The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1860-07-05
A Childs Dreaml of "A Star.
BY CHARES DICKENS

There was once q child, and he
strolled about a great deal and thought
Of a number of things, He had sister,
who was child too, and his constant
companion. These too used to wonder
all day long. They wondered at the
beauty Of flowers; they wondered at the
hight and blueness of the sky, the Won
dered at the depth of the bright wa
ter; they wondered at the goodness
and the power of God; who made the
lovely world.
They used to say to one one an other
sometimes "Supposing all the children
on earth were to die, would the flows
ers and the water and the sky be sor-
ry p They believed they would be
sorry For, said they, the buds are the
children of the flowers, and the little
playful streams that gambol down the
hillsides, ara the children of the waters;
and the smallest bright spaeks playing
at hide and seek in the sky all night,
must surely be the children of the stars;
and they would be all grieved to see
their playmates, the children Of men,
no more.
There was one clear shining star
that used to come out in the sky before
the rest, near the Church spire; above
the graves. 1t was larger and more
beautiful, they thought, then all the
others, and every night they watched
for it, standing hand in hand at the
window. Whoever saw it first, cried
out, II see the star!'' And often they
cried out both together, knowing so
well when it would rise, and where
So they grew to be such friends with it
that before laying down to their beds,
they always locked out once again, to
bid it good night; and when they were
turning round to sleep, they would say,
Good bless the star!''
But while she was still very young
oh very, very young, the sister droop-
ed, and came to be so weak that she
could no lon -er stand at the window at
night; and then the child looked sadly
out by himself, and when he saw the
star, turned round to the patient, pale
face on the bed; 81 see the start" and
then a smile would come upon the face,
and little weak voice used to say, God
bless my brother and the star!''
And so the time came all too soon;
when the child looked out alone, and
when there was no face on the bed;
and when there was a little grave am
ong the graves, not there before, and
when the star made long ray down to-
ward him, as he saw it through his
tears.
Now; these rays were so bright, and
they seemed to make such a shining
way from earth to heaven, that when
the child went to his solitary bed, he
dreamed about the star; and that lying
where he was, he saw train of people
taken up to that shining road by an
gels. And the star opening, showed
him a great world oflight, where many
more such angels waited to receive
them.
All these angels, who were waiting,
turned their beaming eyes upon the
people who were carried up into the
star: and some came out from the long
rows in which they stood and fell upon
the peoples necks and kissed them ten
derby, and went away with them down
avenues of light, and were so happy in
in their company, that lying in his bed
he wept for joy.
But there were many angels who did
not go, and among them one he
knew. The patient face that had once
lain upon the bed was gloriied and ra-
diant, but his heart found out his sister
among all the host.
His sisters augel fingered near the
entrance Of the STAR and said to the
leader among those who had brought
the people thither-
:'Is my brother Gomez"
And be said, ''No'"
She was turning hopefully away.
when the child stretched out his arms.
and said, " Oh, sister, I am here! Take
mel" and then she turned her beamIno
eyes upon HIM, and it was night; and
the star was shining into his room, ma
king long rays down towards him
as he saw it through his tears.
From that hour forth, the child look
ed out upon the star as on the home
he was to go to, when his time should
come, and he thought he did not belong
to earth alone, but to the alter, too,
because of his sisters angel gone be-
fore.
There was baby born to be broth
er to the child; and while he was so
little that he never yet had spoken a
word, he stretched his tiny form out on
the bed and died.
! Agaiu the child dreamed of the open
ed star, and of the company of angels
and the train ofpeople, and all the rows
of angels with their beaming eyes all
turned upon those peoples faces.
Said his sisters angel to the leader