Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1882-08-03
FOR THE CHILDREN.
A Star Hole In the Sky.

One was face of delicate fairness;
the other was round and rudy with
health, plump as a fall moon. Mabel
Lee owned the first, and her brother
Eddie owned the second. Mabel was
ten, and Eddie eleven.
mo star-hole in the sky tonight,
Mabel. Black, black everywhere"
Eyes, see Ole, Eddie"
"Where?"
"Over that chimney"
Yes, just above the top of neigh
boris chimney that the night was fast
swallowing up, Eddie saw a star. 1t
looked like little spark that had flown
out of the neighbor's chimney.
"Ah, Mabel, you find star-hole in
every sky" said Eddie. "If none were
there. 1 believe you would prick one
with the point of pin"
Mabel laughed, and turned away
from the window, leaning on her stout
little companions arm. As che turned,
one could then have seen The little girl
was pitifdlly lame. But Eddie sup
ported her, tenderly holding her up. 1t
was a touching sight to see them going
to school together, the weaker leaning
on the stronger, and the stronger gently
bearing the weaker up.
Mabel was indeed famous for findin
star-holes in the sky. AS she went
away from the window, she said to
herself: "If | were not lame, Eddie
might not be so good and take such
care of me-"
The next night after her discovery
of the star near the chimney, she was
going home with Eddie. She was not
feeling very happy, for little fellow,
Jimmy Thomas, had made fun of her
walking. Mabel kept it all to herself,
and did not tell Eddie. She was now so
sorry that she was lame, and there were
big tears in her blue eyes, but she did
not let Eddie see them.
Suddenly the tears were startled
away, for Mabel and Eddie heard a loud
scream.
"Oh, help me-do! dol Oh, help me
dor
somebody is in the water-fallen
from the wharf," cried Eddie. Come
this way, Mabel
As he spoke he led Mabel through a
big gate that was open into a large
woodward. This yard opened down to
a wharf, and in the water clinging to a
pier was Jimmy Thomas. After leav-
ing Mabel and Eddie, he had thought
it would be good fun to run from one
wharf to the other, up to the wood
yard wharf, but he had missed his foot.
ing, slipped and fallen downtown in
the water. What pitiful, beseechine
face he turned up to them!
"Quick, quickf' he cried. "Oh, gel
some one to help me, quickr'
"Hold OH there, Jimmy! Grip fast
and grip firm" called Eddie. 81 will
soon have somebody here"
Off ran Eddie, saying to Mabel:
"Now you stay here till L come back;
and because Mabel was lame, she was
obliged to stay behind.
How she wished she was strong
Wouldn't she run away for help!
"But there, can keep company, ant
that will do some good" she thought
looking down at the unfortunate boy
in the water.
"Poor Timmyp
Mabel" he cried piteously, "wont
Eddie bring somebody soonp Thi!
pier is slippery, and can't cling good
and | am afraid can't hold on long"
What could Mabel dor
She turned about, and looked through
an open door into shed on the wharf
Was that a rope she saw on the ground
She limped into the shed, and there
indeed, was rope at one side. And i
was knottedl
"Perhaps Jimmy could cling to this,
she thought.
She took it back to the edge of tn,
wharf, wound one end of it two O
three times around the pier to keep
from slipping, and then threw the knot
ted end into the water. How Timm,
did cling to that knotted endl
81 can hold on to this" he said.
"Can your" asked Mabel. l an
glad" There she was above holding
on to her end, and below was Timm,
clinging to the rope.
\ Euulc CdLtC DdCh NOiy oOOu, tOllOWCs
by man quite strong to rescue Tim
my.
"Ho, hop' he said. "What have WI
down here? A fish on the end of thi.
liner Can you hold tight if l pull you
upY
81 think l can," said Jimmy. 9Th,
knot helps"
swell, hold onl Up. up she come
-therep
And Jimmy was landed on TIN
wharf as neatly as any fish ever pulle,
out of the dock.
"Look out next time, sonny" sal,
Mr.. Gray. "If it had not been for thi
little girl, you might have been dowl
where the fishes are, and for good, too.
Then Jimmy turned to Mabel.
ooh, Mabel" he said, 81 am sorry
made fun of YOU"
But Mabel said that was all settled
and she walked away, leaning on Eddie
and saying to herself.
"There, If had been able to run lik
other folks, shouldn't have staid will
Jimmy and couldn't have helped him.
So she found another star-hole in tn