Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-09-05
sHisrellang.
[From Arthur's Home Magaz'ne.l
HOME FROM SCHOOL.

The "back gate opens with sharp
|click-the mother, who sits sewing rap
id]v by the window, on some dlmlnutlve
garment, glances up at the CLOCK anu
| knows that ''school is out, before she
hears the quick stamp and soft minor
natter of small feet upon the stairs:
The next moment the door Is burst
vide omen. and then the noisy, eager,
hungry troup of boys and girls pour in;
and the quiet, through which the clock
smoke so peremptorily, few moments
.go is ali gone now, and the mother
looks up with little sigh, as she re-
members this; but the next moment the
thought is gone, for the smallest and the
sweetest face of the flock, little iour
wear old face, with the daintlest pair OF
nipk lips, is put up to hers, and the lit
tle lips say, my bonnet strings got into
) hard knot" as though this were the
rreatest evil that could have befallen
her. but the mothers soft, sklllful
6noers soon remedies that, even taking
off the hood, and smoothing the bright
rings Of yellow hair, she asks, "has m J
little Katie been good girl, and sale
her lessons today u
!, What light comes into the blue
ewes. and how much pride runs through
! the Inns. eyes, and | shall be put int
o Baker next week.
is "Dear me!what little scholar | hav'
E got" bending down and kissing the ca
Ger face; and then a loud voice come
in betwixt these
"Tm almost starved, 1 want piec
re of gingerbread. ;,
p SAnd |, too, mother trio Of stimuli
taneous voices take up the chorus. .,
t, "Always company of hungry, Will
to animals,'' SAYS the mother, looking owe
her little flock of boys and girls, an
= she fastens her needle into the hem
Katie's apron, and goes to the cupboar
- and reaches down the card OF cake, an
cuts out four generous slices, and to'
), small nairs of hands are eagerly lite
to receive them.
.sThere now, children, you musn
have another mouthful before tea time
"Mother," interrupts the voice whlt
had first proclaimed itself in immlne
neril of starvation, "to morrow s Satu
Y day, and all the boys are going down
= the pond to skate, and l want to go tc
It's frozen IS hard as a rock
esIt's dangerous place for little DO,
Sc Samuel" and the mother looks on Il
oh Oh. first born with that one look when
the the other eyes, no matter how laden W
inc pride and tenderness they may
as will ever bend on him again-the 10
which his heart will carry up throu
= all its strong manhood, and do
I. among the shadows of old age, if his
ever wander through that dim Ia
,rr. where sthe almond tree shall hourl
or and the grasshopper shall be a burde
" as but Samuel does not think of this n
he he only lifts his head and looks over
ina ina younger brother and sisters with n
, 'I,e the gled pride>and patronage, as ne say
81 was eleven last October; L que
Wis, can take care of myself, now.
ry s "Well, my son, We'll see what fat
I1 ,PI' says
Il 90 down the bank" This time it
little black eyed, black haired,
~ loving rogue Of eight years, who hay
'''''- quickly dispatched his cake, comes
G with his petition.
., I'm afraid, Johnnie, the wind b
o'e', So
Bevel "The wind won thurt me bit, not
-. for Oh it is such fun, you better bel
MINER m m Do let me go mother: ,.
"Well, tie your tippet tight re
Hol- YOUR throat, and mind you are bacl
half an hour" and with a shout W
'ne at would shock any but mother NJ
"Johnnie" seized his cap and rushe'
- of the room. ,,
"NIother, mother, I can't tie DO
cloak" The speaker has face
be ePen su, quite after the pattern OF the mot
soft and delicate, and 1t may o'
this reason, Mary is her fathers e.
q quai ans ia pet; and that her fair, grave tno'
would full little face has charm for nj n
edasa- dasa yond that of the laushing' dim
NJ 81 80 merry, youngest of the flock
And the patient mother lays
, ladies her sewing for the twentieth time
ul pro- ties the silk cloak around the d
shoulders of the wax doll, and San
Chm boisterous laugh, and katie's merr