Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-09-03
due sits on the bank yonder-Mrs. Walkers Bet

due sits on the bank yonder-Mrs. Walkers Bet
sey."
Every eye wandered towards the croaching Hg-
ure, who, with head closely covered. appeared in
different to all that was passing. Mr.. Price open.
ed his port-monnaie. ''Here are two dollars" he
said, (which I wish you to give the girl, for my
self and children. Tell her, as q school, she will
hear from Ms again"
/ went to Betscy's side, put the money In her
hand, and begged her to uncover her face. But
she resolutely refused to do more than peep
through one Of the holes in her apron, as the
whole school singly and slowly defled past her in
the narrow space between the tain and the bank.
A moro crest.fallen multitude 1 never saw, and
the eyes that ventured to turn towards the pros.
trate figure, as they passed within a few feet Of
her, had shame and c~ontri.ion in their chances.
0nly once she whispered, as a naughty looking
boy past, That's the one tina. kicked over my
basket. / wish I'd q let him gone to smash ]
do, so !"
The children climbed over the rocks, and weni
to their homes, sadder and wiser for their awful
lesson and In twenty-four hours the track wal
cleared from obstruction.
The principal, though q man but little inclined
10 look for the "angel side" Of such unprepossess
ing humanity as Mrs. Walkers Betsey, bad toe
strong a sense Of justice, and too grateful a sense
of his childreu's spared lives, not to make a very
affecting appeal to the assembled school on the
following day. A vote to consider Betsey n mem.
Der of the school, and entitled to oil its privileges
met with no. opposition, and q card Of thanks
cOuched in feeling terms, received the signature
of every pupil and teacher. A purse was mex
made up for her by voluntary contributions
amounting to twenty dollars and to this was add
ed an entire new suit Of clothes, and a quantity o
books, and o handsome red shawt in which he
brunette skin, carefully washed, and her neatl
combed, jetty hair, appeared to excellent advan
tage.
Betsey bore her hUnors meekly. and no longe
feeling that she was scorned as an intruder, cam
regularly to school, learned rapidly. and, in he
new dress and improved manner. became gradu
ally an attractive, as she had always been a mos
Intelligent child. Of her own accord, she went I
the teachers aud confessed sundry mischievou
t pranks and absurdities, formerly committed. bu
firmly denied any participation in tho more sc
rious m~isdemenors which had been attributed (
, her. And strange to say, no one doubted he
story.
In less than a year her mother died, and he
D miserable step-father removed to the far Yves;
r leaving her as domestic in a worthy wealthy fam
S lily. in Offspring. The privileges Of school wer
| still granted her, and amid the surroundings O
comfort and refinement, the change from Mrs. Wa
e ker's Betsey to Lizzie Arnold" became still NOR
: apparent. She rapidly rose from one class to anothe
and is now one Of the most judicious and believe
managers of that very school, and ~instructs til
y younger brothers and sisters of the verv scholar
Q who, ten years since voted her q nuisance and
plague" There is truth in the old rhyme -
9 1t isn't all in bringing up,
Let men say what they will
n Neglect may dim q silver cup
1t will be silver still I"