incredible pair of amethysts could
be in such possessi q. | walked slower and
let him come up to ne. ! noticed That ne
had little basket on his arm, and that in it
were three or four boxes of matches But
he was not crying then; he was crying with
the cold. knew that was the reason OF
his tears. but asked him what was the
matter. He never looked up, bu, answered
mocha nically, 'l'm so coid'
"Wha, do you stay in the street for, then
Why don't you go home"
"There's no fire there, and I'm so cold
and mothers so cold-oh, I'm SO cold.
cougnt him by the hand and cried, "Come
along, YOU door little wretch ,and get warm" |"
He thought probably, that | meant to take
him to the station house or do something
else worse, for he struggled to get away and
cried harder; but kept my hold, and Kept
him trotting faster and faster, until "e came
within a square of the house, and then L
caught him up in my arms and ran as if an
III. p. was after me; whipped out my night
key, bounced into the house, and then into
the nursery, and clspped him down in one
of the children's little chairs before the lire.
Mrs Quigg looked aghast and the baoy
screamed That was nothing.
.Wha. in heavens name is the matter
with Won now, Mr. Quigg!" said Julia
"Huve you bev n drinking apple-Jark aga'n!
| though, you had recovered your senses
since YOU rame to town. What by Is rhat!'
.He's SO cold" said I, shut h'-'il warm up
presently"
Iwss warm nough 1t is surprising
how soun little act out OF th" eommo''
course OF our delay selfshness does warm
one ali ever. In tact. | wa quite IN heat
and threw off nv mufflln-s, and wIp'd nv
forehe ad and looked a, the little fellow by
the FIRE, and felt all in glow; and wh'iH !
was in . glow, told Julia just sh 1 hase
been writing, only putting in few more
flourishes and possibly bragg ng little, as
it is husbands du,s to DO, BY ~syoi keep
ing Up a proper spirit of admiration IN the
family circle-possibly Dragging htif
about nv tenderness of hrart, and my gen.
eral desire to pick up all the cold lit boys
in town and bring them home to get wafm;
together with an explanation OF my great
wisdom and fore,houghf in not doing SO on
account of the size of our house, which al
thoush il has brown some front, and l.
four stories high, is also jus. fifteen feet
wide in he clear, by fifty feet deep. A long
time-I may SAY very long time before |
had finished my very proper little piece Of
Observation-Disclosures who am bound to
say IS altogether too practically charitable
to stand high in the religious world. had
given the baby to nurse, and producing al
pair of m aster Bob's worst, for Julia is econ
omicsl also, but a verv warm suit ior all
that, had the little fellow on her lap, and his
poor thin rags off Of him, and The other
covering on, almost as soon as Wall street
broker could tell lie. Master Rob Qnigg
recognized pet pair of play pants in the
goods transferred. and entered caveat in
the nature of premonitory whimper.-I
Whereupon the stupendous Julia took oc-
cssion to convey him a moral lesson which
hope will do him good. 1t certainly did
me.
"Bob." said Mr. Quigg, "what did ] read
to you in the Good Book last! Didn't II
reak how our Lord said, THE poor ye have
always with YOU! Your father don't bring
little boys here every night perishing with
cold; but recollect when he does, it is our
Lord who SEND one of His poor to be taken
care Of"
Master Bod Immediately departed and re.
turn ed with his Sunday jacket, and request
that it might be added. There was tear
and laugh at that among us, which Bob
did not understand. However, his mother
babe him get certain pair of sh es instead
and the compromise satisfied him.
Betsy, our eldest had disappeared for a
time alter our arrival; but very shortly came
back with plate full of eatables. The
little fellow ale piece of bread and looked
ravenously al the rest. But, piece by piece,
as he took them up. he put them into his
little basket beside the boxes of matches
Betsy t ok this sort of thing SIS long as a
child OF eleven could be expected to- but at
last she broke out "If you're hungry little
boy, why don't you eat! | brought it t" you
to eat! I''s all good"
The little elbow looked up it'll strange.
weared smiie--a smile which un an oder
face would have been sarcasm on life, aud
said.
"Mother is hungrrr than | am. She
hasn't had any thing TO eat since day before
yesterday"
looked around to see what Julia thought
of the fact of such things happening in our
great city of New York, So famous for send.
, ing food to starving people in Greece and
ireland, and other distressed countries atIa
great distance; and behold that p-actica
4 woman was putting on her bonnet and cloak
> "What's your name, little boy" she asked
I Edward, ma'am."
"Are ysu warm no1!"
"Yes, ma'am."
"But, Julla," said |, the night is awful
you wouldn't venture. Why not send
servant"
"Mr Qugg," said ulia. with one of thos
:, seraphic smiles of hers-which being trans