The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-12-28
LED OUT OF DANGER.
BY JEAN INGELOW.

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waiting for the coach it comes up pres
entity. And he goes on the top of It and
begins 10 look about him.
They soon leave the chimney tons be-
hind them ; his eye wanders with delight
over the harvest fields; he smells the
houeysuckIc in the hedge rowland wishes
he was Gown among the hazel bushes that
he might strip them of the mi!ky nuts
then he sees a great VAIN piled up with
barley, and he wishes he was on the top
of it then the checkered shadows of the
trees lying across the whole road and then
a squirrel runs up Dough and he cannot
forbear the woop and halloo, though he
cannot chase it TO its nest
The other passengers were delighted
with his simplicity and chjld-like glee !;
and they encouraged him to talk about
the sea and the ships, especially her
Majesty's wherein be has the honor to
sail. In the iargon Of the seas, be DIES
cribes her m@ny PROJECTIONS, upon her
peculiar advantages ; he then confdes to
them how a certain MILDLY, have been
ordered to he masthead as a punishment,
had seen. while sitting on topmast cross
tree, something uncommoniy like the sea
serpent-but tinding.this hint received
with incredulous smiles, be begins to tell
them how he hopes that some day he shall
be promoted to have charge Of the poop.
The passengers hopes he Will having that
honor they nave no doubt that he de
serves it. His cheeks blush with pleasure
TO hear them say SO, and he little thinks
that they have no notion i'll what chat
honor NAV ba nrsan n oonciot
The coach stops the midshipman,
with his hands in his pockets, sits rat.
ting his money and singing. There is 4
poor woman standing by the door Of the
village inn she looks careWorn,a and we'll
she may, for in the spring her husband
went up to London to seek for work. He
goes Tor work, and she was expecting
soon to join him there, Wien, alas a fel
l0w-Workmau wrote hel word how he had
met with an accident, how he was vely
bad, and wanted his wife to come and
nurse him, But she had two children, and
destitute, she must walk all the way, and
she Is sick at heart when she thinks
he may die among strangers before she
can reach him.
She does not think Of begging, bat see
ing the boys eyes attracted to her, she
makes a courtesy, and he withdraws his
hand and throws down sovereign. She
looks at it with inCEedQlous JOY, and then
she looks at him.
Its all right" he says, ana the coach
starts again, while fall or gratitude, she
hires cart TO take her across he country
To q railway, that the next night she may
sit by the bedside Of her sick husband
The mid8hipman knows nothing about
that-ard he wIu never know.
The passengers go on talking lit
tie mjdshipman has told them who he is,
ana where he is going. But there is one
who has never joined in tho conversations
he is dark looking and restless man
he sits apart he sees the glitter of the
failing coin,and he watches the boy more
closely than he did before
He is q strong man, resolute and deter
mined the U0y with his pockets full OF
money will be no match for hIm He has
told the others that his fathers house is
the parsonage at y; the coach goes
within five miles of it, and he means to
get out at the nearest point, and walko or
rather run, over to his home through the
great wood.
The man decided to get down, too, and
go through the woods; he will rob the lit
tie midshipman;perhaps,i ii he cries outand
struggles, he will do worse. The boy, he
thinks, will have no chances against him;
it is quite impossible that he can escape
the way is lonely, and the sun will be
down.
No There seemed, indeed, little chance
Of his escape ; the half fledred bird lust
futtering down from his nest, has no more
chance against the keen eyed hawk than
the little, light sailor boy will
have against him.
And now they reach the village where
the boy is TO alight. He wishes the other
passengers Good evening" and runs
lightly down between the scattered houses.
The man has also got down and is follow
ing:
The path lies through the village
church, yard; there is evening service, and
the door IS wide open, for it is warm
The little mldshipman steals up the porch
looks IN and listens. The clergyman has
just risen from his knees, in the pulpit,
and is giving out his. text. Thirteen
months have passed since the boy was in
"a house or prayer; and feeling OF
pleasure induced him to stand still and
listen.
He hears the opening sentences of the
sermon; and then he remembers his home
and comes softly out Of the porch, full of
a calm and serious pleasure. The clergy
man had reminded him of his father, and
his careless heart is filled with the echoes
of the voice and of his prayers.
He thinks Of what the clergyman said
of the care of our Heavenly Father for us;
he remembers how, when he left home,
bis father prayed that he might be pre-
served through every danger he
does not remember any partiu.
ulaf Danger that he has