The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1884-01-31


Amass invariably took ths lioa's share;
hsss aseunslstins and Ssvsr esasiss "
scr sll wore day By dsy % ths vitality
u MA Tuohss. ~ whsa - thsss vses
ldd~d an annual baby. iiss bsesae : sssvcs
md : burdcs ts Tho poor vcnss.
But What dsd Amssa eerss He ~
vcsksd s'ircu san 70 sus."
He farmsd Ia The hard old fashiss vith
rude inplsnsnts ssd no ksovlsdGs tas--
my father done Il before ns 70 I -
goin' 70 do Il nov. 20 uss tslkin."
One by one ths vsiliss ehildrsa vsss
laid away 10 the little yard on top Of .
sandhill who're the old fuckers aud their
bali dozen infants lsy already; rcuGh 10.
closure full Of nullsius. turdoeks and
lhistlss. ovsrrua With lov blackberry
vines and surrounded by . rail fsnoA
II had been much handler for The Tuckass
10 have ! grave yard Close BY than travsl
Ave miles 10 The mills With every funeral;
Asd they we're sos driven by psblis opia'
ion 10 regard TO nosumsnts; they oil lay
there like The hearts that perish. with one
grey stone 10 Tell where The hrst occupant
left his weary bones. Two children OF
wsalthys survived. Anasa and Lurana
The oldest and Youngest Of seven.
Amasa. Z considersts iatslligset boy.
Who thought much and said little, aad
Lursna. or Lury y Der asms vas gsnsr.
ally given. mischisvous, ssli-willsd little
imp. the delight and torment Of her little
worn out mother. Youag Amass was .
boy quite beyond his fathers understand
ing; - sosn % he vas old enough be began
to help his mother 10 every way be could
devise. And when his term at the village
school was over. 10 his fathers great dis.
gust. he trapped squirrels and gathered
nuts enough to earn him money and sub
scribe for ~ agricultural paper, which be
studied every week till its contents were
thoroughly stored 10 biz bsad. Then began
that noble discomfort which the phiIosc'
pliers praise.
Tue younger man had no psacs IL his
old-snsld ways; the sloppy waste Of the
barnyarA was an eys-sors 10 this "bsol
learned faier," ~ his father dsrisivsly
called him. And the ashes Of the wood
fire we're saved aad sheltered like precious
dust, instead Of throwing them into big
heap to edify the wandering hens. That
desolate garden was plowed, fertilized and
sst in order at last, and the grsak ragged
orchard manursd. the apple trsss thinssd
and trimmed, and ashes sown thick oveI
tbs old mossy sod. Nov these thing
wses not done in day or year, but Al
tho hoy grew older and more able 10 cop'
with his fathers self-concsit more va
done avery year, not without ppch op
position and many hard words, bSt still
done.
Then came heavy blow. Lurans,
,yirl Of fifteen, fresh apd pretty as wilt
rose, and tired ofths pinching economy
the moaotonous work. and grinding III
OF the farm. ran away with tin psals
aud broke her mothers heart; not iu tn
ply sical ssAse that hearts are sometime
broken. but tILs weary wsmsn's soul wa
set on the bright. winsoms child, and he
life lost all its scant SAVIOR When th
blooming face ana clesr young vcics lei
her forever.
II don't blame her nsse. Amasa," Oh
sobbsd out to her boy, now stout fsllo'
Of twsaty two, raging 1t his aiatx's folly
II cant feel to blsme her. Ikxsx, II
mors'n . girl can bear TO live this way
I've had 10, bat it's been dreadful hard
dreadful ksrdi I've wished mors'n oac
could hs' laid down along with the littl
babies out thsce on the hill. eos 70 rest
spell; but there vas you and Lury vAnte
me. and 50 ny tins hadn't come
''Amass. you're nan grown now, ~
II you should get married, and suppos
Won will, men folks seem to thisk II
ussdful whether or no, do kinder make
easy for her. poor crstur! Don't grin
her down TO .kin and lone. like me. dsa
ta'ut Just right. Tm sure ont. nsvsr
make no more offs woman than II she vi
= horrid crittsr; don't do it,
Mother. l never will." asswsrsa I'll
son. as energetlcally and sol emnly = II
wem tskisg an OATH.
But Wealthy was nearer TO h.r rsst thi
she knew; the enemy that lnrk In dir
neglect, poor food. constant druds cry. ~
ths. want Of every wholesome and = 'sasu
able excitement To mind or body, -
when least expected swoops down "a
does its fatal errsnd in the isolated fAiu u
house no less than 10 the crowded ci,
slums, the scourss Of New England, I,
/ DuOlu levitt WoAo Sut th tus AuSes
homestead.
Wealthy turned away from her bAlin
on Saturday morning just - The lest p
was yet on the pantry shelf. and faints
on the kitchen floor. where Amasa, Il
younger. found her an hour after. mute
ing, delirious and cold.
What hs could dc then, or the villai
doctor or an old woman who called be
self nurse, vas al useless; but the b
skill Of any kind would have been equal
futile, she was never conscious again for
week. then her eyes seemed to see vb
vas about her once more. she looked u
st her boy. laid her wan cheek on b
hand, smiled and died.
Hardly had her wasted shape bssn p
away under the mulleiss and hard ha'
when her husband came in from the b
Held smittsn with the same plague;
was harder 70 conquer; three weeks