Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1870-07-29

it; and he felt Christian yearning towar
the lad who was an orphan and was no
without promise of better things.
Harry, Harry. look in my face, sir !!
exclaimed the master one day, in his yer,
sternest tones.
Harry lifted up his bold. handsome ane
always dirty face, surrounded with mesl
of dark, curly hair, and made comi
grimace but when his bright eye met tina
of the master, he glanced aside as if some.
thing panied him.
Harry Bonner you were last nigh
stealing neighbor Watson's apples"
"Was [ master ?'
His tone, in mock innocence and sim.
Iplicity, excited sudden laughter in the
school, and the frown of tho master could
scarcely check it.
''You were; and I tell you, Harry
said the master, solemnly, ''if you 60 on
in this way you will come to some bad
end"
Il hope not, master"
A stout leather strap was produced
Hold out your hand, said the master.
"No, thank you"
"Hold out your hand"
Rather not if it's all the same to you,
sir"
Il insist"
The hand was held out very firmly,
Harry winked hard the strap descended,
and then with an affected howl, ending in
the laugh of young savage. the culprit
went back to his form-only to plan new
offences.
Il feel this is not the way to reclaim
that boy" said the master after school to
his sister, an invalid dependent upon him,
who sat all day in an easy chair generally
engaged in knitting dapple gray worsted
stocking; ''yet what else am I to do with
him; he is excessively hardened, full of
courage and cunning; never met with
boy SO precociously wicked; everybody
evil of his future life. He de-
fies restraint. He has robbed every orch
fancy he does it out of mere love of ad-
venture and peril"
"Your strap will do him no good,' said
the sister quietly.
"What then will ?"
s'Patient kindness and instruction, and
time"
''Why, does he not know that I have
almost paid his uncle, the blacksmith, to
let him come to school; that [ send him
vegetables out of my garden every now
and then to keep him 10 good humor.".
Harry knows you are his only true
friend, and thinks more of one gentle word
from you than all of your blows with your
strap. He has far too much violent usage
at home"
THAT is true; you are right"
One afternoon Harry Bonner left his
seat at the head Of the high form, flung
his book aside. and planted himself at the
window; whence he enjoyed the view of
the sea, and of man-of-war that had ap-
preached near the shore in order, as Har-
ry hsd heard it rumored. that its crew of
seamen for the French war might be re-
cruited by forcibly impressing men along
the coast.
Harry was engaged in easy contempla-
ton of this prospect when the master es-
pied how he was using his time.
''What are you doing there, Harry Bon
ner? Where is your book? Have you
learned your lesson?'
No"
"Then, sir, you shall learn a double
lesson before dinner
II like double lessons said Harry =
fiinging himself back in his place, and
learning long row of words and mean
ings.
Before dinner time had come the dou.
BILE lesson was perfectly mastered. anc
hard sums got through-for snms anl les
sons were all play to him.
! The master looked at him with feelings
of pity, regret and admiration.
.'Oh my boy" said he, ''how can yor
throw away such abilities on mischief ant
wickedness
Harry colored mp to the temples; hi
eyes flashed and moistened he was goinl
to make passionate reply. bat turned
short round and went out of the schoo
whistling with his hands thrust among tn
marbles and the whip cord in the pocket
of bis ragged corduroys. Beside tn
pond in the centre of the village he stop
ped and looked jealously around, seein!
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