Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-03-08

lently rolled down her checks, as the
fire, made the former ache intolerably
= ssPoor little dear!'' said grandmamms
ftaking5her hands in hers; .'Hitty shan
scold you. Grandmamma5 knows yor
hare been q good girll-z..tIe wiadsblew
poor Gracie's bonnet away" and grand
mamma wiped both eyes and nose, ant
gave her moreover, a stalk of dried fen
mel out of her pocket; whereat Grace
took heart once more.
"Mother always makes fools of Rozy's
children" said Mehetabel, putting zeal
ously under the tea kettle. ''There's 6
little maple sugar in that saucer up there
mother, if you will keep giving it tc
her." she. said, still vigorously putting
"And now Gracie" she said, when after
while, the fire seemed in tolerable or
der, ''will you answer my question:
Where is Dick?
"Gone over in the lot to get my bon
net"
GLOW came your bonnet OFF, said
Aunt Mehetable. Il tied it on firm
enough"
"Dick wanted me to take it off for him
to throw up for liberty" said Grace.
''Throw up for fddlesticks! just one
of Dicks cut ups; and you Was silly
enough to mind him.
'Why, he put up a flagstaff on the
wood pile, and flag of liberty, you
know, that papa's fighting for" said
Grace more confidently, as she saw hel
quiet. blue eyed mother, who had silently
walked into the room during the con.
vcrsation
Grace's mother smiled and said, en-
couragingly, .'And what then?'
"Why he wanted me to throw up my
bonnet and then the wind took it and
carried it off. and he said | ought not
to be sorry if l did lose tit Was an
offering to liberty.
''And so I did, said Dick, who was
Standing as straight as a poplar behind
the group and | heard in one of father $
letters to mother that we ought to offer
up everything on the altar Of liberty
so | made an altar OF the wooapile.
Good boy!' said his mother; always
remember everything your tather writes.
He has Offered everything on the altar
Of liberty, true enough; and hope you,
son, will to do the same
4 Only. if had the hoods. and caps
to make, said aunt Hitty, ''T hope he
won't offer them up every week-that's S
allr'
; go! we'll, Aunt Hitty, I've got the
hood; let me alone for that. 1t blew
clear into the Daddy. Wards pasture LOT
and stuck Oh the top of the great rail;
and Ip!ayed that the rail was fort; and
besieged it, and took it.
80, yes! you're always up to taking
forts and anything else that nobody
wants done III warrant, now. you left
Oracle to pick up every blessed one Of
them chips.
picking up chips is girls work, - said
Dick; land taking forts and defending
the country is mems work -
''And pray, Mister Pomp, how lon?
have you been NAM said Aunt Hitty
"If | amt a man, soou shall be; my
head is most up to my mother shoulder
and can FIRE off gun, too. l tried
one the other day when [ was up to the
store Mother, [ wish you would lei
me clean and load the old gun so that il
the British should come"
"Well, if you are so big and grand
Just lift me out that table sir sale
Aunt Hitty; ''for it's past supper time
Dick sprang and had the table out in
a trice with an abundant clatter, and put
up the leaves with quite an air. His
mother, with the silent and gliding mo-
ton characteristic of her, quietly took
out the table cloth and spread it, and
began to set the cups and saucers in or
der, and to put on the plates and knives
while Aunt Hitty hustled about the tea
eli be glad when the wars over, for
one reason" said She "I'm pretty
tired of drinking sage tea for one,
: know"
"Well, Aunt Hitty, how you scolded
that peddler last week, that brought
along that real teal
"To be sure l did S'pose I'd be
taking any of his old tea, bought of the
British? Fling every tea cup in his
face first
We'll, mother" said Dick, ''I never
understood what it was about the tea,
and why the Boston folks threw it al
over board.
Because there was an unlawful tax
laid upon it, that the government had
no right to lay. 1t wasn't much in it.
self, but it is part of a whole system
of oppressive meanuess, designed to ia Ike
away our rights, and make US slaves Of
u foreign power
'Slaves!" said Dick Strengthening
himself proudly. Father slave?'
But they would not be slayes.-
They saw clearly where it would all end
and they would not begin to submit tc
it in ever so little, said the mother
Il wouldn't; if L were they" sale
Dick.
s'Besides," said his mother, drawing
him toward her, sit Wasn t for them,
selves alone they did it. This is :
great country, and it will be greater anc
greater; and it's very important that i
sh ould have free and equal laws because
it will by and by be SO great. Thi:
country, If 1t Is a free one, will be a ligh
l to the whole world-a city set on hill
that cannot be hid; and all the oppressed
and distressed Of other countries shall
come here to enjoy equal rights and
freedom. This, dear boy, is why youl
fathers and uncles have gone to fight
and why they do stay and fight, though
God knows what they suffer, and--'
and the large eyes Of the mother were
full Of tears: yet strong, bright beams OF
pride and exultation shone through
: those tears.
"Well, well, ROXY, you can always
talk, everybody knows said Aunt