The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1870-09-22
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From Putnam, for September.
Young Tom Collins, law student, had
just come into q strange inheritance. He
sat solitary i'll his little boarding house, try
ing to realize it.
''If the poor child hadn't me-" he said
to himself, It could go and apply tor ad
f. coui "a but but Lord ;faG is not the sfd idGa
| must decide what am TO DC.
Tom had solemnly promised TO care for
the newborn baby OF lis only sister, who
had just died.
lle tli1d to mediate He had often be-
fore, during his lie made the same attein pt
but had never to any extent succeeded. lie
did not seem like one born 70 take thugs
Into very seriOls consideration. But thlS
case seemed to require it. No good joke
came 10 the rescue. Tom really N his
twenty-five gears never felt such an awful
sense OF gloom. Ills natural hliarlty could
only Suggest TO his mind the rather poor
consolation that he had at least over nlg ut
to consider on the business.
Here Tom was Interrupted by knock
on the dOuT-an occurrence unusual enough
in the little upper room where he had long
since ceased regarding even the bell~puli
as u resort IN any extremity, so completely
vas he accustomed to be let alone.
Before Tom could respond to the knock
it was followed by cry Of mingled en-
treaty and command, such as only hungry
babies know how to emit.
I've fetched the poor little dear around /.
sirl" remarked woman whose marvellous
rotundity Of person showed to find advan-
tage as she waved her screaming parcel
though il were incense wherewith to purify
Tom s bachelor room.
Good Lord u he calculated.
YOU'D ought to get COW, said nurse,
still brandshing her charge. There
there there It's got wind this minute,
mixin' milk. Have you found a nurse,
sir? And baby wants clothes.
Its got on too many clothes now, said
Tom. Il think that's what it's crying
about; see how red and hot it is.
Poor inexl erienced Toni Tom he had
offended the woman-cast recklessiy over
board his only anchor!
She dropped her shrieking charge upon
Toms bed, and started towards the door.
Very well. sir !" she said somenly, Il
see you know all about ba5ieS-l may go!'
"Oh ohi' gasped Tom, do not! In
the name of mercy, do not! L shall have
Are not you one? | assure you | know
IiOlIlIIS, apSOLutGIy iOlaiiSS Va bdbiCot
never to my knowledge touched one!'
Real despair is impressive. The woman
was modified.
81 am, sir" she said, turning confden-
,ialy to Tom, "a monthly. | am willing
to stay with you while l can. But, sir, a
person in my position is no dependence.
My summons may come any day or hour,
Its impossible to calculate. Day and night
is all the same to me. There amt on earth
10 me thing so inscrutable as this impos-
ibility of calculating when we shall be sent
tor. FL work tor you while | can, sir;
but when my call comes, no earthly thing
can keep me-
Tom took all these remarks in a religious
point of view. From person of Mrs
Primmins' robuftness, they amazed him.
He felt vague fear lest, as he mentally
expressed it. there might be "a bee in the
old lady's bonnet"
"Oh! cheer up, cheer up, Auntie," he
said, you lock hale and hearty. You've
oyertired yourself with my poor sister IF
you stay and take charge of that little
thing for me, III risk you getting 'sum>
nous.
Your poor sister found great consolation