The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-10-03
A BANK-NOTE IN TWO HALVES.

BANK.NOTE IN TWO HALVES.
Wet and drcary. Ii is mid-wintcr
the scene in Kirkington, on the Lon
don and Northwestern railroad; the
time 40 o'clock, just after the night
mail had flashed through without stop
ping-bomd for Liverpool aud the
north. The. railway. officials -points-
men, signalmcn, portcrs, platc-layers-
are collecting preparatory to going OIL
duty for the night.
"Whcrc's DAMP" asked one of the
crowd upon the platform.
II saw him in The Int. Just after The
l0:l5 went through. Can't have come
t. any harm surely
No; he said he'd seen something
drop FROM the train, and he went down
The line 90 pick it mp" q
Aud Dan had picked up something
II was basket, a common white wick.
cr basket, with Il lid fastened dow
with IA string. What did it contain
Refreshments? Dirty clothes? What
A babv-a child half a dozen week;
old, no more. a pink and white piece
Of human china as tragiI as Dresden
and rs dclicately iashioned aud tinted
as biscuit OF Bose l'OmpadOur. Z
"Whcrc did you come across it|
asked one.
Living on the line, just where it fell
Perhaps it didn't fall, perhaps it was
chucked out. What matter? I've got il
and got 70 look after it, and that,
aunn.,h f,nr mn Soinp inV uoVbp III
'""''E Il ,"' ny ,s "'', os , "'' a,I ~ ho,
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nShr1l saw done oniic ,iobt ;, rc
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Winter-tide again six years later, bu
tins season is wet and slushy. One
more we are again at Kirkington,
long, Struggling village, which migl
have slumbcrcd on in obscurity forever
had not the Northwestern line been ca
ried close by it, to give it place
Bradshaw and a certain importance f
junction and centre for goods trafii
But the activity was all about the sti
ton. All the permanent officials Ina
houses and cottages there; in the vi
lagc lived only the field laborers, wi
worked at the neighboring estate, an
sometimes lent their, hand for. a job
navving on the line. The poor foil
had n gruesome life OF it, n hand-t,
mouth struggle for bare existence
gainst perpetual privation, accompaniC
by unremitting toll.
a new parson-llarold Trcflry-hi
come lately to kirkiugton. lie was ,
earnest, energetic young man, who h,
won his spurs III the East End paris
and had now accepted this count
living because it seemed TO open up
new field of usefulness. He had plum
ed bravcly into the midst of the wor
he was forever going up and doy
among his parishioDers, solacing a
comforting, preaching manful endl
ance and truthfulness 10 all. .-f
lie is now paying a round of paroc
ial visits, accompanied by an old collie
chum who is Spending Christmas w
him.
"Yonder,, said TefIiy, pointing {.
lhin thread of smoke which rose ir,
some gaunt tree into the sullen, win
air, "yonder is the house-if. indie
} it deserves so grand name-the HOY
rather, of one whose case is the hard
of all the hard ones in nv mbar
cure. This man is q mere hedgcr /
ditcher. one who works for any mas
. most often for the railroad, but VIII
~ never certain of Job all the year ron
He has q swami of Young children,
has lust lost his wife. lie is ahsolut
II prostrated -aghast probably at the
II lure before him, and his utter imcal
ily TO do his duty by his motherless
Il lie ones. Jackl'' said tho parson, g
ping short suddenly and lool
straight into his companions face,
Il wonder whether you could rouse h
~ If YOU could only get him to mai
sign; TO cry or laugh or take the sn
est interest in common ailairs. JAG
IL believe you're the very man. Youm
l. 1 Det nj him through the children