Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-09-10

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for work"
so he's got your watch Z"
"NO-he wouldn't take It. He sal
/ if I would become responsible for th
payment he would let It rest. y
Then We have got q roof over u
I and feed for tomorrow. But Wha
next? Oh! what a curse these hart
times are"
Don't despair, Peter, for We shal
not starve. I've enough engaged t.
keep US alive. F"
"Ah-eh? Whats that ?"
"Why, Mr.. Snow has engaged me t
carry small packages, baskets. bundles
&C., TO rich customers. He has &
give mp one of his horses.
What do you mean, Maria2"
Just what I say. When DIR. SnoV
came home to dinner I was there, anC
I asked him if he ever had light aFti
eles which he wished to send round Il
his customers. Never mind all thai
was said. He did happen TO be Il
want of Just such work done, though
he had intended 20 call on some of tht
idlePs who lounge about the market
He promised to give me all the work
he could, and / am to be there in good
reason in the morning"
''Well, that is a pretty go | My wife
turned butchers boy You won't do
any such thing"
And why not p
"Why not Because-because-''
''Say, because it will lower me in the
social scale
We'll, so il viii.
''Then il is more honorable to lie
still, and starve, too, than to earn hon
est bread BY honest work. tell you,
Peter, if you cannot work l must. We
should have been without bread to-
night had I not found work to-day.
You know that all kinds of light,
agreeable business are seized upon by
those who have particular friends or
relatives engaged in them. At such a
time as this il is not for us to consider
what kind Of work we will do, so long
as it honest. Oh ] give me the liberty
of living on my own desert, and the in
to be governed by my own
convictions of right.
"But, my wife, only think you car
Eying out butchers stuff Why, I
would sooner go and do It myself"
wife with q smile, ] will stay at home
and take care of the children"
1t was hard for Peter StanWood, but
the more he thought upon the matter
the more he saw the right and justice
of the path into which his wife thus
led him. Before he went to bed he
promised that he would 90 to the
butchers in the morning.
And Peter StanWood went on his
new business. Mr.. Snow greeted him
warmly, praised his faithful wife, and
.hen sent him of with two baskets
One to 20 to Mr.. Smiths and the other
10 a Mr.. Dixall's. And the new car
rier worked all day, and when it came
night he had earned just ninety-seven
,ents. Il had been q day of trials to
him, but no one sneered at him, and
iii his acquaintances had greeted him
The same as usual. He was far hap
pier than when he went home the night
before, for now he was independent.
On the next day he earned over a
iollar and thus he continued TO work
week, and at the end of that time he
lad s.. Is in his pocket, besides hav-
ng paid for all the food for his family,
ave some few pieces Of meat Mr..
snow had given him. On Saturday
evening he met Mark Leeds. another
Who had been discharged from work
With himself. Leeds looken careWorn
How goes it2" asked Peter.
Don't ask me-" grOaned Mark
my family are half starved"
'But can't you find something to
10 p
Nothing |"
Have you tried 2"
Everywhere; but it's no use. I've
Dawned all my clothes save these /
have on. I've been down to the bind
sry to-day, and what do you suppose
The old man offered me ?"
What was it ?"
"Why, he offered to let me do his
He had just turned off
MS nigger for drunkenness, and he
offered me the place. The old cur
y
Mark mentioned the name Of an in
aividual who is supposed to dwell
somewhere in a region a little warmer
that our tropics. well, " said Peter,
'if | had been in your place | should
have taken up with the offer"
Mark mentioned the name of that
same individual again,
why" resumed Peter, Il have
been doing the work of a butchers
boy for a whole week"
Mark was incFedulaus, but his COM
panion soon convinced him, and then
they separated, one going home happy
and content, aud the other going away
from home to find some sort of excite
4, II
One day Peter had a basket Of pro-
visions to carry to Mr. W. Ii
was his former employer. He took
the load upon his sTm and started off.
Just as he was entering the yard of the
customer he met Mr.. W coming
out.
"Ah, Stanwood, is this you p asked
his old employer, kindly
Yes, sir.
what are you doing now?"
I'm butchers boy, sir. :"
"a What2"
You ee I've brought your provis-
ions for you, sir; am a regular
butchers boy"
And how long have you been at
this work p
This is the tenth day, sir"
but don't it come hard
Nothing comes hard so long as it is
honest and will furnish my family with
bread. u
And how much day can you make
at this p
Sometimes over a dollar, and some
times not over fifty cents"
well, now look here, StanwoOd F;
there have have been no less than
dozen of my old hands hanging around
my counting room for q fortnight,
whining for work. They are stout,
able men, and yet they lie still because
I have no work for them. Last SAT-
urday took pity on Leeds and offered
him the job to do my handcaFting. l
told him l would give him 81 % day,
but he turned up his nose and asked
me not to insult him, And yet he
owned that his family were suffering.
But you come to my place tomorrow
and you shall have something to do, if
it is only to hold your bench up. [
honor you for your manly independ-
ence."
Peter grasped the old mans hand
with q joyous, grateful grip, and blessed
him faFveuklv