The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-10-19

cteverest tuhdei in the world was to talk yot
nor devil, Eve minutes after, your own con
! science would have given him the lie. though
you mightn't have book-1earning enough te
s Its e.. greet PHI ySnS ts ssh
Keeping SO much to youSselG If you'd just
go ont now and again, and take little
| pleasure, you'd be all the better, depend upon
| "Yet other people don't always take pleas
| ure either wheFr they might" said Sam smil
ing. "Why,didn's Jou go to Ascot this morn
Why, what do you know about thatq'
=" Bob told me- last night. he WAS going to ask
~ eouidn.taaHord Il for one thing"
shiilings to Garrett this morning. That, and
gone good way towards it" 4'
Wv, sha saiS Tom s0ilorlng slgh.y to tell
mass to-day, aud must have missed ii I'd
Just what thought
And you think I'm . fool for my pains, /
suppose" said Tom, rather shortly.
II haven't said 30" replied the other, and
don't think 60. I was rather curious to
know what you would de. You didn't see me,
talking to Bob from the end of the street"
..MWhy. do yen mean you Eere curious ="
me truth. Tom, ishosidH's have theSght much
Of yeo I'd seen you get up into thas trap"
Bat what do you know about Corpus Christi,
and days OF obligation, Sam ~
- great deal more than you suppose, Ten
I've been . good deal mixed mp with your
people Ia my day, and always cay to myaelf,
II it isn't what those folks up in The east end
Sesve because found an out JSa rom sos
that you were Catholic, that first took to
"Weii, never ~ said Tom.
nd
Jaw that you wouldn't 60 to the races, / knew
that you must be o good, honest Catholic, and
that pleased me still more. There isn't much
OF the woman about you, one would think, and
mind of my poor Mary"
Mary who was shef"
-' my wtfs, Tom, my poor, dear loving little
ahe who bore with my Faults, aud never tired
OF my hard temper and strange ways. That'a
how came to take to you, and how knew II
you the flowers; for, on grand days up at hsl
church, come what might, I always got Mary
bunch Of the very best could get. think
I see her now, looking at them, and smelling
Sans voice grew husky, and Tom blew his
nose desperately.
~ don't know how it Isl" continued Sam
after . pause, "that can talk to you like this
- isnt 10 ny way in nss
body'H heart, 40 easy as q corkecrew goes into
cork. Well, Tom, If ever fellow wanted
somebody that no can say word to, now and
!" Cheer up, old fellow ;" cried Tom there
| will be bright days in store for you yet, what.
ever your troubles may have been. Remember
every cloud has silver lining 30 my book
marker says." -
well, Tom, it may be SO but, up to now,
my life has been full Of troubles. Mine is !
loving heart,-you'd hardly believe It, but it's
true, though say 1t nyself-that is, don'i
Lava Aud "a rae hal -. =
love or like anything, It Is deep down. No
youngster was ever happier at home than
was, and 10 was only natural ! should be
thsrf and mother helped to spoil me, and,
though ! was one Of the most mischievous,
noisy little chaps you ever elapped eyes on,
Hothing eyer came wrong that Sam did. And
one Of the tidieSt farms about, and sReh .
garden ~ we had such orchardsi auch stock !
Why, bless yo1, mothers poultry, and fathers
ses the old house now with the biush-roS s
climbing mp 30 high that they pAeped In at the
bedroom windows, and the little green porch,
~ covered with honeysuckle and eveet-pess.
At Covent Garden; and &c almost made IN old
fool ofme. Well, that's whore We lived, and
how we lived, till was fourteen /; bat then the
cholera came, aud in two days swept OF father
quito alone, for though my uncle John took
me, and did for ne honestly, he and his wife
were stern, screwy sort Of people, and some
times week would 20 by with little more
than thankee between rs. As soon az was
old enough uncle put me to the trade, bat
never took to the fellows at the Workshop, and
kept to myself, Just as much there as In my
uncle's house. At last I got an illness, and !
always think / should have died if 1t hadn't
been for an old woman and her daughter, who
nursed me through 1t. That's how came TO
know my Mary, Tom, and, As soon a. was
we'll and strong again, we got married, aud for
Two or three years everything went on so
lmooth, that really seemed to have got my old
lie back again. But then Mary began to fail,
md at last fell into decline. It wasn't very
onR before buried her, for she won't Of just
Ike the snuH Of . candle. She left . child ak
month"; old, aud, a. ron may fancy, that Was q
greAt care to me. Still, II wAs . com fort, too.
put it out to nurse, and went and lodged in
he same house, and after . bit Il began to
know me, and TO walk and say Dsddy," ill I