The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-12-30


commodity about him. If he had, all the
better, for it never gave him the slightest
trouble, and people seemed to like that
kind of thing. So, on his annual visit to
the ass!ze towns, he always made it a rule
to shed tears when passing sentence of
death on fellow creature; and truth to
say, in God-fearing, Bible-reading, tract
distributing England, he had plenty of such
work on his hand, but he found no bad
effect from this little sympathetic weak
ness, as it never interfered with his ap-'
petite afterward.
In the meantime, the hall porter hast
ened to find a policeman to arrest the
child for being criminally cold. As he
went on his charitable errend he passed
the child, lying at the foot of the steps.
course the brat" he mutterred, 81
will lose my place on his account hore
the old brute has killed him, serve them
both right"
After little he returned with police
man.
"Here is no ,ca-grant, said the police
man, swinging his lantern round about.
"Well, he was here a moment ago.
Master knocked him down the steps, and
l left him lying here, when l went to fetch
you.
"Thats queer enough" replied the
other, there are no signs of any one hav-
ing fallen down the these steps, nor are
there foot tracks on the snow, from the
place you say you left him lying.
"What's to be done? asked the por-
| ter.
"Oh, nothing, I'm not going to hunt
after a aca-grant, such night as this.
Does that gal, Sail, live in your family
yet?"
ct he porter winked.'
After the sergeant passes, continued
the policeman, 81 may drop in upon you"
edo so. All, you have weakness in
that quarter"
The policeman placed his hand over the
place where his heart had been before he
entered the force, since then it had been
petriied into twenty horse power of
petty cruelty
Judge Percival sat at the head of his
sumptuous table. All the delicacies that
the season could supply q quote from the
Morning Post" of the next day. were
there.
He was supported on his right, by a
Right Rev. Bishop, but, you are not to
suppose that he was like any of those low,
vulgar Bishops that you read of here, trav-
| cling far of, into the woods, to visit some
poor, brave missionary priest, in his soil
tary home, making him feast on the brea d
he has carried to him, and afterwards
sharing his soant blanket. If you have
formed any such low idea Of my Bishop, /
beg of you to change it at once No, no,
my Bishop had seat in the House of
Lords; 100000 a year-two palaces,
carriages, horses, servants, &c., &C., and
aafor woods, lwhy, bless your innocent nose,
he knew nothing about them, except that
there was delicious woodcock in those adj
joining the Episcopal palace, in the coun-
try.
The Judge was supported on his left,
by young Lord, the son of an Earl. He
was high spirited, fast young fellow, and
| if a light jest escaped him, it was beautiful
to see the benign smile the Bishop reprov-
ed him with, as he gently shook bis fore
finger at the offender. Was not this a
well-bred improvement on the rough,
bold manner in which his predecessor,
Paul, was wont "to reprove the brethren. -
1t is unnecessary to mention who the 9TH
er members of the company were, because
my story has nothing to DO with them !;
but must tell you, that before setting
down to dinner the Judge asked the Bish-
op to ask blessing, and he did so, keep
ing his eyes religiously fixed on the turtle
soup.
Now, can you believe, after all have
told you, that Judge Percval felt anything
but happy or comfortable; that in fact the
form Of the pauper child he had driven
from his door, rose like Banquo's ghost,
and though it did not "push him from
STOOL" it destroyed the pleasure he other
wise would have felt at entertaining so
distinguished a company, and took away
all his zest for soup, venisOn and wine.
at length the conversation took turn
which gave him an opportunity to seek the
consolation of the church.
eyes," said the Bishop, "those news
papers and cheap publications (proof of
the enlightenment of the age forsooth) are
the ruin of the masses, making them dis
contented with the position Providence
has placed them inn
Now, the Bishop could, with great JUS
tice, complain of this, for no one had ever
heard him murmur at the position Provi-
dence had placed him in.
81 really, my lord" replied Judge Per-
cival, "know not what society will come
to; would you believe it, my lord, that
even in my very hall, tonight, l found
young vagrant, who actually had the i'm
pudence to ask me to let him remain to
warm himself"
The Bishop shook his head sadly. It
was beautiful orthodox shake, and beat
"Lord Burley's" by twenty rods. It re-