Year: 1870

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Sketch by ChaS. Dickens.


There was once 4 child, aud he
strolled about good deal, aud thought
Of number Of things, lie had sis,
ter, who was child too, and lis con,
stant comparion. These two used to
wonder all day long. They wondered
at the beauty of flowers; they won
dercd at the height and depth of the
bright water; they wondered at the
goodness and power Of God, who made
the lovely world.


They used to say to one another
sometimes, "Supposing all the children
on the earth were to die, would the
flowers and the water and the sky be
sorry p They believed they would be
sorry. For, say they, the buds are
the children Of the flowers, and the
little playful streams that gambol down
the hillsides are Tie children of the
waters; aud the smallest bright spacks
playing at hide and seek in the sky all
night, must surely be the children of
the stare and they would all be grieved
to sec their playmates, the children Of
men, no more.


There was one clear star that used
to come out in the sky before the rest,
near the church spire, about the graves.
1t WAS larger and more beautiful, they
thought, than all the others, and every
night they watched for it, standing
hand in hand at the window. Who
ever saw it first cried out, II see the
star :" And often they cried out both
together, knowing SO we'll when it
would rise, and where. So they grew
to be such friends with it that before
lying down in their beds they look ed
out once again to bid it good night !;
and when they were turning round to
sleep they would say, God bless the
star!


Bat while she was still very young,
oh, very young, the sister dropped, and
came to be SO weak that she could no
longer stand in the window at night e;
and then the child looked sadly out by
himself, and when he saw the star,
turned round to the patient, pale face
on the bed: Il see the star - and then
a smile would come upon his face, and
a little weak voice used to say: God
bless my brother and the star :"


And so the time came all too soon,
when the child looked out alone, and
when there was no face on the bed !;
and whcu there was littlc grave among
the graves, not there before and when
the star made long rays down towards
him, as he saw through his tears.


Now, these rays were bright, and
they seemed to make such beautiful,
shining way from earth to heaven, that
when the child went to his solitary bed
he dreamed about the star and
dreamed that, lying where he was, he
saw train of people taken up that
shining road by angels. And the star,
opening, showed him a great world of
light, where many more such angels
waited to receive them.


And these angels, who were waiting,
turned their beaming eyes upon the
people who were carried up into the
star; and some came out from the long
rows in which they stood and fell upon
the peoples necks and kissed them
tenderly, and went away with them
down avenues of light, and We're so
happy in their company, lying in bed,
he wept for joy.


But there were many angels who did
not 90 with them, and among them
one he knew, The patient face that
had once lain upon the bed was slorl-
fed and radiant, but his heart found
out his sister among all the host.


His sisters angel fingered near the
entrance Of the star, and said to the
leader among those who had brought
the people thither:


els my brother Gomez"


And he said, "No."


She was turning hopefully away
when the child stretched out her arms
and said:


ooh, sister, I am here! Take me !"


And then she turned her beaming
eyes upon him, and it was night; and
the star was shining into his room,
making long rays down toward him as
he saw it through his tear.


From that hour forth the child
looked out upon the star as on the
home he was to go to when his time
should come, and he thought he did
not belong to earth alone. but to the
star, too, because Of his sisters ange!
gone before him.


There was a baby born to brother
to the child; and while he was SO little
that be had never yet spoken a word,
he stretched his tiny form out and
died.


Again the child dreamed of the
opened star, aud of the company of
angels, and the traiu OF people: and all
the rows of angels with their beaming
eyes all turned upon those peoples
faces


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