The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-04-15
THE LOST AND TEE SAVED.
MRS MARY c. VAUGHAN.

81 please, sir, mother wants half pint
of gin, piped thin, little voice, and
small grlmy hand thrust upon the coun-
ter, a TIN cup and a few pennies.
The groccr-a big, ret-faced mau,
whose rubicand vi>ssge was Unframed IN
hair and whi,kers, bushy and fiery in
hue. looked down and over the counter at
bis small customer.
so your mothers at her old tricks,
bcv = be said 10 fierce tones. Don t she
know better than to touch drop OF eIn!
Ske'l get night in the station house,
and ten days iu the Tonbs out OF this
beginning, or may be her bealth II re-
qulre a trip to "the l'iaud atore she II
get over it. I've mind not to let her
have 1t.
.Oa please, DO, sir She's got such a
btg ironing she never can get through
without some gin; aud then she'll beat
me if l come home without any.
The grocer s.Ii!ed. looked at the pen
uies, aud the little lace down which the
falling tears were making two ~bite
ehaanels through the dirt, that could cot
utterly conceal lis rare aud winning beau
ty, aud releuted.
- Il may as well let her have 1t, be said,
ia self de!euce, Tor she ii get it somewhere
else if | don't
So be poured out the gin, dropped the
pennies into the drawer, aDd then, whist
ling and thrustlng his hands into his pock-
cts, followed the child to the door.
A good looking man, gentleman, as
his refined appearance, in which there
was no teuch of dandyiSm, indicated,
stood therc. He had been waschlng the
scene AS the grocer cane up be spoke
-t'Wby did you let the chlld have that
gin for her mother!
Cause, if didn'tsouebody else would,
tho grocer answered, in a tone, and with
an air. that meaBt-'Whats that to you
But something in the strangers manner
restrained bis mpertiuenee, and his words
were civil, though few.
'Tbere's h,r mother, looking out of the
window be added, guess she's getting
in hurry for her gin, and be flushed
by sueering laugh. as be pointed to a
building opposite and few doors below,
from one OF the second floor windows OF
which woman was leaning, and trying,
by meaus of violent gesticuiation, to at,
tract the notice of the child.
The stranger started, and uttered q
low exclam alton, as his eyes fell upon the
woman. but the next moment bis stten-
ton was attracted by scene in the street
and his emotion passed unnoticed. a
man, squalid, blear-eyed, and ragged
came recling round the corner which the
child was approaching. She saw him
and after covering for a moment in sud
den fri bit, bounded across the gutter, and
fled toward the opposite side of the street
.ehe man pursued, bis long strides bring
iop him nearer at every step, till, beneath
the window from which the woman stii
leaned. his heavy band vas laid upon th'
girl shoulder.
tDhe words he uttered were not audible
to the two spectators OF the scene, bu
they saw him snatch the cup from tb'
chiid's hands, and hastily swallow wha
remained of its contents after ber rapit
fight. The woman screamed at him some
coarse cpithet, as she saw her expected
dram thus seized Lowering the cup from
his upraised mouth, he threw it Violent,
In the face of the child, then, shaking hi'
fist at tie screaming woman, be reelec
into the house, leaving the little girl lyins
upon the pavement where the unexpected
biow had prostrated her.
TIE whole of this scene had passed 81
rapidly that the two lockers on had no
found tine for the interchange OF words
But they now started, simultsneouiy. II
tbe direction where the child was still ly
Jog. -.
sstYour liquor has borne its fruit'soODe
than you expected, and of differen
kind , the stranger said, laconiconically
TO his companion. t5
The m an auog bis head. -
12Itsa shame be said, but then Wha
can feller do [
what would y0u do to man wh'