The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-02-02

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, don't know how 2"
Now this is very strange" talking tt
nmself e. this boy would like to care fol
somebody, so thought l. lie would like t,
| 10 something, so should |; he doesn
know how, don't know how either !
| Lork here, boy-you and are alike"
"Oh, no. sir!'
"Oh yes. | say we are. You and
| should know each other better. You are
y"nr own master, no one to consult 2"
"No one"
"Uome With me, then"
"Where sirH
"Home !"
The boy hesitated.
" You have nothing to fear; you shall
be we'll cared for. am not quite myself
tonight, but l mean what say to you
come with me-
So Charley followed the strange gentle
| man out of the narrow lane into the broad
street there the gentleman called coach
put the boy in, stepped in himself and
away they drove into a part Of London
which was strange to Charley. The gen
tleman did not talk at all during the ride
and when they reached the end, at the
claimants knock large door was opened
by man in livery. The gentleman told
Charley to get out. and got out himself
"Here. Blazer" he said to the man in
livery, see this boy properly looked to,
and comfortably lodged"
by p'leceman, sir 2" said Blazer.
"By yourself, sir, or somebody who can
see to 1t better"
REALLY, sir"
An indignant glance from the gentleman,
and Blazer, under protest, tuck Charley
down into the kitchen; and there Charley
for the fist time in his lie, had a full
meal, good wash, and II warm bed. He
was very grateful; grateful to the gentle
man, grateful to something or some one
it was my stery to him, but he recollccted
words that he once heard about Great
Being who "openeth his hands, and fiIleth
the desire of every living thing"
Now it would be interesting to tell you
how Charley gradually prospered. and how
the gentleman continued his kindness to-
ward him-to mention a great variety of
circumstances connected with Charley 8
strange adventure but there is not space.
The principal is this, Charley was useful
to the gentleman, and the gentleman was
useful to Charley. The gentleman possess
ed large property, was young and hand
some, and clever, and he had led wild
careless life, plunging into all sorts of ex-
cSsses, drinking and gambling, and mixing
with bad characters, until he was thorough
ly wearied, and lunged for something bet
ter. 1t was when he was in this frame of
mind that he met Charley, that he over
heard the poor child say Wing, 81 am no
use to nobody, nobody is any use to me !;
what would 1t matter if | died 2" These
words were but the expression of his own
thoughts; and they were the means of
awakening better desires, and of leading
to the brightest results. The gentleman
found Charley honest and truthful, and
deeply grateful. There seemed about the
boy an innate goodness, and the gentleman
talked to him seriously he listened with
SO much attention, that the simple truths
which his protector told him were all the
more deeply impressed an the entleman
himself from the manner in which the
child received them.
From the first day of Charey's settle
ment in the house OF his strange patron,
that gentleman began new life. The
PiN haoito "SiC S'NSh up, thC oiu COll-
pauions forsaken {; he had found something
in which lie usefully employed his time
and withdrawing which would make
the world better and his own life valuable
He engaged in all the good works begun
aud carried on for the benefit Of the poor.
the ignorant and vicious, and was the
means OF doing great amount of good
AS for Charley, he grew up to be u clever,
virtuous, industrious man; the gentleman
sent him to school, then apprenticed him
to mechanical business, and has lately
assisted him to set up in business for him
self Both in their different positions.
are working in the good cause of religious
and moral progress, and as his old friend
said to him the other night;
We are still alike, Charley, but how
unlike what we were that wintry night
when we first met. Somebody does care
for us now, Charley, and we care for some
body and if we died tonight we should
be missed, Charley, and it would matter
to the world; but then how bright is our
hope to what it was them bright hope
of world beyond this, of which we then
knew nothing odd English Magazine