The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-22
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his voice had not yet changed, and Mr..
Rudolph fiattered him little and told
him that he liked to have him sing in
the alto part. Now the choir met for
practice in the half hour before service,
when the Sunday school was still in the
vestry. So Will had begged off from the
Sunday school and sang with the choir.
AS he went into church one day a
little early he found three small boys
hanging round on the steps whats
upp" said Will One of them looked
cross, one looked sheepish, and the third
only said, Teachers mad and turned
us OUTFIT wanted to stay in!' And he
pretended to laugh at such an absurdity.
Will took no notice, but went up into
the choir gallery and did his best in
Rise, crowned with light, imperial Salem, rise!
But before the rehearsal was over he
excused himself, went down stairs and
after little found the three banished
boys in the graveyard spelling out the
letters Oh an old Campernoon's tomb.
"Silas," said Will, did not you say
you wanted TO learn how to print?"
Eyes" said Silas eagerly. will you
show me?' THAT'S what I've come
for" said Will. II have got large job
for this week, and if you will come
round at teatime and eat some crackers
on the way, so we need not stop for tea,
you shall help me-. And then, turning
easily to the other two boys, he said,
"And you can come, too, if you like. "
Now, each of these three boys had q
sort of currish idea that he really want
ed their imbecile help in his printing.
In fact, all the time Will had been sing
ing Rise, crowned with light" and
"a charge to keep have" he had been
thinking that these three boys were 60
ing to the dogs as fast as they could go,
and he was wondering what he could
do to save them. To the three little out
laws it was a great compliment to be
invited anywhere by the captain of the
boys football team, and they were glad
~ on hand Oh Monday evening. They
made hard evening of it for Will. but
he had not expected an easy one. His
work with his types advanced very lit
tie, but he got hold Oh the three boys
he never lost. Wednesday afternoon he
took them trout fishing with him. Fri
day he spent the evening with them
skinning mink which John Brottens
had trapped and had given to one of
them, and when he proposed to them
to come round and practice singing at
his fathers the next Sunday morning
they assented, precisely as they would
have done had he proposed to them to
go into water with him ON Saturday
afternoon.
Eyes," he said to his mother, 81 do
not like to give up the choir practice,
but if l do not sacrifice something
there is no good. Some time l will have
them in the choir. ~
Sure enough, before long the three
outcasts from the Sunday school were
the three best behaved boys in Mr. Ru-
dolph's choir, and, for the pieces they
had had chance to have, three of his
best soprano singers, and when in the
spring there was reorganization of
the Sunday school and the sessions
were put at the end of service, when
Will was appointed assistant Librarian,
he made Nathan Clarke, one of the
black trio, his first runner, and Miss
Donnegan was glad to take the other
two into her class without asking why
they had been expelled from Miss Da-
Wis.
All this had to be told, because it &C.
counts for a certain devotion which ST.
las Turgot had for Will ever afterward,
indeed the devotion which
man Friday had for Robinson Crusoe.