Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-11-21
Carving pa His Dinner.


As we plod weafily along through this busy
world, with these tender bodies and feeling
hear 8 of ours exposed on either hand to dis
ease and accidents which lay waste the one
and sorrows which crush the other, we, every
NOW and then, meet with incidents which touch
tho hardest heart and leave life.long Impress
ions.
One such comes to our recollection at this
writing, which Is worthy Of public mention.
A sweet, active little girl, Of some seven or
eight years, was accustomed to carry 10 her
father, who was q laborer at one Of our depots,
some part of his daily meals. One evening
as she was returning just ut dusk, she dropped
her pail by the wsyside to amuse herself With
some matter which had attracted her childish
attention. Thoughtless Of danger, aud busy
with her play, she had halted on one Of the
many railroad tracks which crossed her path,
and, in the dusk was not discovered by the
engineer, who just thsp passed with his engine,
until IL bad rpG over and mangled her In
most shocking manner.
On the follo wing day, We were by her bod
side, with her ply sieiAn. She was feeble, but
conscious and viSilAni, and in her debility
suffered but little pain. Her left arm was so
mapgled at the shoulder that the physician
toek il away and passed it from the bod under
The clothing in such q manner that she did not
know that she had lost an arm. Efforts we're
then made to remove the clothing from the
right arm, which was crushed and distorted SO
as not to have any semblanoe of an ara.
Feeling twiDge of pain, she raised hsr head
and for the first time discovered that she was
afmless. Looking an instant at her armless
shouder--the arm gone-she turned her head
and saw the shapeless right arm, aud suppos-
lDg that too, must soon be taken from her, she
looked up aDxiously and with an expression
of great regret and in most piteous voice ex-
claimed: "0h, NAL how can L carry pa his din
b0r no,0y"
We are not lachrymose, in the main, we have
litle fellow feeling for those who are ever
pumping for our tears, nor do we sympathize
deeply with those whose fountains Of grief are
SO shallow that their t. ars ripple over the lid
with every gust Of sorrow; but we envy not
the stoicaI toul thai could withstand such
provocation unmoved.
1t hos been our lot many times to witness
these scenes of innocent suffering, and they
always awaken thoughts and inquiries which
We can scarcely answer; but we remember none
more affecting than the one just related. The
mangled frame ofthe little innocent sufferer;
| her calmness aod patience; the thought that ii
had been her chief delight from day to day, to
have the hour arrive when she could "carry pa
his dinner" her regret, expressed in both look
aud word she could never go on that pleasant
errand again; these coupled with the thought
that she had not long to live, made up case
which was peculiarly affecting.
She never carried pa his dinner more. She
fingered little, still filed with this, to her. all
absorbing regret and passed away-went to
that land where the weary rest; nor do they
hunger more; where children have been invited
to go and where they play by the wayside un-
molested; and it may bea fancy, but we still
love to believe that her delight is still to bring
food to her parents from that ambrosial land
to which she has gone, food which is better aud
more needed than the perishing meats which
she so delighted to carry here.-ioandasky Reg
isteT.