Year: 1860

The tears fell like rain from the woman's eyes.
4" Miss Mary" she said, (for thus they call
even married ladios,) " Miss Mary, will take
dis child in place of my poor little one God
took L will be like q mother to her, and be
faithful even unto death, God help me; and
never forsakc her, please God Give her to
me"--and raising herself up she opened her
arms for the little girl The mother strained
her little sleeping one to her bosom, her tears
pouring over it, Ca mournful baptism) cried
as if her heart would break My little dove,
my sweet Lila, must part from you? Oh
God, bless this little motheress one; be a
father to her; grant that we may at last meet
in Heaven and grant that the promise now
given may never be broken" SO saving she
passed the infant rapidly to her future "mau.
mcr," Gas a nurse is called at the South) and
falling back exhausted on her pillow, could
barely muster strength to ring small bell
that stood near her.


Itseemcd now 40 e the Rubicon was passed
the deed donj the sooner her poor little
infant and her l,aumer were removed the bet
ter Her nurse who had been waiting in the
next room returned, accompanied by the gen
tlcman before alluded to in the commencement
of this sketch. Of him, the husband of the
poor dying woman, the father of the little one
so soon to be mothcrlcss, we will say moth
ing There arc some scenes too sacred to be
even spoken of to others Suffice it to say,
that they were much alarmed rcstorativcs
were hastily applied and the manner and her
charge Mt once removed into another apart
mcnt. But their cares were van--in short
time the wife and the mother was in the pres
cnce of her God and her Saviour, far removed
from earth and all its cares and troubles; i.or
purified and redeemed spirit worshipping and
adorlng the God of love, who had led her to
Him, young as she was, by such steep and
narrow paths. At least, if we trust in the
truth of Gods word we must believe that thus
it is with Gods people when taken to film
self. 1t seemed as if God had spared her Just
long enough on this earth to receive the prom
isc of the kind hearted colorcd woman, and
thus to feel comfortcd. For she well knew
that the promise then given would be kept by
the maumcr to the best of her ability.


And here | must pause to say few words
relative to the Carolina maumcr. This kind
OF nurse is, | believe, unknown anywhere but
in the Southern States of our country, and
nowhere even ut the South as perfectly as in
South Carolina. The influence she has with
all her supcriors, hcr real dignity, her power
over the children, Orccly accorded her by the
pnrents) the perfect love and devotion of the
children to her, the respect with which she
is treated by all-parcnts children, servants,
and also the friends and ac9uaintanccs of the
amily-would and must surprise those living
elsewhere than at the South The children,
| while yet such, or when grown up, would
share their last crumb with her, go through
any privation, rather than part from her. On
her part she regards these children whom she
"raises " aud trains, and often, very often,
nurses at her bosom, as if they were her own,
and feels like second mother to them.


.... TO BE CoNTINIjED