The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-05-23
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A GUARDIAN ANGEL.

A GUARDIAN ANGEL.
1t is said that every newborn child has
a guardian angel appointed expressly to
attend it during all its earthly life, and to
do whatever such angelic ministry can
accomplish to aid it to be a fit associate
of the white-wiuged company in the
great hereafter. These attending spirits
are never visible to our eyes, and their
presence does not kindle in our hearts
very warm glow of love for their timely
help, even in the hour of our greatest
need. But we have seen some minister
ing spirits, wearing the flesh and blood of
the race, in whom the angel was not all
concealed, and it has occurred to us that
it might be u pleasant Introduction to
present one of these to our readers.
David Williams was Welsh mechanic
many years in this country, a great re-
specter of folklore aud homely supersti-
lions, little easy-eoing in his industrial
habits, and altogether too fond of " hat
is known In the Internal revenue law as
"distlled spirits" His wife Jane whose
father was ceuntryman of her husband
inherited from her Scotch mother stern
AMI uucompromising intolerance of any
thing approaching to shiftessness, and
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