Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-07-05

"IImM Me Resurrection ant me- Lyc"
II seemed hard that the doctors skill was
Of no avail in saving his own little baby.
Out of score Of little sufferers that season,
be had restored nineteen 10 anxious parents.
But the twentieth died IN spite OF all he
could DO. And it was his own little one,
whom he loved better than his life. For the
little mother at the head OF his house, the
blessed wife he would have died to save, he
had been able 70 do nothing, save TO support
her sinking form ms her child was buried
from sight.
After the baby went away, the doctors
house was desolate, in every sense of the
word. You felt it the moment you crossed
the threshold Not that the curtains We're
drawn and the blinds closed, for the sunshine
was still allowed to enter; but heart-broken
parents can scarcely make cheerful home,
and they say that there is no mistake III the
statement, that the death of little blossom
did really break the heart Of both father and
mother.
The doctors office looked like a nursery,
they said who saw it; but the hush IN that
room was oppressive since the baby went TO
sleep. During the day the little ones toys
were scattered all over the floor. On the
doctors prescription table would sometimes
be found a little sock, or babyS tumbled
hat, and even little flannel Wristbands, that
had pressed his darlings form Over in one
corner hung the doctors rubber coat, never
more on the hat-rack in the hall, and by the
side of the coat stood an empty baby car
rage, with a pillow in it, and a sunken hol-
low where a little form had reposed. On
the study desk, underneath the ponderous
volumes and medical journals, and reviews,
Blossoms pictureface laughed up into yours
her dear, dear face that they missed so IN
the doctors house.
The doctor and his wife did not sit down
and spend their days in wailing and crying
theirs was q mute grief; wordless, unutter'
able, but as intense aud fixed as suffering
depicted in marble. Their hearts were not
marhle-like or Indifferent, in single partie'
ular. o no They were human hearts
| broken, and the troubles of Others got IN all
| the more quickly. But consolation they
had none to offer Was baby sick at mid,
night, or later and the doctor summoned
from his bed the most violent storm ever
known would not have prevented him from
irving to reach the little ones side. Where
| duty had prompted before love and sym
nathy now led aud as the doctor looked al
the little empty carriage, he would grasp ms
rubber coat, and dash out Of the house ioI
some mothers home, whatever the night
o how they loved and thanked him, the
watching parents, as they noticed ms deyo
ton TO the case, his earnestness to keep t'l'
shadow from falling on their homes bnt
if nothing ayailed, and the darkness came
on apace, he had only tears to ofier--only
wringng grasp of the hand, as he turned
away. lie said once there wasn't any com
fort for such cases; il was better TO leave
them alone
People wondered the doctor did not hastel
TO place block of marble to mark Blossom
grave, as month after month passed without
recognition of this custom. But the de
siqners of monuments did not wonder, III
visited them continually, but their draw
ings did not suit him. From them he .wouiiC
20 to the marble-yard, and look searehinglN