New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-06-08

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3 though q man OF very strict principles. no man
ever enjoyed joke more than DR.. Byron. He had a
vast fund Of humor, an everyday WIT, ana win
xiidren particularly he loved to chat famliariy ana
draw them ont. AS he was one day passing into the
house he accosted BY very little boy VINO asked
him II he wanted any sauce, meaning vegetables
The doctor inquired il such tiny thing was mar
ket+man, Il No, sir my father was the prompt
answer The doctor said, !" Bring me in some
aquashes, and passed into the mousse sehong OUTLINE
change.
Ii q few moments the child returned. bringing back
part Of the change. The doctor told him he was vel
come to IT; but the child would not take y, saying
i1ia father would blame him.
Sncf singular manners in child attracted his at
tention, and he began to examine the child atten-
lively He was evidently poor; his little jacket was
pieced and patched with almost every kind OF cloth,
and his trowsers darned with 80 many colors IT was
difficult to tell the original fabric but scrupuously
neat and clean Wthal. The boy very quietly endured
the scrutiny of the doctor, while holding him at arms
length and examining his face.
AtIehgth he said You seem nice little boy !,
won't YOU come and livs with me, and be doctorfp
eyes sir said the child. Spoken like man, said
the doctor patting his head as he dismissed him.
IS q Al few weeks passed on, when one day Jim came to
say that there was little boy with bundle down
stairs wanting to the doctor and would not tell
his business to any else pSend him up, was the
answer; and in a few moments he recognised the boy
Of the sqnashes (but no squash himself, we shall
see.) He was dressed in o new though coarse suit OF
Clothes hshair very nicely combed, his shoes brushed
ssp, and a little bundle tied in homespun checked
handkerchief on his arm S
Deliberately taking off his hat, aud laying it down
with his bundle h walked up to the doctor1 saying
live with you and be o DOCTOR said the child, with
the utmost naiyette. 848% 483 HI
The first impulse Of the doctor was to laugh i'm
moderately but the imperturbable gravity of the
little thing rather sobered him as he recalled his for
nler conversation, and he ayowed he felt he needed
no addition to his family
g Did your father consent to your coming ~ he
d eir did he soy3' I tolf
him you wanted me to come and live with you ant
be doctor, and he said you was very good man
and might come as soon as my clothes wer
feady.'
And your mother, what did she sayf' Sh
said DR.. Byron wauid do just what he said he woul'
a God had provided for me- And" said he, 81 haY
f on new suit Of clothes surveying himself, /" an
here is another in the bundle" undoing the kerch
aud displaying them, with two little shirts white
snow, and a couple Of neat check aprons, so car
fully folded it was plain none but mother wou
aave done it.
The sensibities of the doctor were awakened
see the undouhting trust with which that poor coup
had bestowed their child upon him, and such chile
His cositatons we're not long tie thought Of Mos
in the bulrushes abandoned to Providence: an
above all, he thought Of the child that was carrit
into Egypt, and that divine Saviour who had sa
(, Blessed be Little children = and he called for i
wife of his bosom saying ,sSusan, dear, think
pray in church that God will have mercy upon
young chidfensn ITO be sure we do, said t
wondering wife !" and what then u And the s
viour said Whosoeyer receiyeth such little oh
in my name receyeth me z Take this child in
name, and take care oil him = and from that he
CHS good couple received him TO their hearts a
homes.
1t did not then occur to them that this little or
Elre thus thrown upon their charity, was destined
he their staff and stay in declining age, protector
their daughters, and more than son to themsei,
All this was then nnreveaed but they cheerfully
ceived the child they believed Providence had c,
fnitted to their care and IL ever bene6cenee
rewarded it was in this instance. GParlor Magaz