Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1858-06-18
THE MISERY'S HEIR,
FILTAL LOVE REwARDE

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He is good man-honest and industrious
-"
Industrious say you! By tho big
lump, I'd like to know what he's got to
show for his industry"
"Hc has a superior education, father.
"Education! Fiddlesticks! Can he live
on his educationl Can he make dollars
Of it2"
ayes He can live on it. He has al
ready obtained good situation as clerk"
sand will earn just about enough to keep
him in the fine clothes he wears. l know
these fellows. But there's an end ont. If
you choose him rather than your poor, old
father you can do so. can live alonc-I
shan't 1.-Two long-you can -"
"Stop-stop, father. You have no
right to talk so. You know / could not
leave you." And Agnes Brennan thew her
arms around the old mans neck, and kissed
him and then she left tho room.
dts curious how these young fools act;
the old miser muttered to himself, after he
had watched his child depart. There's
been twenty Of the sharks after the girl
twenty of 'em lowering around her like
man eaters after a dead body. Don't l
know what they wantl Can't see Aha
cant though. IT's NY MONEY! But
Agnes has never loved one Of 'em till this
Adams came along. The jackanapcs =
And she wants TO get married right away.
Nonsense
The old man bowed his head as he spoke,
and he saw drop upon tho back Of his
hand 1t was bright drop, and the rays
. OF the scattering sun were playing in it."
"She cried when sho kissed mo-" he
whispered, wiping the tear from his hard
: hand. 81 don't see what makes her so
tender hearted. She never took it from me.
But sho may have taken it from"
j The old man stopped and cloud came
s over his wrinked brow, for there was n pang
! in his heart. He remembered the gentle,
/ uncomplaiuing being who had once been
i his companion-the mother Of his child
S He remembered how she had become his
o wife, even when the bloom Of manhood had
e passed from him; how she loved and nuried
e him, and cared for him, and how she had
e never complained, even while suffering, and
1t how she had died, with smile and bless
o ing upon her lips, though the gold of hcl
20 husband had brought her no comforts.
l. Noah Brennan bowed his frosted heat
Ie more low, and in his heart he wished tha
t. he could forget all but the few 1ccting joy.
l. of his wife. But he could not forget. HI
e could not forget that it had been whispered
t how his wife might have iged longer, If she
d had had proper clothing and proper med
cal attendance.
J. "But it would have cost so much!
,r saved money!
:" Ah-tho reflection would not remove
d the pang Tho other memory was upper
d most.
&c Noah Brcmau had passed the allotto,
t. age Of man, being over three-score-and-t ter
te and all his life had been devoted to accum
g ulating money. Ho had denied himso
no every comfort, and his heart had been a
no most rs hard rs the gold he boarded. b.
ho as his hair grow moro white and sparse, an
sh the years came more heavily upon him, /
as thought more-retiected more. The swe,
he smile of his dead wife was doing its missile
now; and the pure love of his gentle chill
ne was continual remembrance to him tn;
lr. there were better hearts than his own.
no At lcngth the miser arose, and passc
lis out from the room. He would have le
the hut; but as he reached tho little entl
ir- way, he heard voice in the garret. Itw'
ed his child's. lie crept up the rickety stair
rk and looked through crack in the door,
ee He saw Agnes upon her knees. Tea
te were rolling down her checks, and her hand
to werc claspcd towards heaven. And sh
prayed
Of "Oh, God! be good to my father an
tn make his heart warm and peaceful. Max
st. me to love him with all tenderness, and er
Dc able me to do we'll and truly the duty
is pledged to my sainted mother! Ipromise
as her | would love and care for him alway
e. Father in Heaven, holp me Oh help me
Tho old man crept down stairs and OF
IS Of doors, and for whole hour he wake
as alone among the trees. Ho thought agai
IT'S Of his wife-again of his child--and then
he of his gold And this was not the fir
ur time he had walked alone there. He di
ng not himself know how great an influence b
of child was exercising over him..
a Agnes-purc, good, beautiful Agnes
lr- wept long and bitterly in hor little garrs
an and when she had become calm, and hs
w checks were dry, she came down and *
W supper. But she was not the smiling, haJ
py being that had fitted about the scant
ST. board heretofore.
a A few days after this, as Noah Brema
m approached his cot one morning, he hear
!" voices from within. He poeped through
le- rent in the coarse paper curtain, and sa
IA Walter Adams with his child. Her hea
he was upon Walters shoulder and his arl
he was about her.
y. Walter was an orphan, and had been Az
nes' schooimate and her feryant Low,
= through all the the hours of opening youtl
ed He was an honorable, yirtuous man, az
,g loved the gentle girl because she was
're good, and so gentle, and so beautiful, Ar
op she loved him, not only because he hs
is captured her heart iu the time agone, b.
off because he was Of all her suitors the on
ap one whose character and habits promise
ne JOY and peace in tho future.
be 81 cannot leave my poor old father, Wa
ok ter" the old man heard his daughter sa,
ul- ~ must live to love and care for him. ]
lie is hard. My heart may break, but tn
ps pledge Of love ! gave my mother must b
do kept" ,.gssss9 ~ ~
a "And so the great joy-dream of my yout
M. must be changed to this sad reality" Q,
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