The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-04-23
A Child's Dream Of a Star.
BY CHARLES DICKENS.

There was once child and he strolIed
about a good DEAL and thought of a num-
Der of things. He had sister who was a
child too, and his constant companion.
These two used to wonder all day long.
They wondered at the beauty of the flowers;
they wondered at the hight and blueness of
the sky: they wondered at the depth of the
bright water they wondered at the good
ness of God who made the lovely world
They used to say to one and another,
sometimes, Surprising all the children up.
on the earth were to die, would the flowers
and water, and would the sky be sorry ?
They believed they would be sorry For,
said they, the buds are the children of the
flowers, and the little playful streams that
gambol down the hillsides. are the children
of the water and the smallest bright
specks, playing at hide and seek in the sky
all night. must surely be the children of the
stars and they woul all be grieved TO see
their playmates, the children Of men, no
more
There vas one clear shining star that
used to come out in the sky before the rest,
near the church spire, above the graves 1t
was larger and more beautiful, they thought.
than all the others. aud every night they
watched for it, standing, hand in hand, at a
window. Whoever saw it first cried out,
Il see the star p And often they cried out
both together, knowing so we'll when it
would rise, and where. So they grew to
be such friends with it that, before lying
down in their beds, they always looked
once again. to bid it good night; and when
they were turning round to sleep, they used
To- fzet a acto
But while she was still very Young, oh !
very. very young, the sister dropped, and
came to be so weak that she could no ouge
stand in the window at night; and then the
child looked sadly at the star turned round
and said to the patient pale face on the bed,
Il see the star ~ aud then smile would
come upon the face, and little weak voice
used to say, ICED bless my brother and
the star !!
And so the time came, all too soon !!
when the child looked out alone, and when
there was no face on the bed aud when
there was little grave among the graves,
not there before; and when the star made
long rays down toward him, as he saw it
through his tears.
Now, these rays were so bright and they
seemed to make such shining way from
earth to heaven, that when the child went
to his solitary bed, he dreamed about the
star and dreamed that, lying where he
was he saw train of people taken up that
sparkling road by angels. And the star,
opening showed him a great world of light,
where many more such angels waited to re-
ceive them.
All these angels who were waiting turned
their beamiDg eyes upon the people who
were carried up into the star; aud some
came out from toe long rows in which they
stood, and fell upon the peoples necks and
kissed them tenderly, and went away with
them down avenues of light, and were so
happy in their company that, lying in his
bed, he wept for joy.
But there were many angels who did not
go with them aud among them one he knew
The patient face that once had lain upon
the bed was gorifed and radiant, but his
heart found out his sister among all the
rest.
His sisters angel fingered near the en-
trance of the star, and said to the leader
among those who had brought the people
thither:
sis my brother come ?''
And he said "No "
She was turning hopefully away, when
the child stretched out his arms, and cried,
30, sister am herel Take me !" and then
she turned her beaming eyes upon him, and
| it was night and the star was shining
into the room, making long rays down to-
wards him as he saw it through his tears.
From that hour forth the child looked
out upon the star as on the home he was to
60 to, when his time should come and he
thought he did not belong to the earth
alone, but to the star, too, because of his
sisters angel gone before.
There was a baby born to be brother to
the child and while he was SO little that
he never yet had spoken word, he stretch
ed his tiny form out on his bed. and died.
Again the child dreamed of the opened
star, and the company of angels, and the
I train OF people, and the rows of angels with
their beaming eyes all turned upon those
peoples faces.
Said his sisters angel to the leader
''Is my brother come p
And he said ''Not that one but another"
AS the child Deheld his brothers angel in
her arms, he cried, 30, sister, am hero
him, and the star was shining.
lis grew 10 DC young Ihdii, anu WdS
busy at his books, when an old servant
came to him and said:
Thy mother is no more. | bring her
blessing on her darling son."
Again at night he saw the star, and all
the former company. Said his sisters
angel to the leader
us my brother come p
A mighty cry of joy went forth through
| all the stars because the mother was reuni-
ted with her two children. And he stretched
out his arms and cried, 80, mother, sister
and brother, am here Take me - And
they answered him, Not yet, and the star
was shining
He grew to be a man whose hair was
/ turning gray. and he was sitting in his
chair by the Preside. heavy with grief, and
with his eyes believed with tears, when the
star opened once again.
| Said his sisters angel to the leader, SIS