Uunntinfled
st istsi ss
Kt-ry brail, hfllh hlihlsi, Ssplht,
L That saulhn s>s net Snow ,
Ktsry Ills •<>• kMSon sorrow,
Kvrrr brail •">• sarral WOT
Tltno la mi may bring swrat la4n*-*,
Sun-Mar aflar btafj lain,
Cut Io olhrrt only ra.lnr,
Na rsmlltaars of tbrlr pain. ,
Wrary tfays and algbla of aarrow,
WTry tag rjra ami draggling brralli .
Us (lags kt thai last "to-wurtaw,"
Wbra Ibr >tniggtr m.U In ilralh .
Wll* tba longing (ban br rtlfl-4 I
Will lb# baart ba ynrlftrd f
Will wr Iban fai(*l unr aotraws I
WIII our lltaa ba talUSsil I
TIIK LOTTKKY TICKET.
Fr< m r > Other hfttqrUj
Mr. K chard Fogrum, or, a- hia old e
quaintance would more familiarly than
r<>apcctfully designale him, I>tck Fog
rum, or, as he was sometimes styled
on the superscription of a letter
from a tradesman or poor relation
Richard Fogrum, esq., had for some
yenrs retired from business, (<al
though he had not yet passed what is
called the middle age ; and turning bis
back on h s shop, where he had made, if
not a considerable fortune, at least a
hatul.Homi' competency, rented a small
house at llackney,or, as he was pleased
I to term it, in the country. Ill* i-atah
lishmsnt united a due attention to com-
fort with economy and -prudence.
Beside a ktdien maid and an occa-ion il
char-woman or errand-boy, Mr. Fogrum
possessed, in the person of the trusty
■sally Sadlins, an excellent superinten
dent of his little mtnage. Sally was not
••xactly 7*>uv<rna.fr, or housekeeper, at
least she as .utued none of the dignity
attache ! to such a post; she seemed in
dec I hardly to have a will or opinion of
her own. but had so insensibly accom
modated herself to her employer's w\ x
and humors, that by degrees the ap
parent distance between master and
servant dimini-bed, and as Sally, though
Tar from talkative herself, was a good
listener, Mr. Fogrum began to find a
pleasure in relating to her all th • little
newr and anecdotes he usually picked up
in hi* daily walk.
Let it not. however, be supposed that
there was anything equivocal in the kind
of unconscious courtesy which existed
between there two personage* ; a single
glance at Sally would have convinced
the moat ingenious fabricator of scandal,
and dealer in innuendoes, that here
there was no foundation on which to
build even the slightest turin e of the
kind, for both Sally's perse n ar.d face
were to her a shield that would have re
butted any notion of the sort. Ala* !
that nature, so extolled by every fret
fur her impartiality, should be at times
-o capricious in her favor*, mid la-stow
her gifts so grudgingly, even on this,-
whose very sex entitles them to be on
sidered fair ! "Kind goddess," a* Will
of Avon styles thee, surely thou did-t
in this instance behave most unfiirlr,
bestowiog on Sally Niillins an elevation
of figure that, had she been of the other
sex. might have raised her to the rank
of a corporal of 'grenadier*. Y> t, if
thou givest her an a*piring stature,and
thou gvvest her no aspiring thoughts;
and if*.hou didst deny to her soltne.r
of person, fortunately for her peace,
thou ilidst not gift her with the lexst
susceptibility of heart. If Sally was cot
lovable, was no woman on earth
who could |>o-*ibly have regretted it
!e**. Indeed, I may aafelyaver, the idea
of love never for an in*tanl entered her
head, much less had a single twinge of
it over touched her heart. She had heard
people talk of love ; and she supposed
-if indeed the ever bestowed a thought
on the subject—that there must lie
something in the world xocalled, other
wise people woul'l not have invent*' l a
name for it; but she enuld no more
pretend or say what it was, than tod*
scribe the ingredients of the sir * v e
breathed. In short, Sally was the most
| guileless, simple and disinterested of
mortals that ever entered beneath the
roof of a single gentleman, to lie the first
( ( servant where there was no mistress.
Well, therefore, might Mr*. Thomas,
who was aware that elderly gentleman
in her "dear" uncle's situation, are not
always gifted with that discretion that
beseems their year*, but sometimes
commit themselves to wedlock, in an
unwary moment, to the no small pre
judiee of their affectionate relative*;—
well, I say, might the prudent Mr*.
Thomas congratulate herself on having
found suoh a treaauere, so invaluable a
tewel, aa Sally Sadlins. She waa certain
(hat from this quarter, at least, there
was nothing to be apprehended—noth
ing to intercept her "dea-r" uncle's three
per cents from what she considered the
legitimate object of tbeir destination,
I Some alarm, Indeed, had been excited
in her mind, by hearing that Mr. Fog
rum bad been seen rather frequently of
late knocking at the door of Mr*. Simp
son ; but then again she thought that
ho'could not possibly be led thither by
i any otber motive than that of chatting
away an boor with the widow of an old
friend ; besides, this lady was not likely
to lead, or to be led, into mntrimooy.
p In her younger days Mr. Simpao*
might have been |>rtty, but IMHiii of
her nr(|ii ntiino oul<l tutollMt whfit.
.Slip "till patched; hut the | ntch win ap
plied not where coquetry Would huv<
placed it, tmt whim nrreaaity dielated,
namely, over the left eye. Mrs. Thomas
therefore oonaohd hrnrlf with the re•
flection that it wax better Iter uncle
should knock at Mra. Simpson iti.nr
than at that of a more attractive fair one.
No I her uncle, ahe woe perfectly walla-
Bed, would never marry.
"What have you got there, .Sally?"
avid Mr. Fogruin to hia housekeeper, otin
•lay, aa ahe drew something Iroio her
pocket, while -tar,ding before the aide
board oppiwite to hitn. "Ao'l pleaae
you, air," replied Sally, in a meek, but
not very gentle voioe, "it'a a bit o'
auintuwt I wan going to ahow you. You
know, air, my uncle Tim took leave of
me yesterday, before be goa to aea
again, and wo he guve me tbia paper,
which he aaya may turn up truinpa and
make tne comfortable for life."
"Well, let tne aee what it la, Sally,
la it the old fellow's will? lluEn ' why,
N.lly, th'w i* a lottery ticket!—a whole
lottery ticket; yet I will venture to ay
not worth more than the rag of paper
'tie printed on. I have myaelf tried the
lottery, timea and often, ere no* . md
never got anything but —doapi ..int.
ment.—'A blank, >'• • Msnk'—that
WHS the only an*w> , , \vr obtained
from them. What could possibly induce
your uuele to lay out hia caah in so
j foolish a manner? 'Ti* never worth]
either keeping or thinking about. No. 1
123, confound it! I know it well, I
once purchased a share of it myself—the
very first I ever bought, when ! wa<
quite a lad ; and well do I recollect that
I chose it out of a whole heap, and
i thought mvseif very fortunate in obtain
j ingone with such a sequence of figures—
J one, two, three."
Most composedly did Sdly take the
I t ickct again, not at all disconcerted at
this denunciation of ill luck, but, on
j the eontrarv. with a calmness worthy of
a stoic. 'Tis true, she did not. like '
! patience on a monument, absolutely
|-mile at grief; but then Sslly never
j smiled; nor would a smile jierbapx, if
. the rigidity of her face would have
j pprmit'ed such a relaxation of its
muscles, have tended greatly to heigh
| teo the attraction of her counte
\ nance. J
Her master in the meanwhile con
tinued eating, and wondering, and
eating, until he could neither eat nor
j wonder ro >re; but dismissing Sally with
j the dinner things, turned himself
I quietly to the fire, and took his pipe.
Mrs. Toomas was sitting one morning
eogi'uting on some miacbicf that she
| "gain began to apprehend from the
Widow Sinij -on, in c*>nequru*o of
certain intelligence -ho had the dav
before receives!, respecting that lady's
•b-igns 111 on tin* person of her uncle, i
when sh. wax -uddenty -taried Irom her
reverie by t loud rapping at the door,
and instantly afterwards who should
i n're the parlvr. but tin very subject of
her meditations—Mra. Sini|*on !■• r
self.
Tiie ap|M>aranre of so unusual a visitor '
would alone have sufficed to surpii-e
her: tut there * something in the
'good lady's manner and count* n ice,
| that denoted she came nj>on a \<rv
important err md.
"Why. Mrs. Tnorna-. ' ev- la md sin-,
I almost t il ithless, as s<ton a- he enter* I.
I 'have you heard?--your uncle"
"(io si heaven*!" cried Mrs. Thnmr',
I "wliat do you mean?—what has ban
; prned?—my jxs.r unci*-- ill dying' -
"Compose yourself. Mrs. Thomas--
, not dying- but I thought voir might
; have heard"—
Heard what ?—some accident I np
| Ose?—jswrr lear man!"
"No; no accident," returned the
j widow who by this time hrd somewhat
I recovered h*r breath: "but something
very strange—most unaccountable.
What you may think of it, I know not .
but for my part I think that Mr.
Fegrum has acted—l shall say how."
And pray, ma'am," enid Mra. Thomas,
who now began to think that it was
some quarrel between them, of which
the wibow came to inform her, "what
has Mr. Fogrum done that you should
come in this strange manner, and make
so great a fusa about it? It is some
nonsense, after all I dare say."
"Nonsense, foraoothl—well, I declare!
—however, it la no business of mine,
ma'am," returned Mrs. Simpson, quite
nettled at her reception; "and as I sup
pose you know wbat has taken place,
and approve of it, I have nothing fur
ther to aay."
Mra. Thomas now became unaftection
ately alarmed, and apprehending vhe
knew not what, requested to be infor
med what had happened, without fur
ther delay.
"Why ma'am, then, Mr. Fogram is—
married, that's all."
To describe fhe effect those words
had upon Mra. Thomas, would be ira
possible, and to paint the expression
of ber countenance, equally unavailing.
"Married!" screamed ahe out, at
tengibfgm noon aa she could draw ber
breath, "Married! iiii|Muwlb|i- and (<i
whom?"
To whom? to M,illy Madliii*, uia.am."
To Sully Hadlina' impossible you
Hunt be joking."
"Not I, I viiurii you. I'm not * |.
"in, Mix. I hoioit*. to rnak such jokes.
I myself ww tlli'ln, less than nn hour
ago, pus- I.jr my wlndow(in n poet-chaise
together, und ihim learnt thi< wboli
story front those who wuw them atop in,
to it, at the church door."
"Oh ! Mr. Nimpaon, how I have
I been (iMi'iml 10 lliat insinuating hussy,
'< Sally Madlius Mh<* who seemed wo
i staid, ao discreet—ao very unlikely a
person. What an old fool ho uiuwt be,
to nutrry wo vulgar a frump."
Nay, do not agitate yourself my dear
ma'am," waid Mr*. ,Sirii|iwon, who now
having disburthened herself of her
secret, and her being
perhaps carried off by that of Mm,
Thomaa, which noted aw a conductor to
it, had quite >-"gwiiied hor composure—
"for my part I hope he may not repent
of his match."
"Oh. Thomas," ex< laimod| the other
ladv, aa her husband entered the room,
"here is neww for uw—my willy old uncle
haw actually, thia very morning, mar
ried hia maid servant."
"That is inowt confoundedly unlucky, '
cried Thomaw, "though I much doubted
whether all your management in rna
nteuvring, for which you gave yourself wo
much credit, would lie tw> any pur|iowe."
"Hut who could dream of wurh a
thing, t have no patience with him for
having married a lie haa done."
"Well my dear, I hero ia no helping
it: and perhapw afier all. sine, lie it
married, it i* quite aw well for uw that
he liwi chosen aw lie hs.''
While Mrs. Thomaw wa* ejaculating
and bewailing—now abuaing poor Sail)
us an artful seducing woman, who un
der the 111 aw k of the greatest simplicity,
h id contrived to work upon her uncle'w
weakni-Kw—and anon venting her i.
proachcw agint the la'ter for suffering
hitnwelf to be thus duped,—a p'iwt
chai-e wa we n robing along on the
road to -with the identical pair
wealed Hi it. who w re the subject of
tbiw invective and clamor. The intelli
gen<e, of which Mm. ba I l-.-n
the illwali'OHle mew.etiger. Wa,, in fscl.
crrect in every particular: for Richard
Fogrum, wingb- mm, and Sally Sadlmw,
spinster, had that very morning been
lawfully unit. I in wed lot k. although'
but a lew ilayw before, had any one
prognosticated wuch an event, the)
would no more have beloved it |e.i
b.e than Mrs. Thomas hrelf.
"Now my dear .Sally" waul the wome
what stale Benedict, Isving hiw hand
rwther gently than amorously, on that
of the bride, for which, by the |.y, it
was no m itch in -i/e—" I doubt not
but mv ni.-ce will I*. in a towering pax
wion when she hear- of thi-. however, no
matter; let her. an 1 the rt of the world
wsy what they please. Ido not —. why
a man may not juwt aw wc|t follow hit
own fane ew a those of othor perw int.
Ileaidew, S.aily though folks mwv think
tbet I might have made more ad
i nntageoua ma'ch, in (Hunt of fortune,
at lewi, they mav perhaps be in error.
I have a piece of in'elligencc to coin mil
nicaie, of which, |.crhp-, you little
dream. You recollect that lottery
ti kct? —well! passing the I.ucky Corn
cr.' by the Mani >n h >u> . twod >\ -go,
I beheld, |i|ei| tip at the wind >w, N >
121. 20.0HMW II w! Ha! > I well did I
rrc dlert thowe figures ig im -one. tw >,
three' they follow e ch other a in
iir.il-a u> A, It. C. S-> I rani" home, but
determine Ito *w, nothing ti I row.''
The r- a ler haw alrevlx been informed
that Swily waw the mowt phlegmatic of
hr-r ■ X: wt Hit may h *uppo-e,| that
such an interesting d wcl-wure would
,hni e elicited tome ejncu'ntion r.f exulta
tion even from the bpw r.f a stoic Yet
Hilly, with wonderful cninjio ure.
in-rely r-plied, "La, now that i* cur
IOU*.
"Curious! yee, but I awure you it iw
quite tiue .I am not joking."
"Well. what an odd turn thing* do
sometimes take!"
"Odd, indeed I for who would have
thought that my identical unlucky num
ber, 123, shouhl bring you— l may aav
ua, Sally— twenty thousand pound*. '
Hut, air Mr, Fogrum, you are mi*
taken, 1 mean to way "
"No miataka at all, my dear—quite
certain of it—took down the number
in my pocket-book —sew here—l23. '2o.
0001. Yee, but "
"But whatV
"Why, you won't hear me, Mr. Fog
rum," said Sally mildly. "I was only
going to say that two month* ago— I sold
tha ticket.."
"How 5 what ! —told !" groaned out
poor Fogrum, and tank gasping against
the aida of the chaiee.
"Now pray don't distress yourself,
Mr. Fogrum,'' said Kelly, without tha
least visible amotion, or any change in
her lona; "did you not, yourself, tell
ma it waa not wo'.b beeping, ao I
thought—'well, mister must know bet
ter about these matters than I, there
fore I may as well nuke something ofit
while I oan ;so I changed it away for
i this fiir-a while *l,awl, wlil'-li the man
said wa .piite a bargain only do feel
' how fine it is,"
i "daily I woman! 'bargain twenty
thousand pounds!"
Here let mm drop tha curiam, for
none but a inwsier hand could do jfl*
ti'-e tfi the bridegroom's faellng, anil I
will not impair tha effeet. bf attempt og
tfi heighten it I have only to add, that
Mr, Fogrum eventually regained hi*
usual composure, and was once known
i van to relate the story house ( over a
glass of bit best whisky, a* * dfi ll *fi' <
dote In his life.
Matrimony made no visible altrrlion
in bis mw e/r, nor in biw bride, fur the
only difference it caused with re*p' •
to tha latter, was that she sal at table
instead of alendnig by Hie si l„ board
that she was now called Mr> Pogr IM,
instead bf Hallie .Hadlin*.
Why ha waa an Abollttonlwt.
Frank 11. Wilkie, in • recent Illinois
> ketch of ex Governor Richard .1.
Hglotby, of Illinois, gives the following
incident in hi* early lile
"How was it Governor," quired a visi
tor "that you. a Ketiiuckian, became
such a confirmed Abolitionist t"
"Wall, for tn-iny reisons, hut one of
the prirc ipa! ones came (roin a negro
man called 'Uucle Tim.' lie was a
slave who had ilewcende-l from rny
grandfather to my father, and was the
only one in the 'ami'y. My father
died when I waw fl'lUill ley, and wc
became embarrassed, and in order to
divide up what little there wwa left )
•Uncle Tim' had to be wold. I well r
niemtu-r luni ww l. stoo-l ii;><n w lwg
lux lobe ready fcr the wale He was
a powerful man. fir atei/e the average
beigi.t, with a masily betring a fine
face and skin aw elm-k a- e'eiuy. He
bad always been veaggind of uw children,
j and I thought almost aw much of turn aw
It he had been niv father. Aw he atoo)
Waiting lie irn i ,|e 1. w.la tears sir. arj,-
ing from hi* eve*, a hrotber of rny father
to buy him. That w<* Impossible, and
wurmiwing uw cause I .,,d :
" 'Uncle Tim, I it ri going to work to
erii money an I wiern I get enough
I Will buy you alld set you free
"Hn f.tcc lignte.i up with pride
arid pleasure a* I said this, hut which
was immediately followed by a look of
bewpvir. He came down. Ilfic-I rne up
in htw arm* ati-l said sadly 'I banks
Mrn Ihck, y--u are w |-oor orpbwnt and
won' newer be ricbenuugii to buy Uncle
Tim. He was sold, sn-i t.emg past bis
prime Of |y brought -"tn<-
"J moved to 111 no,we in time : I wtrug
gled I went bsi k to Kentucky and
grew no richer. I u-ed to wee t'ne'e
Tim occasionally, and I ilwayw awurvl
b in that some dy I w.,ul<i buy him.
He seemed to lot, n t'i me gr U
--fully, but ajifwarently had no h"j-e r.f
, wucrr-ww. In I went to • wldornta,
and sft<-r much eff >rt I m. lea few
thousand dollar- and then returned
to the Male. The tirwt fiing 1 d.d
wa* to fulfil my prrrniwe. I went the
money to my brother and Uncle Titn
wa* purchased and fr*e<|.
"I *i- standing front of thr porch
of mv brother'* houe some data later
when I'rrleTim mme our of a piece of
woods a little di'tanc* awvy and *p
p.roachc-1 wl"tig a path. It www a strik
ing p dure such I tier, r b-f,,r or
winee have Wir n esse b lie Wat agi >ll'
in statue; h abundwot gray hir
w*w thrown tiwck on hi stioul h •*, his
face w* livid wwher. remind ngone oftli
wtst'jeof Mo-. wby M It lAt "*lo. His
cointen in "w is aglow -here f iglcefiy
rose wi'l with e*psnd<"l cbe*t t-rought
Ins upraised artn down w.th the wwrr p
of a sledge hammer, and continued -
'and shone * if iighn 1 I v th- very
spirit of the II dy Cibost.' When he
caught sight of me he st ippe I, threw
up hi* hands and exclsimr I . 'My God ;
My 1 1 d ' haw the littl" orphan l>oy
livol to buy and *t me fis.
' Then he put his arm. about me and
tried to lift me a* of old, hut he had
grown too weak and I too large. 'You
can't Hit roe any more. Uncle Tim,' I
said. 'No,'be anwwere i in a *ad tone,
and then with an exultant tone he
shouted a* be turned bit faoe Lowarbw
the sky, 'Halleluiah ! Hallelujah! Use
free!' "
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sr ** oi.o ox*.
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I is spelled ei or ie, make a u and put a
dot over tbc middle of It.
Caroftilly avoid a "plain round band" |
style of peotnanahtp. Nothing will so
effectually conceal had blunders aw illeg<
hie manuscript.
Write on both sides of the paper,
recroev the lines, and then turn it up
and write on tbs edge if you want to.
There is no law again*! it.
Because you oocaaionally find tin
grammatirsl sentences in newspapers
do not take it for granted that that kind
of composition is preferred.
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