The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-03-25

shepherd boy and my father he was but
your poor Grace's hedger, and my mother
only the cinder-woman in the backyard
I fall asleep when left alone, and | see moth
ing at all =
The duke grasped the boy by the Shout
der, and, directly impending over him,
stared down into his face Did you see
ANYTHING strange done here last night, |
say?
"Oh, my lord duke have mercy, and don t
stab me = cried the shepherd, falling on
his knees. Il have never seen you walking
here, or riding here, or lying in wait for a
man, or dragging heavy load =
II N, said his interrogation, grimly re-
laxinc hi hold 1t i well to know that
You have never seen those things. Now,
which would You rather. see me do those
things now OF keep secret all your life p?
Keep q secret, my lord duke
Sure YOU are able ?
"Oh. your Grace-ery me
Very well And now-how do you
like shep Keeping
Not at all. tbs lonely work for them
that think of spirits And I'm badly
used
Il believe You You are too young for
it. must do something to make you more
comfortable You shall change this smock-
frock for a real cloth jacket and your thick
boots for polished shoes And you shall
be taught what you have never yet heard
Of. aud he put to school. and have bats and
balls for the holidays. and be made man
of But you must never say You have been
shepherd boy, and watched ON the hills at
night. for shepherd boys are not liked in
good company.
Trust me, nay lord duke.
The very moment YOU forget yourself
and speak of your shepherd days-this
year, next year. in school, out of school. OF
riding in your carriage twenty years hence
lat that momen, my help will be with.
drawn. aud smash down you come to shep.
hcrding forthwith You have parents.
think You say
\ widowed muther only my lord duke.
I'm provide for her. and make a eom-
Portable woman Of her; until yuu speak OF
what p
~of my shepherd days. and what | saw
here
Good. If You do speak Of it
Smash down she comes To widowins
forthwith
That's wcll-yery well But it moi
enough. Come here He took the boy
acros. TO the triliton and made him knee
down.
/ Now this was once holy place, resum
Cd the duke An altar stood here. erected
to venerable family of gods. who wer,
( known and talked Of hong before the God ",
know now. 80 thar IN oath sworn there j
daubly an oath Say this after me Mar
/ ali the h,sss ai,oy,,-aueels and archangcls
/ snd prineiTaliiies and pywers--punish me
may | b. iorn,entcd wherever ann III,
hausa Or in the garden, in the fields or II
the ry~ds, in church or in chapel. at hon'
q abroad. un land o. 4, sea: may be az
I fie,ed 10 eating and ia drinking, IN grow
{ ing up aud in growing old, in living ans
diving. iuwar,ily aud outwsr,ily, and for al
T ways-if ever speak of my life a. = shep
/ herd boy, or Of what I have seeu deae OF
+this NcTns,ulbe pawn. - he it, and ss
/ b Is. Amen aud suico Now ks th'
stone
The trembling boy repeated the Nor'ls
E aud Kissed the Stone a. desired
The duke led HIM % BY the hand
That nigh, the Junior Shepherd slept il
I Ncrneosnls, Towers, and the next day b
was sni away Ger iaiiion to remofc vi
lasc Thence be vsns to a preparatory e
tahlishmoui, aud in lnc course 90 publI
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