Litchfield enquirer., 1877-11-01


 la Neither had ever been 50 near the east window bnt once before, and that was when they came .there,s that other time, to 'D8 marrled. There was less embarrass- .ment on this occasion. They had time to examinsiE narrowly, and they were struck with it's splendor. There was promi7 ,nentl group on one, of it's divisions, cor responding to the group at the font; 1t did not escape their notice. The rite seemed to receive an added ysolemnity from the fact that the priest had put. on his white gown just for them. They were correct in thinking that their lives would hold no other day like the one ''when Kathern was chxisteneds ss.n When the priest took her from themg and stood holding her in his own arms, they seemed to have given her up to God to do with as he pleased; and the fnllness of great content accompafil- ed the thought. It.took bnt little while to give. her the name of Katherine. to sign her with the sign of the cross, to breathe a prayer and a benediction; and then they carried her back to the boat, and home to the light house aagains '1sJbIos IaeT2 'adt l,
 Six yeaEasVene GoHe. yet Katherh had made no other. trip to the land. r. It hap pened so, that was all. Repeated pr0mi- ses were yet to be fulfilled. Six years old and tothave lookedaout all her life onlyion what II have describedi ''Why, I can take you any time, her father would say. But any time is always no time. Her mother had not revisited the village since that memorable Sunday; it was never quite convenient and nothing had occurred of sufficient importance to call her there. de- spite obstacles, still less would she have thought it of moment enough to ask Da- vid to leave his netting and to take the trouble of lowering the boat and carrying her oyer, merely for her own pleasure.
 ! But little Kathern saw her father push off from the per each week with swistful eyes and an ever-increaslngs desireo to ac company him Mot this time he would say as he descended into the boat, 'sbut some day soon. "i Then Kathern would get her mother to adjust the glass, and she tired not of watching till he reached tie shore; the less inclined to grow weary, because all the while she asked such Ques. tions as drew North the oft.repeated de- scription of what she had never seen, ex- cept in fancy. a -..5.,st ....-....i ..r
 ! ''It's none so grand there, Meena would sometimes say, except in the church where the picture window is, and may be HI VAO kOubAOAACA Q AN'AOVSs WAOAV yOo VI have no call to go.'' ........ ... ...-.r.. '@ 'tMay be not to you, mother, you have seen it so often; but would like t0 walk, just once.s on that shining white beach, the pier IS so black and ugly after seeing that, 2 the child would reply.
 ls ''It's none so nice when you're on it; sand over your shoe-tops. You'd soou tire o'walking in It; the pier is better to walk on." ..a ... .,.-,..,gg .,.l, ..,., ,. 2 as'But I'm tired O the pier, mother"
 then, that's naughty, Kathern, to tire o' your home."1aH .Ru1ai7 ia &z :. "I'm, none tired hsoi a0Gy, mother; but I'm tired o'this because I'm waiting to see ttat. When I've been. once, just once, only to see what it's like, III be rare glad to get back here, to look ont again from the pier.'5 4r.a.e ...E args.I at .a 4a .'Well, some day father will take us both over; we'll let it be Sunday, aud then we'll see more than the beach. Well go to church, and you'll never forget it. Kathern: the singin', and the prayin'. and and the priest comin' and goin', in and out O the painted light that falls from the picture window; you'd think his gown 'ud be stained with it, till you see him move away. There's no pictures in books like to that, Kathern, that can change all that comes anear them. Then it's so still and solemn like, too; there's a bit O heavens holiness on everything inside. You fee it on yourself the mint you pass the door And you'll not be likely to forget what ha' told you so often: how once the priest took you out O your fathers arms and held you in his own, and spoke the beau tiful words over you that ha' told you the sense O many time, and -ha' thought on, myself. ever since. "asJ gEe& oHF
 .:".Would he know me now, mother, dc you think? Would he be like to speak to nle?" e..rs. ,sayaf4 ;xan g.F H.s s.
 No doubt. after service, if we stayed { bit by the church, and saw him comin out. He writ your name down that day in his book; so he cannot ha' forgot"
 II wish could ha' known it then, and seen and understood. Seems as shal never go again"
 ~ ..Oh, yes, you will. Father II take yot some O these days. But don tyou be i'm patient and tire Q your home. Father
 has lived here twice as long as we, anC weeks is like days to him; seems he don think how times passin'. But he'll takI you there some day." s@saHs -Ie.s au
 So Kathern waited, and played at he few solitary amusements, and learned t net, to sew, and to read little. Only { little, ho sever. It did not "come easy to David to teach her. ''She was ap
 enoughsat her letterf," he said, ':but i took guessi,s' as well as speLLis' to git tht sense out O newspapers, about as mucl O one as other; and she wasn't up to tha yet" He could 'makeit out we'll enougl himself, but there was a superhuity 0 letters even in familiar, words which wa
 quite perplexing to him as a teacher They were not greatly in his way when h read, forhe ''didn't notice them much,
 but they were constantly obtruding them f selves when he tried to make Katherl understand. t'.Ns '' :, s..Whefi you're sharper at guessing you'I read it we'll enough Til then you'd bet Iter let it be-" was usually the closing re mark at each lesson. Then Kathern wOulC
 .give over," for that time, and lister
 while her father read. ag fta m" ,17Ta ,.
 As years rolled on, David Scarborough became less able to bear ''crossin' iron want of practice. He had not lived sever years with Kathern's s mother without dis | covering that she had preferences ik
 other people, though she had kept then in the background. g Sometimes h
 thougKt, as he. sat in the old place, a
 the end of the pier, at work npon hls nets that he would rather she had presse, them occasionally than that he 'shonh
 have to reproach himself with neveEthav ing done anything to ,gratify them. l
 the beginning of their married life it hat
 been necessary to establish his positio
 as head of the house; but he had neve
 meant that she should give up always Yet this had grown to be the habit be tween them, and he did not escape som bangs when he reflected upon it. Nor
 than once she had been obliged to alte
 such arrangements as she had venture 1 to make without consulting him, and bur
 do a, mornings work, because he was nc pleased with 1t sts..Nop And you don't lik it SO? We'll, we'll change it in the morr
 ing,". she would say quietly: and, thoug he sometimes bade her let it stay. yet b
 was eyer restless until the alteration Wa
 made. .,f,.-a.t ...ft,..,a at.s.- l{s..,r. ..-.v
 50 the battle he had once dreaded can Ito be- fought within himself; for som'