The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-02-03

These old ones began to laugh as they saw
me cone in. 1 heard them say to e,Ss one sn0'n0''
So they talked one after another. tnougnt
to myself: 'Say what you like, you Will a n9c
make me think that you are twenty years oi''
or that you are handsome"
Bot / kept silence.
Suddenly the governor. who was talking
with the mayor in corner, turned arouno,
with his great ohapeau awry' and looking ~
"What do you intend to do with suoh
patriaohf You See very we'll that he can
was pleased, In spite of it all, and began to
oongh. .oos ~ ,.,, ,s .vo, NAV 90 home;
I had taken four steps toward the door.
when Friohsrd, the secretary OF the msyoFai'y
called out: ,,, r.,.,.,
who has sent his two boys off to AmerioaI Inc
Oldest should be In the service"
This wretch of o Frichard had gruoge
Of selling old clothes under the market: ana
the oounnry people almost alwsys preferred
buying Of me /; he had mortal gruoge aRs.nsS
me, and this Is why he began to inform against
"Tbe governor exclaimed at once: "Stop
minute! All ha, old fox! You send your noys
Ams.iOs to escape Sis p%usTst nartrdss box
and sabre"
Indignation againt Frichard choked me: l
would have spoken, but tue wsetcn f,sHinr.
M Oh ,ha ,endarme Werner to a side room,
| which was filled with muskets, saores' ana
Werner himself hung a cartridge box
crosswise on my back. and gave me masket,
SHHiss e: Mo.ss and trv always to answer to the
call" ;,;o
| nant that heard no longer the shonts OF
laugh from the rabble
The next day o must answer to the call be-
fore the mayoralty. All the children IN low n
bliudages of the Place d'Armes were not nm
ished, so that We went to learn our exercises
in the large court of the college. near tne
ohenin do rondc at the corner of tho powder
house. As the pupils had been dismissed for
some time, the place WAS at liberty. er,
Imagine to yourself this large court hiied
with citzeps in bonnots, coats, closks, vests,
and breeohes, obliged to obey the orders OF
their former tinkers, ohimney-sweeps, stable
boys, now turned into oorpofals, sergeahh''s
and sergeant-msjors. Imagine these Peaceable
men in fours, in skies. in tens, stretching ont %
their legs in concert, and marching to the
step, "One-two! one-t,Oo! Halt Steady y
called out insolently: ''Moses, dress thy
( shoulders! "Moses, bring thy nose into line =
"Attention, Moses Garry arms An; Gae ole
shoe, thoult never be good ior any'9ing G",
z LOOK Thunderl Canst thou not do that
. One-t,co! What an old blockheadi Come
hepin again Garry arms
4 Thie is the way INV own cobbler, Monborne
: ordered me about. 1 believe he would hav'
Q beaten me if it bad not been for Captain wig
J, neron. A.
Q same way. You would have said thatit ha
always been so-that they had always pee
o sergeauts and we had always been soldiers
d l heaped up gall enough agains6 tnls raooie u
p They. in fine, were the masters And tn
r only time that remember ever to have strncl aS
ofnl ia
z cause of it All the children climbed upon Tn
wall OF the ohemin de ronde to look at Us an
q. laugh at us. On looking up, ! saw ea'e
II among them, and made sign of displeasur
d, with my finger. He went down at once; pu
at the close Of the exercise, when we were OF
,e dered to break ranks before the town-hopse,
:" was seized with anger as l saw MIN comiu
Id toward mo, aud gave him two good boxes
Id the ear, and > Aid: go"
He wept bitterly. and In this state L Her
home. SOrIe seeing come in looking yer
a. pale, aud the little one following mo at d.
tanoe, sobbng, came down at once TO u
ur door, aud asked what was the matter: toi
le her no Angry | WAS, and went up stars.
et Sorle reproved Safel still more ssverel
and he came and begged my pardon gran
IN ed it with all my heart, as you may suppos
But when l thought that the exercises we
re- to be repeated every day, would gladly ha'
abandoned everything if 1 could poss'o
lal have taken with me my house and wares:
oy Yes, tho worst thing know of is to be c
10, dered about by bullies who cannot reStra
themselves when chance sets them up 1or
II moment, aud who are not capable of rece'vi'
* the idea that in this life every body has b
turn.
he should say too much il continued on tt
head. 1 would rather go on. .
his The Lord granted me great consolation.
gh had scarcely laid aside my oartridge-boxs 9
to musket 80 es to sit at the table, when So
or smiingly handed me letter
rou /" Read that, Noses" said she, ''and you "
net feel better"
be I opened and read it. 1t was the not
from Pezeuss that my dozen pipes of spir
let, were on their way. drew long breath.
IAN "Ah! that is good, nowi" 1 e1olaime
"the spirits are coming by the ordinary O.
AXE veyauce; they will be here in three wee
We hear nothing from the direction of Str
'ar- burg aud Sarrebruok; the sllies are collect
still, but they do not move: my. spirits
are wine are safe! They will sell it is grs
thiugw
der smiled, and quite myself again, wi
way Sorle pushed the arm chair toward me, sayl
mes Aud what do you think of that, Moses -
She gave me- as she spoke, "A second let
the covered with large stamps, end at tae
Ma. glance l recognized the handwriting of
ary two sons, Fromel and 1tzig.