The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-09-14
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
Dicks Watch.

Dicks watch.
Dear little Dick, curled by the fire,
Sat watching the shadows come and 60,
4 las the dancing flames leaped higher and higher,
Flooding the room with yellow glow.
His chubby hand on his side was pressed,
And he turned for moment a listening ear;
Mother" cried he, " I've got watch
Iieclit ticking right under here"
eyes. Dick. tits watch that Ged has made
To mark your hours rs they ny away
He holds the key In his mighty hand,
And keeps II In order night and day.
"Should he put aside the mystic key,
Or lay his hand Oh the tiny spring,
The wheels would stop and your watch run down,
And lie In your bosom helpless thing"
lie crcpt TO my side. and whispered soft,
While his baby voice had an awe-struck souhu'
CT wish YOU would ask him, mother dear,
To be sure and remember to keep Il w W.hnai,
WEILINGToN's BOYHOOD. - Unlike
Nelson, who at an early age found him
self longing to hasten away TO sea,
Arthur Wellesley does not seem to have
had any thought, when he was very
Young, of ever being the famous man
| that he afterwards became; nor do we
find him, like Robert Give, collecting
his schoOl-fellOws together in martial
order. and then, with himself at their
head, playing at soldiers by marching his
little army about the neighbOrhOOd in
which he lived. No; of a different dis
position was the future Duke of Yelling
ton at this time; and it was not, as you
will hear, until some years later that he
even thought about the choice of that
profession which he then adopted with
80 much success.
One of the first troubles-at least so it
seemed to him that Arthur had to en-
dure was when he was placed at small
school at Chelsea, near London. 1t might
be supposed that, unhappy as he was at
home, he would have hailed with delight
the day on which he could get away
from those who seemed to take so little
interest in his welfare; but such does
not appear to have been the case, and the
few months that he spent at his first
school were perhaps the most miserable
of his whole life. The truth was that
the little fellow, who was not at all in
good health, felt disheartened and dis
consulate through the rather unkind
treatment to which he had always been
more or less subjected; the change from
the liberty of home to the lessOn-books
of school was not at all welcome one
to him, and so it was that he became at
times thoroughly depressed and melan-
choly, appearing to take no interest in
anything, and permitting those days
which ought to have been some OF his
brightest and merriest to pass by utterly
wasted.
Unlike other boys of his own age he
. never took an active part in any of the
sports with which his schOOl-fellOws at
! Chelsea amused themselves. He used
] generally on halfholidays to be seen
. coming lazily out of the schOOl-room, and
instead of joining his companions in
= their games, seating himself beneath
,, large walnut tree which grew in the cen
,, ter of the playground. Here he would
> lounge for hours together, and content
, himself with gazing listlessly at those
: who were enjoying themselves. Some
. times if he happened to see one of them
playing in any way unfairly he would
inform the others who were taking part
a in the game, and on the cheat being
s turned out Arthur was now and ther
I asked to supply his place nothing, how
!. During the whole of his bOyhOod Arthur
n was involved in great many quarrels
!. and it must be confessed that they were
t. usually, if not of his own seeking, al
# least attributable to his own conduct
l. At the school of which we are speaking
= it is not at all surprising to find that hi
:. strange behavior soon made him unpOpu
+ lar; it was indeed most natural that i
J, should do so, for the boys could hardly b.
Il expected to make friend of one VIII,
deliberately stood aloof from them a
TT Arthur did; and that he should some
S, times come to blows with his school-fel
e lows was only result which might hav
); been anticipated.
e But our hero was, as rule, able t
take his own part, and it was at this tim
e that he seems to have begun to gain tina
If reputation for courage for which in afte
A life he was always 80 noted. 1t is sai'
$, that sometimes, while sitting quietly be
II meath his favorite tree, he was prOvOke'
$. and attacked by as many as five or 81.
u boys together. He generally succeeded
however, in freeing himself from thei
y grasp and conquering his opponents, an
would then return to HE old place again
T. as if nothing had taken place.
~ Arthur made so little progress with hi
As studies at Chelsea that it was soon dc
e cided by his friends that he should nc
p remain there, and it was determine
e, that he should be sent to Elton, wher
le one of his brothers had already great
=. distinguished himself as scholar, an
~ thither he accordingly went.
J. But it was soon evident that Arthu
q, was the same indolent, dreamy boy her
y that he had been at Chelsea, and vain in
rs deed were the endeavors that were mad
y by his instructors to assist him in gainin
a a good place among his class-fellowl
~ Dull and shy as he had been at his pre-
le vious school, he was, apparently, eve
more 80 now, though in reality he wa
it must be said, gradually becoming IL
II wardly more spirited and active than h
had hitherto been, and he was, perhap!
il rather more popular.
Is Still, Arthur formed no lasting friend
t. ship with any of his school-fellows. II
Of walked out alone and took no part i
l. outdoor sports, living, in fact, an almos
solitary life among members who w0ul
Of gladly have fraternizcd with him had h
y himself been so disposed.
d We have told you that Arthur wa
sr rather inclined to be quarrelsOme. 1t wa
= while he was at Elton that he CAV
n stronger proof than ever that his disposi
Is ton at that time was not altogether of
t. peaceable nature.
y 1t happened once in the course of
- walk that he discovered one of the boy
e called Bobus Smith swimming in tn
a River Thames, and when he saw him h
h could not resist the temptation of throw
y ing stone at him. Bobus was not I'm
IS naturally indignant, and threatened +
y come on shore and thrash his assailant
!, ~ the insult were repeated. Arthur, how
d ever, seemed particularly inclined +
a. provoke his schoolfellow, and 80 asecon,
d stone was thrown, and the result of it al
Of was as it certainly ought not to hav'
y been for Bobus Smith, havingscramble.
! ashore tn punish our hero, was himsel
I. attacked most mercilessly, and the cor
If test ended in his own complete, but quit