Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-05-29
Once, upon a summer day,
Dick and 1 went out to play;
Dick was fat and / was thin;
Dickey fought, andI ran in.

"Please," said 1, 'qet's make a cake.s
81 don't mind, child, if you do"
So she said, and 1 made two. so
One for Dick, and one for me. r
Now" said, 1--WE shall agree.n L1-
But the cakes were burnt to cinder;
Dicky's rage took fire like finder. = ---
Never was there such brother
Yet could not love another ---i.S .
Half as well IS loved he " ..f. o..
Half as well as he loves me.
aWho is Dick?" said Aubrey.
"Nobody!" said Peggy. E -.a-- +
"Well, that is stupid story"
This was not encouraging; and yet
only one week after, Aubrey, lying
weaker than usual, after short, sharr
illness, said:
Peggy So
"Well, dearr'
''What do ydu think will be the first
I shall say when i get to heavens giI
"Well," said Peggy gently. ~ re5a
81 shall go to one of the kind looking
angels"
every body's kind there" Interrupt
ted Peggy.
''Wen one of the kindest;and 1 shall
say: Al l-- -szsaJ -lgLrl
"Please which door shall Peggy come
in at?" Then he will tell me, and
shall take my harp, and sit down there
and wait. 1t won't be quite heaven un-
til You come, Peggy because it was you
that first made me listen about it.~
Itwas true. The little fellow, with
his doomed life, had always turned with
his sick restlessness from the prayers
even of his mother-the mother who had
'wept in secret over the strange hard
ness Of her child, and now with pure
unselflshness, rejoiced in the change
that come with this new handmaiden.
How had she managed il, ,lhe little, ig-
norant, desolafe Peggy. Well, for one
thing she was curiously brave and SIM
pie hearted. What was right to do,she
did never considering whether it was
important or not; and then, above all
she had grand gift of loving. Very
very, soon the little suffering. boy had,
crept in her heart, ,and she, held him
there, faithfully and firm; and SO, just
because she loved him, she could give,
and the mother could take, Services
which would have seemed otherwise
too much. aIT5s p srf 1.a.s5- 80 j
Night after night, as the child was
quickly travelling to the heaven he had
learned to love, Peggy sat with him, and
he never complained now that her face
was tired; she kept that bright to the
last-aye to the last, for it came-as the
end does come quickly. q -i q 'a--'- -7'--
Don't forget Peggy, he said one night
81 shall be waiting fofyon." And then
he laid his head On his mothers bosom,
and fell asleep-the long, long sleep.
If l could but die" moaned the
widow. 81 am all alone in the world
new." ' i''''i 7'''i D
Peggy knew what that was very well,
sac said, timidly, sI felt so when mo-
ther died.n
Who was your mother" asked the
widow languidly- -.
81 have heard her say before she was
married she was called Tabitha Mant.
Fathers name was Leslie a.- ,t I'm,
Tabitha," repeated the widow-the
quaint name had once been very dear
to her-and Mant? With trembling
she said: "Had you any
aunts s'Ilr ,-a vLse sl hE-rl.
One-Aunt Margaret Iwas named
after her; she went to America"
1t was 1, child. 1 was Margaret
Mant. No wonder you were such an
angel to my boy-you have your moth
er's very eyes and voiee-how could l
be so blind? Will you forgive me my
own little god-child-you must be my
very own now, viii you? my child
mine."
The widows desolate heart had found
something to cling to; Pesgy's soft
cheeks rested there. Peggy's eyes
rained out happy tears. She was some
body's Peggy uow. --.,-... 5....-.