The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-08-05
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4 CdILD'5 DREAM OF 4 STAR.
BY CHARLES DICKENS.


There was once a child, AMI he strolled
about good deal, and though Of IA number
of things. He had sister, who was a
child too, and bis constant companion.
These two used to wonder all day long.
They wondered at tile beauty of TIE flow
ers; they wondered at the height and blue
ness Of the sky; they wondered at the depth
# the bright water; they wondered at the
gootness and the power of God who made
the lovely world.
They used to say 10 one another, some
tmes, Surprising all the children upon earth
Ky be sorry? They believed they would
be sorry. Fer, sal; they, the buds are the
children Of the flowers, and the little play
fuI streams that gambol down the hiiISides
are the chllren of the water; and the
smallest bright specks playing at hide and
seek in the sky all night, must surely be
the children of the stars; and they would
all be grieved to see their playmates, the
children of men, no more.
There was one clear shining star that
used to come out in the sky before the rest,
near the chur9h-spire, above the graves. 1t
was larger and more beautiful, they thought
than all the others, and every night they
watched for it, standing hand in hand at
rl,, 10 :
out, Il see the stal" And often they
cried out both together, knowing so well
grew to be such friends with it, that before
lying down in their beds, they always 10 k
ed out once again, to billt good night; and
when they were turning rocnd to sleep,
hey used to say, Good bless the starl."
But while she was still very young, 0,
very, very young, the sister dropped, and
came to be SO weak that she could no lon.
ger stand in the window at night and then
the child looked sadly cut by himself, and
when he saw the star, turned round and
sand to the patient pale face on the bed, Il
see the star and then a smile would come
upon the face, and little weak voice used
to say, God bless my brother and the
start
And so the time came, all too soon.
when the child looked out alone, and when
there was no face on the bed; aud when
there was little grave among the graves,
not there before; and when the star made
long rays down towards him, as he saw it
through his tears.
Now, these rays were so bright, and they
seemed to mike such a shining way from
earth TO heaven, that when the child went
TO his solitary bed. he dreamed about the
star; and dreamed that, lying where he
was, he saw train of people taken up ;ha,
sparkling road by angels. And the star,
/ opening, showed him great world of light,
/ where many more such angels waited to re-
ceive them.
/ \ II these angels who were waiting turn.
ell their beamlug eyes upon the people who
were carried up into the star; and some
came out from the long rows in which they
stood, and fell upon the peoples necks, ant
kissed them tenderly, and went away with
them down avenues of light, and were Sc
happy in their company, that lying in hi!
bed he wept for JOY.
But there were many angels who did no
20 with them, and among them one h,
knew. The patient face that once had lat
upon the bed was glori6ed and radiant, bu
his heart found out his slater among all tn
host.
His sisters angel fingered near the en-
trance of the star, and said to the leade
among those who had brought the pecpl
thither,-
''Is my brother GOMEZ"
And he said No"
She was turning hopefully away, whe
he child stretched out his arms, and cried