The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-19

bead a. me o Ike a Ii tie ram that l
toos up my $40 y again atolcs.
| $50 when thers was baby boy
brought into q cert in hOuse In GER
tain village net far from here the
mother could not help hoping that
Il DO gres would get tIoie before
Fan-t ,-si-a did Bat chsrced that he
had been very busy ali toAt day, be-
cause, for some reason or her, a
great many abie9 had chosen II 20 be
bJro on, 3 so FAINT a-si-s slipped int
this hou before him Soc came 10
very foity indeed, and, gliding mp 10
where the little newcomer lay max
ing very queer faces at the void ne
h sd come inio, ths put the end OF a
thin reed int hi4 title ross Leaf IT 40
ear AID Dlew hubble INSIDE his he d
just behind his ey 8, Bef re lolg in
cumts El DO e o. in great Ou tie, but
he cav at ouc- by ihe strange way IN
which TIE bsby was smi ing that Fan
( ,.si q had been there before bin
Ho viewer, he rnhbed his wonderful
juice on ss 1 noihiug he'd happen d,
though he feared il would do no great
good."
"What was that baby's amer de-
marded CoDpert les, SHARPLY.
'Hs wss cnrattned John, but bis
name was first b jbo, snd then Bosln,
sAd then Jack >, and then Jack, and
at LIS, when he grew ~, } I'm gain.
"Now this bupb'e tlst hrd been
blown in lis h ad did Two thing IL
made everything he l. okrd vt seem to
| - ~ - ilh a n ii
which, you know, /, never really had ;
aud Il gave him the p wsr OF Dream
,ng when he VAS widB awake, so that
Il was almo.t as good as q WIS ing CAP,
10, lie could be and do and nay WIN It..
ever = Q liked 10 long as tue dream
lasted"
"Really and truly, uncle" GSid
LightioOt, with p aintivs doubt.
"NJ, my dear child, not really and
truly II one SO So, but really and
t,uy in another, which, 50 far ~ ihis
world is concerned, comes 10 We y
much the same tning, tut you vii.
understand better one Of these daye.
$50, when Jacky sfit to himself;
'LefB play Pm king, or q captain, or
what n1l,' he WON not bavr given H
g. 10 b6 what he fsncled, iur any odds
that he uli ses be ws8n tho rea
thing and his dream # it, NV, on
this IA tn, and especial y in our part
OF IL, everybody must he good for
com thing; that IL, be mus bs wllliop
aud ahle t. do, rs well as to st aid
Thick how n ca it would ne t1 hav5 il
done. Perhaps Jaaky mi ht have
| IA, N
"What? L Ike M. Longfellow,
uncle?" asked Lightfoot, awiu ly.
"No, my Child, not qplte Il ks him
f., l think that El-bor.gres must have
got TO him before f n-tn-sl-a, ne has 80
much work in him and his ha ds are
always so ready to do good.
mot that here Was any harm in
JAG y, but be could see wsll what
might De done, that he never Grad
much to do anything in particular
and then, il he did anything, il al
ways had snch Iainb W about 1t that
il looked finer to him tnan to Other
people. Aud inOeed it seemed of no
Rrea consequence at 6rst whether be
did anythn g or net, for Jacky's father
was Gu, and, OF coure, he wouid
never NJ cd TO do auytniDg you know.
But peepls have a tick Ia America of
be ng poor one day a0d rich the next,
or the other wsy, just as IL h'ppen
and IL fell to the lot Of j cSy's father
to be one of the second sort Wien
this took place, however, Jacky hsd
grown up TO be y jung man, aud was
called John. But lopg before hlf
| =. kaA 70 . h, h
sor owfuly about hin, aud at last,
when hls father began to have i'll luck
aud to ma hons l4er aud la er, she
used 60 sit up by the fire waiting Tor
, i'm, aud after everyone elsa nd gone
TO b d and think about JaCky moIe
eadly than ever.
"Now the only living thing she had
: to keep her company WIS n cricket
tiat lived tomeWh here in the imneY
corner, and whose lite she had saved
! one day from the houspmatu's br ON
, So you cIu gu 81 how graceful the
ctcket i,lt to ward her, and now She
, began, by degrees, o love the or CEet
, for people me more apt ~ love thUs
they have uoue a KINDNESS b., becaus
Z that Is tue sort If thing that b. &
out whatever good there is on bot.
sde'--d MI You see2 So JNcky'f
r mother and the criCk bsgAn 10 love
| ono ano her, and then, be sure
they began found -Ts,snd one other
30 tha, the one cou d nOt,g ere k
,, Creak, nor the o her eigh ana t look
: ing at the fire, but hat each knew
a very we'll wha toe other meant. Now
Jaoky's mother had bean tllnklng
, one night that il she coul only fine
! El-bo gle5 lie might tell har some
IN ng lat would do good Then tbs
. cricket creak CIeaktd glod many
times and crawled GU from crack i,
4 the hearthslone ana turned no at he
his little eye, thai shnue ike any ruby
, only bdgh or, bAcause nothirg shines
ike life. A d JsCky's mother knew
a what he meant, end IL was this: :.
p know where L b .gr to bs fou nd
n AMI can interpret e'wean you F.
. that tTib9 never hurt rs Gicktts, be
A cause we make music for them ATE
the days work. They are enGamps'
A on The edge Of the pond, whittier thel
4 come every autumn tn hunt drag I
flies. They make amor out Of tn
|. scales OF the green and blue once, ao'
/. fane of tNeir wiogs'
A "Sotha next day they went 'og the
D 30 the pond, aud und everything a
u the CrioSet had said, As they wen
n along the crows over tNe grrat pin
woods kept .sh u'irg H'rahl h'Tah
v which they could not help ia irg 70
v pfgu Of GOOD LUX l. und q
/ cherry. Jacky's mother lid mt SO
FL b. grss, ani am sorry for II en-
=. had, ou'd hsva told YOU hn'
hr looked. She heard something liz
" the buzz rg OF a bee--one Of ihos
=; great, grumpy ones, that make thei
= nests in the ground. g. al csn "a
y certainly l. that he had a bass voice
" But she was sure that the cric6et ha
a told her the truth sbout the tribs
70 coming there, because she sSw thai
~ meta stretched Tor the dtagon fl-6
~ from one pickerel week 10 snothe
Ia AID lookiuV just like spidere' web
20 Well, the end of It wa that Et.bo-gr'
% did not think anything c1u d be dor
- till tomething should break the hui
~ | hIa 10 IaoGx,io haad IL ,rnul1 Naka