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EITTIKE/ NELLIE.
• .
. W hen the droi.ph"%lg blue bell lingei•ed rY
,
On the moviy 'griss-grown. hill I
Arid the little ignowy starfloret.
-
-Bent above the flowing run;
When the lovely babe - lir_ setptiter .
, Wooed the'bref , iesw:thderitt by,
Then ohi little angel-Nellie • '
• Folded her sort n g s• to
Tivilight had the curtains gathered,
vinnkl - them gently wits a star,
And the fragyant summer zephyrs
floated swo,tly . freni afar ;
Softly kissed the marble forelte::d
,•
OF our little atilleleAs. one:,
I t ightly
. waved goldi.n ,ringlet*
Tinted by the s e tting min,.
Teen the snowy lid was lilted ,
From above the Vi,olet . eye,
And a voice of san,,ie'sily'ry •
hiveted s a ...e.et
Tearful eyes xy,ere bendia:g o7er her,
.•Lent "love g s lor;cs" toiler ,own,.
Gentle quires i'ad and Mournful
Answered low her trembling. tone.
,
Bat the irlol 'fair' wfis shattered,
• • •
• Sweetly l;:td the cliirit fled ;
1:1111n , 41 wifre ‘eings fu [ lICaFe7I
And the blue-eyed one was-tlepd.
.*
Then with elre - the shining ringlets
Twined
s they from her marble brow,.
.`.ntyped . th hatohi:ana whispered,
Nellie is La angel. nor."
:Pressed the 184 , kiss: on bcr,fnrebend,
!Iteund her wrnpped the robe of white,
:114....-11tuis twined indd,ber-tresses—
bre:Abel the Is-ft grind-night;
Ileaven retnineth nos viler trenitvs,
.I;:irth the..levely easke . i keep%
And the sunbeatUs tine to linger
•• Where our little Nelliesl'eep's: •
istrilantons.
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-- OT:-
THE LAN DE-0111r.4 Si OM'.
By eIIARLF-i DICKENS.
Tatiebball is my el4r brother by
fitteen . N;earg.. lam Sit-it
i , rother aothis. gate. at, his
snag retreat of Trataiiinglon`o‘tge, Peek.:
inint; near London, eractly' at alliarter to
t -his usual Irour--whea`the oinnibus from
the city set likm down at the end 'of - the:lane.
It was I teeeraber, Sat The Weather was fine
an, frosty, and as it Was withitCa few days
of' t`loistarts, his children--rfouria number:—
tWoHboys, j , tst.potue home Troia school, and
tWo. girls who cam,: Vinne. front seitool every
iii:}—were all on the alert .to receive. tuna
It -a world of schemes for ,the;deleetation
cfltliti coming holiklai , ,time.
lv brother .0 rich was an e4pecial family
Ile made hita, , cir the companion and
• Cit•lllW •Of hi* -children on all .ok.:casion,i'
th:tliis - -dlykiiion to his bliiin2si•in - thr3 . erty.
wcul,l admit ot. hea:ty, - chOty *vice
w+la.aril as he entered the hail an.l WhilZi
lie was bu , .y off kiis and
lwiging up his hat: Y `•.
•
r Well, my boys! well, George :Well, Miss
there. What are . ou all ;-,-
about !
I.l.j i w '
's world usel roa r since Oil m otn
-4)4 matrqua 3 The tea kettle
boiling, eh ?" • .
•
• The running fire of hilarity that alWays an
irilt.e,) iiim Seemed to - throw sunshine and• a
riorlife int 9 the hOuse, when ,lie Caine' in.
eltil , irvn•this evensvg ruched out into the
halt, aakbermuled round him with sitelt . a.
rannber • of "1 Fay; Do, yOu
kienw, jri ?" arid don't tell him now, MriryH
Ilet him •
g uess." "-Oh, - you'll never gueis i
I.g 1,
i .1 . that be . :, could only hurry them all 'into
thel ting-roori, before him, like a little ficrek
of slieei, saying,
"iWeli, seed, you 'yogne4, well, well, let ',tie
litle semOtea,.and then all about it."
the file blazed 'betinily it wair,:Atont, in.
11•10:11.4i4lit g r ate , and that and the -candles .
•
Ililae the teen; With light and•wannth, - the
'Nei , 'paradise ofCbmfOrt . : Tat tenliall,
)0110 iome wornaii . orfire-iuid-shirty ,. or so=
Ae l imialit be more, but shO•did not like it—,
7atsl l girt
• in the act of. porgiiig the...water
fr 1.41 :a very brighf •liitiO kettle, -- into the
silrer-teepOt;'andirith a situ
tiy,liosy, youthful,
..and
_yet miltrupV., faee,
.turned bmilinglvat his advance, and said.:;
dear; it -.stet a . :very cold
ni4t
"Not in this rootii, certainly, my:dear,
raid.i '
my brother trial], 4 and with !such a.
, sou.t ,,, err before ene, who zurei. fur" the .eold.
l ' 7
.entude 1" °
. \ ' liA. Tattenhall , , gave him a brighter smile
Hll.l l and the netttjlarriet coming in with
theoapt, the whole feta) , groupwere speed
o/
iiy ated around the tee-table, audthe 'oleic
;110 ,
of anticipated pleaseres and . plan 4 of
PlelfounZer populationdet luoia, , and cord!.
l alivleutered into; and widened and imprOved
, •,
It.v:my brot h er Li rieh. Ile promised them 'an
.. • ,
learli night at the very lit pantomime, and
they' were to2,read all about'all the''.'pant),
amazes iu thelnowvaPerN' and
,find oirt l'ills:4
lwas itue oft§t. -Lie,nteautto take them •tolwe
all forts of 41rtS 4 , and' right off-hand on
dirlitinas live he was Voing to set • Ups
qiri6tnas-tm, and have ehriorl l odPbet4rind
' f d ' far ---- tind g' -
11, 1
its o gifts tin er it every y: e
j '` Sot it all ready dons by a Gertnan who
, ' .
Milll
1 11
1 . .
..
i . ..cameoften to his warehouse , -and it was 1 the open plain—how it spreads and hangs in
s somewi*rt, - not Icieff, just now" : ! , • • . • i grand altitude its unobstructed boughs and
f "Thank
you, - papa l—thank -pin a thou-1 foliage ; a'ordly objec t; Just So thk i Loa- -
. I -
- 1 sand times ! 'O4 wind heaps of ! fun !" ex- - 1 don. his a vast, a glorious; -a most impos
claimed all the children, together.:. ,• - - i ing London, butitlionsands of its individuals
1• , '
. - - ,-
;. "Why, really. my dear," said '.*:llrs: T:it lin it are prey .el and circumscribed to a few
I tenball, asdeliglited`as the Children, a what,...! square _yards ; and no . taore.
.'Give me the
I
• I 1 as come to' you I ~il'.ot, • are:, quite inagnifi.l open plaia—the new country, MO then see if
1 -
cent nryOur. projects.. .- -•':
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"'robe sure," 1314 a trialt, -taking hold 'of i dren,too:" . . .
. . . ..,.
1 the hands of little Lnev, and dancing round I - Mrs. Tattenhall, now she felt. that her Ims
-1 the room: with her. "To be asnre.;-. we may i band was in earnest, sat Motionless :and con
, just as Well be •tneric as sad ; it Will be all fiunded.. The shock had come too 'suddenly
the samen hundredJyears hence." . • - upeit.ber. Her hush:mil; it, is trim, hall often
i . Presently the, ten:.tahle - - tins e l el i re d, an d,. : told her that things - Aid not mote ns he wish
!as they.drew roundthe.fire, tar brother Uri- e• 1; Ilfel - J l .ey •••;:ecint',4 liN' ell, and, steleolYrdi
i
.I alt pulled out a hook, and said, ! and - stagnant ; but when crre merchants sat
-1 - " George,there's a nie.e book, begin
,and . i‘lied -t . S.lte . liad never entertained an idea
read loud ; it will be a • re rY . pleasant . book but they should go on to the end oft he chap
; for these winter evenings, before ill the dis- I ter as they luid been .ioing on ever since she
sipation begins::. 'lt is ' Pringle's r aAventines was 'married. She was bound up heart and
in South , Africa; and is almost it - goo d as soul whit . her own country.; she had her
'R . : obison ertioe. I. knew .Pringle well , a HinlitY. frien'is and relatioe', with whom .she
time, little inan,,that y;ei never would dreatk: liy.4.d on the most eordial tettns; all her
Doubt sit on a" horse m uc h lest rifle aft. t 4 - Ii:• t:ts . o.es, feelings and . ideas welt ':Ettglish and
ons and elephants in that.style." •; , . - ; metropolitan. At the very idea :• of quitting
1 " Lionft'dn4l elephants !". ._ :. .
... . ' .Etigland, and for so new awl distant a coun
‘ ' '
'All were silent; and Geormest.adnn. lie try, she teas seized with indescribablo con
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rend till eight 0'4:104, their bed-time, and - stematjua.. : ..• - ~• .
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I. i
group._ tie whole roup— d children.-
parents, an • ." My .dear Maria," said ! her litislemd ;
e. 1 - .
: " mind, I don't ask you to go artirst. You
were - equally delighted With ' t. '" As they
dosed thej)ook : the
.f • , . ' and the children eau remain here till I have
"'Now," said -- '. ' :
father, " would it notIN•! . .
been : V lid
. :31...Vti .IVilitt. the- place and prospects
are like. -My etrotrter Sam- will look-to 'the
'',...grand fun Ito live out there and iide after the
lions and deislinittli r . -, basiness- 7 1te will soon bc at home in it-awl
" Ah, grand fun ' " said the toys; but : the it a:I is pleasant, why ; lou will come'llien, if
1 mother and girls shuddered at the lions. • - -; not I - won't ask you. I'll %yolk 'out a - good
". Wt-a, youe coukufqay in_ the htaise,you " 101 4 1 v•ta MYsell; if Po-4 1 e. or open up
comiectioi litnt M ill mewl matters
tnow,"Said - Rob. 'i '. • . .
, .." Hight, my fine fellow," said 'the. father , so he l ro ne -
Witsit-cart. I say mote I" '-,, ' •
•
chipping him on thei.l r onMer,. “ ii, - ., 'now oil' • - " Nothing, dear Urialt, nothing. But those
1 to bed,
.and, do.ain about it.". -.-,, ' -- poser children—" •.. .
Wl.en the elitlthek titre gone, my brother ' . " Tlio. , e. v.: o r children !".said Criah. "Why
: .. i
Udell stret‘4l4.4l out his ft..et on the fender and my dear 'ltitizi,. it ycii wete, to-. i:sic them
, t -,..11 ili t i, a ' il„ lice Wh en . 1111 . • brother's ii i,: , whether they would . like a voyage to Attstra
lence.bad lasted s'entie thne,.his wife said ; - lea, to go and see. the evergteen Woods,. ittlui
" Are
.
yott sleepy in v dear 1" ~. : ' gollop about all amongst gay parrots, and
i: `o:.s.;', ; never. was more wakeful;" said I. grem. kaitgarts) i 4, they would, jump' oil* their
.
t ah; "really,*my dear, I• *ever -w as : l e ss in..• :se - Sts with joy. The spii ifs of Alm young are
i.clined to bee sprightly; but - 'it wont-do to evi - ron the wing for adventere-.and new
. dash thespirits'of the children, : L e t, .alien : eoptitries. It is the prompting of that Gi * eat
. enjoy the Christmas as' midi as they can, ; 11 'Or " lticli;leis conAtructed* all this mar
i'llier will neVerhe ' oting but once," !! , . veleus utterer-.e, and bade mankind 'multiply
-;, " What to amiss ?"asked Mrs, Tattenhall, and teplenisli the earth. Don't you - trouble
witli r a quick appieltensive leek. - "is there Yourself about them., - Yoh. 'saw ;how they
• something :Mass ? Geoll'ioateioils - ; voulfright- '
, dm:pined the Ndvent.tims at the Cape, and
:•:,..- 1 you'll see. they will kindle up its a 'wonderful
en Ind?" -•- - '- -. -= .i •
! -.,, ~ Why, noiithere is nothing exactly antisq, etttliesinsin at the Prianise .of a Jvoyage to
there is nothing -new-; tut - the fact is Iltai?e ;7A:ll4r:dia. What are inntomines to Oat r .
just •taken stock, and; to-day Finished-4.4kirer f'-, '•• " Poor!thing4," said_tf.rs.: Tattenliall, 'thew
p
'.141.1 up arill.iirnek the .balance" ' I I knoti nothing about the,reality ; :ill is fairr
" And is it bad ? Is it less. than yen ea_ land telheni." ••• • , .
petted r . 4,koa.Mr--L Tattenhall, • fixini her . "The reality :'the reality, Maria,' 014 - he all
. ,
eyes. seriously on her husband's face. ~- :.fairyland ;411.1 poetry to them." . ';' -:. •
c" li/a4l! ~No, not yet bad, nor goo 4., lit .:. .11r-.. 'rave:dial! shook her heat), and re
,
.._
tell you What it is! . You've he:lrd of 4 toad t tired that night—not to -sleep, but with a
in a maul' wall ! We/I. that's- me, TWelity . very sad heart, to . ruminate -O,er , this uttex
-;-vears tyro, . Gw ent -into -business with exactly.. peek,' le%'elation' My brether's word; were,
-. :_-.
- • -
.three thuustind pounds, and here I have la-en• -- realized at the very first mention of the pro
.-trialing, mid fagging, and gettilig, and le; ing jets to the childreii, After the Ilk spick of
,\-business extending, and 'surprise and doubt whetter' ; it Was really
an d k.. ss ___..,i na kin g Large - sates, and Mtn; mealit; they became and oandediv 'delighted.
..breaking directly 'after, and,.SO the upsliot.i:.; Toe end iii it WO, that by the Middle
. of kit:b
twenty stag' and the:balance the saioe,' - tO a . : ruary;iny brother Uriali, having hail a hand-.
- ,
pound, as flint I - . began with. Three thou-' some oiler for his 'business and ,tack, bad
sand pouted-t'; I started ,witli;, and three fit;e:- wound - up all his affair' and Mrs:Tattettluill
:;p.oundr‘is . prec isely my capital -at this , tnes itavit-4 vents tact], like a good wife surd moth
.; rut. - ' ! ' -.: . . . . cr, to go with the whole family, they bade
-', '''ls that all r •
said Mr.. -Tatteulinil,• we're- farewell-to England, Mrs. Tattenhall with
1 •
41e.tfolly 'relieved. "Be thankful; my Ale...ti: many tears,- Udall serious, thoughtful,
I. 'realm, tht.S
aou have three- thous and i Kw ! pi & , t h e c hild r i en f i ll. o f d e li g h t a. t a ii .,o er i it .
.You have your bealthwondelfully ;we 4.1'0 ~ evervillieg in the ship. :•• .! • - ; ;
all our licalt'; we lute .1 c hildren, atld : pron4-" . They had a very fins voyage,thOugh, with
'rig. children as anybc y is blest . Witl . and i n
5) . very. few passengers, for the, , ,. CaPtaiti said
happy home,, and rye; a s . well . . andctnfort there was a temporary damp on the Austra
able.as any : One need to d o , or - a i r withi ; - Ilan coloniez. The order of the GoVermient .
stn. sure. • What do we want mere s t" . :! at home to ra'ise the upset price of r,ind to
"What.dOptve want more:" said Urinli, : :on e isrmild per.nete, had checked eniigration,
drawing up ids legs suddenly, and - Chipping and- as . there had been a good deal : of specu:
his_ liands:in?a positive tiny •on - his keees. lation at Melbourne' in town allot:twins,—
" Why, I, fortoue, want a great deal more.--4 things jolt, now . .looked glOcitliy. 1
'But it
We've 'children, Yon say, and a home, and - iii 'e th'i. bist 44-eg;"said the captain.; " that sill} ,
that. lU'lve n -to lltneked: so we lir 3 / 4 !'t ! taut:: order of nii;ing.the price of land is ' ' so ,paipa
.
I want our children to have a home after us bly alstird ;: while America is.selling hind so
Three thousaUd pounds divided amongst four,; much nearerai' a - rig:lde! of the price, - that it
leaves about 'teven hundred and fifty encli r, -- -1 : insi , .‘,be repeated.; Mal then all Will .be right, 1
• 1
Is it Worth 'while to. - tag a Whole life, and ij ap i e ..”.. : I : '• ' - . . .
leave them siteli a property asset a like 1 4. ' 18 1 .'. h was in the middle 'of Mil) , When our.
pe n t ?, -.. No,r :.outitiuet)Utiali,- in a consider- ] partY arrived
.at llobsoir's; Bat... It V1114.-ery
ing manner, and shaking bis,bead. " N0.,.11 "rainy, gleci i nty weatharHthe eery opposite of
wantsinttething more; for myself; more for' all that 11:0 been - representtArin- the aecohats
their', more; room;: mUre scope, -t wider
1 seut home -butthen it was . the commenew
horizoniand it More proportionate result of a..meta of winter, the. NOrember.,..Of our season.
whole' beinati esistiine.e.', Atid..do you know, . I,Urial, trot a boat anifsailed up the' winding
-
. .
Vadat what I have corn; teas the best 'O l l i - Tivertettie town. The snit " . iiysi through ‘i
'elusion 1, Togo out to
: Australia." -. ' • . t ilat tract of land 'den*ily . overgrow n , ,with.. a .
ia To ego' out to Australia r said, Mrs. Tat- iii nn i i .. of close . , da r rk bush rs,sotne ten feet high,
tenhall, in astonishment: a- My - dear Udall, - t,.l42noiliat.resemblino• 'our-sloe - tree, the tea
yo.B4l:e,J9k)lll- 1-4 - 1 u mean.-no such. tiring'' :!.! iici of 'that c• certify, On reaching • the .foot
"But ,thet,lir jolt --.lrhat• I :tre'an," - *aid riOf the toviti, , Which" - stood` on a range of
I.Triab f takinthiti wife's 'hand afttioitateitill . l e w hilh., trial' and his.ciiiqp s nions stepped'. I liai.e'thought,pf it, ' !Ong, awl :the to:All .. '
: 'f out into . a. most, appalling f .
, slough of blitelt,
the-wall - halittiCe- - . haS.detertnineff.lllo. - 44 , I,ll)44:through'. Witicli• they - traded • till, they
now, What' I 's'lE- of, you is, -tO • _loth 1 4 -- itl . .reache4 ilit'town, Welt i'atl of no great :vx t .
calmly-and tartlet*. YOokaow the Stßilligy 1 ; -•terit , ''4eattert4.l:oves• a Considerabi space; heat:
the 'O
--, rowtri f and . - the Itohinsons- 'hare 'gone l'ever , for . die - untidier of, houses, and with
out. !They ietiOrt - .theunittte 41eli i
ciana, and i.'gren' tinteitralsof woodlatWand pieces where
'het iroooerHi ere'Alows;l: 'Sue* . country,if ! ';the trees 'had' been ' felled
,- andf:•Where the
It te-11.goetVitinfitry,"....iik'' the place" `iii grow 6 , ti t i t4o, 4 "i t yard high, .retintit;Cd in tin Sightly
.
mind itrive ia,'Witheiti:slool4...',l;.ook
'. .it.. •the :InaL4;dn ee -.- ,
. -. : --.
,
trewil eiWurdi:!. They: • - sip;:and Took tial trill d in through s *we, which
. r"! 17. one -In .the!uoase..: The -frOodi,y,:po .sayiii:. 'ilognAcar;,iniceePitig• "tilli 'the - weather, fell
very Lne wood:Onit when':y' (MIMI!! looked ',moll. - laic='- - 4 its': ---- There`-Wits . .tiething
.. , y ; 013 PI i ..
at the individnal - tret*, - •il4lir:e.': , Cjii itd ... o: - and lii ent Vg• or iiir.siiiii:lfOuSea . .iit rarletta : ',,,degre!,.Hs
tiiAtidled uji;:titev'eitivia-iiiii out a :eitidle ',4 Prosrm stood as fite j r -Were.: - . There were
- Ow.g l Y--4:141$ certain 444 1 4 0 *; . if they 14 , - piles of lb ber - lift, - phi* lee posts, find'
_., , -,. n ,- , e f , . tr . .. . _
leteptAt, thetrl.joiesentiq- t.wige i aire-iiitler.raili;,-.eitipty. wagons anti CAft.o 4 -,.bittno..people.
- - 1 .
-beet again , 14 , thek 4044: neighbors , s ilt' , -ilhoe - t;.' the tin . , ' -- ilki.:eteksi- s hen& lie sa ws-lots
ratiid;:thit'irif all . jitiv*ling :tor .light' and marked out foileiChiebi bdildiiii elioe,h*e.
*Eacalik• lb** Look; then, it the tray o* , there they all itetiotterp
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"Is it Sunday U riah nod
No, it was Tuesday. Why tbiti was - all this
stagnation ; this solitude!. In a • lane f or
rather deep track of nd and ruts, since'
known as Flinders' I..ane, but then without a'
name, and only just wide enough between
the trees fora „Cart to . pass, .Criah - wading
. , ,
plunging along, the ram. meantime •pouring,
streaming, and,: drumming .down - upon Isis
umbrella, he came face to Taco with a large,
active man in a mackintosh and ; :an
oilskin hood oterhis head.
: Neither of them
found it very convenieOt to step out of the
middle mud track.. becouse on each 'side of
it rose a perfecOank of sludgeraised by the
wheels of dray - and stopping to haVe n look
at each other, iher strange man suddenly put
out a huge •redibond warm and wet, and
claimed : F - . • H
• " What! T:tttenhaill You, here -1
, ‘re In the
name of all winders brought Jou : . he at
thig. moment r. • • •
." What, ! is •that you I 7 cried
Uriab. Is tlfs your climate? Ws - your
paradise
.
" Clim ate—paradise, be - hanged r said
Robinson. They are well enough. If every , .
thing else wog as well-there would lii3-nought
to complain of.. But tell me, Uri:6 'fatten;
hail, With that comfortable Trumt iugton Cot.'
tage:at Peckham, with that well 7 .tode war--
house in the Old Jewry, what' eauld poss&ts
you to come here r
" \Vhat shotild I 'ome for, but to settle; ?""
asked Uria Soinewhat eh:ldried at this sat,,
utation.
. .
"To settle I lin, ha burst out, Robinson.
" Well, as for, that, you could not come to - a
beitei place. a regular settleti here.l—
and everybody are settled he l re
out and, *out.• This' is a settlemeuV and I sm
mistake .; but it is like many other settle
ments, the figures are all on the -wrong side
of the ledger." -
Good gracious :w said .
" Say, it is neither good nor graciotts:" re-
plied I►obin4on: Look round. NVl.at do
"you see lain; desertion, dirt anti ',the dev-
" Why, how is that I asked• 1
thought you,.and Joneg, an4.Brown,'anil tall
of
.you had made your fortunes."
• " So we had, or were just -oc the 'point of
doing. Wells& purchased lots of hind for,.
building, and bad sold it out.again
~ .nt fi ve
hundrol i per gent., when 'chop : coitus: down
tittle Lord Jtilin with his pound an ne?e, and
high prestdlCo4yttfing"gnitstopsyturvy.-.
'0 urpurchasers are either inthe...bankruutcy
court, or have vanished. By jingo
4lio w - you such lots, fine loti tor honks . . and
gardens, fur shops and warehouses ;•1 ay, ani.l
shops and win:bouss tipou them, too, as
woultLastonish you." -
. .
" Well and what then r listed •Ulialt.
What then, why man dont you ; !coitipre
bend I Emigration is stopped, broken off as
short as a pipe shank, not a soul is - corning
out. to and live in these houses, not a son!
except an odd, excuse me, Tattenhall,- I was
to say. elfuept you and another fool or two.
But whe.j4 do you hang out I f ook ! there
is my
,bouse,""pointing to a Wooded erection
near. " - come And see Von as soon 113
know - where you fix yourself" - .
" But mind one" thing;" cried Urialt, sei:.
•
..zing him by the am as be passed. 'For
• [
I:riven's sake, don't talk in this- manner to
my wife.. It would kill her... [
"Oh no, the . word There's no
tie frightening the women, said' Robinson.
No, confound- it, f won't" croak any.
And after all, bad as.things are, •wliy -they
can't remain so ft,rever. Nothing ever does;
:hats one- comfort. They'll mend sometime.
" When I" said Minh.' [
" Well," said Robinson, pausing. a little,
" not:before you and I meet again, AO I may
leave tharan:wer to another 'opportunity -;"
and with a nod and a very knowing Itiok
stalked on. F. ,
•
"old fellowr.said. my hicAber
He ceiyjocose for a 'ruined tnan. [ What.
1;5 one to thinkwit.6.l on. After
makin4 a considerable circuit, :and nettudly
lositto. f
bitnielf in'tho wood s ot about
e,
where the Reverend Mr. idoriison'is dispel
now stands in Collins'. street, lie again. - . came
across Robinson, Who `stood at the door, of a
► considerable erection of wattle-anddab, that
I is a it, buillin; of boughs wattle:a 'on Stakes;
and dsbbed over with mud; then not Lincoln- .
tnen , in IdelbiAlrne, And still common enough
in the btish.. It stood on the bill side With *
swift.; Muddy torrent produced by the rains
rushing doirti the Vulley below it t iows . rdsJhe
river, as : it has often done sineeit boto ~tire
name of Swanston Street. •
" Here, Tattenhall ! here is a pretty ge !"
shoitted Robinson ; " a fellow has cut, with
bag tend baggage trnight who owes flit' four
;thousand pounds, and has left me a . lot , more
housesand That's the way every day.
Uut look, hero le a-ho vac ready for yott. You
eau't have - a - better, and you can tiny .tne any
trifle you please,sometbing is better than autli.
ing," •
• • .
Ire led U r beb 111. The bow 'was thor
°uglily and comfortably furnished ; tbeugh,
of course, very simply; with beds and "every.
thing!. Utialt, in leas lbliow week,* safe
ly and had tune' to nimble
about' with liis.boye, and kaki; f atly
the c,Oilditiett of the:colony. "If: was violate,
eboly beyond aiteriptlert. #ll4 l ticltiet.e
speculation brought to a sttdd i ep eltnae bythe
cessation of immigration, bad gone like a
burricaniotter the place, and bad left: noth
ing but ruin and paralysis behind it. No
' . binsnef had .used, or that any
1 ye,.. ould overpaint the - real con
tra ion' ' and ' of misery. • Two
cig ity-insolvencies in . a popula
ioui, ud, told the tale of earful
ah as overwhelmed with - eon:.
the, step he . had - taken. Oh
1
seemed that Trumfiagion Cot
'm, ind that com fortable - ware-
MI JesirY, as he viewed them
i ipodes in the 'midst of rain and
woras that
man could
dition of p
hundred an
tion of ten t
reality. Uri
etenuttion n
haw pleasan
tar, Peckh
house is the
froth the An
era ivlet my biother
as
se 4 Robinson stall: in the next
What, bp
tonishment
day, his tall figuro . having to stoop at every
Idoor, and in his bursque,.noisy way, go up to
and shaking hei band as you
would shakelthe handle of a pump,. Congrat-:
ulato her on her arriYal in . the colony._ •
" A lucky hit * Madnni, n most lucky, Feien:
tific hit?Al! tenet Tattenhall `far knowing
*hat he is about."
..
Mrs. Tattenball'stOOd with a sinOlar
w •.l
ex
pression of onder and bewilderment on . her
countenance, for''the condition of the place,
and the condolings of several fentale.'neigh
hors who had dropped in in trialt's absence,
bad induced bei. to believe . that theyrhad
.made a fatal lmolve of it. ' • .• • : .: .
. . “
" Why, sir,l , said• she, what can von menu
for, as I hear; the place is utterly .ruined - , and
• 1 -
certainly it i4okso-'
like it li,
, - • • -
".11aiiiieil ! lio by sure it is, at-least the pe
ple are, inore ! s the pity for me, mid . the like
fine Who.lie lost everything,; - lint for Tat.:
tenhall Who tasereOthinerto gain, and. mm-
. a
ey to win it t itli;. Why is the golden opportu
nity, the ver , thing ! [Cho, had, watched at
all the Tour
hundred yea;
into such
make me bell
ing him knurl ' ;
ing. with a
ed to come. f'
a Why, ; Id
drawing a cl
front edge.; . 1
six months a .
ing except 'otl
land, houses,
ten tinms the
dog cheap:
have themfo
into a-dozen
quantity br
three thou4n
buy all the p
.ortiers of- the world, And .ftir a
rs - ..enuld not:. have dropped
lhani.e. • trust ..Tatienlitill;
ieve he did not, plan it." TliAnit-.
Ides into 111 d
ttnder-clap of a laugh that seetn
tottilunii of leather..
kk 1 - here now,"' lie contkine4,
iidr; anti seating himself on its
look here now, if you had come
You •coald kite bought noth
tt c f the fire: Town aliottnents,
bread, ineat,-sugar, eyerytl
naturat . ptice;: and now .cheap
f yt n inlet- .
•
r asking for; tiny, I could go
de4erted shops,' and , take any
tioyhing. And propertY why
Lcl" i)outds citik would aleno.it
ice-7all the colony." 1 . •
he tise,7 asked _Mrs. Mato:khan,.
ruined colony r. '
colony!' said
. K.lbinson, edging
' tore. for rard in. hiir " - chair, and„
a:ly tot pit, upon nothing,. his
- I(.llarre r ruddy fac:: : alipearing
a • . .
i"The ' lolony, madam, is not
i•was ruined , never can be Tll-,
2 ple are ruined, -a good hit of
"What is ►
'of buying a
':1-ruined
himself still
seenvingt, -net
huge figure
still. larger.
ruined ; neve
ined. The,
- • • .• -
them ; but the colony is a good and-grand
colony. God made the
.colony, and leti me
tell you, maditm,'looking very.serieus q.: 1 1-43%:••
'Weave is,no: . ipecnlatOr i up to-day, - down to- -
morroW. What .Ile does. Well
the people haie ruined. themselves ; but it. is
out of their . wer. tOr i M. the colony; no,uor
the twin. 'The town
,and the colony are
sound as a bell, -never were sounder, never
had more stair in theM;never had so much.
There the land Stilt,not A yard uf it is gone ;
no great fellow, has - nut that on his back at d
gone off + - with I it. land is there, and the
houses, and the merchmadise, and . the. flocks,
and herds, :1141' ItorseSi; and-Lwltat concerns
you—" H •
Ile sate. and likoked at Mrs. Tattenhall,wlo
stood -tl ere intently; -listening;
. anif liriah
stood just beh l iud her 'listening,. too, and all
the children' With 'their mouths open l 6 , g;tzing.
•'— • •
un
(he strange mau.
. " Well, what--;:wliat- _concerns
,us:" said .
Mrs. 'fattenhall. •
•
"To get a tinge; almighty heap 'of 'ru
tioe-.,
c
thing for -no,thing," said ' the- large man,
stretching out hiS arms iu w i eircultir shape,
as if he would enclose' a whole globe, and in
low, slow, deeP calCutated to sink
deep into the..itnaginatiois of the listeners.
•' if we•did.bnt know when thlngS
niend,"Snid my tirotler erinly'forthe first
titnai - enturing to 'flutin •
When I." saidAtolnnson, -"Starting up so';
suddenly, that bitibead struck against abeam
in the low, one-itorik4 house.. • Contmnd
thew l o w places; said h; 'turning:fiery rah.,
and rubbing his crown, " there will be better,
anon. W beto say ye ! nark, ye this
Ony is—how, old . f Eight yea:, Lnud in eight
years what a town What wealth : what bu il -
I
tiiugs! what- tt power of *beep andoattle ,
The, place is knocked down, won't it get itp
again i. Ay, and quickly - I ; Here are a 'pis
of sturdy legi," he, saitl,_turning . to who
tie4 m i l up in surprve, but,Ars: Tettenballi
You'did not:teach hint to walk trithoatn few
tumbles t eh But he got-up aglin,.and how
'he stands now: what,a sturdy young'rogue
it is,: And What,' made •him get Jilt ngitittl
beeause he was you% and atrongf madam.
Eight years old whist *ball I giro yott fee a
three thousand . pottuds purebase made now,
three years behea I .Mist think 'of saki
-the tall mn, just turn that over tt time or
two," nodding solemnly Wiley brOther,
then to my and then tnutiimiiii
glatteing at the inenancing with
a leit'dtteltiillting'ont of the botise.
4 Wlint "siniug4 reltivir I" said trriab.' ,
But how tt;tteriaid , tint. Tattehltall' „
trueltri What tnieli - ;askad
-astonished. ' • ,•
Why; said, Mrs: Tutienhall, " What the
Isly& It is truth. • Minh ;we must. biiy as
much ns we can:, • •
. . .
'Bat,' said Uriah,:only the .9ther flay lie
said theclean' contrary, idd
• . •
was rained.'
. .
And he any . sso still, added 'Mk Tat:en
.
hAll, enthusi:ektieally,- ' but not the eolonY.-- . -
1
innlt:buy bin' We:niust" buy 'lino, ifair..4—,
lOne day .Wo.shull . leap a grand harrest.'
• "•Ah so you letsour*lf,iny
dear Maria, be . that, TiL.4ily persuaded, ileenne
1.
Robinson. wants to sell, and. thinks we hare
i money r
,' 'ls it not common sewn, howevet Is it
not the plainekt se) he V ; a-ked -Mrs. 'Fatten-
Do you tliink tlsis colony ins tlevor to
Irecoreer • - , '•
Never is n long while; said [Trial'. "Nit
1 !still—' - .
I - -le will : think it over, and See hew
tLe town lie; ' • stud where Ale Chief poitys of
it will be,.probably, hereafter; and if thislir.
I Robiuntin has any lend' in. , •.such .pinees, I
would buy of hint,. . because.' has given us
first idea,of
. They thought aid :coked, and t.he end of.
it war, that. very soon ;they had . bought up
'land and houses, chiefly front Rubinson, to i
the amount . Of. : two thousand pound'.) Rub
inson fain would not have. sold, .but - hare
( mortgaged ; and that riot was the 'MOstccon
et.
[vineing proof that be was sincere in his ex-
Oeciations of a ievival; - - Time went on.±-
things were more and mote hope' ';•15,7-•
'all, who had nothing elSe to do; set on and
cultivated a garden. lie had plenty of gar-..
'Ann ground; and his bogs helped Win, arid en- .
joyel it vastly. Ai • the summer went on
and melons - grew ripe., and there we::,3 plenty
Of green peas and vegetables, by the addition
of meat, which wila now only: one penny a •
Ipound, they could live! almost fur nothing;
'and I.; dab thei could 'wait
.
itnin themselves for year,, , , •if necessary. So
'from time lot ifue,snie-_•Mlo4- - riktg•elit , - taring
[distress or another lured. him on take fresh . l
' :bargain till he saw lainse:f almost
, -
less. Thinors stEl tecnained as del& as, the
Very stone:-or .ti.e stumPs.areund them. ,
.• _ •
biotbdi Utialt began to:feel very melancholy;
•
and Mrs. Tattenhali; who had ,o strongly a,!-
Vised the wholeiae purchase .of .proierty,
looked very ~..erions.. ..1...7rja1t Often thoUght
Ali l - slie •itrOit/d do•i: h e rl :
Will never say' so, fir zhe did it f. r.the best."
Bat 'his boys and:girls. Weie growing - rip& tt
tied made him think. 'Bless me! , 'ln a few
ea'r2s
_IMO men and
*omen motif !,peenlation sliuuld turn
lout ntl moonsliim : if 0:e 0....ee
er revive P. •
',-..lfe.sate*One day on - the stump • f,:t:tree on
.r
a high g!•octal, itioting.' over rise bay.. His
mind was in the most'glooiny,- thjectett con
dition:. Eve . rytitinz looked. dark anil..hope-*
. - •
!um. No e‘idenee of returning life around;
*no spring in dui commercial and his
.1 •
.'good money gone; as he sat 7 th*tts,his eyes
fixed - on the distance, his mind sunk in flan
1 1 6wering present, a man cmile up, and asked.
- hien to take hisiland ea" his hands ; to --take
iG for 11e:trees isake, and save lais,starving•
• .;
- ' • . . .
Man!' saitt riah, with a .fied aatLa vuieu
4u mirage, that it
,made the suppliatil.:start,
even in. Lis tit'.,ery, •1; have Dk 'inum%y
~1
*ant no land ! ;I havetuo much !amt. yol,-
4hall haves it all!fur as. Much a 4 will carry me
back to England, and set me -duivn a beggar
fliers . . • .
.The man shunk his head.
"If I had it singinerUira,.[::weultl not Ask
you.; butiny .wifetis down: of the fever, and .
my children nare i dying of '.disentery.• -What
•
sisall I del'ars,d my lot .are the, very. bi.%t, in
theplace.7 . • ,•.
.•- . ,
' I tell you l'-saaid my . bretber Criah, whit
IS 'fieree growl,4ind an angry flash. of the .eye,
have no Atisney;.and lioSv can I.bay : ?'.
lle glanced at the .man in fury- but a face.
so full of patient Suffdring Audi of.wiaknessr-
Siekness efilte heart, Of, ! the soul,, and; as it
were, - of fainine, met' Isii-gaze, - . that hestop- .
Ped ort, felt Apa n"g remssise - for- Isis' a if!
ger,:and poithipg ii number of
grazingln the valley belbsi,'lle .. saisr, - in
tehed•tone, • • ••'• • • • •
• 'LoOk there! . The other aa.,,y,"A in in
Me sueh-a tale of li.'srror-:—A
a jail stating him in the gayehint
-
tnYlrst money—my':carefully
_boardel Man.'
ey ; • and of what use areitlsO;se. - Catle: toSiuKit
Suite what e ver: YOu' may insALI them for
• .
your land, it you like: :1 have timhing,e!se.'
;'I will
.have saiil the On:a
distant 'station I know. where I e*utd-gell - them
.41-eOlild -only. leave °'mf&mil Out : the,
!lure uo: fillik wit lug but muatitileUti.
merit.
hOlaVe‘ tilent M
tO O: ! I
said U risi h , kiting
the' warm blood' mind =the Spirit or humanity
'beginning toeireolute 'nt Isis bosont-'at .
tense of what wusionily:StitTering tirOundlim: I
LtioveAhem to ine: -'eitre tor ibetu.
Vont . Wite andehildrenlhUll IMve • at'doutor;
I: s wift 'find 1 on'some provisions j our.
tur . yourj
imp - swill(' ever - your land - is worth nitithing,
you 'shall , have it ngaie.:':Pds state of things
;Mikes monsters it Atittoi-eni idood
into gall. our hearts-into.
`resist it or we mu ruined; -4,p471 •
iglu,' said the Ilion ; ovon't impose- up- -
on you. - Take 'that- piece. of land in --i!te vid.*
terthee; be
Thittfield 4"fr 6 (l4e*A`th44 -4 , 1-
whi,lhat is a tamer !?.' I
shall!not huitycno:theorr
*"ettliht, the first
Years • wen Ili:4'mA *IC
ed on, but as it *Oro biliiiikiioisir4aiishitd.'
iloinint 13, lijumbtr '5.
ow of death. It Wis.: a saeleacholtiad di...
piriting Iliad!. The Imq - sari of iltriOtilrrns
gone. . That jovial,„,stitiny, ebullieritspiri
~
with'which he itted.to come Itrimeli in•th( .7
city, in .England, had fled t _ as - a ',lTatii - 2_::.#,P'...
had never been. - Ile
,•maintairxrilifarit -
chiefly out of his gardea. Ilif%-efiliii*wer.'
sprieging np into , long, lanky lids:and ruse .•
Be-educated them himself, -as , s ..wel I
.:1 - ttit; Ise :
could ;And as fOr chithesl Not a tiavy..
not a toazgaria the streets - of • Leutloa, but -
could have steed it cOmparisou with..thetn..
to their infinitif 'di Sparttgemenj: - Al'. t thof2l ,
good three thousand pounds I . ' ilow will this :-
balance stand in my Btrither-I..Triali's book* ;
at the end of the next twenty yeitti; - . -
But anon there meats a slight Motion itt
trit atmosphere of life. It was a nieWilati ,
ter , in, the air, th ied out again.. 'rhea It
g:tirt it revived 1., strengthenecto-,it • blew
like a bmath ochre over the, whole fatidscaix.. _
I.7rialt. looked , around him ' from the verY.plaeit
where he had sat on the stump in despair:— -
It was' bright_and a nny. Ile lreard - atoittil
of an axe and a Itmomer. He' leaked, - arvi.
saw a holm, that hid-stood a mere skeleton.
once more in progrev. _ there Were peoph•
passing to and, fro with a more active. air.--
What is that I A cart of goods 1 2,- A' ditty,
of building materials: There was lifi - -and.
nrotiqn again t The - di icovety of-cOdveiting- - '
.beep and ':oxen into tallow, had 'raised th,...
'value of stock. The shops :tad the merchant .
were once more lit action.: The man to . whoa!
he bad sold the oxen came Op smiling--;
' Things mend, sir. We shallsoon be ill'
right:- Ait,l that. Peed of land In the swamp '
that, you tvem,o Merry over,' will you
. sel,l ii'
It lies near the wharves, and to wanted - fur
warvltettPet: -.-, • , ..._ ,
. ' Biiitvo r cried Uriah, end they descend
the hill together. Part of the land itan sold:
it of poop substantial warehoti nati ve;
sec of the tie;
~1 , . .
I trtpstone, were tisink upon it.
et 'ttiiitleti'olti
came - ever
1 attachmn to . a merehant's., lif e, c
ame .
him. With the purchase-money be:lmilt n
I worellowe too.. Labor-. was e%treniely
.. lov ,
; and he built a large and commodiou4 Out'.
1 Another year. or-too, and behold Urialt
,busy in his *II relloufe; - Itistwobe3s Cieriting
.
w
it gravely in the'counting-honse,Thingigie
.
rapidly bet•er. ;" Uriah and:hisfami,ty -were .
once' more. handsomely elath-handsoMeN
housed, and Uriah,s jolly hunicii!: -- Was ._ , ngairl --
in the ascendant. Evdry nowitml dien Itob
. in=en came hurrying.in, a very hasy limn in ,
deed he was now, in; :the 'Jon*counek: and
. moreover, Mayor ; tind . iiiYing . -- . ' ....
' Weil, Mrs. Tattenhall, dicin't I ita) , ,, it elal
I&-not this boy.o(a eoloni,,onit file sturdt
pair of legs!igain i Not down I!. Not deadi
Well, well, Taienhail did me it letictiovkdieti
—bv sentiv omla for iffy faud—t dxitetAiriol'i
how I'm to make him amends, titesit,coTine
_ .
and dine with lam some day.' .4:Tx he a,
off again.
Another year or two,atwl that - wonderfor
crisis, the gidil discovery, Came. Seen, whai.'
a sensation—what aittir-•rlint - n vevalutice f
what running and buying autt . bidding pl.: :
land, for prime business sitnations—what
tolling in 'of people, capitrl i . good .' Heaved
and earth 1 .. what a seene, What a plade,what"
a people..
~..
Ten year; to a day fmart,trinfast balance 'al
the old Jewery, I..tiiah Tattenhall - bafanieil
raisin, and his three thoticand ponnds - *wit"
grown-to Pciienty thousand ixumi:l4,..and - 'wai ,
st:11 rolling up and on like a snow ball.
There were, George and' Bob. groin,
really tall and handsome , •felle*sc-- Georg_
:vas the able met - Chant, Bob had got a -Mit
tion out it the Duudennit4dlls- and told
wonderful stories of ridinni atter kangaioo.
and wild bulls, : and- shooting splendsl lyre- •
birds-411 of which came cf -iiinring-- Prir .
glets - Life in. South Africa. :114fre Were ifer:e-
and Luey, was handioinegirlat twany_intlaV..'
colony, and wonderfully attractive to'll YOVni .
Bensonand a younger itobilmiti. Worider,-,
were the next Year =to bring forth, and anion g.l
them Was-to be a grand ple-nio ak.BoVaste . ::: ,
~
tioti, at thq 4 Dongdeiong, in Whiet_i,thej(We,re . 7--
to liviont in real tent s :l4,.. _the Tofest . ,lan4;. , ,
cook, ‘ and bake, and 'brew,'nfiti, thik leflie4- ; -
were to join in a , bull bunt, and ehoot.."wittr:,
revolver!~, and -nobailly. was to - behuit, '`-e'L': -
thrown, Or anything-td•inPleo, but .1 1 1.1 kW '
of ineiriment and wihiiworld Oft*.ii - ---- '.....
. Anal really; my
brotheilvill ' tt eitthit liar?
rt.ltiye i is CVtyio if4
---4 ,-
*-iii .
an ItalieWiilla; I,ttiltLet 'tittatbis` .it •'''
with lorgei airy Y.onros,' - 's pitii.ti 'iteTkoak. - ,
and all in the purest tttste. ~ it itan4:On. a.,:
lith bank *bolt, -the viiii4,,lu,_.::‘*iik,-, triv- ",..
Yorra- winds,' taking - a' sweePitcre; itieouria-:'
marked fly a flew* body triesir'4u'li'
the spring ther.e -tOeiiitiva - , of a - .iiiPlendittt .','-
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