The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, January 05, 1886, Image 7
The Talking- Oak*
< * I bonded low to tlio talking oak,
When the moon tras overoast.
The dark, grcon wood was filled with gloom,
The soreech-owl shrieked the note of doom.
And tho sable bat flow past.
Damp was tho wind in tho night-full ohill
As a shroud for tho dead at soa.
And tho grasa-prown earth on which I trod
Wbb tho clammy mould of n gruve's fresh sod
At tho foot of tho anoiont treo.
I spnke thy namo in a trembling voico,
And what said the talking tree ?
"Sho love" but thee, sho loves thee well.
Sho loves but thoc, though sho muy not tell."
Thus spake tho oak to me.
I bonded low to the talking oak,
The moon rodo a cloudless sky,
With soft and questioning voice I spako,
And psked the oixk for lovo's dear si\ko,
II her love would be for nyo?
"I tell to theo, that sho told me,
Sho lovos thee well, she lovo9 but theo,*
And thus spako tho ancient tree.
Soft blow tho wind us a maiden's sigh,
Or us words of love confessed.
And the grass-grown earth was n noblo bod,
While tho waving branches overhead,
Told of peaceful, dreamy rest.
Again thy name in a trembling voice
I spake to tho talking tree,
"Sho loves but tbeo, t?he loves thne well,
" She loves but thee, though she may not to 11.'
Thus spake the oak to 1110.
?J. B. Dortnau m Detroit Free Press.
. SHADOWED.
Soon after Maxamilian had established
himself in Mexico I landed in
New York direct from Paris. I had
been in France nine years, but was
American born and American in all
thincrs. I mav have hail a "Frenchv"
look. Indeed I may have looked like a
French agent or diplomat. At least,
Uncle Sam seemed to think so. He
'Ot it into his head that I had arrived
11 New York to "sound" the N"orth in
egard to French occupation of Mexi-o,
and he determined to watch me.
I had no suspicion that such was the
^ase, and hnd planned to enjoy myself
n the big city for a couple of weeks.
Two days after my arrival, as I sat in
i,he office of the Astor House, reading
a newpaper, I had the feeling that
omeone was looking at me. You
nave probably had the same feeling,
.j. and have raised vour eves to find some
stranger looking you over. As I lowered
my paper I discovered a spare,
<x>nsumptive:looking man of 40 sizing
me up. He dropped his eyes when I
raised mine, and had scarcely taken in
his "points" when I felt a hatred for
him. It was more than aversion?it
was positive hatred. lie seemed snakish
to me, and rather than endure his
presence I arose and passed out on the
street.
My first call was at the general delivery
window of the postotlice. When
I had given my name three letters
were passed out to me. I stood for a
moment looking at the chiography and
postmarks, and as I turned away I
bumbed against the fellow I had left
I? in the office. He had been looking
over my shoulder:
"Ah, beg pardon!" he said in a thin,
piping voice, as he moved a3ide for
ma *
,h !? 1 had hated him for his looks I"
should certainly have hated hiin for
his voice. It did not strike me as
queer
that he should have followed
me, but I left the building saying to
myself that I would like to do him a
bad turn.
I returned to the office and read my
letters, aud then took a seat in the
reading room to answer them. They
were letters from relatives, and there
was no call for extraordinary precautions
in answering them. As each
epistle was finished I inclosod it, directed
the envelope in a plain, bold
hand, and laid it aside. When the
t.hvpo Wpro n iaK o.l oml ro.? A tt
vm* vw t v/ *-aa Aauuv/U uklu 4 U/rtUJ1 tU UD
\l stamped I felt the presence of that
snake again. As I turned to look behind
me he moved away with cat-like
t, step and disappeared in the office.
"Beg pardon, sir," observed a gentleman
reading a newspaper at my
right, "but that fellow acted in a queer
manner."
"IIow?"
"I believe he took down the address
of your letters. lie came in so noiselessly
that I^iever heard him?"
"Do you know him?"
"No."
I was thoroughly vexed, and at once
proceeded to* the office to call the fellow
to account. He had disappeared,
I posted my letters and then walked
up Broadway, the sight and scenes of
which soon drove the man from mv
thoughts. At the corner of Canal
street a veritable Frenchman accosted
me in his native language and inquired
for the office of the French Consul.
My prompt reply, in good French,
delighted him. and he drew me aside
I for a short chat. We asked and answered
various questions, and were on
the point of separating when my newf*.
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ijr-iuuiiu ineiiu lowerea nis voice and
, said:
The deuce! Do they have spies in
u' this country ?"
I wheeled al>out, and the snake, as I
shall hereafter call him, was only two
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feet away. Iq my sudden anger I
raised my band to strike, but a smile
crossed his evil face, he bowed obsequiously,
and holding up /in unlighted
cigar in his fingers he said:
"I was about to ask the gentleman
for a light."
You can't have it!" I savagely
answered.
4,Ah?well?pardon my boldness,"
he said as he turned away to enter
the passing throng.
"That's a bad man," said the Frenchman
as we looked after him. "lie
kept edging up to catch our conversation,
and I think he has been set to
watch you."
I began to think so, too, and I was
boiling with anger. I wanted to be
sure of it, however, before letting myself
loose and I determined to keep an
eye open.
After standing on the corner a few
moments I hailed a cab and was driven
to Central Park. As I alighted at
Fifty-ninth street I took a careful look
about me, but there was no signs of a
following carriage. Then, on foot, I
nroceeded to the Zoological Gardens
and entertained myself there for an
hour or more, Just as I was about
ready to go down town I felt that
presence again. I had learned caution
Without making any abrupt movement
I began a careful survey of the
people around me, and by and by I located
my man. lie was ten feet away,
placidly puffing at. a cigar. He had
pulled a red wig over his closely-cropped
black hair and had changed hats,
but I spotted him in an instant. I
wanted to walk right up and take him
by the throat, but prudence warned
me that such action would lead to my
arrest and perhaps cause me a great
deal of trouble.
As I started down town I made up
my micd to do that fellow an evil turo
if he persisted in trailing me. I speculated
for an hour on his motives in
shadowing me, but could arrive at nc
satisfactory conclusion. I thought ol
going to the police about it. but was
restrained by a natural feeling of obstinancy.
I decided to give the fellow
rope and see how the affair would end.
That evening, in the office of the
Astor House again, I spotted him.
He had removed his wig'and now wore
green goggles and walked with a limp.
He took my trail again in the morning
and shadowed me all day, changing
his disguise three times. At night
I determined to shake him. I quietly
settled my bill and gave order* about
my baggage, and about 10 o'clock at
night the "spotter" having temporarily
disappeared, I slipped out of the hotel,
and hurried to the ferry and
crossed to Jersey City and took rooms
at a hotel there.
I came down to breakfast next
morniug feeling highly pleased over
my little stratagem, but the first man
I saw as I entered the olfice was my
shadow. He had on a white hat, a
loud suit, and was passing off as a
sport, but I was "on to him" in a minute.
During the day I crossed to New
York, went over to Brooklyn, and
tramped around for miles, but he kept
my trail and was in the hotel office
when I went to bed.
That night I was aroused from sleep
to receive a telegram. It was from a
relative in Chicago, requesting me to
come on at once. I did not start next
morning, but waited for the evening
train. 1 took the hotel clerk into my
confidence, and arranged to have my
trunks sent to the depot and checked,
and to secure a sleeping car to Buffalo.
I again started out on a tramp, and
again the snake followed ma I
dodged here and there in crowds?
changed from one street car line to
another, crossed the ferries?doubled
on my trail, but he clung to me like a
veritable shadow.
As train time approached I lounged
into the depot, as if to see who was
going out. I bought and read a paper,
and tried to appear cool and careless,
and three minutes before the train left
I mad9 a break for it and entered a
sleeper. As the train pulled out oi
the depot I felt certain I had escaped
the snake, but an hour later, as I started
for the smoker, I encountered him
on the platform of the very car I had
taken a berth in. The rascal could
not get a berth in that car, but he had
secured one in another.
I was boiling with indignation at
the discovery. He was smoking, and
and as I c;ime out he extended his
cigar and said:
"Have a light sir*
My plan was takeu in an instant.
As I reached for his cigar I gave him
a push and be went head over hells oil
the platform, uttering a wild yell as*?i?
vainly clutched at the railing. At
Buffalo I stopped my trunks and
changed my route to Cincinnati, and
wa9 bothered by no more spies. I saw
ur tne papers that tno man had.a terrible
/all, a leg being broken and thai
he was raving for six weeks. The
idea was that he had fallen oil the
train. What sort of a story he told
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when he got his seDses I know not,
but the government either discovered
that 1 was harmless, or failed to find
my trail again.?Detroit Free. Press.
What's In a Nnriiof
There is a great deal that i3 funny
in names. Faroes are sometimes comical
in themselves, but oftener they
become ridiculous by their association.
Thus,' the name Asa Poor might excite
our pity if we considered what
the name might mean. But to see the
, sign "A Poor Shoemaker," painted
without any punctuation, as one is
, said to have been hung out in New
Orleans, would certainly provoke
mirlh. *
, Announcements of engagements and
marriages may bring names into
strange connection. A happy titness
is seen in the union of a Mr. Catt to a
Miss Mew, and of a Mr. Tee to a Miss
Kettle. A famous Irish bull is that
, of the orator who, in delivering a
eulogy upon a man of learning, closed
by saying:?
"In fact, pentlemea, he was a creat
man, a very great man, gentlemen; he '
was the father of chemistry, and brother
of the Earl of Cork."
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From this it appears that the Earl
of Cork must have been an uncle of
chemistry.
, No words are better suited to the
purpose of the punster than are many
of our familiar names, and no words
have oftenerj been degraded ' to his
service. The name of Theodore Ilook,
a famous wit of the last generation,
was made the subject of a very clever
pun. A gentleman was asked whether
he knew IIo,.k.
"Oh yes," was the answer, "Hook
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It is related of two gentlemen, one
, named Fuller, the other Ilawke, both
, fond of a joke, that the former asked
, the other what was the dill'ereace be,
twoen an owl and a hawk. Ilawke
> replied?"The owl is fuller in tho
! eyes, fuller in the head, and fuller in
i the body; iu short, he is Fuller all
. over."
Another old but very good instance
of punning upon a name is told of a
> Mr. Gunn, who was called as a witness
in a judicial court. After his
> examination the counsel said to him:
"Mr. Gunn, you can now go oil."
The Judge saw the pun, and either to
. avert the effects of the shot, or to imnrovfi
on Mia othmiIv
4- ^*???v*; uuuou,
"Sir, you are discharged."?Youth's
, Companion.
California Pearl Fisheries.
The Lower California pearl* hold an
enviable position in the pearl marts of
the world. They are not only larger,
but the color is superior to those
. found in the Persian Gulf, the Indian
ocean and tho waters of Borneo. Contrary
to all other gems, the pearl does not
require polishing or the art of the mechanic
to add a lustre to it. It is eminently
a jewel. Some of the very
largest pearls that have ever been
discovered have been taken from the
Gulf of California. In the Bay of
Muleje a pearl weighing 100 carats
was taken?it was as large as a small
egg; while pearls weighing from 20 to
40 carats are of frequent occurrence.
And then, again, we have in our
waters the rare black pearl so highly
prized by connoisseurs. I remember
seeing a black peurl which was fisned
from out the San Lorenzo Channel,
which weighed 27 carets and was sold
for $J000. Pearls are of different
colors, from the pure white to the
delicate rose-tinted and to the pale
green. It cannot be said which of
these is the most valuable, as prices
depend greatly on the caprices of
fashion. Certainly pearls are prized
* by the Mexicans. It is common to see
girls there with strings of pearls
around their necks which would fetch
a large price in London. I myself
know women in La Paz who have
pearls of extraordinary value, and
sometimes they are so poor that they
have not the wherewithal to buy food.
, Of course you will say that they
should sell, and undoubtedly they do,
but a sale effected from such a woman
{a tanfom/innf frA ...U-l ?it- 1 1
iu munuiiwuuu iu wuuicsuie rouuery.
^ I will give you an instance: There
was a poor naked diver once who
fished up a pearl which was valued on
the spot at $2000. Well, he got hyrd
up, as usual, and cheerfully gave away
this gem for the insignificant sum of
j $ 150.?San Francisco Call
A Cnre for Snake Bite.
Dr. Shaw, writing to the Mcdical
Times from Water Gap, where poisoni
ous snakes abound, says that during
! the past six years, in which he had
, followed out ' a method of cure for
; snake bite, he has not lost a case. lie
[ gives sixty minims of aromatic spiriia
I of ammonia hvnmlprminallv nn.i ?in i
- v f m j
ounce of whiskey every two hours. A
nrge poultice of bruised raw onions is
, applied to the wound und renewed
\ every hour. The whisky and onions
i are continued until cnr*? io effected,
I which is usually on the third day.
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FORTUNES IN DEFORMITY
Large Salaries Paid to the
Dime Museum Freaks.
Pay tliat Runs from Fifteen to Seven
Hundred Dollars a Week.
The first dime museum was started
on the Howery, in New York, in 1872.
At first the museums multiplied slowly,
but about three years ago they
sprang up all over the country, and
now all large cities have from one to
three. It is a burger thing to bo a
freak than to marry a rich widow.
Freaks grow rich. The competition
between museums has run up the
price of curiosities until they draw
more pay than a receiver in a railroad
suit. A good freak makes more money
without opening his mouth than
the most accomplished actor. Little
Lucia Zerate, the Mexican midget, who
is undoubtedly the smallest human
beinir ev?r pvhiWtnd 49 Qnn
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four weeks in this city, and now wants
$800 a week. Jo-Jo. the dog-face boy,
gets |500 a week. The first season lie
exhibited he drew $700, but curiosities,
as a rule, draw larger salaries on their
first tour. The Greely survivors were
offered $1,000 a week to show themselves,
but the Government interfered.
The "turtle boy," a misfit little darkey,
whose limbs are frigtfully distorted,
commands $75 a week. The gentleman
with the elastic skin, who thinks nothing
of pulling the skin of the back of
his neck over his face and can make a
neck-tie of his nose, got $300 a week
for his first season, and now gets $150.
The two negro girls who figure as
"what-is-its" are paul $200 a week.
Chang, the Chinese giant won't show
for less than $350 a week; Colonel
Goshen, who is almost as tall and runs
ft furm IWOP in \Tfiiu 1 1
U I V> iu xiun UKiacjr, gCLB Ullt
$55, bat Mr. and Mrs. Bates, the wellknown
giants, are in demand at $600.
The Count and Countess Magri (formerly
Mrs. Tom Thumb) and the
Count's brother, Baron Little Finger,
get $600 a week. Josephine Myrtle
Corbyn, the four-legged girl, gets $450
a week. The Aztecs, man and woman,
who originally showed with Barnum,
gets $150. x The "Modern Hercules,"
who loves to catch redhot cannon-balls,
does about twenty minutes' work a
day and draws $200 a week, but he is
not properly a freak, although he is
likely to be one if he ever misses the
ball and it hits him. But these are
high-priced freaks. The second-class
curiosities manage to worry along on
from $50 to $150 a week. Fat women
aro in demand at $40. Ada Briggs,
who is good-looking and heavy as she
is pretty, gets $60. Dave Navarro,
the "fat boy," who, by the by, was not
a woman, made managers pay him
$125 a week. He died recently. Living
skeletons get from $40 to $S0. Ike
Sprague drawing the latter ligura
Sprague is so delightfully ethereal that
he can't stand without being propped
up with straws. Armless men who
do things with their toes are bribed
not to run away for $50 a week. The
"leopard boy," a colored youth who is
turning white in spots, commands $25
a week. Albinos and minor curiosities
that are used to fill in the bill receive
$15 to $20 a week. Musical families
?those families where the old gentleman
plays the violin, the mother the
piano, and all the children some atrocious
instrument?chietly drums, draw
from $50 to $100 a week.
Freaks die, and sometimes they go
out of business. Captain Costentenus,
the original tattooed Greek, retired
upon a fortune, and is now living on a
fine estate in Greece, but has become
blind. Dudley Forster, "Ilop-o-my
Thumb," a very little fellow, made
enough in two years to buy his father
a nice farm.?Philadelphia Times.
Legal Intelligence.
A young lawyer; who had recently
been admitted to the bar of San Antonio,
came to Juilge Noon an for advice.
"I want to ask your advice, Judge,
about a'very important matter."
"Well, what is it, Timothy?"
"Lawyer Howl has been telling
everybody that I am a donkey. Don't
you think I ought to fight him, or sue
him for damages r'
"You say he called you a donkey?"
"Yes."
"Then fight him by all means. If
you sue him he will prove it on you."?
Riflings. *
She Had Ihe Last Word.
"Oh, dear!" exclaimed Mrs. F., after
vainly endeavoring to pour hot water
All? nf ?ha ?" J J *
UUII wi nuo cuipuj kctlivcbvir, "HOW U1U JL
forget to fill it, I wonder ! I'm getting
to bo a perfect simpleton. I wish
1 did have a little common sense."
"But, my dear," interrupted Fogg,
"suppose you had. Do you think you'd
know what to do with it?"
"Do with itl" echoed Mrs. F.;"many
things. I might want to be married
again, you know, and it might save
me from making n fool of myself*
second time."?Boston Transcript.
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Chinese Servants. [
A lady, recently returned from t
long residonce in California, said:
"I was constantly meeting witt (
frosh examples of the strong clannish *
spirit prevalent among the Chinese at (
the transcontinental seaboard. Or i
one occasion I conferred with a China
man in regard to taking the familj
wash by the month.
j " 'Twelve dolla,' he said.
" 'Too muchee,' I replied, in his owr <
dialect. 'Other Chinaman eight dolla.
" 'No,' quickly. You pay Sing Let
ten dolla - one day.' And I recallec
that some time before, while living it
a remote locality, I had indeed employ <
ed such an Oriental, retaining hinc ]
only one month at that rate.
Later, in keeping house, I had i '
Chinese cook, several, in fact, one final i
ly leaving me somewhat abruptly, or 1
account of which I refused the ful
month's wages. His first successoi
spent only a few hours in my hous?
before he gravely announced:
" 'Ma go, me no stay.'
"Two finished each a day, and thet
departed with the same brief, emphath
declaration. Number four appearec
quite satislled for three days, but a',
the end of that time he, too, followed
his predecessors. In some concern, ]
called in my husband's office boy, ;
bright young Chinese lad.
"'ChingFoo,' I asked, 4wliat is tht
matter? Chinaman no stay here.'
" 'Ah,' he said, 'me know, may be;
and he went into my kitchen, whithei
1 followed him, wholly perplexed. II <
looked carefully all about, peered int(
pots and kettles, upturned tubs and
buckets, lifted lids, and turned ovei
chairs, as If looking for something.
"When he mished tho r.lnrk frr?m u?
place on the shelf he uttered a quicb
cry of discovery."
" 'Lookee,' he said, 'and pointed t<
a row of Chinese hieroglyphics on th<
back of the clock.
"Having them translated, I discovered
that Sing Lee, my disaffected
cook, had left his condemnation behind
him."
"'She velly bad woman; she nt
payee,' he had written.'?New Yorh
Suv.
A Cheerful l'rop ecj.
Canon Farrar, the Eminent Englist
divine in his farewell lecture, delivered
in the New York Academy o!
Music, closed with the following peroration:
This country of yours is a land id
strength the most overwhelming and
in wealth the most allluent. You
have grown excellent in virtue; you
Jlave here the elements and development
of national righteousness; you
not only equal other nations, you excel
them. And why? Because you are
under the protecting guidance of s
ceaselessly vigilant God, to whom you
bow and whose gracious smiles are the
prosperity and progress everywhere
evident; a God who says. "Them that
honor me I will honor." I believe that
this America will be preserved from
the perils which will beset her, by the
hallowed memories of her glorious
dead; that her aspirations will be blessed
and fulfilled through the virtue ol
her present religious intellectuality. J
believe that she will disenchant nations
from the horrors of war by the enchantment
of her peace; that she will
lead nations in the triumphant path
which streams behind the growing
history of her government, and smite'
the hoary head of inveterate abuse
which springs up in government from
false types of orthodox faith and goodr\
aoo It'/*" f K/v?? ? - !
uko. i nicac wujncta, UMU lias glV
ea her a boundless territory, has
formed her towering mountains, haa
marked the course of her mighty rivers
and spread above all the taintless
aznre of her skies. By the blessing ol
God you are fullilling the purpose oi
God, and no power can dim the glory
which will shine in the realization oi
such divine intentions.
Presence of tilud.
Dean Stanley had a great respect for
presence of mind, and used with great
delight to tell a story of presence ol
mind by which he had liberated himself
from a dangerous visitor. Since
he was willing to see almost any one
who asked for him, he once told hid
servant to usher into his study a gentlemnu
who had called, and who happened
to bear a name which was familiar
to him.
When the gentleman appeared, Ju
proved to be an entire stranger. It was
evident there had been some
mistake. This becnm? at.ill mnra
evident, when, advancing with an
air of great, excitement, the gentleman
exclaimed, "S\r, I have
a message to the Queen from
the Most High. I beg that you will
deliver it instantly." "In that case,"
said the dean, taking up his hat, *'there
is not a moment to be 1 >st. Let us go
at once." They went down-stairs
to the hall; and opening the door, the
dean requested V.s visitor to step out.
| No sooner had he done 80, than the
j dean shut the door behind the lunatic* *
CHILDREN'S
COLUMN.
One Ijlttlo Uliymc.
5ne littlo grain in the sandy bars;
Jno littlo flowor in a field of flowers;
_)no littlo star in a heaven of Bturs;
Due little hour in u year of hours?
What if ib makes or what if it ninra?
Hut the bar is built of the little grains;
\nd tho littlo flowers mako the meadows gay;
(Ynd tho littlo stars light tho heavenly plains;
<Vnd tho little hours of each littlo day
3ivo to us all that lifo contains.
?Krnctt Whitney in Si. JVicholas.
ElepHant In Battle*
There is a beautiful story of an old
elephant engaged in a battle on tho!
plains of India. lie was a standard
bearer, and carried on his huge back
the royal ensign, the rally ing-post of
the Poona host. At the beginning of
the fight he lost his master. The mahout,
or driver, had just given him the
word to halt, when he received a fatal
wound and fell to the ground, where
he lay under a heap of slain. Tho
obedient elephant lay still while the
battle closed around him and the standard
he carried. He never stirred a foot,
refusing to advance or retire, as the
conflict became hotter and fiercer,until
the Mahrattas. seeing that the standard
was still there, flying steadily in its
place, refused to believe they were being
beaten, rallied again and again
around their colors. And all this
while amid the din of battle the patiet
animal straining its ears to catch
the sound of that voice it would never
hear again. At length the tid? or conquest
left the field deserted. The Mahrattas
swept on in pursuit of the fly
ing foe, but the elephant stood like a
rock, with the dead and dying around
him and the ensign waving in its
place. For three days and nights i
remained where its master had given
the command to halt. No brilje or
threat could move it. They then sent
to a village one hundred miles away- 4
and brought the mahout's little son.
The animal hero seemed then to remember
how the driver had given his
authority to the little child, and immediately,
with all the shattered trappings
clinging as he went, paced quietly
and slowly away.
A Legend of the Weeping Willow.
Just where the path disappeared
into the cop9e that skirted the great
dark forest, where all d;iy long the
shadows hid, and out ol which the
night seemed to come as the sun went
down, a man came, bearing an armful'
of firewood. As he jogged along ha
caught a protruding twig and tossed' .
it away. Quickly a little slip of a
girl, with sun-kissed hair and eyes of
divinest blue, ran and picked ic up.
"May I have it?" she asked of the
man.
"Ye may have it without asking, if
ye'11 take the trouble to stoop for't."
returned he.
"I'm going to plant it," declared the
tiny maideD, lightly holding the twig
between her soft finger tips.
"What*II ye do that for ?" said the
man. "It will never grow."
"Oh, it will if I tend it," confidently
returned the lassie.
With another look at the windblown
curls and the eyes like heaven,
the man went his way and the wee
one planted the twig.
Every day she watered and tended
and watched the little wisp, with its
slender, silvery lining. Day by day it
grew larger and sturdier, and swayed *
more gracefully in the summer wind;
and the little maid clapped her hands
in her glee, as she cried "I knew it
would grow."
Again and again the seasons came
and went. The castaway twig had
grown into a beautiful tree. The slip
of a girl on the verge of womanhood
stood. Then it was the hand of the
death angel touched the lovely maiden
and chilled the warm life in her tender
frame and put ont the light in her
beautiful eyes.
Th6y made her grave beneath the
tree she bad planted and fostered, because
she had wished it, and mourned
her long and deeply.
But now the tree, they that had
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iuvou uer uuieu, seemea 10 aroop and
languish, and on the breeze there came
a sound as of sobbing and sighing,,
which shook the tree through all Its*
branches to its very core, and quivered!
and trembled in each pointed leaf.They
said it seemed almost as if that
insensate thing grieved like them?.
seemed?for they held it could not bei
so. Still the tree languished, untiti
every upward turning branch withi
every twig hung down, and every leaf!
from its twig depended; and each)
night and morning the dew droppedi
like a tear from each slender point and'
fell on the grave.
Then they said: "The tree truly 1
grieves for her." The "Willow" she!
had named it, and now they called it*
'Weeping Willow."?Happy Hbitrs at
Home.
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