Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-09-15

great deal TO me-. she ought to be at
lone to be company for mother she said
md once or twice she fashioned the word
mamma very distinctly with her lips,
With regard to this vocal expression, DIR.
Howe says: She has attained such facility
for talking in the manual alphabet that l
regret that l did not try also to teach her
to speak by vocal organs or regular speech
She asked if knew a member of her fam
lily now dead, and said, That was a long
year after Carl died
She seemed trimming over with things to
tell me,and wanted me to know about her
some of the blind girls to sew.
which is a part of her daily employment
in the school near by, and which she takes
great pride in, threading the needles and
making the pupils pick out their work if it
is not done nicely. She is a good seamstress
herself. does fancy work and can run 4
sewing machine. Next she caught hold of
my hand and led me up two flights of
stairs to her room to show me her things,
but the first movement was to take me 20
the window, where she patted on the glass
and signified that l should see what a
pleasant prospect from it. And there she,
who had never seen or heard, waited by
my side in great content while / looked and
listened. The sky was blue, with clouds
floating over it, and birds were singing.
1t was aperfect April day, but she could
get no consciousness of it except in the
softness of the air. Yet her face was IA
diant, and she stood there rs though she
both saw and heard.
l wish l could bring before all those
who are discontinued with their lot, re-
pining because God has withheld some
thing from them or taken something away,
the cheerful face of this girl who has SO
little, but who accepts it us if she had all !;
who has never seen L human countenance
or heard a human voice; who in the Infinite
glory and beauty of this outward world
has no part shut in by herself in the silent.
dark ,unchanging. awful loneliness. Finally
she took out Il sheet of paper, pressed it
down on her French writing board, exam
ined the point of her pencil, and wrote her
autograph: God is love and truth. l.. n.
Bridgman.' And then from her needle
case and spool-box she produced a cam
brio needle and fine cotton. and showed
me how she threaded Il needle, which was
done by holding the eye against the tip OF
the tongue, the exquisite nicely of touch
in her tongue guiding her to pass the thread
through. 1t was done in an instant, though
it seemed impossible to do it at all and
then she presented me the threaded needle
triump hantly, having secured it by slipping
a knot"
FAKRAGUr AT Ten" Would you like
to know how l was enabled to serve my
country? 1t was owing to 4 resolution
formed when | was ten Years of age. My
| =. 4. 4 ,,l.,
with the navy we then had. to look after
the treason of Burr. l accompanied him
rs 4 ctbln-bov. had some qualities thai
| thought made 4 man of ME. | could
swear like an old salt; could drink Il stiff
glass of grog Is if | had doubled Cape
Horn. and could smoke like Il locomotive
was great at cards and fond of gamiug
in every shape. At the close Of dinner
one day, my father turned everybody on,
of the cabin, locked the door, and said tC
| me:
David. what do You mean to bc?'
:" | mean to follow the SEA-"
"Follow the SEA, Yes. he Il poor, miser
able drunken sailor before the mast
kicked and cutfed about the world. and
die in some fever hospital in a foreign
cline"
NO. said I'll tread the qrIarter-dcch
and command. As YOU do
No. David: no boy ever trod the quar-
trr-deck with principles AS vou have. an'
such habits rs YOU exhibit. You'll hay,
to change your whole course of life if yo'
ever become 4 man.
NV father left and went on deck. l wa
stunned by the rebukc and overwheme.
W tn mortitic.ition. \ poor. miserabl,
drunken sailor before the mast kicket. an,
cuffed about the world, and to die in SOM
fever hospital? hats my fate is il? II
change my life. and change it n once,
will never utter another oath, | will neve
drink another drop of intoxicating liquor
will never gamble And. rs God is M
witness. | have kept my three vows t
this hour"