The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-07-31
JyGUL4R BENEF4CTOR.
r3,gcE STORY OF FEARGUS OCHTERIONY.
By W. 4. TAYLOR.

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By W. j.. TAYLOR.
racorections of early boyhood days
pleasant ones by any means, and
sar7 try to forget them; but now and
hsy come back to me like an echo.
ry are associated with the dismal
zrs1ithe squallor and the naked pow
rt tie Five Points in their palmiest
L. How managed to pick up a living
b dusty and muddy cutters of that
a,e locality during the first ten years
-yGie is 4 mystery to me, and how be-
q dmuken apple-women and fish
S iunk-dealcrs, rough carmen, boozy
g NANCY ours, evil companions, and
lss policemen, I managed to live at
,lite as much Of mystery.
IL remember my mother-a patient
lced, beautiful, and abused woman,
hing very like an rgel--who with my
and myself occupied a-cellar in a
TOW Of tenement houses, living for
years amid the fumes Of bad whisky
Tass tobacco upon the ragged edge of
patton.
also very clearly remember that one
BIT N! father and Tim LoOney were en-
6eina tnaken brawl at the head of
s,els ,lI. led down into our miserable
L. and that Looney struck my father,
falling TO the bottom of the steps, was
outright
T1g forth one great shrek of fear
usu.sh, my mother fell lifeless across
1'ke2 fathers corpse as it lay IN the
Sod
there was a dreary funeral, and two
1zs' we're hauled away in cart, and
s.. alone in the great unexplored
1.-THE metropolis.
g the noighbors, none of whom
acknowledge an ownership in me,
eaed upon pretty much as stray
1 would never come to any good,
"st accordingly.
l! wandered listlessly down the
streets, passed the dingy shops that
Sed ike luxurious bazaars, until
1 the East River docks, and seat
@i upon a coil of cables, looked out
-'"ooth waters of the river, dotted
""hlte-sailod ships that came and
~'S the distant seas, dancing their
aeasure and noddinG and bowling
merry partners. l wondered how
world was and what I was made
~-en thinking of my loneliness and
burst into tears.
arc you crying for2" inquired a
-'lot wholly unpleasant voice.
-l,a l am starving and have no
-EssPonded.
excellent reasons, I should say,
-'l. Do you think you could earn
j '-a.s and clothes and a shilling a
sle?"
"y' Your honor" I replied.
-'a "homight have been anywhere
=! 10 sixty, short and wiry, with a
->.lS and halfsevere face, seemed
'.,l my reply, and asked me my
7, |, '.1's ochterlony, at your service,
- ,'" high strung nsme," he replied
maps after you wash your hands
and Shed your rags, you will fit
along, and we will see."
'''1 Ann to No.-Beekman street,
- l'~'; and on the way he told me
Il r ever knew; that his name
! IA -@@ Damagh. and that he had no
n -,'1S IN all the world. He kept
ID ,I., -', store and confectionery, and
II ,.t y, HIS elrsud boy. The fact that
III "a. 'al"er, mother, nor relatives
greatest recommendation.
& , discovered that to be utterly
Il i. vas to be bofriended, as he told
o95 ""o tully made up his mind
&F,s % any one about his premises
IN Or kin living.
eitn ,.7,-st tt'aFe meal ! ever ate was al
be -. "a stable, and he and the house
|s' e 4 ''lsriy astounded at my gas
! 81 ID -, .-o,ly' But by degrees I came
ais .. Ike civilized being, anc
9 - !. Clothes was rather a sprue,
80 -1,sa lad, if do say it myself
long, angular and peaked
"saa misery.