The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1874-02-19

aHa hls face grew bright, and hts voice
arm. Ne more tonight, nv darling add
be kissed Marsie's csiIa over aud over
again. aud then carried her up stairs TO
bis bed, and a. be sat there waiting,
even as q mother would wait. tho lii.
lle eyes 60 close, De mnrmured 80 himself
over and over again. IN earlh-in heaven
amen.
The rest Of the prayer was learned iu
time, but the first lesson was never Ter.
gotten and the amen was never omitted
by the child; and old Joe, when he pray
ed, found It most natural. too, TO insert
it. Aud SO they both, the lonely man
aud motherless child, kuelt day after day
az the old bench Ia the shop, and for an
the brightness they missed from their
lives, for all the sweet Maggie lovemolh-
er-loye, denied, for sll the geatie carcsses
and the soft, low words, remembered by
one, aud dreamed Of by the otbes, for
every little pot 10 their lives that May
gle aud mother bad left lonely forever,
'here was a Thy will be done. amen.
An so We were lonely Hkc, were ye,
/ tp.y2 Where's old Nam
Going home, said Rosy; she an't com
iB' back tonight
Then Yen spend the eyeuiu' out Will
ye; said Joe, laughing.
On that lounge, youdel; Ike TO hear
'em talk without bein' talked to.
. He kissed her again, aud then carried
her across to the old scttce iu the corner
and threw little faded shawl, Masgle's,
over the child and returned to his work.
Later in the evening, Tom Corning, the
village blacksmith, dropped in, and with
him Miles Andrews, Il jolly carpenter,
living over the way.
Johns not with ye tonight, said Jansen
after the usual greeting.
Johns takiu' on bad, said Corning,
shaking his head.
lie feels bis loss nightly, said Miles
he's actin strange and queer, stares at
folks, aud is sad like aud down; he's idle
also, they say does no work, nothin but
wander around softly, aud muter to
/ himself
1 Poor fellow, said Jansen, sympathetic
ALLY, Oh, man, We never lost wife--yo
know nothin' about it at all. It's enough
to make a fellow look sad like and down.
Poo john, poor john,
just then the door opened, and John
Taylor entered, lie was pale and looked
tired aud discouraged. They greeted
him heartily, and he nodded to them
kindly, but Iistlessy, aud sat down by
the stove, and gazed in at the fire.
Yer lonely like, John-yer pinin' for
yer darIiu'-God help ye, man, and lie
can.
John turned and looked mournlully at
Jansen, who was working on little Roses
shoe.
John, ye must clar up--God can help
ye, can't, but know it all.
Twas 50 sudden, said John, a tear
stealing down his face.
Tom turned away aud wiped his eyes,
aud Miles murmured God help ye, and
putting aside his pipe sat with his head
in his hands.
Her things is thar, just as she left 'em
they're KILN me, said john, brokenly
The shoemaker sighed. lie remember.
ed time when his house had been left
deso!ate; when, all by himself, he had
taken Maggic's dresses from the closet
and held them in his arms, Que by one
as if they had been Maggie and then laiC
them away from sight in Maggie's trunk
he remembered how the tears had lallcr
as lie came across Maggie's little, wort
slippers, and had put them away viii
the rest, AMI how his clumsy fingers haC
trcmblcd as he tried to fold Maggics rib
bons that she used to wear around he
neck and how he had carried for week
little, soiIed collar of Maggie's that h'
had touud-ah, he knew how John mus
feel-Ae had suffered himself
ro yoin and e. her bupuit bapoin,
thar and ,be, ra,nemhar she'll nevn
. come to take II down. f., see her shoe
in.ta. she loo ,c,n ,hs, b,. the .ofv--op,
her little ,lant. ooip the yinder with III
/ rose. b,n..op,ju' when .nn,. been conn
. tiu, the bnd. far so ,ono-ob. Joe. if
dreodtnI, And ,yl,on / see Tn,y,s Dire.
/ 40. thar. side hy side and ,hinl how .L
looked in ,r,D. want 10 le dawn am
die Thar te. he. hru.t. hoys wi4, IN
' u,,le thread. of ec,d.rke a eingip, ,o Fl
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