National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1867-07-05

TemorSe and shame, would be likely
to flash up into fierce recklessness
or settle down into sullen defiance.
The lady's heart looked upon her
own son, and yearned over this 9TH
er mothers.
She rose, took her little boy in
her arms, and set him on his faith
er's knee. 'Luthern she said, Il
will not argue or reason with you,
for you will get the best Of me there !;
but | plead for this boy in the name
OF your SOIL, take him back give
him one more trial for the sake of
thisp and she placed ler hands on
the FURNISHED heap of curls,in which
were lights of gold. The child
looked up with his sweet face full
of bewilderment. Something II
the tender, solemn face of his moth
er seemed to impress him. He
reached out his fat, dimpled hands
to his faith. r, and cried, in his pref
ty childish voice. Take him back
raDa-take him back
Mr.. Randolph WAS moved. He
bent down quickly and kissed the
small speaker, and fancled himself
guilty of very unman.yy weakness,
when he said oh Mary, you
women with your children, are
enough to turn mans brain. It's
against my lifelong principles to do
what you ask
But after all, the speech conced.
ed much more than it denied, and
Mrs. Randolph knew that If Tom
was not gone beyond recall, he
might have another chance with his
master.
! Three days had passed, and the
YEA: had stepped softly from No
vembel- into winter, and the last
month opened with smiles as ra'
diant as those which klndled the
face of June with wind oaliny as
Mays, and with no sigh OF whisper
of the long path of storm ana oarN'
ness through which the roao lay
, toward the spring, just as some
. lives lie in sweet warmth and secu-
t rity on the border land of awful
experiences of sorrow and pain and
r loss, through which their feet must
walk to the eternal rest beyond.
/, And Que morning of this sun
5 shine out Of season, ~ youth, some
where about his seventeenth year
r might have been seen making hi'
:. way slowly alCng one OF the princl
. pal thoroughfares of the city. ii
, Won had looked in his face, You
would have found it bright. intel
: lipent one, with eyes that held un'
usually plenty of fire and spirit i'll
them. but now carried some gloom
+. or sadness, or both. SO did the
step, slow and Respondent so die
5 the slender 10Y figure, with idle
hands in his pockets for want o
y. better employment.
= Now Tom Haynes buz2ed TIT
!. busy brain Of this youth. 'yonr'
t d ne for in this city, and the soone
d YOU clear out and go off to sea, tin
;, better for you. Tie best you cal
II do is to ship as common decl
/. hand, for long voyage round th
V world. You'll have chance to sc
.e some of the world before you &c
back, and perhaps you'll get into
1, good berth and be captain som
le dav. It'll be hard enough at first
d, and yoa must make up your, mlh'
n. to plenty OF knocks and rough ass'
i. ciations; but it will be better tina
IL loafing around the city with YOU
lie hands in your pockets and Your las
st dollar gong. There's no clanc
for you here, with your charactt
le gone, and your situation lost, an
1T you've nobody to thank for 1t a
rd but yourself, as the old fellow to!
It. You when he sent you of. All you
he fine visions and pretty dreams
making money and setting up III
W. folks at home are gone now.
It. poor mother and little KUN
er. ah, there was a twinge : e tL'
lid made the boy start and shrink,
ais one might at the touch OF a coal
We fire he knew the poor broken dow
OH mother, and the bright lite siStt
to Just three years his junior, had S
in all their hopes and pride on hl'I
m.' that he was their only hope al
nd trust, and when they should col
as to hear the truth, that he was Il
she craced and run Of to sea, til
by would never hold up their hea
'ak again. .
st, All. if he could 60 back to t
Iph day ON which he left then Th
Il the tears sprang up into his ey'
hat he was thinking OF their last woI
her his mothers aud little Nutl
tile There was only one thought VIII
run was harder than that, and this "
,pr going back and looking in tn
pry faces and telling them the tru
art Aud 80 reasoning after the fear
the logic of evil the one wrong alw'
involving aro,her, he told himt
uti. in despair and desperation, Il
Iph. there was 10 help for 1t +; he III
tan. run of now, and 20 TO sea =
the And he who had been too W
her TO resist the temptations Ut
10 land, would expose himself to I'll
n.s. increased a hundred fold, on L0
the ship, among coarse ana bru
eas. companions, amid the lack Of
,,c.. moral restraint and influence vii
ring u long sea Noyase "e0''''"'' !"
ulti. yes. imam. . ....,
Just at that moment o carr
uas turned the corner, and drew up
-. a.. ,,.,r of n large dry 40