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From Porter's Spirit of the Times. "
,j -An Old Field School in Georgia, Thirtj
v- * Years Ago.
'' FIVK cnAPTEHS OF A HISTORY?DY PHILEMON PEKCIT
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n- u Books/"?There is nothing at all terri
g'j ble in ll)i8'snn*j>le iv|j|rj. On the contrary
e- it-is a ino^l 'harmless word. It always sng
, gests quiet and contemplation ; and. thougl
d ittfs true that books do often.procure agita
^ tions in the minds of tpfeo .'and in lliu state
I- of sycietv itself, sometime^ even eflectinj;
great- revolutions therein, yet, the simplt
'' enunciation of tha.? won], it would stein
>r would never be adequate to the production
)0 of the smallest amount of excitement; and
iO i?s little would it appear in looking upon il
from almost any point of view at which one
10 could get oneself, to be capable of nllnyimj
excitement, and causing instantaneously llu
iO most perfect stillness. I never could exactly
tell why (T, Philemon Perch, win- am
0 about to devote five chanters to the record
0 ing of a few incidents which transpired on?'
0 forenoon in a country school house, in Geor
0 f?ia,-thirly years ago.) I sav, I never could
o w
() ti;ll exactly why it is, that, as often as I haw
0 thought of the old customer in England ol
J[ reading during the progress of a riot the
n Kiot Act, and hegun to wonder how in the
naroe of common sen^*, it could quell a riot,
r) my mind has as often recurred at once to
n
" Hie scones i nin about to relate, and admit )
ted, but reluctantly, that the reading of the
j act aforesaid might be about as proper a
i tiling as could be done on such an occasion
| ?for there was one point of view, or rather
a point of hearing, from which one could
observe the la*t mentioned phenomenon,
| occasioned by the enunciation of this word
: twice a,day for fire days in a week. It was
the word of command with which Mr. Israel
. Meadows was wont to announce to the pupils
of the Goosepond school house the
opening of the school, rooming and after
The Goosepnnd was situated in one of
the counties of Middle Georgia, on the edge
of an old field, with original oak and hirk'
ory woods on three sides, and on the other
1 a dense pine thicket?through this latter
' there went a path, which led to tile school
house from a .Neighboring planter's house,
xvhere.Mr. Meadows boarded. The school
house itself was about one hundred and
1 twenty yards from the edge of this thi.ket,
atjlhc place where the path emerged from
I iL
i On a cold, frosty mornincr. cnrlv in the
month of Dcccmber,in .the year 182,7-rabout
K labors ami girls wye assembled, as*.
/ Jrsual, ?? llio Goospp6ndij waiting fur the"
j1 faster?some of both nexes conning their
:lti^u>ns, and some playing?the buys at bull>*?<
the girls at. jumping rope?but nil
th^m; with one exception, those playing
id those studying?the latter though the
OS erly?watching the month of the
th at which the master was expected.
ie studying were the most anxious. The
ayafci^ecined to think the gameAvorth the
udle; though the rope jumpers jumped
itlir0ifif faces to tlie thicket, and when a
y about to throw a ball, he^vould
HCto tlie corner nearest the thickefj and,
? "? 11 moment, would turn
s f?ut& nn^dbtantly throw in the opposite^
eet&p. The students, they walked to
d?o before the school-house door, nil
i/TyTpp aloud, anrl apparently exhibiting
jiteoyprontest anxiety to transfer the se1
yrets oM$jowle<lge wfikh their hooks contirtned'to
t^eir little heads. There was one
* hoj^nj^fftiy 111 a r, w h oso eagerness for the
acqaiaEion of knowledge seemed to amount
^ -tetf?.e,riio.st violent patsirirh. lie was" a ravy.
" ;boned hoy, of fifleer^x-ars; vjjfth very light,
I. con: e hair, nnfl a freckled face- H? wnr..
w-* 7r?5"* y* ^
|j?- a roundnbdut, twd pants of ^Krorn^ walnut[>
dyed, hoibeapuu clulb, ragged sealskin, cap,
* and red,coHrwbrt^ans.wthoiitRcftika., lie
e had d?Bno up, afu>'r nearly nil thq otf?*Wu:i<l
3 gotten there?the lived three ^mile* and a
^ half from tlie School house, nnd?fcalked the
y ^vay back nVd foyth evor/'d'a^. llo'came
t n palavering and ?tudying,;^and performing
8 .bofb of these a ppi^epolo n si s t e i > t operaU
iiono wUli great violence.
,, '^Hnljow, Brinkly " fihouted half a dozen
Qot in jntiuio this morning* |
ha! hftj Why you .are" tod Rooftf royjbjty?
Jue. viop\ bs l&re for a qttartar^&idiAUr vil.
amount of risibility?yit contains a sini]
r truth, and expresses it in simple terms. A
yd, so it was, that. Mr. Alien Thigpen bu
into a tremendous roar of laughter; anil,
if lie understood thai the proposition li
been submitted to liiin for ratification,
denial, answered :
, "Well, iirinkly, 'spozin'it is. Who
the dickens said it weren't? I didn't. I
, yon. Sum Pate ?"
r "Do what ?" said Sam, pausing in the ;
of throwing die ball.
"Dili you say that a empire wan'ta-?wl
| I3iinkly s;ii<] il was ?"
"A what Brinkly said it was?"
"A empire*."
"1 <Iiil?'t hear what Urinkly said it wa
Allen strode up behind Urinkly and, lu<
ing over his shoulder,said sjowly : "Acoi
trv POVL'l-ni'd hv ill! lumiornr "
' No, I never said notliin' about it, no
don't luir notliin' about ity^Kioither," a
away went the ball; but Sam liar! thro
it too suddenly, after looking towards t
mouth of tlie path, and lie missed his in:
Allen laughted exceedingly at this effi
at humor, but Brinkly did not even not
il'e interruption ; lie walked to and fro, a
shivered and studied, lie bowed to the bot
*5T
lie dug into it, he grated his teeth, not
anger, but in his eagerness to git what v\
in it, as he called it; he tried to fasten it
his head, whether or no, by slightly char
ingthe words and making them, as it we
his own to command.
"An-yempire," said be, fiercely, but. r
over loudlv, "is a ke-untry, ge-uverned by
, v-v.emperor." *
"And what is a y-vetnperor, Brinlcl;
asked Allen, and lie laughed a<;ain.
ft- ? ?
"0I?, 'Allen, please go way and let I
alone. I most had it, and you've put i
out, and it' I don't know it, you know ^
Meadows will beat me. You know he lot
to b^at me anyhow. Now let nie alone ;
jist sorter begins to c.ume to mo now, am.
could git it," and he went on shivering a
studying, and shiverin?rly nnnouneii
among other thiugs, that "an y-yempire w
a ke-untry ge-uverned by an y-vemperoi
emphasizing each one of the polysyllables
their turn ; sometimes stating the propo
tion slowly and cautiously, and rather inU
.rogatiy^-ly, as if half inclined to dmihtj
at otlnns, asseiting,it with a vehemen
which "showed it to bo his settled convict it
that it was true, and that whoever doubt
it, it was plain, did not know anything
all a'cSout the subject.
Allen Thisrpen looked at him with a ha
pitying, half-ludicrous expression of fa<
and turning from him went up to where
rosy cheeked- little fellow of eight years w
sitting on a blufhp with a spelling book
| his la]), uikJ willi a pin in his right hati
spelling and dotting every fouth word, aft
retfilintj llie following : '
'Betsy Wiggins,
"Honeriltur Bangs, *
Mandy Grizzle, ?
'"Mine, (dot)*A a, l-i-g-}pj?light?aligl
"Betsy Wiggins.
"Henerilter Bangs,
"Mandy firizzlo,
jiMine, (dot) D-e, de, 1-i-g-h-t, de-ligh
and so ori.
Allen laughed again.
I, yi, niv littlo Mv. Asa, and 'spos'n Bel
Wiggins misses her word, ur Ileneritt
Bangs hern, and Mandy Grizzle hern, th
who's goin* to spell 'em ? I want to kne
Anrl what'll you give me," continued Alii
placing hift-rough hand will) ironical fun
uess on the child's head, "what'll yott gi
ine, not 16' tell Mr. Meadows that yo've be
a gUtin' your own words ?" ^
"Ob, Allen, now pleaRQ don't." 2
''VWiat'I! vou?iye me?" - 1
>., > ? -f
"Tfcenty ehesiuulB;" and *tbe littleTelli
dived into-bia pocket?,'"and coupling c
ttfen^y, bandied them" to .Allen.
"Got any more?" asked Mr,. ,Tbigp<
cfackjng one with .his teeth.
' "Oh, Alien, please douU take 'ein all."
"Out 'em, ypu little w3rd-jfjjfer."
Asa disgorged to tlio . last one. >A11
ate oti^ ojr two, looking qU^jeally;;
cbijd's face, and then bonded theriivback
H?CTake.-frou'r cbesfrfrrfn, 'Asa Boat right, a
???# *u??? & i*?i. -
Jmmatyui you aiWBrinkly Gfc?pfe)4
[>li? ' Allen Tliig|H*n, I am no more afraid ?>f
ad liiin llian you arc, nor than I am o' you.
ist I aint wail'u' to git a man, to pay him hack
, as for the beat ins he has giv me. Do you
iad tliink that's what makes me stand what I
or do? If you do, you are mich mistaken.
Allen I'm a tryin.' trying' all the time hard
in to keep down, on mother's account; I've
)id (old her of some o' his treatment tome;
and that I wouldn't stand it, and she's alnct
ways a cryin' and takin' on about it, and
l<*lliuT mo shu'? so anxious for me to git a
jiit filMention, and that this is my owrilv
chance ; anil it do seem like it would nigh
an in about kill her, if I was to lose it ;
" ^Uiat I have been a tryin' all I could to yet
s". the lessons, and to keep from fightin' him
jh when he heats me, ami I could got 'etn if
"i- I had a chance. But the fact is, I a'nt
got on fur enough in rend in' to a been put
> T in litis j<?graphy, and la-'s just put me in
nd it before I learn to read right, jist to git.
*n out o' mother the extrv pay fur j'igraphy,
he and I can't git it, and I bait learnt nnthiu'
v: t? . l ' ... ' -
Mnce i ve ricen put in it; anil 1" tell you,
>'"t 'Allen Thigpen, again, that I ain't goin* to
i? e stand it much longer, nur I ain't goiu'to
lid pay you chestnuts not to tell liitn 1 said f.o,
>k, neither."
Ilooraw," shouted Allen. "Give me
,,,R your hand, Brinkly." In a lower tone:
,n uIiy jingo, I thought it was in you. I seen
'n" you many a time, when I thinks I to inyrc'>
self, "wouldn't take much to make Brinkly
Glisson fight you, old fellow." Then, ta
101 king him a liitle way off, hejwliispered :
an '-You've stood enough already, and too much
, too. My hlood has biled many a time,
r
' when he's beaten you ; and I tell you, don'i
stand it no longer. Ef he beats you again,
pitch in him; try to ride him from the inj
gwine; he can maul you, I expect,buflook
at this," raising his first, of about the sizo of
a mallet, "I'm here, and I'm some."
I ^ Brinkly looked at the big fist and brawny
, arm, and smiled dismally. . f
nd ,
"Books!" shouted a voice, and Mr. Tsraol
Meadows emerged from tho ticket, with a
n handful of hickory switches.
In an instant, I here was an immediate
rushing of boys and girls into the schoolhouse?all.exi'fnt
Alli?? wlm ?n?A- iiiu
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jt. j Master Asa Boat right was the last to get in.
^ Ho had changed his position, and was walk,n
'"o-huok in hand,- apparently all-absorbed
I in its contents, though his eye was on the
mouth of the path of tho schoolmaster,
whose notice he was endeavoring to attract.
" ' ?r
If lie walked, though with, more rapidity than
Allen, with less than lhe$98t?;book in hand,
^ bowing,'and digging, and diving intoit,
when, lie looked up and seeing him,suddenin
'-v P"vo one wore dive into hi* book, and
|tj darted into the school-house.
er . It was a rule in the Goosepoi)d school,
. tlTat the scholars should all he in and i:t
their seals wjten Air. Meadows arrived. His
ituiii, nils hj anuiu duuksi iroin me niouui
of ilie path, nnd to walk then w{jl?.great
rapidity Lo the house. Woe to the boy or
girl who was ever too lute, unless it was
- Allen Thigpeu. ilu had, somu months before,
been heard to sn? that, "dmg any such
(?? rule; he did not intend to break his neck
forMeadows,, nor nobody else," and
bo was^wout to tako his time., rjf lie got in
?y behind the master, which seldom happened,
or that gentleman was kind enough not tfrno
en .liceit, an illa$(rntiqn of an exception to the
(Wi, .fine^list'iplin <>? schoolmasters, which was
Bn> ^uile romifoiftf tr the generation'in which
rj. -Mr. Meadows, lived and flourished. . iVe
. OUi'jWi.oddSsio.n't when Mr.'Meadows mw'
en Allehf Rnwing thnt Uie gait at *fcrh|ftfi he
kW.is walking would. twice hhn irisido the
school-hou<ia before . Allen^coukl get in,'be
l halted n-Jiule, and faking If stop'or two,
stooped dfiwn and having untied one^of his*
nlfoe-8(rin<Tft^ho-tipd it VH?ft3fcffrtif'
,ul __ a - ' - " *
Jperaiion^^fc going on, Allen went iny Mrv
gjj - Mt^do4?, ria\n g. ite ipediaVeIy, struck into,a.
: . very brink *alk,?aifto apologise for his der
lajf, andxheo'ipniored ihto and upon the.
. rgpm ?, y;-; v.
SfiJ ^ '&'attjjy Is^pOrtst^i
^\VI?ifeyb^a*W'tV?i ' in M&Jeo, Gnn.,
T-^-r?'^f?
ummmam
Married Man's Lament.
BY J,,A. TURNER.
Oft in the stilly night,
Before I had got married,
I till the morning light
In i$roc?*rieH often tarried,
I there did drink of punch and gtn,
And with my friond grew merry ;
But lung alas the time has been
Siu?e I sipped port and sherry.
Thus in tliu stilly night.
Ere Sully's chain had bound me,
I drunk till morning light.
Communions nil around mo.
Whfen I remember all
The friend* that drank together,
In grocery, or at bull.
In hot and wintry weather,
r r _i IM-. ?* - ? ?
i jvci line one wno ireuus mono
Sotno grocery deserted,
Whose Impes are dead, whoso brandy's fled,
Aud he to hoinc departed.
Thus in the stilly night, (
Since Sally's chain has hound me,
SaJ memory brings the lisjht
Of other nights around mo.
A Soft Place.
''I was flown to see the widow vesterdnv,"
s;ii< 1 Tim's undo, "and she gave ine backli.mes
for dinner. I went down rather early
ill the morniup; we talked and laughed,
and chattered and run on, shy gyin<r oiift
and in occasionally to see to things till din*
nor was ready, when she helped me graciously
lo backbones. Now I* took it as a
symptom of personal approbation, everybody
knows I lovo backbone*, and I Haltered
myself site bad cooked thcimon purpose f??r
me. So I grew particularly cheerful, and 1
thought I conlil see it in her too. So after
dinner, while sitting close beside the widow,
I fancied wo both felt sorter comfortable
like?I know I did. I felt that I had fallen
over head and cars and heart in love
with her, and I imagined, froiu tho rny
she looked, she had fallen teeth and toenails
in love with me. She appeared just
for.all the world like she thought it was a
coming?that I was ? going to court her.
Presently I couldn't help it, I laid mv
hand softly on her beautiful shoulder, and I
icmarked, when'I .had placed it there, in
my blankest to no, Tiin, for I tried to throw
tny whole soul in tile expressiyjp, I remarked
then with my eyes-pouring love, truth and
fidelity upon her, "Widow, this is the nicest,
softest place I ever had my hand in all my
lire." *
Looking benevolently at me, and at the
same time flushing up a little, she said in
melting and winning tones :
"Doctor, give me your baud, and I'll
put it on a much softer place."
"In a moment of rupture I consented
and taking my hand, sjje gently, very gently,
Tim, and quietly, laid it on mv head ?
and hurst into a laugh that's ringing in my
earsxvet.
"Now. Tim, I haven't told this to% living
soul but you; but I couldn't hold it
any longer, so I tell you ; but mind, it
mustn't go any further."
N. V. Spirit "of the Times.
The "note and query" department in
newspapers?especially the hebdomadals?
furiii^hes a tedious amount of ignorance,
imbecility, verdancy, impudence and non*
m*nse. The BiiIIhIo Republic, devotes a half
column, in burlesque, of this sort of literature
and gives a lot of answers to imaginary
questions, whie.b are exceedingly amusing.
The fact of not publishing the questions,
but leaving the reader to inter them fiom
the answers, greatly heightens tho fun of
the thing. Ilere are some specimens ofthe
Republic's.replies to ^correspondents :
Hnqufrer. The foa'ith of July^loes not
occur on the 22d of FeUiuilry?jio>r is it, ns
you suppose, commemorative oT anything
that ever happened to the Rochester "Union.'
. Rflberlson. ^Ile was not in the slop pail.
Hu was tindftr the bed. **
Mother.,' Reverse and spank.
Brid^. ^ictoria.pius cau be Ua^atS.O.
BariininW -* > "
Statistics. ?Sev^u times five are'tbirty*
rttr.f- v ' "V
ra-fiiffi * . J V1**
Il?lpn. Yott- can keep -thorn up with
"elastic*". .. -" .... ' Mediciis.
. ^p|5ly shoemaker's 4/nx, and
'then, sqtieez ite' 1 . '
Geographer. Roehestor is on tho c%n<ii,
enfit of Lncknort. ^
. Siumtiijcnko. Fifteen droffs enoli of
Ih?<|hi>u spa camphor, and rub it?^y. ^
. -'AmbitWiiu>~V?ry few meii will descend
so far. be epoken of for Aldi-rma^ iiir
volves l(A?df reputation, . friend* .and citi zei?hhip.
You can imagine. wjiHtji man
mpst beMo^be elected?* such. * v $
gr -*Jiruipj i? IJU ojjcuujiiuvu ttu v?:uwuru
with tiiose who itf .yaluo 4?nd
ItJiHfWi deeper fftirpdap, .and ils .pafh b?corrfea
district jntd easy* in proportion a? ft*
in e*if^3jf*|ly and fallj&pftrsuod. The rqdest
or tSV most, refined pursuit, if adapte^o1!
the w^nte ?nd^rtpm:iMe? of (lui pi|?uer, J};is
^u.I^0r.: conpy
u__.ll i
Lonokviiy of Literary Men.?The"
j concluding lecture of the series of Smith i
soniun lectmes delivered bv Dr. Wynne,
I was confined to the eftuct ofleisure and literary
employment upon th?j duration of
life. The lecturer <1 ivw his examples of a
life of leisure chiefly from English r&cwls
which embrace a class among the English
nobility who are placed above the necessity
for labor, and necessarily freed from the
ordinary stimulants which in the usual
walks of life move men to exertion. Until
the last few years tiro members of noble
families were supposed to ho placed in circumstances
bi?rlilv Aivm-ul.ln t,-,r.~....:i..
o-v
l?nt carefully collated facts, derived /ruin
the most authentic tourers by Prof. Guy,
or King's College, London showed lliitt,
with a few rare exceptions, such as those of
Sir Ralph de Vernon, who is said to have
attained the age of one hundred and fifty
years, and three Misses L<'gge, descendants
of the Earl of Dartmouth, two of whom
dieil at 105 a<M one at 111, t lie duration of
life was le? among them in any other class
and far below those embraced in the list of
friendly societies, made up entirely of the
wot king classes, Of the members of the
priviledgfd classes in England kings w< re
found to have the shortest length of life,
next peers of the realm, tlien expectants of
titles, and highest on the list those noblemen
whose grade of title placed them near
<*?t Miu ma>s ol'tlie whole population. From
this it would appear that labor formed an:
essential requisite in producing those conditjiton
necessary to n length of days, and
Uio^o who were plnrud alibva its contingencies
were rather to be pitied and envied.
Among those were embraced in the literary
class were some who, like natural
philosophers, generally attained great length
of days, ana others as poets, in which the
duration of life appeared to be short. Between
these two classes were many grades
who<e position in the scale was generally
defined by the absence orpresenco of the
imaginative faculties in tlie production oftheir
works. As a general rule the calm
anil fvalt??rl si miii?3 nl fliiif. *!
? - - r..
though pi Ion severe, were found to bo longevity,
while the developement of that imaginative
by'means of which the poet was
enabled to weave his conceptions into verse
vwa? found to abridge its deration.
In addition to tho effect produced by
different species of literary labor lipon their
prosecutors, there was no doubt that individual
peculiarities had much to do with
inducing a favorable or unfavorable result,
/ri.i* was especially the ca?e with poels, who
were as a class men of'irregular lives. The
instances of burns, Cowpi-r, Bvattie and
Byron were cited as examples of this position,
and many, of jlieir personal peculiars
ties were detailed showing them to have
lived either in a state of great excitement
or of the deepest melancholy.
The scries of led ures'just closed embince
in vast fund of valuable information upon an
important and hitherto neglected subject,
anil was listened to by. the aUdience with
great attention. They furnish a substantial
contribution to Science, and manifest
the practical value of tlie institution under
\vho?B auspices they have been given to the
public.?National Intelligencer. ;
Va , *
Thrilling Scone.
Mr. Thomas Kingston, who for> several
years has followed the business of putting
up lighting iods which of course requ'rjs
steady nerves and a firm brain, met with an
accident recently, by whicb, but for the
most singular presence of mind, or ratlier
supernatuftil-iristinct, ho would have fallen
from a dizzy height, and been dashed lo
pieces,,v IIu is compelled to climb roofs,
over chimney?, and up spire?, nnd fix a rod,
with perfect coolness and precision, hundreds
oj>f<?et above the Idvcl of the *arth t
On tho occasion to which we refer, Mr.
K. I>nd ascended St. PaulVCathedral,
whoso spire is about two hundred aod thirty
five feet high, near the Broad way, and gone
to the very top, where having lef&hts ladder
below; he clung {by his arms and leg*, fas
tuned the last foot of tho rod and* attached
its point;?quite a heavy piece of metal?
socOrely, asdio stipposud, to tlio .orOss surmounting
the steeple. *Uo hnd ju?t completed
this difficult and dangerous tnsk.f
watched by a number of persons iu. the street
belowt>4ind while looking at the work and
experiencing thai*. satisfaction,,which results
from hnzurd pasM;d and labor accomplished
of a sudden something strudfe -.him nrfd
,'m'ado his brain^Wel'uritil Jii co'ald hardly
see. Iiytcad^f iossinghis hold as
*?9}jld Mem to havo^je natural nnd ir^vitftjfrle
rtauft^Uo clang with a^pow^r
jttinself^knd ^ will superior.Jk?l>$ .fijjfa,
-pldjtor and iOBtinctivfly to ''
"fcoejj? not' whnikVlMd
confused, sense it''appeared^tha^tiie
wR8;^i.win?F; ^ ng6 <^a?e*
one foot ctuitiousjy, tnejftiis a |in van^mihjL
moved thq other foot, and After a lfalf rjjl0[- wv-jj
utg of exyjrlion, and tfie.greatest danger, |.t#
touched the to^ftiast round of tbe"hld&0>? *'
! and in. a few sc^oYms more was inside of
I the fitcple and safe". " '
Then it was Mr? K.Vgreat courage ap^ )
strength forsook him ; his nerves a&d niut**
c.les relaxed; he grew , sick unto death {
his knees gave way, his vision awam^ 'and - '
he sank upon the platforjTi . uibtioi^lesi an^
insensible. lie must have lain.there:half?
nn hour before he could rise and walk, and **
u? .cj ?-? -?^ -t' -
vaiu uui icuuvcr iiuiu me 6D00K ior mora
than a fortnight nfterward"?' ' " ^
The people gazing up. at himfrom'thf
street describes lite scene as painful and
exciting in '.lie extreme. When they
served llie rod fall, ft: thrill of ' h'OrrOr TU. <vV
; V
through their hearts, and twp.ri women
swooned aWay? for they expected: to;behold
him the next"inoirient dashed to p|ece*:?t
th^ir feet. Destiny had oi^r^!
and Mr. K. still puisuea' bi?&|Mjg{ffoi^^^ | %
cation: but Im R?*7n if* l?? ?i2v?K Vx 2k?ik*j?* ??
? w-v; ~
thousand years be .never would ^forgetyifc. '
intense hofror- of those centur^'-like mo,?
meiits when he seemed ta hang upoi^tbe v
aif more than two hundred', feet above th#
earth, and to be m om e n tf?ri 1 ydescieridifi|f46F
a dreadful d c aih. ?-Cinci^natyEnq^iiret.
? ' j- ^ "t>
--A Tal? of JBooUW^d*, '- - ,
A pnrly of trooperf-entefred the house of
a flrido'w,"-and demandedrand received, refresh
in c^iit. A wellgrown lad/the, widow'#
son, waited upon ibem?the^ijidpjr h?^i* $
pitahly offcriog to Iheiivwants all she,likd
| to command. ^ ~ "'3.'..
. "And how do you Jive in - the troubloua
times, Goody!' askedsone ofthe merocma??
rieB with an air of kindness. "7 '
1 "Well I tliank n?aven,"i aftswered tb#
poor widow, "my goofj man-left we a oovf-r
and a garden with-that bit of-field l ^o not
complain. _
v "Indeed 1" ejaculated the ruffian. "Oorr>
poral-Spiedgelt, what, say you -tft- try;^.
Heaven help's her wiihout a cow t$-;'* ?
" Aclr f tyeifuGott! der carten is enooftx
Mit it zome verlaohen-7-lflrl balM and' "tbv(
fellow laughed. Kill der echuchtern roaclien,
(tlio coHf.,) and- spoil ter milch and
terlcase, (cheese !)" * ^ .? " ,'f\r
"Avquotltfthe fello^, .jritb.a.hoarea
laugh ; "and so it will. So Goody, ,bera
goes with the honors of war?ta*r^l?^Qd
ho drew his sword.
J'What are you going to do T^ crifd the
youth, tpringirig forward, with tear? in hia
eyes and terror in bis face. > 1
Strike the bNtt, bob," said the. trooper,
ns one smote the bojr on the mouth, v while
(Ue.troopar.p?ssed^his8Word;;;UjK^aghvtb?
nrontln hr>>n<it t\f thn minamm
o ..;v 6?_,.v.V???VU,^.?S^l'r
the.puor cow?anil to add to tUU. sd^jU'a
deed, mowed down all the kale in thtfgar'den.
Th^lroopers then departed; <*. . ' \
Widow and child were at o i/cfc detiitati^
of every pource of existj|pce. She 8qoo>
sickened and died, lieart*prok|PQ^Qd
boy wandered away, and was not' fe<^?j>or
heard of for many a year .a.ftejv , ?..* &
During the wars in TTIanders, a party of -i
soldiers wero one afternoon ?eated round a
camp fire, and'flushed with wine and victory,
were renting some deed of ;tha pMt,
till ihey seeVned to ftlce a.Uarh,^nJTi?ing^ _ . jl.
witli each otjjer tor :%?rv ^ v
details.* v ,* . ? HH
"I once starved an old^d^nfe
Carlisle." ttid
t^Rnd'cournge. fer,
and, egad! destroy^'
to know a roir a c 1 eb u t
fatitiri :.'? 'vX^.:^kv :'S^:;
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