Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-09-13

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. Mark, do you think it best soY STAN
mered.
If you do, Eunice. We shall have IL
work harder and longer; but we can dc
it for PauPs sake
And this money will set him straight
on the way to college,"
oh, yes; the road will be clear enough,
then. lie can have the interest OF this
money Tor the next year, which will pay
Parson Adams for fitting him for college
and he can be ready to enter in yeal
from next fall. And after he is there, be
can teach, you know, in vacations, and
manage to get along with what the
thousand dollars will do for him many
of the first men in the country have done
this
And who knows bat Paul may be a
genius, Mark p
Who knows, Eunice At all events,
he shall have a chance to prove whether
he is.
So he shall. We will make up our
minds this hour, Mark, that we shall
never touch dollar of this legacy of my
uncle's; Paul shall have 1t ALL
SO it was decided betwixt us; and
then Mark concluded we could 90 over TO
our unces that night, and release him
forever from all charge of my brother.
O, what will Paul say when he hears
of this 2
Eli almost upset his wits. l can
sympathize with him, Eunice in all his
youthful hopes and aspirations, though
nature never intended me for scholar,
suppose
She intended you for good, true,
noble man, any how, Marx Truman
It's pleasant to hear such praise from
your lips, little lady. But, hustle up, and
get my lunch in hurry, for l must make
hay while such sun as this is in the
/ sky
And, while Mark ate lis biscuit and
pie, and praised the spring beer had
made the day before, | went away back
into my childhood, and searched among
the closets OF my memory for my cid
uncle, Ezra Northrop. | remembered
the white haired old man came to sse US,
when my life was slipping off its fifth
birthday, and that he had trotted me on
bis knee, and told me stories OF the day
when | was a little boy, and his father,
who was a corporal in the Revolutionary
Army, shouldered his musket, and went
Off to battle and how lie took Ezra in
his arms, and blessed him and his
mother, who was my great-grandmother,
put her arms around her husbands neck .
and said:--
The God of battles take care of you,
Jedediah ! and how the strong man
could not speak another word, but went
out Of the gate with look that his son
had carried in his memory through all
the years of his life.
And Mark listened and laughed, when
told him a moment later, how my great
grandmother paused suddenly in the
midst Of her sobs, and the tears stood
still on he cheeks, and she rushed out of
the gate, and little way down the road,
and called to her husband, who was just
turning the corner of the road by the
creek Jedediah, you'll find the dough-
nuts and the apple pies in the white tow
el in your risht-hand pocket And
Mark brought down his hand on the ia
ble, with a blow that made it ring, and
said -
That's just the sort of a wife a man
wants-one that will see her husband
start out to defend his country with the
blessing Of God, and her brave, loving
heart and that won't forget to slip the
into a corner o. his coat
pocket at the last minute. a mans rich
enough with such wife, Eunice.' And
Mark poured another glass of my beer,
and said -
AN honor and praise to them, for
their brave, loving hearts-for their ,
strong faith in God, that never fallered, {
n the darkest hour of their country's |
need and peril-for all they did and suf-
the old fresides they made so b
lappy-lor all their teachings ane ex- P
implies, left to US, their children, and h
which have made US the men we are this h
lay. / drink to their memories-the v
nolhers of the Revolution ? 4
And, looking on Mark Truman's face, d
S he set down the glass of beer, won
cred how any one could ever call him J
homely man. y
Just after tea, in the cool of the sum Il
lei evening, we rode over to Uncle !
oshua's. My heart was full Of the great :,
~ II ,Vas baorino IN paul but | was a .