Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-10-08
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Will was not in the Sunday school,
He liked to practice with the choir, for J
his voice had not yet changed, and Mr..
Rudolph fattered him "a little and tolU
him that he liked to have him sing i'm
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 he
Sunday school and sang with the CHOIR
As he went into church one dizzy a
little early he found three small boys
hanging round on the steps. Wv bats
up?' said Will. One of them looked
cross, one looked sheepish, and theI third
only said, Teachers mad and turned
us out-zif wanted to stay in!' And he
pretended to laugh at such an abs frdity.
Will took 10 notice, but went Jap into
the choir gallery and did his best in
Rise, crowned with light, imperial sa fem, risel
But before the rehearsal waS over he
excused himself, went down STAIRS and
after little found the threef banished
boys in the graveyard spelling out the
letters on an old Campernofon' 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. 81 have got large job
for this week, and if y on will come
round at teatime and ea'o some crackers
OH the way, so we need not stop for tea,
you shall help me-" A. nd then, turning
easily to the other two boys, he said,
"And you can come, t.oo, if you like. "
Now, each of these khree boys had
sort of currish idea that he really want
ed their imbecile helI in his printing.
In fact, all the time ". i'll had been sing
ing Rise, crowned ( with light" and
"a charge to keep Fave" he had been
thinking that these t hree 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 ! ~ the captain Of the
boys football team |, and they were glad
ly on hand on Monday evening. They
made hard eveAling of it for WILL but
he had not eXpeC ted an easy one. His
work with his types advanced very lit
tie, but he got 1 hold on the three boys
he never lost. Wednesday afternoon he
took them trou 1t fishing with him. Fri
day he spent the evening with them
skinnlng mKink which John Brottens
had trapped Jand had given to one of
them, and when he proposed to them
to come roul id and practice singing at
his fathers the next Sunday morning
they assent' ed, precisely as they would
have done had he proposed to them to
60 into w alter with him on Saturday
afternoon.
eyes, - he said to his mother, 81 do
not like to give up the choir practice,
but if u do not sacrifice something
there is mo good. Some time will have
them III > the choir.
Sure enough, before long the three
outcastsS from the Sunday school were
the threWe best behaved boys in Mr. Ru-
dolph'sE choir, and, for the pieces they
had haNl a chance to have, three of his
best soprano singers, and when in the
spring & there was reorganization OF
the SrRnday school and the sessions
were lhut at the end of service, wheI
Will Was appointed assistant librarian,
he m4hde Nathan Clarke, one of the
black N trio, his first runner, and Miss
Donn segan was glad to take the othel
two f.nto her class without asking why
they y had been expelled from Miss Da
Wis.
Alkl this had to be told, because it &C
coun sts for a certain devotion which 81
las urgot had for Will ever afterward
reset inbling indeed the devotion which
mar Friday had for Robinson Crusoe.
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