Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-02-01
NUMBER 8.

that shelf, for instance
Why, that's the very thing want in
a boy Woll, there's my train. Good
day, sir
He'll be back again. Odd old fellow
said the merchant, laughing.
The next day he was back, and he
came at the Same hour.
L like tina, boys looks, sir. I've been
watching him. But of course he has
dozen relations drunken iather-rsg tag
ofbrothers who would follow him p
mo. He has only mother, and she
is decent God-fearing Scotch woman
a good seamstress, John tells mo but can
get no work. Pity the country folks will
pour into the cities. Mrs. McTavish has
nothing but what the boy earns ut his
stand yonler'
The old gentleman made no reply. -
But the next day he won't up to the boys
stand. John was look ing pale and anx-
ious. Some OF his regular customers had
refused TO take thcir magazines-tim
being SO hard. They would DO dead
loss on his hands.
Paper ? Magazines, sir p he asked.
mo. A word with you, my lad. My
name is Bohan. l am tho owner of tho
Bordale Nurseries, about thirty miles
from hero. want young man to act
as clerk and salesman on tho grounds, ut
salary OF forty dollars per month, and
a woman, who will be strict and orderly,
to oversoer the girls who pack flower seed,
at twcnty four dollars month. | offer
the position to you and your mother, and
give you until to morrow to think it
over
= But -you-don't know me, sir =
| know you very well. | generally
know what | am about. To morrow DO
ready to give your answer. | will tuko
you four weeks on trial. III am satis-
fed, the engagement will DO renewed for
year
All the rest Of the day John felt like
ono in dream. Everybody had heard
Of tho Bordolo Nurseries, and Of good old
Isaac Dohnn. their owner. But what
had he dono that this earthly paradise
should be- opened to him.
You'll come, eh p said Mr.. Bohnn,
tho nox day. Thought you would
Whom can yop begin work p
A. once, sir
Good Dy the way, there's vacant
house on the grounds, Which your moth
er can have, rent free, if sho remains with
me. A nero box, but big enough
Thero's my team. Suppose you come
out, McTavish, and look about you ?
You can como bocF ut night.
john locked up tho stand, sent a mes
sogo to hi4 mother, and went with Mr..
Bohnn. lie had not yet tcld his mother
of the charge in their affairs.
Thoy had only little bread and milk
for broaNf,st next morning, and John
scarcely tasted it,
'YoG look as il you could not bear this
much longer, mother, ho said, putting
his hands on her shoulders. You need
good, Wholesome meals, aud rosh air,
and tho hills and trees, instead Of this
looking out at the piled stacks Of chin
neys, bolchng forth tho black smoke OF
an iron foundry.
Don't tall, OF them, John, lad
Well, | won't, and no put on his hat
and went out,
An hour later he cnmo back
whats wrong! why have you left
the stand p asked tho mother, in alarm.
We aro going to have an outing,
mother. Don't say word. / can afford
it,
She never had seen the boy so full Of
cxcitoment. lIo hurried her to tho sta
ton, and .oon they were gliding among
beautiful rolling hills, and across lovely
meadows, that were sweet with ths odor
of new-mown hay. At noon they camo
to stretches ofrisng ground, covered with
nurseries Of young trees ofdolicate green,
NOD with vineyards, and fields OF roses,
nlegonette, and all kinds Of sweet smell
ling flowers.
Why, John, !hia is fliryland What
place is this p
The Bordale Nurseries. Wo viii get
of here, mother. | want to show you
house that
He tremblcd with agitation. His face
was pale as no led her down to the side
OF the broad, glancing river, near which
was nestled in tho woods cosy little cot
tage, covered with red trumpet crocpers.
There was II garden, a well, and u pad
dock for a COW. The cottage rooms were
clean and ready for furnishing, The riv-
er rirpled drowsily against its pebbly
shore the birds darted through the blue,
sunny air tho scent OF the roses came in
upon The breeze.
Mother said John, this, | hope,
will be your home now And with that
he began to caper about her like boy
but the tears rolled down his thin cheeks.
John McTay.h is now foreman Of tho
Bordale Nurseries, and a man of high
standing in the community. Not long
Ego he said to old Mr.. Bohnn:
/ owe this all to tho friend who said
a good word for mo that day in Pitts
burg.
No, john, said the old man, you
owe it to the book with the missing pages.
The chance came to you, "a it comes to
every boy, to be honest. Honesty and
industry is what did it, and am inclined
to think that they never fail to command
success in the end.
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