Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-12

when the little runaway was set down at
grandpa's gate, umbrella, carPet-bag and
all.
Grandma's eyes looked very red and her
voice trembled when she said:
Why Tommy Tommy, you poor, dear
child, where have you been .
ooh, ever so far! F." said the young ad-
yenturer with a sigh "way, way over
most to the 'lutionary war. Has grandpa
caught my bear ?''-Little Corporal.
The LOWIand Boy.
A long while ago certain men and wo-
men from Norway and Denmark made |
voyage to Scotland, and settled down along
the bays and bights blends in the coast,
of the British Channel They were fond
of boating and fishing but the Scotch peo-
ple we're hunters and warriors instead, and
/ if they fished at all, did it with hook or
\ spear, in fresh waters.
4 These Danes and Norwegians came to
/ be called Lowlanders, because they lived
on the low lands by the sea and the real
Scotch we're called Highlanders, because
they lived among the rugged hills and prec-
/ ipices of the mountains
l am sorry to say that the LOwlanders
we're wild and lawless in early days. There
were many pirates among them, who used
to 90 out in such small ships as were made
by them, and attack the crew, and plumber
/ the stores of merchant vessels. The great
grandfather Of Hugh Miller, the boy | wish
to tell YOU Of was pirate and built long,
low house at Cromarty, with money of
which he had robbed the SpanIards.
In this house Hugh was born. The sea-
winds were always blowing around 1t, and
the noise of rolling waves was always in the
air.
think it Is a grand thing to live by
the sea and when | think about that great
ma1l Hugh Miller, | love to look back in
to his bout0od aud imagine how he used to
> chase the waves along the shore, and feel
their cool rushing over his bare feet. |
love to think how his ringing laugh and
merry shout must have echoed among the
rocks about Cromarty very rocks,
that afterward he studied 50 carefully, and
told the world so much about. 1t would
please me, too, If l could imagine that he
made the winds loud with sea-songs for
, [ love to hear boys sing But the truth
, is Hugh could never sing tune IN his
life-poor boy lie tried and he tried,
but he couldn't ever remember the name Of
tune, though be dearly loved music.
! Hugh had a grand, handsome father,
, who wasn't pirate by any means, but
was a fighting sailor in the royal navy,
until he had earned money to return to
Cromarty, buy a sloop, and 20 to trading
on his own account When Hugh was five
years old, there came rushing across the
channel a great blackwinged storm and
hi, fathers sloop went down, with captain
and crew, not one was saved 50 the family
that had so many times rejoiced TO greet the
, sailor father, safe returned from the sea-
waves. looked in vain for him to come.
r The pretty sloop, that Hugh had learned
to know with two white stripes along its
sides, and two square top sails, never came
b into port again, though he looked and
e. longed tor 1t many years, so well he loved
: his father.
By and by he was sent to school. He
: read in the catechism, and in the Bible !;
I after this he read such wonderful books
mot a word of truth in them > as were
/ thought good for boys and girls at that
1 time " } ack the Giant-killer," Beauty
= and the Beast - Sinbad the Sailor" and
But as young Miller grew larger, he
began to think of better things lie had
!. been all the while learning important
things from fishermen, and old women
every one he met he seemed to learn some
thing Of.
- He used to take big hammer that had
4 belonged to his pirate ancestor, and 90
+ around breaking up stones with it 10 see
q what they were made Of Many beauti.
n ful things he found, shining mica, porphyry
garnet and such things and he did not
Y mind it at all when folks laughed at him
y and thought be was trying to find silver in
the stones.
!, When he grew older he learned the
trade Of stone-masOn, and began his work
n in a stone quarry that looked out upon
! Cromarty firth
There he kept noticing curious things in
4 the rock and the red clay above. Long
4 after, he wrote book about that very
Y red sandstone, that the great thinker.
. Of the world consider one of the best book.
" on geology ever written. Geology, you
p must known, Is a science that treats of the
p EARTH and creatures, and plants us they
% used to be before man lived on it for tn,
" old rocks are full Of tracks and remains O
n animals, fishes, trees, and even very small
d leaves, flowers and insects.
( Many men, who found out somethin,
about these remains, thought that the Bible
' could not be true, but Hugh Miller thought
It differently; and he studied hard, and
u wrote much to prove that his views wer,
Z right.
IF He was great man and a good one
= and | think he became such, because he
a tried to think and understand things when
d he was a little, barefooted boy, at play up
r on the iowlands, and by the sea
He was verysick at last, and one night
r he became " out of his head ard killet
ID himself. Then all the great men of tn
10 world mOurned for him. But we know h
! is we'll taken care OF, by his heavenl
Father, whom he tried so hard to serv,
d and please.-Brlght Side.
n Big TREEs.-An exchange says /"
e almost all parts of the country may b.
n found large trees. The largest in the north
ern states Is that known as the Balm
re Gilead tree, near Newburg, which is abou
Il thirty feet in circumference 1t is nov