The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1857-08-13
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TEFE MsSTAESE.
a LESSON or PARENTS.


III never DO it,--ncv"r, SO louc a.
Hive ? And the boy clcncbpd his hand
together, and strobe Up and down h,
room, bis fne features flushed, and hi
forehead darkencd with anger aud shame
I'd nsk the minister : pardon IN father
presence of course | would but to q
before the whole Academy, boys auc
girls, and do this = His whole fran,
writhed at the thought. Ellsworth
Grant you'll brand yourself as "A cowar
and fool all the days of your life
But father never retracts, and he
said | must do this or leave school anc
90 out on the farm to work and the
whole village will know the reason, anG
| shall be ashamed to look anybody in
the face. I've good will to run away
The boys voice grew lower, aud be.
wildered expression gathered on his
flushed features
1t would be very hard to leave all
the old places; and then, never to see
Nellie again ; it would break her heart
know it would And bis face worked
convulsively a moment but it settled
down into look of dogged resolution
the next. l mustn't think Of that now /;
though it is only ten miles to the sea,
port, and l could walk that in an hour !;
and get place on board some ship about
to sail, before father was any WISER
Some time I'd come back of course, but
not until was old enough to be my own
MASTER The boy sat down aud buried
his face in his hands, and the sunset of
a summers day poured its currents of
crimson and amber into the chamber,
and over the bowed figure of the boy.
At last he lifted bis head there was
a look of quiet resolve in the dark hazel
eyes, and about the usually smiling
mouth, which in youth is so painful, be
cause it always indicates mental suffer
ng.
Ellsworth Grant was at this time JUS
fifteen ; he was his fathers only son aud
le was motherless.
The deacon was a stern, severe man
while Ellsworth inherited bis mothc, s
Varm, suuny temperament. lii iarbr'
vas a man of unswurve ing integrity and /.
'tc,itude-a man whit would have pa
ID witu bis lght band ,1uurr ttan bay.
3, mmit,rd q; honcst ac' bot one who
,ad few t>npaiLlc. fal faults aud Iujl-
,ouiOus TO peculiar temperament aud
mau whose heart had ncv-
II learned the height aud depth, and
he ell embracing beauty OF that might. /.
est text, which is the one diamond
mong all the pearls aud precious stoues
i the Bible Be ge cbayuoJic.'
He was a hard exactng parent, and
ellsworth was u iun-loviDg, mischief.
rowing boy, that everybody loved, de.
pite his faults, and the scrapes he vas
lways getting his neck into There is
o doubt that the Deacon loved his son
ut he was not demostrativc man
nd, tben--it is sad, sad story that
ray be written Of many a parent.-be
idn't understand bis child, and there
'as no mother with her soft voice and
Oothing words to come between them
Ellsworth's last offence can be told in
few words. The grape vine, which
eavy with purple clusters, trailed over :
le kitchen windows of the school teach
RS residence, had been ROBBED of more {
,an half its fruit, one Saturday after 1
con.
The perpetrators Of this deed, were, 1
owever, discovered to be party of the 8
,hool boys, among whom was Ellis.
orth.
The rest of the scholars privately So h
cted and obtained the school teachers v
ardon, but the deacon who was terri. S
ly shocked at bis sons want of princi- o
le, insisted that he should make pub
c confession Of his fault, before the as c
,mbled school. II
In vain EllsSorth explained and en- il
Gated. Ills father was invulneraplc, c