The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1862-06-03


.Ycs. Dan. said /
Ivealvays lhoagltiAere was some-
ihinH real n,lbls lelwre lan aad me
shea. Thcre Was i.--wril. ] don't
mind telling YOU Ard he,-~ye- Ion
surr he lo, 4 me psifefly goo
must i,os bc .larl 81. IlItell soa llov
wss.-and always lis.d. ouly nas be Dc
hadnt known ~ batil aas den down
IN Ii. heart inJ the same. anil by
and.b it stirred, There We sere,
bath Of us Thoroughly conscious, yel
neither Of as expressing u by wtrd.
and irving not o. by look,--both Of
d. content to wait Tor the next lih,
when vs. could belong 70 one anoihet
III those days | contTiyed 10 have il
always pleasure enough for me just 70
know that Dan was 10 the room, and
though that wasn't oftrn, never
gr1dged Faith her r.eln ia iim. per-
laps erat ] KNEES Us 3ldn't care
aat aaf i l0g ee, thi. is
lu
Waea D0 iad q sixteen.
ud tk eafs 81 his mother, a ship
wem a pise down there on the
lslaai ItWr one ol lhc worst storm
tiia, ever Nhistled. and dough crowds
we're on tie shore. il was impossible
10 relch her. liry could see the
poor wrgiches hanging 10 the rigging,
aad dropping one hy one, and they
could on,y sIay and irSen. for the
suIf stove tie Boa-, q iIey Didn't
know ea haW "a c9d ont ropes on
rock of 0a caaoa.b1ii-, and so the
night q, d The people rung their
hands aul cii The sea 10 It's prey, and
teit rs Il blue sky would never come
agaia Ald with the bright, keen
moraae Uoi syesiigc oT the ship, but
here par and there q door, and on
the sde of a sand-hh a great dog
watching over a iule ehild that he'd
kept warm all night. Dan, he'd eoi
up at turn Of tide, and walked down,
the sea running over the road knee.
deep,--tor there was too much swell
Tor boats; and when day broke, he
found Tie litiIe gri, and carried her
up 10 town II dldni take her home.
Tor he SAW t.laf what clothes she had
were tn very finest, is dell
cately,-wi,h seams like the hair
stroke. Oh tua neari's-el>c there ana
lie concluded that he couldn't bring
her up as She ought 10 b.. 80 ne
took her round to the rirh men, ana
represented tlat she was The child 0
a lady, aud thai a poor fellow himself
ion Dan MAS older fban hts yeai
you see-coudn'l do her justice: sue
was slight IntIe thing, and needed
daiety training and fancy food, mag
be matter OF seven years old. and
she spoke some foreign language, and
perhaps she didn't speak il plain, for
knew what il was. However,
everybody was very much intereatel,
and everybody was wiling TO give and
TO help. but nobody wanted to take
her, aud the up-hol Of il was that Dan
refused all their offers aud took her
lis molher'd been in to our house
all lhe afternoon beiofe, aid she'd
kept taking her pipe out Of her mouth
she had the asthma, and smoked,-I
and kept signing.
"Thls storms going 10 bring me
something" says she, in mighty mis-
cradle tone. "lm sure Of t.
"No harm, hope, Miss Devereux,
said mother.
"Wel. Rhody, mothers father,
he was a queer kiud,--caIled his giils
all after the thirteen States, ard there
being none left for Unele MH. he
called him after tie siafe of HAtriHo-
ny, :" y Ell. Kuudt Do epiied yaln-
e. dismaiIy, Z knocked lhe ashes
oui OF the ow, - don't know; but
Ill have futh 10 b Iieve thai the Lord
won send me noill without distineter
warning. And that III god | hare
faith to believe
And so when the child appeared,
and had no name, and couldn't answer
for herself, Mrs. Derereux called her
Faith.
We're a people Of presentiments
down here on u,e Fats, aud well we
may he. You own up yourself, may
be. II ii tac aira Of the night, you
locaed teis there's a knock on the
a eoag 81 10 wake the dead, and
yoa ,48 ~ and listen and nothing
falIov sod falling back, you're just
d0z as uH, and there it is once more,
80 tIa. tae lad in the next room cries
oat, WHO'S that, motherf" No one
on re half lost again, when
rap comes lhe hand again, the loudesi
Of the three, and YOU spring TO the
door and open il, and there's nought
there but awind from the graves blow
ing in your face; and after a while
YOU learn that in that hour OF that
same night yanr husband Va, los, Al
sea. Wei nm happened to Mrs.
Deyereux. Aa1 ! uav'n time to tell
you the warnings I've known OF. As
for Faith. mipd that size said herself,
ii the boat Tor that clear midnight sail
that the sea had spite against her,
bat third iime was trying time
S. Faith guw Up. and Dan sent
her 10 school 5 liai he coGld, for he set
store b. her. She was always ailing,