The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-08-05

sister," sighed her mother. CT had
two dear children, and it was a difficult
! task for me to take care of both of them.
But the Lord made a compromise by
| taking one of them to live with Him.
Now, would like to keep this one with
me, but it appears as if God wants them
both with him. Soon she will go and
see her sister"
But the sick girl still lived apd lay
patiently on her sick-bod, while her
mother worked with her hands for their
daily bread.
By-and-by 81 ing-time came on. One
morning, when the laborious mother was
going about her work, the friendly sun
shone through the little window, and all
along the roof. The sick girl looked
down at the bottom of the window and
saw something growing.
"What kind of weed is that r. she
said. " 1t is going to grow against our
window. See the wind is shaking it |"
And the mother came to the window
and opened it little. ''Just see 70 she
exclaimed. "Tbat is splendid pea
vine it is now shooting out its green
leaves. How it likes the little crevice
Soon we will have garden!"
Then the sick girls bed was moved
close to the window, SO that she could
see the little climbing pea. Then her
mother went to her work again.
"Mother, | really believe / shall get
well again, said the daughter one even
ing to her mother. ssThe sun has been
shining into the window so kindly to-day.
and the pea vine is growing SO fast, that
believe shall soon be able to go out
into the bright sunshine"
81 would to God it could be So" said
the mother. But she did not believe it
could come to pass.
Then she stuck down little stick for
the pea-vine to run on, and tied q
string around it to keep the wind from
blowing it away. Every day it grew
higher and larger.
CHOW it is beginning to blossom,
said the mother one day, as she went
up to the window. Sc am beginning to
think my dear daughter will get well
again. - She had noticed that she had
been getting more cheerful and stronger
of late. So on the morning that the
pea-vine blossomed she raised her UP i'm
bed and leaned her against chair.
The next week she was able for the first
time for many, many months to get out
of bed and take few steps.
How happy she was as she. sat in the
bright sunshine and looked at she grow
ing pea-vine The window was open
and the morning breeze came skipping
III. The girl leaned her head out of the
window and kissed her vine That day
vuac q ba1o7ov holiday IN bor
The good Father in, heaven my dear
child, has planted that little towering
pea there for you, and alsoto bring hope
and JOY to my heart" So spoke the
mother, and truly too.
Now what became of the other peas
The one which flew out into the wide
world, and said, as he passed, "Catch
me if you can, fell into, the gutber be-
side the street, and was swallowed by a
dove.
The two which went off together Jared
no better, for they were both devoured
by the hungry pigeons.
The fourth pea, which, went off toward
the SUN, didn't get half way there, but
fell in water-spout and lay there for
weeks, growing larger all the tine.
g / am getting SO eorpulent, :" it said
one day, "I shall soon burst. I am
afraid, and that certainly will be the last
of me-"
And the chimney, who afterwards
wrote his epitaph, told me few days
ago that he did burst. So that was the
last of him.
But the sick girl stood one cay with
bright eyes and red cheeks at her moth
er's little window, and folding her hands
over the beautiful pea-vine, thanked her
Heavenly Father for Els goodness.
ct am proud of my vine," said the
widow. And so said all the world
Hans Christian andersen.