Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-10-17

| The lawyer looked at 1t II moment and
returning it said:
No if you examine it you will find 1t
made out and properly signed
But il Is a release of the mortgage, and
it is of no use when I have no money to
pay it,
'Bnt suppose some one else had paid II
for youp'
| There is no one 10 do il
| On the contrary, there is; for it has
been paid and tho release was made out
Yesterday
man, eAcitedIy.
1T means was the reply. that your
grandson. who is but "A lad indeed, las
paid Oft the mortgage and he now sends
his grandparents the release rs II new
years Offering
Waller! Howp'
Listen, Nathan Holywav. Two days
ago your grandson-he tells me he is but
thirteen into my Office He's Il
bright looking lad, and have once or
twice sent him ON errands, and given him
tribe for it. 1t seems now that for the
last year, he has spent his holidays and all
his spare time in running on errands and
doing odd jobs, for which he has received
small sums of money, all of which he has
carefully saved, 80 that when | opened the
bag he brought me, | found these small
sums had amounted up until they made
one hundred and twenty. live dollars and
fifty cents. He had heard. he said, that
his grandfather must sell the farm unless
he could pay some money he owed before
the first of the year, He asked if wha, he
had given NE was enough TO pay it, and |
told him yes, that the farm would not be
sold, and that would come down myself
and tell you about it to-day
But began the old man in u faiat
voice and beginning to tremble again.
Wait Il moment interrupted the law
yer, Il have more 10 say. Never mind
where the rest came from. 1t has been
paid. What have to say is this: am
generally considered hard and crusty
Old bachelor. Perhaps l am; circum-
stances may have conspired to make me
seem so, but l have recollection of nv
younger days. | know what it is to fight
and struggle against adverse circumstan
ces, have seen life in some of its harsh.
est phases, and since have been what the
world calls wealthy, | have been called
stingy and mean because l have refused
to endow colleges and universities, to
found hospitals and pay off church debts.
But have my own IDEAS about the
deposition of it, or at least l have wished
to use portion of it in saving others from
the struggles that beset so many in early
life Your grandson strikes me rs one to
whom l could lend a helping hand,
feeling confident l would not regret it in
the future. With your consent | will
undertake TO see that he is we'll educated;
will send him to college ahd give him a
start in life. AS for you and your wife,
you may live here AS long as you need
home on earth. and you shall want for
nothing. 1t was to tell you this that
have set aside my ordinary custom, and
have attended to business on New Year
day. There am afraid | have told you
too suddenly after all and he went over
10 the side of the old man, who WIS trem-
bling in manner that alarmed him.
No No. was the reply; call my wife
call my wife! Oh! could bear trouble
with her. but not this-not this.
oh, Nathann cried the wife, when she
had been summoned, what is III? and she
ouCo hoie leli on leI kueeS ny HIS Sue.
1t is joy, wife, joy! Tell her please,
turning to the lawyer, 4 can't, it chokes
me-
Once again the story was told of what
a gr ndson's love had done, and as he
finished, the lawyer saw the fearful face
of the wife raised to that of her hus
band. There, as both heads were bowed
he stood reverently by, for he knew
that the prayers of thanksgiving were
ascending to the throne of grace. Even
when he clasped their hands in token of
farewell, no word was spoken. Their
hearts were too full of utterance. 1t
remained for the grandson, who came
shyly in not long afterward, to bring them
10 full realization of the change in their