The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1872-07-11
VOL IMlE MI



They hal grown ups together m lbr
hH sense 81 tbt term, aab tlai was thc
matter, Tbyy had gacn gseb 0uer
mud pics, taken tte rrouu Ia ga,b ua,sr
SNOW FORTS cried ugt ibe eum ou each
others satesf Hupel over each others
iuk-hotaes apped pp the iuk w,tb tbeir
mutual handkerchief s,ala oi each other
in aboat equal proportions. and 'msdc
zap Ina common tZnbgmute of sobs aud
'assafas. Fboy had played az lovers be-
hiud tha woo1pile, been married by tho
pr,zc-speahsls been divorced by thc "Hut
base, beeum-united by the minister
daughter and eouo to housekeeping IN
The peat swamp, az regular intervals, a.
far back as their memory extended, She
blue eyes, aud never understood vulgar
fractions, lie used 20 miss, SO that she
might get 20 The bead Of the class. unc
day she braided her hair in two little
bTaid- behind, aud tied It together with
pink lutestring ribbon at tbrec cents
yard When they walked hnmc together
De touched ii gently, 10 signify hts ap-
probation, and She blusbed ike a MAY
flower Il could not have been hong al.
Ter that before she grew shy ai singing
I school, and was apt % be going home
with her brother, la another year whom
he Went TO st. Davijs college, She cried
herself TO sleep, forgot 70 crlmp hor l.air
aud said nothing was the matter. So OF
course when he came home on biz FIRST
vacation, it al happened as it could not
/ very well help happening, and rs | sup
/ pose il must go on happening TO The end
of all young things dreaming OF old ones
warning. She sat IN the choir IN a blue
dress with white spots, with pink bou-
net aud checks, and sang in very sweet
country voice, that sunny white
meeting house Ike incense IN an open
field on May day, you might have
thought, and you might not, lie grown
rather tall, rather quiet, with long halls
and the uumigtakable 81, Dayid's shawl,
sat below in his fathers box pew and
/ listened. One Sunday II chanccd that
the Rev, Mr.. Love, the recent settled and
very popular shepherd OF the injecting.
house, felt moved IN the spirit TO preach
to his aock O sermon upon Christian
amity, and to suggest as its most Citing
musical accompaniment, hymn s57 Of the
"Swcet Singer, .of israeli dust intro.
duced,) All, you excellent mothers, with
washing days on your minds, and ye
fathers, struggling 10 keep your faith un-
der the discovery Of Toms FIRST cigar, do
you never suspect in your stupid, good
hearts, the tears of solid comfort rolling
into your spectacles as you sing, and your
souls agow with an the hidden meanings
Of fellowship in tho one Master whom
they who love not never know do you
never suspect the flirtations conducted
over that admirable hymnY It's quite as
bad in me to suggest the saerilcge TO your
young people. Bless your indignau,
souls, they stand IN need Of no sugges'
ton. Ask them do not deny that II
is atrocious in me to spoil tho hymn Tor
you; but that is another matter. She
then, in her blue aud white dress, with
sunbeam struggling through 4 little
ground-glass window upon her pink bon
net, sang;--
"Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian loves
The fellowship OF kindred minds
Is like to that above
II struck him that her voice was less like
incense now, and more like melted silver
which was very good fancy, by the way,
and he would make a note Of il against
some indefinite exigcncies as class orator
"Our fears, our hopes, our aims, are one,
Our comforts and our cares,
faliered the little silver voice, aud 30
tinklcd into this
"When we asuudef part,
Il gives us inward pain;
Bat we shall still be joined IN hea"t y
aud hc, turning around with the audi
enee, back to the Rev, Mr.. Love, as was
the fashion IN the Bloomsbury fifsi
Church, lifted his face 10 hers, and their
foolish young eyes mct--aud dropped aud
the work was douO.