Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-07-25

From Chambers journal.
SENT TO GRAN MoRFEw.
IN TWO PARTS.--PART 1.

In order to comprehend the full horror
of the fate foreshadowed in the above cx.
preston, it would have been necessary to
cultivate a close personal acquaintance
with Mistress Jael Morfew, our maternal
grandmother, during those not unfrcquent
periods of ner lifc when a temper natu-
rally irritable, and wholly undisciplintd,
became, under the influence Of tooth. h.ache
furious and implacable.
Gran terminated somewhat tedious
spiusterhood by marrying, late in life, the
only man she ever feared or respected
her dentist: Ihe match was brought about
in an unusual way. Sho;bit him. His
friendly steel was in the act of closing
upon a formidable old fang, when It's
neighbors closed fercely upon him, in.
tiicling an Injury so severe as to evoke all
there was OF tender and womanly-it was
not much--in Grams bosom, in burst OF
sympathy that amazed the sufferer, and
probably acted healthfully on herself AT
all events it must have been some such
softening change that emboldened Mr.
N5rfcw, before that hand was healed, to
offer it 10 his assailant, for good and all
He must have enjoyed splendid prac'
tice, since it enabled him to bcqucath hel
at his death, the uncontrolled disposal Of
hundred and twenty thousand pounds
This, with her own fortune OF fifty thou
sand, placed her IN position to exercls,
a very respectable amount of caprice ano
tyranny; aud so excellent was the us'
she made of it, that her only child my
mother, not then sixteen, quilted th'
house one winters evening, as If fleeing
from the presence of a maniac, and wal
found freezing and falnting in the snow
She never re-crossed that miserable
Threshold. Borne tenderly into poo
cottage Oh ncighboring moor. she wa
nursed and comforicd by its humble IN
mates, the parents Of the rescuer, youni
soldier at home on furlough. This wa
the first meeting of my parents Ihel
last was in that dismal field of India
where my father, then commissioned OF
fcer, abandoned with other wounded
through miserable necessity, was found
by loves unfailing instinct, and save'
from the jackal and wolf to breathe HI
last upon a loving christian heart.
Nv first distinct and reasonable recoI
leetions are associated with period whc
I. a child of six, and my sister Grace
,oed foor dwclt with my mother In
E nrettv little honeysuckled nest OF c,'
tape, whose garden skirted one Of tn
rich green lanes of Devon. Ny mother
t health had failed in India, and althoug
n the soft airs of western England ha
t somewhat restored her, it was evident
+ many. if not at the time to us children
that the springs of health and vigor weI
:, irremediably affected. Atter"araS,
r learned to understand we'll enough tn
: wistful looks with which she often regarc
n cd MS as she felt the steal,hy approach
the destroyer, coming to lay desolate OF
: little world and hand over her tend'
Q orpbans to the mercy Of one who neV'
knew what love and pity meant =,
, All. If had been suffered to know u
worst II was a cruel compassion th'
4 concoaled from us our impending orphan
Is hood il made the shock only more deaf
Ily. 1t added to my life Iemorse new ;,
1 10 he efaced; for was a jealous chill
,r and when noticed that my mother
mouruful, loving eyes dwelt ever ionge
?. p or NV sis,er-melting at such momcn
Is s"on -" ~ into tears-my selfish little So
rose in bitterness against them s,o pU.
y | could not know for certain, as t,tn a,'e
le wards that she was thinking what :,; iu,i
vas % IN store for her shy, simple seosl!,'
;. darling. under the government ot 'err'0
d Grau Morfew 49, ..;,a II,
~ L u,aYa not touch ed Qtl