Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-07-06

sobbng bitterly.
Where did this accident happen?
Near the college, Sir
Calling a cab, we were speedily set
down at Blackfriars Wynd. had never
penetrated the wretched places of these
ancient cities by day, and here l entered
one by night, and alone. Preceded by |
my little guide, entered dark, wide,
winding stair, until, climbing many flights !
of stairs in total darkness, he opened a
door, whence light maintained feeble,
unequal struggle with the thick, close
smelling, heavy gloom. My courage
nearly gave way as the spectacle of that
room burst upon me. In an apartment,
certainly spacious in extent, but scarcely
made visible by one guttering candle
stuck in bottle, were an over-crowded
mass of wretched beings, sleeping on
miserable beds spread out upon the floor.
or squatted or reclining upon the cold,
unfinished boards.
Stepping over PROSTATE quarrelling
drunkard, / found little Sandy on bed
of carpenters shaving5 on the floor. He
was still in his rags, and a torn and
scanty coverlet had been thrown over
him. Poor lad he was so changed
His sharp, pallid face was clammy and
cold-beads of the sweat of agony stand
ing on his brow-his bruised and man
gled body lay motionless and still, except
when sobs and moaning heaved his flut-
tering breast. A bloated woman, in
maudIin drunkenness (the dead or ban
ished fathers second wife, and not has
mother,) now and then bathed his lips
f with whiskey -and-water, while she ap-
piled to her own a bottle of spirits to
drown the grief she hiccuped and as
sumed A doctor from tue Royal In
firmary had called and left some medi
, cine to soothc the poor lads agony (fol
| his case was hopeless, even though ht
had been taken at first, as he ought tt
e have been, to the Infrmary in the neigh
f borhood,) but his tipsy nurse had forgot
e ten to administer it. l applied it, ant
had him placed upon a less miserabI
e bed of straw; and fleeing a woman, al
t occupant of the room, to attend him du
/. ring the night, gave what directions
could, and left the degraded, squali
home.
7 Next morning l was again in Black
friars Wynd. Its close, pestilential al
e and towering, antique, dilapidated mar
> sions (the abode of the peerage in fal
l. off times) now struck my SENSES
Above doorway was carved upon th
$ stone Except ye Lord do build y
,r house, ye builders build in vain
l said the room was spacious;
le was almost noble in its proportions
Tie walls of paneled oak sadly MARIE
massive marble mantel-piece of cul
ne ming carving, ruthlessly broken and di
figured, enamelled tiles around the fir
place, once representing some Bib
Is. story, now sore despoiled and cracke
ng and the ceiling festooned with antiql
fruit and flower, shared in the gener
Vandal wreck. With the exception of
90 broken chair, furniture there was none
10 that sitting den. Its occupants, said t
oil surgeon, whom | found at the suffere
&c bed, were hiefy of our cities pes
an and the poor lads step-mother-who h
&c taken him from the ragged school II
nd she might drink of his pitiful earnings
~ was as sunk in infamy as any there.
old For the patient, medical skill v
cir nought, for he was sinking fast I
the soul looking from his light-blue eyes Y
Gus slowly ebbing out, his pallid cheeks w
sunk and thin, but consciousness retu
md ed, and his lamp was Pickering up
as fore it sunk forever. As ] took
feeble hand, a flicker of recognit
seemed to CLEAN across his face.
got the change, and was comm
My poor boy, you were very hon
ing Have you any wish-anyihing, p
ma child, l can do for you? promise tc
,w'r Reuby, I'm sure I'm deein, wha
and take care O. you nooY
-our Little Reuben was instantly in Fl
he's crying, and himself PROSTATE on the
doc : o, Sandy Sandy! Sandy ? sobbed
and little heart.
- I will see to your little brother
with Thank you, Sir! Dinna-dinna le
me, Reu--Reu-by. I'm eom-con
lp of comin'-'
was Whist ! whistp cried little Re-
dis looking up, and turning round to imp
some silence in the room. That mon
the calm, faded smile, that SCENE
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