Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-12-08
Happy Nancy.

There lived in little old brown cot
tage, so small that II looked like a chick,
en- coop, solitary woman. She wal
some thirty years of age, tended her lit
tie garden, knit and spun for living. She
was known every where in the village, by
The cognomen of Happy Nancy She
had no money, no family, no relatives
she was half blind, quite lame, and very
crooked. There was no comeliness in
her, and yet there, in that homely, de-
formed body, the great God, who loves
to bring strength out of weakness, had
set his royal seal.
We'll, Nancy, singing again. would
the chance visitor say, as he lounged at
her door.
La yes, I'm forever at il. l don't
know what people will think, she would
10y WIN hfl sunny snhts
why they'll think as they always do,
that YOU are very happy
Ial that's a fact, I'm just as happy
Is die day is long
1 wish you would tell me your secret,
Nancy you are all alone, you work
hard, you have nothing very pleasant
surrounding you-what is the reason you
are SO happy?
Perhaps it's because l hayn't got no
body but Cod replied the good creature
looking up. You see. rich folks like
you, depend upon their families and their
houses they've got to keep thinking OF
their wives and children, and then they
arc always afraid of trouble ahead
han't got nothing to trouble myself
about, you see, cause / leave it all to
he Lord. | think, wellif he can keep
his great world in such good order the
un rolling day after day, and the stars
Inning night after night, make my gar
en things come up the same, season af.
er season, He can certainly take care Of
UGH poor simple thing as am and
D you see leave i: all to the Lord and |
le Lord takes care of me- u
We'll, but, Nancy, suppose a frost {
Mould come after your fruit trees are all 4
blossom, and your little plants out, S
ppose- g
But / don't suppose; l never can -
ppose don't want to suppose, except
e Lord will do every thing right |
hats what makes you people so unhap- to
=; you're all the time supposing. Now us
~ can'tyou wait till the suppose comes P"
! do, and then make the best of it, go
'Ah Nancy, its pretty certain you'll m.
to Heaven, while many of US, with ~
our wisdom will have to stay out
There, you are at it again. said Nam II
shaking her head always looking DR.
for some black cloud. Why, if -
5 you, I'd keep the devil at arms d
9Th instead of taking him right into =
heart-he'll do you desperate sight 1
mischief" a,
She was right, we do take the demon n
care, of distrust, of melancholy fore -
ling, Of ingratitade, right into gu cal
arts, and pet and cherish the ugly mon L2o'
rs, till we assmulate to their likeness. Ia
canker every pleasure with some G (rn
+ of coming i'll we seldom trnst that ass
asnres will enter, or hail them when gra
y come. Instead of that we smother AZ
m under the blanket of apprehension ma
choke them with misanthropy. (
would b. well for Us to initiate han
Nancy and 'oever suppose If you
cloud don't suppose its going to "
D : It you see frown, don't suppose a "
ding viii fnlow-do whatever your R Rn
IDS liod to do, and there leave it,
more child like towards the Great
iher who created you; learn to cons Bri
in His wisdom and not in your own. CCaI
above all wait till the suppose comes del del
then make the best of it. of
Depend upon it earth would seem an me,
en- Il you would follow happy Nancy's -
?, and never give place in your bosom |
imaginary evils. STR
Thy