The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-01-01
a., len all otser arguments failed, he

ITS meaning he spoke of the dread day O
U doom in ,Aes full of hushed, trembling awe
tand his DOR puny frame shuddered as he told
Pt The, axe OF fire, of the terrible torments O.
Me rlcSed, and how l must inevitably go there
q IA EaVe way to my passion thus.
men, she need not strike me /" exclaimed
an { forgive her-I don't know how to, and
don't want to |"
Then you can never 90 to live with HIM.
anC ms preternaturally- Upright eyes glanced from
my stormy tace to the serene one of Christ.
WIZ Vrsnnie Hunt live with Him, Ollie?''
| suddenly asked.
said, sadly. ~ ~
" But you will?" 1 pursued.
~ hops so-if He will take me-"
Then I'll try to be good if you'll ask Him
10 let me cone, too. I'll try real hard. Ollie. "
lie sat down on the side of the bed. and.
putting his arm around ME, told me how peo.
pie must die before they could go to Him how
some died young-younger, even, than was
and some lived to be old. And then he told me
ABOUT his own mother--how good she was to
MIN; how many things she taught him: how
abe esed to y ~ bis bed side, and hear hin
ser Our Fc7@sr;" and bow.she grey shinne
sng Ehiqner. until she 6ied.
IS Si'S = ~ ,te,'S -, irsisT -, sT,s au0
promised her ! would Try to come to her"
nay mother there, Olfe?'
g nope sc.
"Then I'll 90 tools
L was, indeed, poor ignorant child. had
no idea, even after Olle's teachings. what INV
words meant; but, as / have said. God sent
him to me as an angel, and ever afterward
violent and passionate as | was, at times)
had dim, underlined hope of attaining ~ some
life, better and purer than the one was living.
But the story of that picture haunted me. and
there came time when its hideous horrors
We're before me nightly, filing me with a terror
difficult even to describe.
did not attend school, The Town said
was to have three months schooling but Gran.
ME Hunt did not think much of schools. She
had always some fault TO find with the teacher. |
and / seldom went more than three DAYS at a |
time. Moreover, she wanted me, in the win. |
ter, to wind quilts for her loom, for she wove.
or to bring wood and water and.
in summer, to weed the garden, and 90 to the
hills for berries, which she sent to market BY
the stage, or disposed of at the sea.shore board.
ing houses and hotels on the "Beach," about
two mites south OF US; or, if there was nothing
else TODD, could scrub the hoor-a daily GER
emonywhch was never omitted.
| cainot say that l cared much for this de-
prvatiPn. waa proud and sensitive, strange
as it may seem, and rather stay at home than
go to school; tor l was "town poor" there,
and noPne caredto have me "look over them
the "sdectmen" not being particularly thought
Gul in the way of providing class books and
some q the girls commented upon my patched /
desSeshnd crusned-ioohjng bonnets. l greatly {
preferred wandering over the hills ana pastures {
alter btrrles, or, after had filed my pail or {
Dsketato sit perched upon the highest peak t
o the Perpendicular cliffs that overhung the
wstern side Of the "POnd," and watch the r
wite sAled ships hat gecked the waters of Y
Log bland Sound, hearing in sight end dis t
aPeawg so silently AMI mysteriousy, or d
hagln8 over the cliff, to raze down into the
de0 Gear water, where the white clouds, the a
tres abd little shrubs, were mirrored so mi fl
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OF 4sHned, with wonder ever new and fresh Il
/ mail "japanned," or what had once d
beer Bapanned, tin box OF miniature trun r
held Qlie's treasures. These were, sme j,
~ nth his mothers name written upo e
e fiyleai, Il have it now the . Natural Iii ri
~ of Whales" little bit of book callt5
The Twin Lambs" childish allegory, tv "a
three certificates of good behaviour al
from his school teachers, when h y.
IS 50 happy as to go to school, and few 9th
lies. Sundays ne used to read these boo
er and over to me, and OF ali books ! haee
I'D, or heard read since, / think none ha a
pressed like that story of the Twin LamI
liked much to hear about the whales, q as h
houses Ollie said-a statement which Il
,st took away nay breath, and which l shou.e
,st Certainly have doubted, had any one se
de it, especially when I thought of them n FL
nparison with the fish was accustomed 10
oh in the Pond; and ] often watched The Dr.
and closely, if perchance | might get yr
mpse of stray one there. l liked the Bio
ries had special admiration for Vas
Esther, and Ruth and did | not know as
y spot, by the brook, from whence the st 81
: David selected the stone which was to H-
) Goliaths forehead, the wood where Sau
encountered the lion, and the identical fec
ch Elisha ploughed with his twelve YOKE Of bst
n? Indeed, think my childish reverencg h
wonder were as much excited By this sse-
of his skill as teamster as by the acccuu
he wonderfafpiracles which he afterwa $40.
formed. But s,Ss3e little Lambs, my b. ri 9.l
It with them in all ~ 'nderlngs, e-P5- =, T.
ly viii she truar Stray ava aa.
n the bid; an YSwf 5re e.
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