The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1859-04-28

dress upon her lap. aud her needle ID her
bhand; but it was only little while
With sweeter look upon her face than
it had worn for many dav, she rolled up
the bundle, and laying it carefully away
untolded another, and the one, too, that
contained her boys longed- for pants, and
was soon stitchingaway at them, as though
she was working for wages.
About two hours after, little Harry came
back, his feet and hands stiff with the
cold play he had been engaged in, but
bis checks rosy with leaping bushes
What bright fash quivered in his eyes
as they fell upon his mothers work He
forgot that he was til ed and amo frozen,
but with one bound, sprang to her side,
and clasping her waist, neck, arms, and
showering her face with kisses, cried out
joyfuily =" knew you would [ knew
you wouId-such good mother as YOU
would never say thing and not do it.
@, | am SO glad--I shant be a pitch
patch" no longer. O good, good, I'm 60
ing to have new pants.
Didn't the mothers fingers tiy mcrrily
after that? guess if you had seen them
you would have thought So Aud | guess
when, in the latter part of the afternoon,
Harry stepped proudly out in his new
pants, it would have been pretty hard to
say which was the happiest, son or moth
er, albeit, the shabby merino dress was all
the one she had to wear the next day at
Mrs Mason'S party.
"Oh dear, I've got the best mother in
the whole world, shouted he to his IA
ther when he came home to tea "thc
very best, no mistake either Don't y0u
think she wanted ever so much to sew her
own dress to wear to the party, aud didn't
though, cos you see she'd promised to
make my new pants the next time it snow
ed. I'll pay her though when | get to
be a man I'll do something for her that
will make her glad see if don't.
=" | wouldn't be so proud Of my pants
if they were new" said Sallie, as, after
the table was cleared little Harry march
ed up and down the room, trying to keep
time to the tune his father was whisting
{" guess you would, then, Miss Sir,
if you was me, and had wanted pair as
lcng as have. | have cot a right to be
proud of them :" and thrusting hand
into each pocket, he drew up his little
form to its utmost height, and resumed
his march
"Weli, but my Sunday School teacher
told us we must never be proud Of our
Clothes" said Nell
"Well, | guess if she'd worn patched
trousers as long as have, she would be
proud when she first got on new pair,
eos she couldn't help it. amt proud,
neither" said the little fellow, after mo-
ment's thoughtfulncss, but I'm dreadful
glad that I've got them. Aud III just
tell you Miss Nell I'm very proud of the
mother that made them, eos she didn' /
want to do them a bit; but she did do
them, COS she'd promised, and she was
50 good she wouldn't tell story"
Bub's new pants seem to have made
him perfectly happy" said the husband
to the wife, when little Harry had again
crept under his shelteriug blankets; sit
is strange what a trlfe will satisfy the
heart OF child.
" \ trife will satisfy, and trihe will
almost break it, responded the wife sol
emnly. :" If we parents would only re-
member oftcner than we do, the joys and
sorrows of our childhood, our children
would, oftener than they do, rise up aud
cal Us blessed"