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THE HURON SIGNAL, FRIDAY. MAY 6, 1881.
the Poet's Corner.
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A
*as prow ed last ftsday.
Aad crowds o' people came
To Isar a two Miura' sermw
Wilk a barbarous souietu g name;
'Twos all about souse be alias
'Muasaads of tulles afar,
Who lived iu a laud of darkness
Called Borriuboula uka.
So well their wants be pictured
That when the plate was passed.
Each listener 1, it nu pocket,
And goodly Sums were out.
For all must lend a shoulder
To push We rolling car
That carried light and comfort
're liorriobuula Gba.
That night their wants and sorrows
Lay heavy on my soul.
And in leep meditation
I took my morning stroll,
Till something caught ray mantis
With eager grasp and wild.
And looking dew', with wonder,
I saw a little child:
A pale end puny creature
la dirt and rags torture:
What could she want, 1 questioned,
Imputtent to ba,gone.
With treMblinl voice she answered,
"We live just down the street,
And mamm(eha'sa-dyin', ,1
And we've nothing lett to eat."
Down In a wretched basement,
With mould upon the wails.
Through whose half -buried windows
God's sunshine never fell,
Where cold, and want. and hunger
Crouched near her as she lay,
1 found a fellow creature.
Gasping her life away.
A chair, a broken table,
A bed of dirty straw,
A hearth all dark and fireless -
lint tires.• 1 scarcely saw.
For the mournful eight before me,
The mid and sickening show --
Oh, never had I pictured
A scene so full of woe -
The fam.ehed uuu the naked,
The babes that pine for bread,
The squalid group that huddled
Around the dying bed;
All this distress and sorrow
Should be in lands afar;
Was 1 soddenly. tratu•planted
To liorrioboola Gba
Ah, no! the poor and wretched
Wen close besiee my door.
And I had passed them beeolese
A thousand times before,
Alas for the cold and hungry
That met nit. every day,
While all my tears were given
To the suffering tar .way.
There's work enough fur Lhriutlans
In dintunt lands we know;
Our Lord commands hisservants
Through ell .ase world to go,
Not only to the heathen;
This was the charge to them -
"Go preach ths wurd, beglnn.ug
First at Jerusa gm,"
O Christian,God has promised
Whoe'erto thee haeglven
A cup of.purccold water
Shall find reward in h^.vee.
Would you secure the blessing,
1 ou need not 'eek it far;
Go, find in yonder hovel
A IiorrloboolaGha.
"Yes," .b. sitltnr.l ..J. a as, w►..
we Dame 10 the age column - "Is it alms
we esease' said she, "Neill is the
spar Deal you think it a me* impsr-
tineut question to ask, i Mr. McLaugh-
lier
"Tun, it may be to some folk, but to
a sweet young 'nature like you it can-
not rancher a button,"
"Well," said Mir Robins. "Bet,
now, Mr. Mcl.ughlin, Tm going to toll
you a greet secret," and she blushed is
she softly continued:-- "The mini tee
Dome. Mrmetimes to see us. "
"I have netioe Wm rather shire altos -
tire in his vtuestions in your quarter of
late, than usual, Miss Robina
"Very well, Mr. McLaughlin; but you
must nut teese me now. You know
Mini McFarlane u of the opinion that
he is in lore with her, while Miss Susan
thinks her taste for literature and her
knowledge of geology, especially her
pamphlet on the Old Bed Sandstone and
its fusels ea t&n6rming the Mosaic
record, are all mattes of greet interest to
Mr. Fraser, and she fancies that he visits
so frequently for the purpo.e of conver-
sing with her. "But," exclaims Mir
Robina, with a look of triumph. •'1.'tk
at that!"—end she held in her hand a
beautiful geld ring. "I got that from
the minister this very day.`
1 congratulated her. She had been a
favored pupil of mine, and I was rather
pleased with what had happened. "But
what" I asked •her, •'has alt this t., do
with Ve census."
O just this," continued Mus Ro-
bine, "I had nu reason to conceal my
age, as Mr. F. -laser knows it ezat*ly,
since he baptized me. Hiewsa a young
creature then, only three -and -twenty; se
that's just the dtderence between
us."
-Nothing at all, Mus Robina, 'aid I
—•'nothing at all; not worth mention-
ins."
I''In this cheerful and passing world,"
said Miss Robins. "three -awl -twenty
years are not much ef'er a11, Mr. Mc-
Laughlinl•'
"Much," said I. ••Tua, my dear it's
nothing—just, indeed, what should
be."
I "I was just thirty-four last birthday,
McLaughlin," said Mir Robina: "and
the minister said the last time he cal-
led that no young lady should take the
cares and responsibility of a household
upon herself till she was—well, twenty-
eight, and he added that thirty-four was
Lite enough."
"The minister, my dear," said I, "is a
man of sense.''
So thus were the Mir McFarlane''
census schedules tilled up, and if ever
some one in search of the "Curiosities of
the Census" should come across it, he
may think it strange enough, for he will
tind that the three sisters McFarlane are
all ae year's bairns.
Taking the Census.
Ica Chambers' Journal, aperish school-
master, who wag a census taker, narrates
a few of the incident he witnessed. One
of them is as follows:—There are three
maiden ladies—sisters. It seems the
one would not trust the other to see
the census paper filled up; so they agreed
to bring it to me to till it in.
Now, Mis McFarlane is a very nice
lady; though Miss Cameron tells me she
has been calling very often at the mance
since the minister lost his wife. Be that
as it may, I said to her that 1 would be
happy to fill up the paper, and asked her
in the meantime to give ine her own par-
ticulars. When it came to the age col-
umn, she played with her bout .,n the
carpet, and drew the black ribbons of the
bag through her fingers, and ,whispered:
—"You can say four -and -thirty, Mr. Mc-
Laughlin." "All right, ma'am," says I,
for I knew she was feur-nnd-thirty at
any rate. Then Miss Susan came over
—that its the second sister—really a
handsome young creature, with fine
ringlets and curls, though she is 'a little
tender -eyed and wears spectacles. Well,
when we came to the age column, Miss
Susan played with one of her ringlets,
and looked in my face sweetly and said:
—"Mr. McLaughlin, what did bliss Mc-
Farlane say/ My sister, you know, is
considerably older thad I am—there was
a brother between us."
"Quite so, my dear bliss Susan, said
I; "but you see the bargain was that
each of you were to state your own
age"
"Well," said bliss Susan, still playing
with her ringlets "you can say age—
thirty-four years, Mr. McLauchlan.'
in a little while the youngest sister
came in. "Min McFarlane," said sFe,
"sent me over the census paper
"OR, no, my dear," says I, '•I cannot
part with the paper. "
"Well, then,.. said she, "just enter
my name, too, Mr. McLaughlin."
"Quite se. Rut tell ins. Miss Robina.
why did not Miss McFarlane not 611 up
the paper herself?"—for Miss Robina
and L were always nn very confdeatel
terms.
'0," she replied," "there was a did -
puts over particulars; and Mise McFar-
lane weutd not let my ether sister see
how std .he was, and Miss Susan refus-
ed t.• ewe her age to Miss McFarlane
Mui 4 11 end the •,e. trrel we agreed to
ask you re. 611 in the paper Jima 1,
Yes vas Mies R......,.,
"that's quite sstideatoe, - 111 6H
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