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WE : - -MiM art fl-.l
hi - i i i i - i - j5 j v- j: - a r - a r - - i j ?
tt.T -i..-t :ti .M:iLi,c:i . : fc "t.4 P- I"
mrWiJH'-i v- "UtfM s.il Wl-r-J ft -..".. a - ' ft " fat " 53
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i-tf i T . 't
FJlEiJ AS THE AX1 AMEKICAN TO THE COSE.
BfciSpW
qWcliitf S 'i Vi: nt.day'Aiiie;r0iiit six, a;ltlloit tjicin v. itu j: -TiiO.se times are dlHeret j" Ailic goes on
.cL.i:: K JiT CStlLD i-"-- t- 1::..!J -j a griaU Coto couched in polite .terms pxliin- J:sl'rnuily "tliere ar0 r.o unch fina as:mllk'S
-Aghtjs fwrni biiVhduholl sobV;;: ;5; ; jlintft.at'ie'co;;M not procnrmoiv.'tJn ; i.xt at t:u! great; hoirsj-now as thore were when I
:'E oi .".e iafstii.ieJ: "j'tit t!u Mc'wiiicii sle atiji'ovoJ slioiiul sliort-;j .was.a Lis-. I reraeiuber. one night I lived
?ifewli cjyr; caBUed r.b '''.'lvtwi!ver'; aohr nils iflvtf i'rsntv'd to rap
h 1 ' . r -. . fc :i i r loiitm i ivxf buiisiicux . in utt i - ?
r. . f -HJfl --'t; II-.iCTnatif-jwr ca'f 'fttnd.' :Aiue .Tr.ri.
. : ivh undIrdc..!.: ,:. , i.lgW d. vitU,A.(Mule. I. haaX oyer iu.-
-.';-Wcallter-didfcufh! we know
-il'i&i 4 ffT4 29 .bT. living waters flow. a i - r
TrBnt9 Jfc from our jiojuei dr pne,;.( ,
i f AV Hii iheo.tvwn-tliy plac;i;
r f
iWejlihCBSiM: j)f.cfMMiiiriij -?
i fe-.To.-iatea'E;Uiy,ti,ras tit t--. '
''ThvTti'a V?.fav i
vJJavrt U 9jTiK.Sy9t;' jj
ar'cotti-J joov;"; ' ' ' . i
. .. i -
3iFJsrdrBj. Uo i-o, ?aor ;
The K.-nst-iM r-d.the.ireroh-in Itavm,
TL-Ke o'i:r-:ir i?ihizjky, . . :
S Tho BtTe ef the-Waritferip riaJ '
si
Jc'sniasu13'b',,ra' rae'54 r:j., ' ;i"TJ j I deposit th-noto-i:.lny wnrKwox-,tana,-ai-
.AV.UeWf rVifJ.4.ai5,riti; .' yz'ru-im fvi?r,3.n4 lUJf poa puj:;!, I ri-iar.i. to
e myktaPfe- rj'ra M tjn' 4Ji.rfV-lP 2 !, if JAs vTel,l.- ei-rM- .. t:B:!t are there ghosts at Manrbec';, Ailie-
l- viV. imt: -for if there
.c.BVi j i! 'T'!ll W j ' wT-' ;V, ",V "J''-'f-WbeniI"anv4nll, or ia'.y diposedj or wwt- i jf tj:i!i:r i relish more than a;:oihr,'lt is a
, i ask
All PtMtu ud r .ton4i fa tee .
fcr'th5TaieTipin.in; ear.? i
J.Th: whBefailM; iLfe4 ;'r-,i :j : u -A ;
. ''
iVUiT love. il
Uiestb crowd eolv -
a. love 0tld. -Vi
.
hvo not Uvi
'Aii'f.'o thylart
Still loves ui with a lov e uutU.
;- -i-f.-:1 5.a;vV.'4 TtJr--yn,-... ri t
. Aatia r&f?VT -
-f.AffSialat fjM:ni tn?l d hope, -j
-t Ti-Wd Cd"4 ro.liiftd Jja,"- "1 v'i'
1 1
' ' tt'o'i rn.'J "- '. ''' r"'
- ' ;,. ."."...- t "..'sV ,. -'.-Ubs'cUrouiJ of MoorWcU,, , Sho tells ti!iir.-,t,
.I a PF.BH20.4.f wf-C::v ;:.7? vl'ibafJr. lhis.Httltf Cottage where we bo;hsta:id,
. I JnctVt-.r .cM- 'bvsfcvM:tit npdonrtn children and two
I hear tpy warssTT najrrcj . , a , cj,.verer.t ot ii!o:;i i f y . v. nsun,: j.i u t nois s 01 f i;: iwv. ;i i o"i..:i noai i, iuwuw-
l: :'tat lIvjv'K0"1''' ,tf,evVuycar!i Lofore lie '.(lied.- She shows mc ci by sevtral pef-ple going down the great
'Xui Ji'V?'l?'rJ('t"lV';.-i-wi: .. T:-.Srue. letters tioit be vrot to her, aud also his j staircase, flow and heavy, as if they carried a
va-i A V..". Brfjf ouL,ttUv o 5 ; - -. I ii.-!l4e filled with hitrg-inul Inotes". and t'lw blank-.;- burden. That happened before the old colonel
'o V4c; t-bl 'it -4:: X 0 sweft,- -V ' .;priae?',: She adls in t'.'f -eh thas more f h
r, ...:v;i:u,al(LCur sIsftTijivii,, J; c ,;j curse .t'.i'iih a ildes'ng In it ; bnfW fh.-ry iiVlg-
Xo it M;g';4 '-'. Ji lurej ...
1 1 T
- -6 InAu!rv.etlii3e.inlF ?avn,
. -6 In vftw -sweet boae.iB i.- vn... , , ::
"Tow'el with "all Q blest boovb !
low'- b . . ..... ...
; Am cn-llcM hfeif f-Tfect k'V. " -
. : j i -
VFi'I!oti(ii'..l Wit'a'i--'- : (- ' I
S--. sT'iTrr, ;
"ae nwsi-o"4ai;ssarjii.o. veeii.isTCiataeii ly j
1 J.
coirttti!ens at-- a-iihtr-il ; salary, of .live annual ; -
pornd.1.:i:yhyj!a l.&b liei' ofiice, she
al'yjioiua vd:K:vduri
eeV thrVe 'creaiSvsli'jtlwj; Ai.;-m,; j-V .
sh.f remewriHfrB Warrnsleil of :hen .le a.:.te l 'h
in 5'h:.3 l-i no" means to Ik? j
wirh.i4-.HV?ir'r,T..t VW&'tfv'V t'w A'1 nien-itrr'd'hy : ..hesfe.1.'." l-i Tlhi'??. -s!ie hratich- j
in Iii'i;.., whoao onu of..li l4 -coloatd's sons cs qui iii'. a general vajr otf 'tl.pi,s th-f. Lava j
as' rM V eMs'f; Ta'rri 8,tt6Sftf -was" -m -i.lv- bvicrt in Movrb-toit-jrBc.a she remuir.hai s. j pi'.'ar .I" blue Ham . 1 s ty myself that spirits
i-,arar'i"r sTiVing Vf.it'ah)us:'n'i:r.itif of "rbc"f'!S We' to out frifo'the Septvmbcr-Btsa.-titFe,-and - no doubt there, wei-'e, but they were in the eel-l't-'
fv :. us.iut. :..',. "''"l'tJ.rJ-i-v,.,.;:; a, t r ! .... 1 .... .1 . .... ...... r.t r-t' ihw oi;i,t
was
c
x Kir a . irit:.imat irift-.s? etme : rVi.and ;
Ailfc"X?n"jstt.'fc'3 '':V,.t I ierHap, tht
is $eCre-w
th:.Tv-orv4phaA:
thei'.U-w.-tn dilialf-bolnlayi
haroMry"1f'rr4ar
l!a'ifMVA;4 tl? itiitttrfi uwtlo-'ff I proftrred
a mnd'W.irtiiita'Hr? ?t" '''1?
BhaJ1Uv!'? fiid d TiaD Uiss.tD
!ri&tX.1tf&.m so, long since t u- iho'
I wJtffS" brfpped'hefoVe y'iJWj
haiI Bioa'-tkjBdsa',e do nt ep-,olrf.u.:U.:,d .ihe -V.VWil l.'-tJ e.Vv.ry da". ;
vVVi-a1?. bio-.vi olkKwiery ,:bill tiiey tjdle.1 a serve him but- xeoiug Doctor Jd.iley he
meaIy'i -J i"! "-'I' ofticks and some dry kin liin- to-j-thmight.a va'sS of Br. Liriley.;It wa'a misty
ccV.y.i i'orr:Set fip.yp, fjyp t;'1.cf "ffucross.llH Ml-
rvJlivit-hVv-rfilW.iosrohfreS3fl iVre, j;isi g,ii.g to, the 'lhe j it is (three .r.iii.s.froni Idoorbeck to JIaistoa.
p,. f Girt;1"9 bubiantV. ttlr ii"cr 8butji.wheai mi', .heard
heiLaaiTiMoeJ CX imv i ci c Imt ier ? -; tc.AJil.iir s :,;AV'.' re'' Cv
hlcfM ftfrrce'd' to'Wif eVat.;. -'Shi reMrrvdl ' ' -atm may-just tlun! w:at we inosn nave
megAtr
. r .'j u r-:w.:? iri;l..M.l.iiIjJ:ii 1 c-.id . TCiw-jj vnii r In 'art . moih'ei's well see
'Tfthln.F?TfanFH'yotlillVi tlWdJif .ni: nOfutJnr Hor?eacK:3a too o.i co
I' v& Vj ;t?VOfcViVt0 ,n;iJ1-'"a:T 9 i ui) lah "E Jl thisiMJ amr'n'-'i1n'i It'wAsa wvt
do fije-ttaa fteirU J Fcrbapsayou .'iUastv; tbVj-t;mat . iuf -v'W1:11' V'.0..:1. V.w,
inarlaA Vfffl't Winit rtme and' r give ' I'vojxl. aild.-liearUried the.Kun- :on,--nnd they
thelTn' fSr-iKfeS 4lii'StVivJe nrid'tby -Yart?;'rttil:fIy;iJo!Mefirl.v to
my icoH fryiu o'ehliCst iupi C4wlia i't'lsi giri Noii hallertda Vl'sriA then"; 'what doi p;i th?uk "f
of f.recocioiiy .a'hTewdiiusB rand- vast second- J Why I'uo'fiitich had Kevcr. landed at alli it
Land worldly experience. "C'1' ' -1 ut lo'i.i waS a baysUciiOn,me that did ths 'mischief,
"ivif iUi'of i 'kOU (9 giyejher tho moacy-," i-nd the 1 eaeotis' wore lighted for miles away.
5hctliiapers;."yoB 4'jil 4rget the t4mps. V 4 ButTTie 'tesf of it - w.s; that 'Bessi'e 'Nl'"'-,'
I xst a'rogrett'Hl look .kt'tVe'obi;ornan-s'"wlialvet here hyrbijsn.uid wtw
-... ... it.. r v. '..', 1 L . m. :-. 'ii ci V.' ih a. 'iu.:ttir An'1 evor smco
. - .. v- : ' . ' - . T ' I . -. - J-i '-. - .v. - - - ' ' fc.
m vyiiaiFr ti a-uiuags -isiumcuri.,;" i joj.y you nnver sain - inrTi-i-NiK- ...... . ----- -t, . . .-
vf.riti.iited. t-oAiliii-BsiiiireWnitt as: ltl out:..Mm 6djatiier"hiihi: and 'caVc-a line Vlin.'.f can remcmd.T,- the. folks have sat 1 there is
11 .1 T -1...H I. ... . ; t-,n mnrnmtf-' ',xl.L V " 'A "in . : '. r' ' ' t ' .. .i ' ,i fi.'. .1 ! w .r "kfv! I ! i: 1 1'i L'd 1 Ve i ill l'O Watched bv a TaVeO. , Pctlli
witUwrt-'faiLli; ai-Tr'jaBA. t-s-trrfl A the UJirnv3'st;hiisutiitcaidjiil jluslop ; y,..lies:p'8 f.Uhor actually, dug for it, tut ho only
v " . . .. . . . m r ."".'-'' 1 .1 '.: a ....... ... . , - ; . i i-' ii. . i i d-rnt L-,f,m nl.t j-niiis nu rilifrs and bofiCS. and
"i KfiouiaiiiniL o." mrrrronrea jiius wine-nnu hsi-bt, 'isme witn 'tne crenueioiKs, mm o .- . . .
lia f fncredufausly. "Ji
J .ft r.ii "I
I have now been at Moorbcck eighteen months,
id I bar- not rcird those sttmps yet. The
' l'wliTcli ran t!,:is : .",
r'li -.-. j. .-.
. .j, tfill.Ti? tnu-h, ctV.i.-.l.ji yon -will let her t ivo the
" '''l.'fltnntt.s bViifii.?''iin : for Mr. .7;rs' h::.s 'a Tor some.
Q!ieo.i"a?xntraiti to.: tlio; uiaidy. who: .doparta
1 therewith.: '' v.;? !.:: .:; '
I ; 'iitou fn-iiiy ! ;ivot;i r riot let' .Ler
lihyctiifc'inj'j'cujd; i'y. I""111 ; ,yq:i. aro ,a
:-iipras il of Hit.liirtr-ye.ir-ol.l lieview
I r. li it'.l'nVvpf Wu:' -a Vi ore.' pf oB t M n invst-
j xvtc t.Vtfe'r and carry it to't?
J t-ycrr th.a cilice, v.hich is M.v
Aiiii.
8 's;.a- j
ro'iiil, andiipposit it.or. the table wit.t a penn.i .
I d hot Wi th? debt to il'fi'i; iatea n-w
I-i:Llt Testa.' LatWeeri us, ii-.iforgo.'len ; 't :'-:' I
it the rhetuaat'um, . the . finger -.joia;
i end other -chronieatilaients of the vf:iera')ie
puLMo servant ; 'MX :vj glide tpt th fi: i!
r tinia bjfote hi death.never dhl a hands-turn ;
-4 that'one of her sojis-llfct.ry, the handsomest
leaves covfjTd vtith tests cp;.rrTAI1-r. '.to-:hls
.. ! - ' ' , , -
ivpndifon.,, 4 lyrp,, is a .juiji.at.ro po,..a. of
himr:gius OYi-ah0 Um-pi jeo. It tvpre-.
J sJj. man wlthl a' face tike; Aiiie'n. sfM.rs
vea.rs w'lit iiarfd.een ! .Thca.w.th a hot Uasn
her cheek, ai.NmrUlU in'ln-r faded eyes.
I-. .VVvl.rl 1"' W't.' f rt.:t'.l tV.:.c'!'.i.,',-S. h
f--: '..T ..r;!T God Alwwh:.ii.i-thi--hai..h!e h
IT2T God AluiWh;
nation toyenrs s;,ti:
very
'ighlly, o!i the
j-.-Vorit danJ.ter, who. who he pausos. aud
. . . " . , . - . ,
.nee nc that the naspohen Jt'-ry is snown, ?-ys,
' . '
tri na:inuiy,.vJ. '.:.c.w.i.s oy:.j.i.-..rj u it j
Teitiiir gentle nor simple in. jil the dale was
r. .if !...;. no th.- mi v
. rive of her cm! ir
tells ra.1, three
buried villi her
8r.s'a::d iy" d u.htc
..: t ..ij. 1. .1 i - . .t .. i , . . .1 . 1 j- 11 ...
churchyard ; Henry
:.v: .h.;v.
;iigr.tted,. aud
aia deiartiur. bui stu I.dout uei-irt. . -a. use
''points to I'euiihiili'and at.ivts.mo' if I can see
beacon ; cannot ; i.iy oyo'af. so
; '
.-..j-mi
thcuj nil driven. i'-uo- the .fv&. 11 never
'ft .-W rl ..V..:i :
to'go'hwatU
j flranli win? wi'th tlio colo'nel and,, the squire
too."
This is Bridently a very proud remenisenc
cisu-dnslrind in .Moorebeck churchyard ; Ilcnn
old-- c-wrchyard on the bill at Sear
bro: "and'iif th Wst, s':ne an; m-irrie'd and s.'t
r, ;?.li'.' Av.e.lj 51iss::hc(.sty.f, .rem.ir ;o-)j
nr,-a f t.t. l'v-F-..rti. i... fiFtFrtil ji iii-r 4
JOLEARFIELD, WEDNiSDAY. DEO 10, 185-5:
i l sent, us to Ttjil I got up and put on iuy
2'wr,.aii:l stoic across the pad.lock into the
pleasure :v.u:k1, and up to the window of the
rouui wii-.Ti! they were dancing. The blinds
were not down, and, as it was d.ir!;, I watched
ever so Ichg without .any ho;y sc'einj lno ; h:;t
;.t li:;t a ;. tleman-.aud lady came suddenly
.ti tilts wiurlow, and I seppose they must have
se.iivnie d warrant I looked queer in ray
iiigV.tCiip !v fcho screamed s:nl fell down in a
laiiit, and 1 heard the irer.tknv.ui cry out, 'the
Devil!' I didn't stand to be toll to inn, yon
nj.ry he sure ; hut got home as fist as I could.
.Hid the! I 'did I.iu-'h- But it got 'about that a
ghoot h.innted the garden's; and if you believe
.! i:u,tiie suii'3 h vl wooden shatters put to all
the low windows- immediately. I didn't tell
lor I should have h'-stiuv place.".
i c ; u-jci'-r. out hae a units Uiat ine out sr.'.ncre
wlu'ro th.j colonel 'oneo lived.,. a?id which' was
jJI.rnr tows, tWy .. ears .I 'm. l.a 1
a very b.ul
i.
-The servants, would not stay one while ;'
s'ae says ; "and even the family did not lihe
If. You see the old colonel h id done a. wrong
thing in - l;vv.ing it as he did, aril s jieoj.l
tallied. Thure were footsteps tramping about
at uight, and sometimes a great sigh would he
h:arl, though nothing cmiI.I be seen ; it cr.tne
and s'glied' over them as they lay in bed, I
ii tvo heard the jrii ls tell, and then something
wassKic to hajpun. ' And before any of the
familv was t:oin to die there was ahvavs the
died, im.l the nurse told i:fe hcielf, 'when I
was :.r.':;!ing. hiiti for his cofjln. He was a
grini-loohia-,,' c : p.e withi.u thick gray rnons
1 1 hes nd his i'iJL-k iw.vs. I've laid out I
t'io co'o.icI'a i.-ii'e, a:i I JIIss Iileanor. who died
-f a v.-.iste Kha was a beautiful girl, and as
' -" ..-, v:!-W w )! J..(Fn!: 1 then ll;.'r waa that
s . I .e ?rac ', ?! istt-r Kverard, and the little
boy ; the oi l.ct-1 oiel o-;'Jived 'cm all, at.d was
as bitter -is-aio-'S. lie got bis nephew Kich
ard to live v.ith him when all the rest were
'one. but I d ire s -y
he !iarrie 1 him clmost to
death. Kieii-ai 1 luavii
I a grea.t lady fur his
wi.;e. and so the old uir.n was pleased and left
t-i'.r estate to him instead tfto h:s tlder bro
ther's fiiaily, wh exp-etel it; so the two
0 ts .piarri l-.-d. . Then liiehard aud iiis wife
wi-nf abroad, and the housj was deft to Sir
Jo'.n Giafto!!. It v. as while he had it, arrt just
1 eu.'re his youngest d inghter was married that
it was but nt down; .nil Iter vvdding-cIoth-.'S
were burnt, aud, as it h.-.ppened- at fn!it, the
girls e.-.c :ped in their 'n!gh't -gown's, and took
r-'fugo at tii".; sp:ires. aliss Louis 1 was mar
ried frcm t.iere a month alter.. There r.ro a
grtat many peopl ..vho say they saw the old
C doiu'd w.dkif.g about the house when it was
b'i: ::io.r'. uu.l that at the 1 1st, he went oil' like a
:i fine b)-.e. a stunts always l.
:i fin ; b.e, a soints always I.
-I am afraid yo:i are right,. Ailre, and that
w. c.iimot lay.' cl aim. to' a genu". no ghost at
Moor '.':. ck. alter all. ": - . . ; ; . .
t "i:il ie!l you,. .Miss, what I once saw ray
ownself '' Aili recomtneitces, hiving an em
phatic i'orc-Ctsgcr on' my hand.' ''It was when
il:y husband was took for death, and I had to
fetch the doctor f.ota. Idarston. ;Xothing would
fiie doctor had been called out, but they j-rom-
i.ed to sehd him' as soon as he came back; and
was in a, fcivat fear for . poor "Willie, I
did'nt wait to see him. , Well, I had got just
by the stile in the river-closes, when 1 saw a
light before m'oi It danced np-.and down in
the misi like a live thing; but 1 said my pray
ers, and it kept going on and on till I got out
in the road, and then I missed it. 2Tow, that's
true, diss." . ,t .' '.."' .1 .
" "Ailie, it was a w ill-o'-thc-wisp a marsh
light." .' . ; . if--
. "Xo,.miss, it was a solemn warning. Vv'illio
died that 'day; ; week." .' V ' ' " ' ' ' ; ''
The bid wounui,,wa3 lirni in her own super
fctitiop so I made uo further atterapt, to . vaaJ
q'uish it. ' ;: -': ':' '?':'-:S' ' - ': ' :
''n i. You've been over the rnlus of the jfercies'
castle, dowu yonder, miss ?",' - '; .
-."YeS.";-, ;- '-'-.' - - . -.!! :.' ' ; -
"Well, a light haunts them such as'l saw
I've sectIt olten." '. '.'"; " '. '." '
oTh'e ruins' are not fir from the marshy
Srtun l bv tl;e river Ailie.V
I
a
ill
the Squire was ruightily'put. about, that the
ground should have been disturbed; for it
seems Heslop had dug in the chapel. There
1
is an old stotio coflin that they use as a trough
you've saen it 1" '
"Yes."
"I don't credit the talk of treasures and
chests and what not, mys-df," Ailis adds, with
serene dignify, to which I rej ly that such re
jiorts aro usually unfounded.
"They are, miss they are. Ilave you been
to Scarthueck, iniss V
"Yes, Aries, a couple of months.since."
"There was a strange thing happened there
once ii was to the Squire's lather. You re
member, miss, that long, steep bill that goes
down from the moor into the valley 1"
"I nod acquiescence.
"And yon remember the law wood that cov
ers the high sloje on the right-hand side V
"Ves, perfectly."
AYell, one evening at dark, the Squire's fa
ther and the old Colonel were come on horse
back up the hill where they had been to I
don't know! but, however, Mr. La-ngdale had a
rreat sum of money with him; they were talk
1:13 and going slowly, when, just as they got
to the brow, two men rushed out and seized
?.:-. Langdale's horse one at the head, and
the other at the tail. They never touched the
C lontd, whose horse too:; fright, and started
of. -We'll, what they wanted was the money,
but the oidVptir,' was tough nad strong in the
.arm. They tried to drag him from his horse,
but it was a biglt-oiettled thing, and kicked
and plunged until it shook both thu villains
oh". They fired after the old' gentleman, but
he got clear and galloped away. He overtook
the Colonel soon and they made good haste
;ome, von mav lunik.
The next day, nothin;
would serve them but they would go and look
ct the place, for the Jfqudre was sura one of
the men had been hurt; and after looking about
in the wood a little 'while, they found a grave
ring, which had been got ready for ?Ir. Long
date, no doubt. Both the squire and the Col
onel had their susjiicious about one man, but
for the other they could not fix on anybody.
Well, they went heme again, and that eve
ning there came a woman to th great house,
to beg a drop of brandy for her husband, who
was taken with a bad fit of colic. They were
decent j,eojle as any nt J.Ioorbeck, and of
cows.) t'v- wife some brandy," and went
hone. AH at once a fancy took the Squire,
an 1 lie said to bia wife that he would jast
wulk up the village and see the poor man. He
did not knock at the door, but walked straight
into ihtf kitchen, on I there talking with the
wife: he saw the fellow ho suspected of having
been one of those w ho set upon him at Scarth
jsock. They seemed quite begone, and would
not let him go into the bedroom where the
man lay ill; for ever so long; but the -Squire
was determined, aud at least he got to the bed
v.here the uiiseroblc wretch was tw isting about
in j.aiu. He cried out when re saw air. Lang
dale, for the old gentleman was a magistrate",
and besides, his conscience j.rickcd him hard.
The Squire talked to him a bit until the others
seemed o;T their guard, and then whispered,
Don't you think it was my horse gave you
your ht of colic"' He h d not a word to say
then, and be confessed it was. lie died that
same night the other man was transported."
'I did not think you bad any such wicked
people in all the dale, Ailie."
"O' "diss, I think human nature is much of
a muchness all the world over. There are
doth good and bad in the country as well as in
tue town.
"You keep up the old customs here, Ailie,
don't you ? .
"Some of shem, Miss. Have you beam any
body's banns jmblished in the church, since
you came? No; I don't think you will, for
they must needs' have a license now. Well,
in my time, after we had been asked in church
the third time, the old clerk sung out' 'G"d
speed 'cm weel!' and when I was married his
boy asked for my garter, and Jie got a fine
white ribbon. Then the first Sunday Willie
an l me went to church; after we were wed
they sung that psalm ad out olive-branches I
dare say yon know it nd always after a fu
neral they have dirges when the relations come
to church. They don't do it in London, Miss,
do they?" : . ' ' : .
"Xo, Ailie at least I think not, bntl never
was there to see."
"And I haven't either, and I think I never
shall now. But I walked scven-and-twenty
miles one dar this Summer to see a son of
mine that w as ill at Leeds. . There isn't many
going on for eight: could do that, miss." ;
"Indeed, Ailie, I could not do it myself."
"I dare say yon could, miss, :f need were
that you' should.: You are small and light,
bite me, but then, to be snre, we have had
diiierent bringings-up. I'm always well if I
can get out of doors; for I've been used to a
deal of walking.' It is only lately that the
mail-cart has come through Moorbeck, and
left the bag at my door. .a I bad to go to the
corner of the road, near the ; bridge, which is a
good mile off, every morning, rain or thine, to
wait till the mail went bjvnnl tnen I had a
round of six or seven miles more to deliver
the letters."
""All lor five pound a-year, Ailie?"
"Xo, IJiss, it was twenty then; and I'll as
sure you I was main well od with it. But al
terations were made; a post was set up at '
bany, and they, only left me fir
other goes to the "'
be h -
. pounds -
traaster there; and
rALuraa Wonth, lenca
YOL.
while I've always when thj Squire's family is
at hon.e, as many as forty near, or fifty, some
times." "That seems too bad, Ailie."
"There is a deal of things too bad in this
world, Miss, that we have to bide. You're
young yet; you don't know, now do you like
your place, Aliss? This question is confiden
tial." "Very well Ailie; I am quite contented."
' "That's lucky I am sure. But it must be
dull for you at oloor'oeck, isn't it, now'"
Xo, Ailie, I'm never dull; I have a kitten.',
"A kitten oh! yes; we all knowyour white
kitten, wflh its red necklace; but you would
not get a beau if you were to stop here for
twenty years."
I laugh, and say it docs not matter, and I do
not care; a profession which the old woman
scouts as utterly rediculous and false. Then
she bids me be of good bcart, and never de
spair, for who knows what may happen, for I
can't be so very, very old, after all. "Not
much over thirty," I tell her, smiling.
"Youthirtj! Nay, that you're not; I'll sot
credit it. You're twenty-two, may be."
"I am grey-headed, Ailic, and shall never
see old maid's corner again."
"Old maids I never could bide old maids.
Don't you be one, whatever you are. Gray
hairs are honorable, but old maids are abomi
nable!" - "Then, the two together the Cray old maid
will be just tolerable."
"Nav, I don't arret? "to'that.
A lurching country lai comes to the gate
with a loosely-tied newspaper, and pushes it
into the slit of the letter-box.
"You'll never get that in, lad. Just go in
to the house and bring the tongs to pull it out
ag.-vn.-'
While the youth drags his newspaper out of
the slit, Ailie tells mo that she always puts
the poker down lest any letters should Lave
stuck, which is often tn case. I wonder w hat
is the state of my correspondence when it
reaches the hands to which it is addressed.
The intrusion of the boy with the paper Las
broken the thread of our discourse, so in earn
est I say I must really go.
"Well, Miss, thank yon. It Is very good of
yon to come aud talk (?) to an old woman.
Eless me, if there is not you kitten!"
I turn round and see my snowball Charlie
hastily descending the orchard wall. Tie
comes, and is duly petted and admired.
"The gamekeepers will shoot him," Ailie
obsorves.
"No, they won't, I introduced him formal'.
and they premised not, and to ltt him out ol
traps if he was caught."
"I lay you're fond of him, miss?"
Very; he is so compassionable. He lies on
the table watching me write, and sometimes
he wtlks over the paper, and acts ns very bad
blotting-paper. We are great friends, Charlie
and I.
"Some people don't like cats."
"Then I pity them. Good-bye, Ailie."
I take my little cat in my arms. Ailie calls
aft-r me that the is afraid it is a bad sign, as I
s-uinter up the hi:I. Midway I encounter a
group of smail children going home frcm
school. They curtsey revcrntty before my
face; but when they have got past I hear a lit
tie laugh, and ona says: "It's her cat; she
gave our Tom sixpence for getting it out of a
tree."
At the turn to the gates I come suddenly on
a group of young people my pupils and some
of their friends. "
"Miss Lee and her cat, of course: uglyChar
lie horrible Chatlie!" cries the owner of a
fat terrier, which is pussy's sworn foe.
"You have had him out for a walk. I won
der what you will do next?" cries the amiable
Amelia.
"I shall roll a ball on the lawn for him to
run after;" and I go and do it definately. So
ends mv half-holiday. I recommend every
governess to have a pet; it gives her a feeling
of independence, and fills up spare moments
when she would be likely to mope and fancy
herself miserable. I think the affection of
even a kitten worth having.
Facts Fou Ixdiax , HisroRr. It is stated
that while some workmen were excavating for
a cellar in Concord, N. II., they discovered
nine skeletons within a space often feet. They
are supposed to be the remains of some of the
ancient I'cnnacooks, who once inhabited that
region, and must have been buried about one
hundred and fifty years ago. Six of the skel
etons were those of children and three of
adults, one of whom was of giant proportions.
So much for the past. Tba Exploring Expe
dition, as our readers have been informed, re
cently discovered in the South Pacific a new
race of Indians, called Techuccis, (if the pa
pers spell correctly, who are said to be a
warlike race, that owe no allegiance to a for
eign power, are characteristically provident,
and have no knowledge of a Supremo Being.
So much for the present and future. .
Tue Wife. That woman deserves , not a
husband's generous love who wd"
him with smiles as h
nf tlio d ' '
-
nAt crreet
! v . . . Viomace to ii" w
.etnrns from the Ubors . pride; tne in6uU. and terul
v, not try to chain bim to homage alone due t
bis home vj a tbousand TTTa man's P"tor reauy
- tbe
mil -
and break away from. uen
2.-3fO. 20.-TOTAL, 72.
The Old Folks."
"0, sharper than & serpent's tooth it is tba t
have a thauklcts child."
"I suppose I must go down and see tba old
folks pretty soon, but it is a dull job," said
fashionably dressed young man to me one eve
ning. "The country is so dull, after living ia
the city, that I dread to go there; there is o
thing to look at, and nowhere to go; bnt moth
er is getting very feeble and I ought to g0.
I perceived that the 'old folks' fce bo disre
spectfully spoke of, were bo other than his
own lather and mother.
"I could geti along1 with one day well
enough," be said, "but the old folks;are never
satisOed unless I stay a week, or;tbree orfour
days, and I get heart-sick of it, itis so dull. I
used to go and see thcsi once or twice ayear,
but now it 5s between two snd tfcree years
since I have ben there. I could go oftenor,
but it is so tedious ; snd then they make so
much of me, snd cry so when tbey"see,me,
that it makes me feel bad, because I do not go
as much as I ought; no sometimes I think I
will rot go at all."
How little had this careless son thought of
his aged parents, and yet how daily and hour
ly had thoss aged parents thought of bim, and
how many fervent prayers had ascended to
God for him, from that quiet fireside. He
knew not how many evils those prayers had
averted from his ungrateful head, of how res
ny blessings they had poured upon bim.
But all sons are not thus ungrateful. A
young friend of mine, who has resided sixteen
years ia the same greit metropolis, has never
failed twico a year to visit bis parents, and
goes often, or whenever it is possible for him
to leave his business. I accidentally saw
letter he addressed to a sister, a short time
since, which shows that a young man can be
immersed in vxtsnsivs business, and yet flai
time to love and venerate h:s mother.
"I received a letter f.om my mother," he
writes, after hearing th '.t she bad been l'.I. "I
am frlul she is not improviag. If she is any
worse, or becomes dangerously sick, I desira
to know it. I dresd the thought that onr mo
thei cannot be spared many years, at the best
it may be but a fw months. I have tlio't of
it very much for a few weeks. Altho the baa
lived nearly her three-score and tea, end na
ture has become almost exhausted, yet how X
should miss her! What a mother she bas beea
to us; what an example; what a Christian f X
am sure of it, I know that she bas been my
dearest object oflove and sffiction all the dayt
of my life. However I may have strayed from
her bright examples and her teachings, my
mother has alwa's been before, beckoning tae
to walk ia the right way ; and if I have BOt
prayed myself, with th ferver and devotion
that I should. I have always felt that she wae
supplicating for me. How much she bascsred
for us! What a sicred treastrj, even to the
end of our lives, will be the memories of ocb.
aDTurit !
I see her now, as she looked to me, when
she stood by the bedside of one dying brother,
cheering him in his sufferings; and I hear her
s.iy, "The s rac clock that told the hour of his
birth, is now telling the hour of his death!"
What a scene was that! We know, dear sis
ter, that these things must be, and it is not is
a melancholy strain that I write, but every in
dication of the approaching end of my mother,
stirs within me all the tenderest impulses of
my heart. Her removal will be to the bbiorT'
rsr heaven, die when she may. Old age is but
the threshhold of death, and after a. life 6pent
as our mother's has been, the portals of anoth
er world can have do dreary look."
now ennobling, hew touching, are this
young man's words. We cannot but respect
him for his beautiful reverence for his mother.
Years of a life in New York, subject to every
snare and temptation, engaged in an engross
ing and extensive business, with the best and
passion of youth upon him, yet the one steady
flame of deep lovo for his mother, burned nn
dimmed in his heart. ,
Mother, she was a mother worthy of such
son. She was a Christian mother. Would
you inspire a similar love and reverence, be
like her, and earnest and heartfelt follower of
the blessed Redeemer.
And let every heartless, neglectful son, re
member the thorns of agony bis thoughtless
ness implants in the hearts of his parents.
Let bim call to remembrance the helpless
years of bis childhood, and all tbe self-sacrificing
love that fills their hearts, and now re
turn to them and to God the love and gratis
tude which are so justly due.
Pbateb. Prayer was not invented it waa
born with the first sigh, the first joy, the first
sorrow, of the human heart : or rather man waa
born to pray; to glorify God, or to implore him
was his only mission here below ; all else per
ishes before bim or with bim; bat the cry of
glory or admiration, or of love which he rais
es towards the Creator, does not perish on jjjg
passing from the earth j it ra,--
sounds from age to
mightv " " os, U fa
. ear of the Al
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the wn.-'' which Is
- " "JI h only thing in mau '-v.. -
licence. Vi wtiich ha can ex.usn
luwiiv divine; anau . . h
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