The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-04-02

| treaty TO induce the old woman tC
abandon those familiar objects
linked to her heart by so many
sorrowful recollections, and among
which she dwelt till they had be-
come, as it were, part of her ex.
istence; but she only replied tc
their entreating solicitations
"Ah, me! can't bear to leab dc
ole place-it looks SO like leabin'
ole friends benin and goin' away
among strangers. No, no, children,
don't try to turn me from what ]
hab set my heart upon doin'. Ole
Nina's not long for dis worl'-she
must soon go to her long home,
where missis has gone before, an
it's her last wish to close her ole eyes
among things she's been used to so
long,
The old woman shook her head
despairingly, and leaned it on her
palm, in silence.
Finding entreaties were in vain,
hey left her alone in her sorrow,
Ernest leading Rose away weeping
from her old nurse.
They took care to supply the
faithful old servant with everything
that could contribute to her comfort
while she sojourned on this earth,
which was not long, however, for,
"seared by the autumn blast of grief"
she soon closed her eyes on the
cares and sorrows of this world, and
went, as she pathetically expressed
it, to her long home beyond the
tomb, where her mistress had gone
before.
'Tis strange, but true, there die
none so abandoned but are followed
to the tomb by some real friend
who mourns their exit from this
world in the spirit of truth and
piety, bedewing the grave with the
tears of sorrow. Such was Nina's
grief for her mistress.
Davy was tried before the county
court us an abettor in the murder
of Mr.. Tomlin, and convicted of the
crime charged against him. But
knowing the only real crime was
his misfortune in being unavoidably
situated amongst dark and wicked
spirits, who sometimes made him a
means of accomplishing their re-
Voting purposes, the court before
which he was convicted signed a
petition, got up by Mr.. Greenberry,
for his reprieve, and Davy was
pardoned by the Governor.
Severed from the discontented
spirits who dragged him on course
from which he shrunk in fear, Davy
soon relapsed into the quiet and
passive thing for which Providence
had designed him, and became "a
newer of wood and drawer of
water' in the employ of Mr.. Green
berry, for whom he had long labored,
nor seemed ever to have left one
meditative thought stray back to
the gloomy past.
The estate of Mrs. Darly, after
her death, soon came under the
hammer of the auctioneer. Costs
and court fees, sheriff's fees,
lawyers fees, taxes, executions on
bonds and notes for money borrowed
to carry on her law suits, swept the
paternal heritage of the hag to sat
isfy their demands. Ernest became
the purchaser, and constructing
neat and handsome mansion on a
spot more appropriate for a resi-
dence than that ON which OFFER
guson Hall stood, he and his fresh,
blooming Rose took up their abode,
where they enjoyed all the delights
of a rural life.
Pat McCleary went to reside with
"Masther Ernest" as it suited the
Irishman's quaint humor to term
him, and was ever found ready to
espouse the quarrels of the oppress-
ed with his good shillelah, and
succOr the distressed to the extent
of his means-traits peculiar to the
noble hearts of green Erin.
Short and transient was the child
likegrief of young Timon Darly-or
Tim, the huntsman, as Pat used to
call him-for the deplorable calam-
ity that had fallen upon his house.
But the heart of the young hunter
was not one that care weighed down
with the weight of his Affections;
and soon forgetting his sorrows in
the pleasures of the passing
moment, he followed the hounds
with the light heart that none but
the simple minded and unrehecting
can know.
He was subsequently welded to
young Kate; the lass whom he i'm
mortalized in his wild rhapsody,
was no less a parsonage than the
bar-maid of a country inn, and
spent his days in the humble but
peaceful capacity of a tenant on
farm.
THE END.
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