The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-06-03
james is at your house, is he p said

Yes he is all taken up with some
books our Henry sent home to bis moth.
er. There-be never knows anything
about the time of the day or night when
he gets to reading Then he appears to
feel so bad when he does forget
'He must be more prompt in future,
said the squire, I'm going to turn over
a new leaf with him. I've neglected to
keep him straight long enongh. told
him if he was not 10 the house to night
oefore the clock struck niue, l should
give him severe punishment
Perhaps the clocks are not alike,
said Mr.. w as he glanced at the cor
ner where tho time piece had stood for
fifty years and inwsrdly he resolved
that he should not be punished this
| time
1 can't help tbat-that is his look.
out, said Mr., Hyde.
Well, there squire, I Gon't pretend
| that [ know but little to what most folks
do about bringing up cbildren,-I've
brought up quite family and they have
all done weIl-shat is, other folks say
so, and it sounds better for them to say
50 than it does for me. But I'll tell
you what it is squire, when they were
little, | had to turn my back ou good
many faults and failings, and overlook
and forget sight. l sometimes think
it's about as bad to bo all the timo a
watching for their haltine, as to be lii.
tic blind to their failiugs'
Wonderful 7 thought the squire as
he looked at tho clock, which was evil
1cntly hint that Dir. w., did not mean
to take, till he haG finished his remarks,
which he had prepared before Eand
Your children have douo we'll, very
well, Mr. W.,-wcll disposed when they
were small | dare say.
Well, there is great difference in
the nature of children, squire. There
are some whose nature is az tough az a
green willow stick You can bend 'em
or twist 'en round any way, and you
don't break ern or hurt 'em much. Then
there are others that have brittle ma
ture, n. brittle as a pipe stem. l de.
clare it's difficult job to fetch up one
of these kind, :hey are delicate, like
must be handled careful, but then they
will pay you for all the pains taken with
them if you do get them fetched up
right Now, squire said Mr.. W., with
some hesitation, 4 think-I think
James is one of those brittle natures
he wants dreadful careful handling. Did
you ever notice when anything comes
across him all Of a sudden, how his eye
will kind Of quivcr, and how the veins
in his broad forehead show p know he
10 one of the nervous KIND
At tbi. the squire rose with an air Of
impatienoe plainly perceptible to his Wis.
itor for the word nervous conveyed to
his mind much that is evil, and had
almost said unoarthly, combined.
| must be going" said Mr.. w, and
| will send James right aloos.'
G >od evening, Mr.. w, said Mr..
Hyde.
James entered the room where his
father was sitting a few minutes before
nipe, with a countensDce beaming with
satisfaction which spoke plainly as words,
that he was sure be had obeyed this
time
Instead Of words Of kindness and a
look of appreciation things which his
heart craved, the squire coldIy remark
&c well you've just saved it,
Tho winter passed away, and the early
spring found James not quite so strong
and robust as parents like to see boys.
Sill as ho made no complaint, the squire
thought but little of this. until one day
a medical friend was spending few
hours at his house, arranging some busi,
ness matters. He at once perceived
tnat the boy possessed a remarkably
fine intellect. united to very handsome
but frail person,
Your hoy said the doctor in CONVEX
saton with Mr.. Hyde, is fus boy
likes to read, aud don't like hard work.
I'm thinking.
well, yes, said Mr.. H bu, this
spring I'm going to put him ntoit.
If he were my boy, l think should
manage rather careful with him, re.
joined the doctor
Don't you think he is in pretty good
health 2 ssid Mr.. II.
BY careful management, I've no
4 "N"o' 10 "h' ""1"hc boou oouo'Nu
tion. You are more fsvorably situated
for the attainment Of this end, than VIC
city folks are. Exercise in the open air
will bo the thing for tho boy,-not hard
labor"
As to that, said the squire, don't
believe that any children take to work
naturally-they have to be drove into
it before they have any liking for it
James is my oil and mean to max,
something of him. Why doctor, ",
sometimes had my patience tried. to Sc,
how hard cliIlrcn viii work about thei
foolish play, that amounts to nothing
Many is the time that James has worked
till there was not dry thread on him
watching round the brook for fishes
wandering after wild flowers, or fort,
more foolish notions that his head il
full of; but let him work half as hare
picking up potatoes or pulling weeds
and, Oh dear he is full of aches auC
pains. 1t isn't because | want TO ge
the work out of him so much. doctor. a
because | want to get his childish DO