Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-24
Doing and Waiting.

age and faith that he should find some
thing to do in the city; he had been
from one store to another, into lawyers
and doctors Offices. into big wholesale
and retail stores, into stables-in fact,
into every place where he thought there
might possibly be something for boy
to do. But nobody wanted him; and
worse than all, many had made fun of
his patched pants and his old hat. Still
he had kept on asking for work, even
when he felt SO discouraged that his
voice trembled, when he tried to speak,
until darkness began to creep on. He
was cold and hungry, and he walked
home with heavy heart. When he
went into the house, his mother looked
up pleasantly and said,-
"Well, Phil, what luck ?"
"Oh, no luck at all, mother T. and
unable to control his feelings, he laid
his head on the table, and sobbed as if
his heart would break. Philip was only
fourteen years old, and affairs at home
were rather discouraging just then. His
father was carpenter, and steady,
industrious man. He had saved enough
to make the first payment on a small
house and garden, a few miles from the
city, and hoped by monthly payments,
to finish buying it. But, in the midst
of all he fell from the staging of house
and broke his leg, besides injuring him.
self internally. He had been confined
to the bed for weeks, and the doctor had
told him it would be months before he
could stand. The week before he had
taken the last ten dollars to meet the
payment on the house, and where the
next ten was to come from he did not
know. He grew very gloomy and dis
couraged. So Phil determined to leave
school, and see what he could do, and
the result of his first days experience
we have seen.
His mother let him cry awhile, for
she knew it would do him good. Then
she went up to him, and smoothing the
hair away from his forehead said,-
Don't feel SO badly Phil, this is only
one day. Perhaps tomorrow you will
have splendid luck. Who knows. And
there's father. as blue as he can be-.
Why, if 'twasn't for that darling baby,
laughing and Growing over there. /
should want to run away. I'm not 60
ing to give up yet, if We are out of
money. don't believe God has forgot
ten us, and guess he'll give US the
the right kind of work by and by. l
, think we'd all better do what is right
before US. whether It's little or big, and
see what will come next. AS for me,
I'll get supper, and you, father, may
shake the rattle to the baby-I suppose
/ you think that's small business, don't
you? And you, Phil, had better get in
your wood, and do up your chores.
8 guess we shall all feel better in the
morning"
The next morning, Phil announced
,, his intention to 60 into the city and try
! again; but his mother, with the wisdom
and good judgment which is born o.
= such love and anxiety as hers. said,-
! "No. Phil, I'd rather you would stay
d at home to-day DEAR" aud beckonine
e him to follow her into the barnyard
= where she was going to feed the chick
= ems, she told him his father got SO mucl
excited the day before, watching for hi
n return, and was so much disappointed
l. at his not getting work, that she didn'
n dare risk the chance of another failur
= at present. She told him what the doc
tor said, that the most necessary thin
n of all was to keep the fathers min
cheerful, otherwise his recovery woul
a be very slow, and perhaps impossible.
}: Eyes, mother, ] will. And | mea
le to see how much l can get done on m
= !, trellises. l might as we'll be paintin
[e them now as any time.
a. So off he scampered into the house
to catching up the baby and giving her
u loud smack as he passed through tn
kitchen, where she lay kicking on th
5, floor by the side of her fathers couch.
. "Now, father, am going into th
IN trellis business. 1 guess I'll pair
IL those two made last week. They
n dry frst-rate in this hot sum-
a, mot a very paying business" h
l. father gloomily remarked.
id mo, sir, not very, just now, but
hope l shall soon get something tn;
of will pay, and then these will be don
n Mother is all the. time telling me to
le- what see before me, and 1 thought
90 would try her way, and see what wi
ed turn up. You see, father, there's nea
ed ly month before the next payment
n due, and perhaps fortune will come
ne us before that time"
~ ga misfortune, l guess. if we have
give this place up, as I've no doubt v
>, shall"
in "Now, father, that don't sound
,te like you to be looking on the dark si
nd so" said his wife, who was just passil
O1 =, through the room. 81 don't want
he begin again this morning to preach, b