The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-07-08
I'll Do That Same.
See II 4 Don't.
EY "KATE.

"Yes, well see ifyau do, Bill Jones.
Wouldn the master laugh to hear
you say that?'
"Who cares for the MASTERY Let
him laugh if lie wants to. He's done
that nj me. aforc now-hut he won't [
get a chance to laugh again very soon
| reckon"
Well, you needn't kick the sand in
my eyes any how. Iou can't raise
such n dust as that carriage did, il
that's what you are at
"Mayhc ] will sometime. Would.
MT YOU like to stand ut the corner
Squire Parker did just now, and take
off your hat to the Governor? Well
Jim, you may have the chance-and
maybe I'll be the rider when you &C
aioot"
Here Bill Jones buried his bare
feet at least six inches deeper in the
dry sand, which he had been kicking
so Justify as to call forth his praytel
lows reproof. The cause Of his sud.
den burst of emulation was the pass
ing of n gay cavalcade escorting tho
highest dignitary of the State, on {
tour of pleasure through the Eastern
counties
Bill was the village idler. and
Ounce. He had been told so frequent
ly that he was stupid hlockhcad that
he more than half believed it---and
his very faith in the assertion con.
trihutcd largely toward making hin
one in reality.
For lack of better employ, he had
been spending a summer afternoon
under the burning shade pardon the
association of terms of a pine tree,
building sand houses over his feet
an employment too common in coun
try villages to need further dcscrip
ton. His torn hat, soiled clothes
and more than dirty face, with It's
don't care expression, told of rcck.
lcssness unusual for one whose years
had been, it was full long enough tC
make him feel that there was sad
mistake in parceling our fortunes
somewhere.
lie had become so accustomed tc
rcproof ior the misdeeds of others
that whenever mischief was commit
ted 10y his plav-fellows, 1T was quit
Il matter of surprise to him, if he es
capped unwhipt, and could manage t.
he as grateful for the floaging u
though it had been really deserved
His home, if the place mortal is com
PEELED to stay in. till big enough &
shift for ones self, is worthy of tn
name, WAS too unpleasant TO him L
admit OF his stopping longer than t
satisfy the cravings of hunger. A
for sleep, he could catch a nap any
whcrc-and he generally managed t,
make that anywhere. somewhere on
of the reach of his brutal fathcr--a
he had learned to his cost that drum
ken man is Il strangely waywad AM
nal.
His poor mother, instead OF profit
ing, MS good old job is said to hav
done under his manifold atllictiOns
rcsOrted to the only lawful wcapo
she could claim, for the reformation
OF her husband her tongue--but alas
she welded the instrument so mski
fully, that its rebound only made he
own wounds deeper, without loppin
off the noXious branches she sough
to remove from her bcsOtted compan
ion and wayward child. Strane
that woman, gentle. coniidin9 wome
she whose soft whispers can SO he
guile the heart Of the strong man
should ever forget that those whis
pers must he less than thunder, an,
swectcncd with other ingredients thai
aquilortls, The gentle influence tha
won the lover will retain the husband
or, if it fail in the retaining, it event
uallv reclaims. There is cord S
closely interviewer with the lovin
hearts of husband and wife, that
gently drawn, will lead them to hea
responsive to the same emotion: an
woe to the hand that, by one rud
how, snaps, the silken cord nSundel
Patience, o woman, is thy watchwar
IA well as love. Let the former GOV
ern thy tongue: the latter thy heart
| That Bill had no hand in this IN
fortunate conjunction of circumstau
ccS, we are free to confess. At th
same time, it must he allowed tina
they had much to do in rashionin
him the part he was to play in life
pantomine. The spirit within ha
lain dormant. The jeers of his CON
panions, together with the mortifyin
taunts of his teacher, had so deador
ed him to anything like pcrceptio
of shame, that the eXpedicnts resort
ed TO rekindlc the fire within. onl
tended the more efectually TO eXtir
gnish it. When will the dispenser
Of ideas to a mcnagcric of human b,
ings learn that disagreeable applied
tions and rude threats, never enhanc
the value of their commodities i'm Tn
cntimation of their unwilling purchf
sers Many a tolerable intellect Ina
been shrouded in darkness forever h
the impediments thus thoughtlessl
thrown in its way by those whose br
siness it is to cheer and encouraa
the plodders in the uphill work {
Iploughing deep burrows, in which {
SOW the seeds of science. The ea
pageantry, foolish as it was in SON
OF its manifestations, seemed as
minister of mercy of this benighte
son of earth, inasmnch as it awakene
the soul from it's torpor, and sindlc