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The Wingham Times, 1889-05-17, Page 26.11ccOttli itg 1111 lii1la1CS FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1889. FIRESIDE TALE,. TIE imsTAits. [ 11 never do it l—never so long ns I live ! and' the boy clenched his bands together, and strode up and down the room, his fine features flush- ed, and his forehead darkened with anger and shame. I'd ask the minist* er's pardon in father's presence—of course T would ; but to go before the whole Academy—boys and girls—and do this 1 His whole frame fairly writhed at the thought. Ellsworth Grant, you'll brand yourself as a coward and a fool all the days of your life. But father never retracts, and he said I must do this or leave school and go out on the farm to work, and the whole village will know the reason and I shall be ashamed to look any, body in the face, I've a good mind to run away. The boy's voice grew lower, anda troubled, bewildered expression gath- ered on his finished features. yellew, tangled hair,' and foe lin; at her fondly, you sce I can't do what father says 1 rust to -day, and so I'm going. o1F Oh 1 Ellsworth what will uncle say' Dried the child, betwixt her shivering and weeping, What will uncle say ? flow long will you be gone ? I don't know, evasively ; I sha'n't be back to -clay, though. But you must- n't stand here any longer. Father will be up soon, you know. Now, good-bye, Nellie. There was a sob in his throat as he „leaned down a»ldfkissed the sweet face that had only seen a dozen summers, and was gone. It would be hard to leave alt the old places. And then never to see Nellie again. It would almost break her heart—I know it would. And his face worked convulsively a moment blit settled down into a look -of dogged resolution the next. • I musn't think of that now—though it's only five miles to the seaport, and 1 could walk that in an hour and get a place on some ship about to sail before father was any wiser. Some time I'd come back, of course, but not until I was old enough to be my own master. The boy sat down `by the table and buried his face in his hands, and the sunset of the summer's day poured its currents of 'crimson and amber' into the chamber, and over the bowed figure of the boy. At last he lifted his head. There was a look of quiet resolve in the dat:k hazel eyes and about the usually smiling mouth, which in youth is so painful, because it always indicates mental suffering. Ellsworth Grant was at this 'tinge just fifteen. He was his father's only son, and he was motherless. The deacon was a stern, severe man, while Ellsworth in herited his mother's warm, •sunng temperament. His father was a hard, exacting parent, and Ellsworth was a' fun lov- ing, mischief -brewing boy, that •every- body loved despite his faints and the scrapes he was always getting his into. There is no doubt that Deacon • Grant loved 'his tori; Belt he was not a•demonstrative 'man, .and then—it is the sad, sad story that may be written of many a parent—he didn't understand.his child, and there was no mother, with her soft , voice and loving words, to come between them. Ellsworth's last offence can be told in a few words. The grape -vine, which..heavy with purple and clusters the d f theschool trailed Go and call Ellsworth to breakfast, will vont Ellen ? said the deacon, two ly turned pale with the sudden start of surprise. The exclamation eeemed to recall the young man to himself. Ile moved his hat. Excuse me, he said, with a how ft instinctive ;race, but can you tell me, ma'am, if Deacon Grant resides hero,. Oh, yes, sir ; will you walk into the parlour arid take a seat ? Uticle here is a man who wishes te see you, And in a flutter of embarrassment she hurried. towards the door. The gentleman did not stir, and 'removing `his silver spootacles, the deacon came in ; and the two men looked at each other—the elder with some surprise and a good deal of curiosity in his face, the younger with a strange, longing eagerness in his to v and fair in Iter white bridal robes. So they stood together at the altar, and said to each other those most solemn, most beautiful worth that Juan or woman ever said or ever will say to each other—"Till • death us do part.' And behind then stood an old. lean with grey hairs and wrinkled face, MAN1T A FOR SALE, Res (:l Section) of I! first. Class ,lout whom the people gathered with toi A,C y Laud, Y nc ratulation as 500(1 he new! only Five Miles train tlto married pair hail left the church. rapidly growing City of And the old man rubbed his hands, -g-� and a smile --very beaming, very full lit.. AND ON . of 'perfect peace' -I -went over his face as he said— The grain Minneapolis God has dealt very kindly with me. of the North-west. Ile sent my boy to me and now he has given rile two children. The above Is really a desirable Farm and will be sold • ' _. dark eyes that seemed wt 11, una hours gator. � 9 What Rifted Robert Burns? e He isn't upstairs untie. scion able. Dr. Campbell, of Seaforth, who has Pialini]f,g Mill And then, as the two sat down to • Do you know 'silence sir? he asked, acquried a widespread reputation as a theirs, Ellen briefly related what had after a moment silence ; and there brilliantgwriter, clever lecturer and transpired. was a shaking in his voice, Cheap. ' AT,E3O The deacon's face grew dark as she proceeded. He thinks to elude the confession and frighten me �►y running off for a day or two, he said; he will find he is .mistaken. So that day and the next passed, and the deacon • said nothing more ; but Ellen, who was his adopted child and the orphan daughter of his wife'o mot intimate friend, noticed that he began to look restless, and to start anxiously at the sound of a foot fall, I do not know that I have ever 11 able defender of Burns has the follow. the pleasure of meeting you before; tag letter in last Weeks Seaforth • sir, said the deacon. p t 30 by 30 feet. T�I(1, TORTE kl U520J . Facts are e e s that g, Containing all tate modern machinery for meanie& hear a c a ge camesurra=klootiug Mouldings, , Mr. Editor,—We ' e ro m a e aret•class nlnninl tly all the time. even a great and living Reform, like order eituatcd hl lhrandon near the C P It station, of a long -buried and in the heart of the manuiaciuring depot of tht the Temperance cause, will ever be ' hi 1 th t dtnnn ding,S eb Doors &c .Boller But l a h over the An' dauriut bo qts lit d:'-IinttsB. 4S o N and Isngiva Room Proof an Iron Shaving face of the girl who had been watching b 1 eve that not Boom attache. the stranger inns Thie valuable pr t ty A light—the ligh •elty where a Large and Profitable business can he recollection—seeded to break up from permaueut!y benefitted by sullying the realized. her heart into her face. Her breath Inlnredietepossesstoncanbogiven. Titlevertect. name and fame of a great and dead Fortullporticatarsapplyto came gaspingly ° from between her poet. This feeling induces me to P. FISHER, parted lis ; her; dilated eyes were wingha- P. o, p Y ' correct the impression conveyed by fastened on the stranger, then with some ardent temperance lecturers, na • F, a quick cry she sprang forward. doubt unwittingly, that the great- a but atilt Ellsworth came not. .Uncle it is Ellsworth ? It is Ells•Scotland d d At last a strict search was institiat• worth. anger El(ceIlagci of qualitgv est poet that ever produced and the greatest. song writer the .� ed, and it was discovered that s- , t you to ever seen, sec a miserable the Stock now on hand at'' worth had gone to sea in a ship bound then l His cheeks turned ashen pale drunkard. Robert Burns died from t Ell Oh ifhad Seen the old man world hasdied b` for some part of the eastern coast of his' frame quivered, he tottered a few rheumatic fever; evidently with heart Asia, on a three years voyage. - steeps forward, and; then the great complication, and was many months I hope he will come hack a better wild ery of his heart broil a out— ill before his tire spirit took its flight boy than he left, was the deacon's soli- is'that you, my boy Ellsworth ? —let us hope to that plane where tart' comment 'but in the long nights • It is 1, father. Are you glad to see the wicked cease' from troubling and Ellen used to hear hint walking rest• me ? ' the weary are tat rest. Professor lessly up and down his room, and his And that strong man asked the Wilson, a youthful contemporary of black hair began to be thickly seat question with a Koh, and a timid voice the poet, while composing, his "Essay tered with grey. like that of a little child. on Burns," investigated the charges But the worst has not come lett. Come to ,tine ! come to me, my boy of intemperance, which had been One November night, when the winds I that I thought was dead 1 that I have brought against l im. He did this clamoured and stormed fiercely among ! seen every night for the last eight on the spot where' his last years had the old apple 'trees in the garden, years, lying with theedark eyes of his • been passed, and where ' the charges Deacon Grant and Ellen sat by the mother under the white waves 1 Oh, could either be proved or disproved by fire in the old kitchen, when the Ellsworth ! God has sent you from living witnesses. What is his evi- former removed the wrapper from his the dead. Come to m4', my boy 1 - deuce in the matter ? Hero it is : weekly newspaper, and the first pass- And the old man drew his arms "At the time of Burns' death, not a ABSOLUTE FITS :GUARANTEED age that met his eye was one that told around his son's neck and leaned his man, woman or child in Dumfries him how the ship Arago, the one in - grey head o•1 his strong breast, and could truthfully say that they ever -- which Ellsworth had sailed, had been for a while there wi no word spoken seen -him intoxicated." The Professor Our own Goods thrt Free o£ Charge.. LESLIE'S has no superior anywhere. The mostrfa5tidious can be suited ill, his elegant lines of aanaaian, English, Scotch„ Irish and French Tvreeds. Prices Lowest, Compatible with satis•• factory goods and MOST' FASHIG[AILR MAKE, wrecked off the coast and every soul between them. on board had perished. You have forgiven me, father? ask - Then the voice of the father woke ed the young man, at last. up in the heart of Deacon Grant. Do not ask me that, iuy. boy How : to the public house, where all kinds He staggered towards Ellen with a many times 1 would have given every- of meetings in those days were held, white, haggard 'face and a wild fearful thing I uossesst'd on earth to ask, and not the lignbrs that were sold cry— Forgive me, Ellsworth, and to hear there. Those wfio drank with him My boy ! Amy boy 1 It was more you answer, Yes, father. likewise averred that the poet never than his proud spirit could bear. • So there was peace between those seemed to care hti)w little was in his And he seekdown senseless, and his 1 two, such peace as the angels love glass, it being the past, the sentiment head fell into the lap of the frightened who walk up and clown the hills geld - and the song that,lhe honored, accord - child. en with the blossoms and glorious nn to the custom of the times and After this Deacon Grant was than© with the flashing fountains of titer- I that the flow of brilliant conversation ed man. I de not know which was niter. 1 was what he valued. In reference to the more to blame, the father or the And this—this is Nellie ? How she the last hours of the most wonderful son, in the sight of the God who has altered ! But I knew the voice, man that the 18th century produced, judgeth righteously. said Ellsworth, at last, as he took the the genial Professor says : Burns had But equally to the heart of many girl's hangs in his own and kissed her his Bible with him hi his lodgings, and a parent and a child the story had its wet eheeks very tenderly. he read it continually. Again : His message and its warning At last they went out under the I sceptical doubts no longer' troubled Five years had passed. It was a I cool shade of the hop vine, and there him, they had neve.% been more than summer time again, sand the .tills were Ellsworth told his story. shadows, and at last he had the faith then goes on to say that the universal testimony was to the effect, that it was the literary society that attracted him over he wui ow o - o teacher's residence; had been robbed green and thefields were yellow with The merchantman in which he ha of a confiding Chris`tiaih. Few of the of more than halt its fruit on Sunday their glory. It was in the morning sailed from home was wrecked, and world's poets have green perfect, from afternoon when the inmates were and Deacon Grant sat under the porch mall} on board perished ; but some of David down to Bunts, and of all the absent. of the great old; rambling cottage ; the sailors constructed a raft, on secular poets at least, and even some The perpetrators of the deed Were, for the day wets very warm, and the which the boy was saved with several of the religious ones, we are eon however, discovered to be a party oftop,was wound round thickly with a others. They were afterwards rescued strained to say as we uow do of Scot the schoolboys, among whom was Ells- I hopvine• • by a vessel bound for South America. land's national bard worth. These eight years had greatly Here Ellsworth haci obtained a situa- "Owning hisweakneds, The rest of the ' scholars privately changed the deacon. He seemed to tion in a large mercantile firm, first And n eekn2ss solicited and obtained the school• have stepped very suddenly into old as a clerk, afterwards as junior part. Id lealB to his savtogr'1 teacher's pardon, but the deacon, who, age, and the light wind that stirred ner. was terribly shocked at his son's want . the green leaves shook tilt grey hairs He had written,, home twice, but of principle. insisted that he should - over his wrinkled foreheau, as he sat the letters had beet's lost or miscarried. make a public confession of his fault there reading the village newspaper, He had never forgiven himself for before the assembled. school. - with eyes .that had began to grow running away, and tried to reconcile In vain Ellsworth explained and dim. himself to the estrangement. entreated. His father was invulner- And every little while fragments ; Rut he had of late found it very able, and the boy's haughty spirit - aiid of some Dail -fashioned tune floated diff ult to do this, and at last he had entirely mutinied. • out to the old Tuan—soft, sweet, stray resolved to return to his hone, have fragments; and°fliting back and forth an interview with his parent and try Ellsworth, Ellsworth, where- are you from the pantry to the brealcfast table whether the sight of his long -absent n oillg. - . was a young girl, not handsome, bat son would now soften his heart. There came down the garden walk - with a sweet, frank, rosy couuten• Oh, what a happy thio that sat under an eager, quiveri g voice that made mice, where green leaves of the hop vine that the boy start an turn round eagerly l d id as he stood at the garden gate, while the light of the hising day was flush- ing the grey mountains in the east with rose coloured hues. A. moment later, a small light figure, crowned with golden hair, and a large shawl thrown over her night-dress, stood by the boy's side. Why, Nellie, how could you `? You'll take cold in your 'bare feet among these dews. I can't help it Ellsworth. it was a tearswollen face that lo Iked up e wistfully be the bay's. You see 1 hav'nt slept hardly all night thinking about you, and so I was up looking where smiled seemed to hover naturally as sunshine under June skies. I think those low, sweet fragments of song unconsciously drew his steps to the kitchen, for a few momenta Nellie had been so long in prepairing. later he stood in the doorway, watch.. 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