St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-04-04

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ionship with the good. elected to Il curse
from the beginning -
My companion WaS strangely excited ::
his manner startled and awcd me. y
fathomable abyss, depth of misery
and mlSgiving, seemed to open out of
the old familiar things; Il wide world
OF m1sdoing and misery. whose burden
| had never lifted Il finger to tighten.
Il have never Thought much of these
things | stammercd: ''but but | be
lieve God is better than we are. He
will give every one Il chance
''To do better he interrupted,
sharply, eyeing me with IL keen, search
ing glance. .'Iou believe it -
"Celtainly,' answered, scarce
knowing what said; my thoughts
seemed drifting away from their old
time anchorage: | WAS spinning out
diZZlly into chaos. How much more
there was in the world than | had ever
dreamed of. seemed to feel the heat
II tie central fires that worked beneath
its green and smiling crust.
We walked i'll silence the rest of the
way, and IaIted at the gate with a hrict
good-evening but after this there ap-
peared to grow up IL strange and tacil
understanding between Denis Owen
and myself; something that might have
been named friendship, but we gave it
no name. We seemed To drift natural
| ly together. and took great delight in
rendering my little library of use to
some one besides myself
And all about Us the summer glowtd
and waned. and autumn hung lis seal
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| topaz glowcd along the edges of the
streams. its purple mi>t> hung ethereal
over the horizon. its fruits dropped
| golden and houmtitul There were.
chcStnuts ripcning III the woods now
One afternoon IL gay knot of girls stop
| ped foI me At the mill. and We set out
mcrrily To gather our winter store OF
wood luXulieS. Passing Farmer Dar-
| by big barn. the girls cSpicd Denis
| Owen huSilN at work mcnding IL harness
! They clamored gaily for him to come
along and help shake the chc>tmut>.
Smiling. and not i'll pleased. he joined
the laughing troop. and away we went
over bush and brier toward the woods.
An old brlmhlc-grown rail fence lay in
our way the girls clamhcrcd lightly
over. and was following with Owen. Il
! little below, when | almost stumbled
over man lying close to the hedge ar-
| parently asleep. He got up. a> if ruu~-
ed 10y or voices, and stood still. gazing
;It us. As We passed he stepped NJ an,t
laid his hand t;tmiliarlN on my compan-
ions shoulder
Don't know an old chum when vou
see him. hey p he said
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