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52 



MOORE'S a^KAL HEW-YO&EER. 



FEB. 5. 



THE SAILOR-BOT. 



dead, ami lieu staring curiouely at Ihi dark- 

 brcwed atraoger, who was "id to be William 

 Bqimm, Adblaioi mm ool there, for U« 

 Busoi, a very I. tile given lo y«"> it may be.had 

 BtAarwd A*r, sod uumerous were the 

 exaggerated stories afloat anamuBg 

 lion she bad practiced both upon tier lather and 

 the villager*. Like moat people al.e bad 00c so- 

 called friend, who dutifully kept 1" ■ 

 regard to all that "a* said concerning her, and, 

 . nwhclmod with ah.imc and mortifi- 

 rSBOivcd to keep herself secluded at 

 home, where aba vented bcr di»npi ■ 

 harsh Ungual and bitter tears, particularly when, 

 lucecuding the funeral, »he heard thai 



fully he glances lowaid* tUc winders] m c cAufial 



is wont to ait, and if they did know it, I 



not fathom hit meaning, for wbeu the gulden hair abrupt: 



ud biigbl young face i* flare; he 



de, lingering without a« if wilhiu IbeiC w« 

 maiden fair, wbw eyes of blue played viTder 1 

 upon bis heart suing* than the dark, pic-nd 



-. instead of Mr. Qowuxn 



issing from tbc table, aud « lien liiu 6 

 ■uglit her iu her room, she was aurpiised 1 



1 with which the young g.rl thret 



nd her Deck and 



l I afl 1 



Mil. I 



■ for I 





Id, water/ grave. 



ALICE AND ADELAIDE; 



■ Fai 



Dm Mr. Wm 



1 til been I iron, and wo 



"in 1 in ■.-■ walk tin 1 nidi u i'mt and I 



A\l*!niiU" be continued, nuil in the lone of hi* 



voice and gleam el Mi eye there was something 



■ in' guilty tnl tremble, " I bovo 



lionrd Hi 'i ol (which EL mi with grief. Oh, 



mj 1 'ni'1. bow sould rou 10 ibi ifully do life 



•' what do you meant" iheaakedlnwell-folgned 

 ■arpriso, foi die would w>t mlnni anything until 

 ■hr know hon far At vrm io 



■ to 1. <t what he 

 had beard from Mr. WiUllH, and tbcu awaited 

 i-. 1 '■ n . LI 1.1 i ibi thonghl i" deny tha 

 charge, but aba dared 00 

 lying dead, not far away 



trying En rain to Irunc 1 mo ■ ■ me with which 

 i" appoa h bi 1 rather, '" ■' 



1 again binding Alio* to ■oorecy, so that Mr. 

 LIowLaxo should BBVQI heai Of bar falsehoods, 



■ i-t mil wilb re- 

 gard to hoi rather, rrbco she told him, an she 



■ * -like of bcr 

 neve the 

 ■ ■ ■ 

 ■ ■! welt, 

 " - u l,1! " " 

 had utd, nn. I trllb a fain I roiee, iht 

 any one know Iblibul re 



" *••'■ w " it," he return- 



Bowi urn ia bb 



1 1 (a was there all night, 



" J/V H-u'-.-l .'" Aiiumr fairlj xcreamed, 

 and h the 1 1 her face, the 



■ 

 who rather ■oj 1 the passionate 



, . 



n .-ll m »uch us ebe eould love. 

 1 Hr. HisTiv,,. 



towards her a* ahe lay weeping on 



■ 



D hare abused 



■ 



The world lo bcr *a* bright*? DOW than [I ha 

 been for many years, and nilb something uf 

 molher'a love, her heart went out towards ll 

 orphan lo whom ahe bad given s borne, aMUUI 

 howcrer, was not forgotten, nnd the good lady wi 

 certainly excusable if, When riding with bcr pn 

 lege, alio did tree JiH to Uikc ihci 



round to High etreet, bidding bim driic slowly 

 past tho bOTJIO ol the IKXTUtOIOVla, Uul if. 

 Uiia way ahe thought to obtain nghmpieof A 

 l.aiok, ebe «iw miataken, for the young lady w 

 ri«*ei* visible, ihongli mlVly bidden behind tin 

 ■ 

 Utile hgure in blnck wl 

 iiiatiuclitely Eelt would sumo day be her r 

 ■ I drop of "II in Ami 111 1 

 mortification «*■ the knov 1 

 lakd had oijcl- thought to mnko bar 1"^ \ 

 ho told her in a letter written ibicc weeks subsu- 

 <l<ieuttoHr. WaJtUK'l 

 never oommitttd buDself bywordi, but he had 

 done bo by actions, nnd honor di manded un ex 

 nation, riohewtoleat last, and itiungb it « 

 must polilc nnd gentlemanly note, its conti 

 stung her lo her inmost soul, nnd ciislmg it 

 tho lire ahe ivalchcd it an it tui ncil (0 oafaM, I 

 bg tin.- whih .. ... 



blistered with iU load ol" guilt nnd shiti 

 10 more t' Ipeto Springfli Id oon , li 

 of labor whs nu lui ; ,■, ... . 1 n 

 -.iiiiii-i |lj 1 1.1 im,i: blunted boi biolhei 



I oAes lay useltM upon the closet 

 h.-ir 



" I'll di' before I'll ,!.-> I': 



Mlu: 



ed that they tul.e in t 



may nippoi ; 



(Leu bcr iiiulliL'i Bng-c-.l 

 ug from 11 r, Bowi 



Aud Hr. IIuvnhgtos did do his best towards 

 maintaining his lumily, but popular op into a wn 

 ngatiihl In 111. lie hud del'iauu'eJ in, . inplojcr OBOC, 



ho might ilu 10 again— and, so »m looked npoti 



in v, 11 . it. tn.nt, iinikingiL mhik' t lines » cry hum 



In 1 In 11 1 l.i 1 unc inc. Lien I hi. < 1 11 1 .1 1 1 . . 1 . . nl 



ills health, too, hud become impaired, both 

 by evpojtiiio mid the mental anguish bo had so lung 

 iniiuted, and night after night bis luboied breath- 

 ing and backing cough ainole | ninlully on the em 



Ol" Ilia wile, whnsc love no eueiin,: -.liiijCij e,.nli. 



destroy. 



morning, towards the middle of I'linumv, 

 ho Ictt them as usnid, but was soon brought book 

 t broken limb, wlicli he 1 1 ad received from 

 fall ii|ion the ice, For Awn. to work nroi now [m 



pOUiblO, OOd Ad&LAIUB nu longer i.hje I,. I iiU'i. 



In'i ni.iihei jini|.,>;.i ii thiit l'ni,.i shonld be sent 

 Wiog lo Mr. Oowmkd, wbo gave it to boi 



rnulily, nuiluli'stnig tiittcb cuiicein l.n Mi III ■. 1 



Pi 



mst deptornblc condit 

 Two or tbn 

 10 store hon 

 ho wished i- 









■ 



1 will 

 bo con tit) u< 

 t, and 1 lean 



.., .1 



^ptoaeb you further with 



'1 tn yenrawn rcflee- 



1 of his wife, 



So aa?iuR, hi paaswl on ln , 



cordial than Uiat of hi* daughter had 

 was. indeed, .orely paniahad, B 



— gone, and, a, it* J.r, 



winning Hi 

 wore on. >i 

 way of tbi 



The st"*ry t | M- Hi mxwroaa existence sod 



return to til I 



It, band in band, wavl the ramor 1 



bad once di't 

 > of Oakland, waa tmarmd more 10 death tbae 

 ■ had been in life, for Ihej eatne io eixwdatohis 



!, ir.i-.ini 



ro« 



bedside of Mr. Buktimoton, v/h Id, 



ids, why lie had 1" <■ 



mill not keep that bouse, 



ier one, ajid il notOOBOtlul till UroSl 



1: llolion liiid hee-i nl ii. inicd, would Mr. 

 !t bim have it ! he would Hi li.ud wlicn 



bo got well to pay the rent, 



■ 



baddane when wordaBimib in w ■ 





■ Mi Uotvi 



and tho sum In: mkcd Ibi it WO . 

 >\ " ■>■.. '• 1 1. "I 1 i ■■. ii.' 11 I. army lent Aurniut b 

 ahanoo ahould ontcr tha room, be hastened awoy, 

 ■ 

 ghty g rl, who, wl 



■ i i of hoi 



1 " kill bereell 



1 



■ Ol 1 » ii 1 ,. DOr .Ml her leiirs eonhl 



■hakeher fatlivr'sdetu'iiiiuuiiuii, utxi ■ : 

 April iuu vuaot, aod the waim %\ rii 

 risen, wretched, bopnleaj end weary, Adblaji 



UiiNTntoTos oropt up to her bed bej c 

 •r«, covcriua h.-, bead with the abaci, lest si 

 should see the whitc-hah cd, iigbl 1 

 which, to her 11 



Chapter XI.*-lfatnrol Consequence*. 

 1 1 



nnd in the 



■ 

 but none s-i In 



' ■ ■ 



reorernbadow- 

 ■ 

 asbnppy os »|.. 



■ 

 nor he who rtatalh Ifaare IbrgoUeD, b I 

 teara fall often on tlic aod, she eann 

 blind man back in aworld which was so truly dari- 



1 JlUCsI has learned lo be happy in her Inxu- 

 Itomr, hn|,| j in 1!. 

 F.uxoa e»er ' be&py, tow, in 



m who SN/m 

 hertheembodiiuenlofenr.v manlj 

 daaj aet Ulk Ol ' -i-nllowuxn 



deal* not »o much in words at 1 1 



, ways he tells her be is glad to hare 

 ■ 





- . iiappy. 



Then, with the twilight ahadowa gathering 



1 1 told bcr story to the wondering 



none. r.vca *< uues not ladj rgara bcr brother for Ins on- 



■ I- phan gni i,, T - 



' I low gladly she 

 crmg to bim in the dingy abyuld welcome bcr as a riU*r. It was known ere 

 Iding bim cast frequent long all over town that the wealthy Hr IIohlasd 

 ky, lo tee if it wcic not was to wed the blind DUD 'a daughter, aod therudo 

 tbul he brown rafters of the cottngc iu the Hollow ne'er 

 11 some witnessed so fierce a slonn of passion aud of lean, 

 , on the night I 

 lings (hat the man the so much I01 ed had gl 



MWf, but it proved a AiWy 7Vrtawi affair a 

 when the ChrliteM b. 1 . 



of Bethlehem gleams on the «»| U of the olJ Un 

 Ch -nh. she will stud a. apoaaor for the lit 



tdind mai 

 smging to the pr.iise of llrtblebatn'a child, i 



icb nil* 



time th^t he were home. He only k 

 is very happy, nnd that ' 



1 hu borne Willi 



lightandjoy. it hod norer occurred to him that 

 she might aomclime go iWay, and leave in Ini 

 household a void w hieb no other one could fill, and 

 when one day, towards the last of June, his sis'cr 

 ed a letter fri 



r.iaklDg her to take charge nnd tho litllo yard in front of his bouse 



old liicnd ol li.-i m, 



of the Juvenile Derailment olayouDgladi 

 mary in It—," he started as if bo bad bcec 

 With a heavy blow. 



'■Alicr leach rehooll " he exclaimed. "Ai.icb 

 go away from-me— frpmyt/i/, I mean. PrapoiUl 

 OQSl .She don't, of OOurao, Hunk of accepliug the 

 Offer I" 



" Yes, she doea. I'd tin idea ahe had .... m 

 deciaion," nnd Miss BlIKOe'i iclaion cut qui 

 hole in tho tfnlroidtry on which ebe bus worked 

 ever since wo knew bcr. "1 lomonstinlcd when 

 ■*he told me die ahould return an oJErmatin an- 

 swer, but it did no good. She net er intended long 

 lobuidcn people on whomahe had no claim, she 

 • nid. She mind rather be independent, and tho' 

 -be was rerj huppy hcie. she foil it her duty lo 



'" bil 0" 11 In in-., n.iw that nu opportuuily wan 



ine.ented " 



"Earn her own living," repented Mr Don i.isn, 

 "jusi aa though aAieoitanybodynDytbing. Thcie 

 is some other icnson, and it' I didn't know you as 

 well us I do, I should Lc inclined to thiuk the fault 

 was with you. Maybe you 1/0 sometimes eculd her, 

 Kukor ! " and he Iked his eyes iuiiuiiiugly upon 



Miss Blikor had striven bard to restrain tho 



tears which thoughts of pin ting w .ih hei r.uonlc 

 ludiiccd, and thus liar she hud s-ueeccded, but when 

 she heard bcr hi other's lenmik, they burst forth at 



"ife scold iLICnl" n:i,| orticulntc, 



u with n deeply injured airibe left the room, while 

 lie. brother, cising 1 ;.. ■ I 



■ ' ... 1 ing [<■ i!ni I. 

 how il would necuitohiin when he knew that Alicb 

 V, as gone. 



" It didn't accm at all," cither lo him or to his 

 tUrk*. for never hcloie had be been so irritable 

 and cross, finding fault with Ibi moat trivial mat- 



is,— chiding the check-boy for moving too fust, 



H the head clerk lor moving loo slow,— refusing 



tri.Kt [he tti.luw Siitm.. . ,■ l„.,u l,e had trusted 

 I his life, and und.ing himself so generally disa- 

 ceiiblc thill the jouug men in lu,4 employ wen- 

 it sorry when about 5 o'clock, they saw bim start 



" ! '"i g)B Mei 14 ■. nny way, durn him," mul- 



ed) a-ho I. id been, peilni|i:i, the grealesl 



iTeicr. and with a must contemptuous 11 In- tie he 

 iked after tho rel eating figure of his master. 

 A1.101: woi nut in the yard, —not in the parlor, — 

 t in tie house. lie knew it by that nndcfinoblc 

 ding which we experience when the one we love 

 ;' 1 ■'■-' 1 ■ i«h r ul. "Hhe hiiJ gone l„ walk by (be 

 cr," so Miss EtlKOB said, when queetionod, 

 .11 ;.; him in the s:in,i: bica'.b why he didn't come 



"1 was not hungry," he replied. "The prospect 

 of lo.-ing Ai i(jk h;., itikon tny appetite away. Do 

 yon think 6hc would stay with ua, if I were to 

 adopt her as my daughter?" 



a ISlinoh didn't iliinl. any ih ing. She bad not 

 liuitc forgiven big unjust remark in the morning, 



ODd failing to obtain satisfaelion fiuin her, In 

 d m qneat of Alice, who, he was sure, would 



favorably to bia nl 1 adoption, The Ires 



she and her father sat on Hint afternoon 

 when she hud cnmc so near to death, was her lavoi - 

 'I !"-f In- now I'lunil her thinking of 

 the coming lime when she should he gone. It bad 

 COSlbcrasliuggle to decide the mutter, bul it WOI 

 he-t, nhe tboughl ; the could not Ulwayo be depen- 

 dent, and that very night she would answer "yes." 



liui why that eigb, fair Abub! Is it that youio 

 iniicli dread 1 ■ ■ ■ I, n the brother 



won a place withm jour heart t Shecunld nut tell. 

 She only knew that whan ibi thought of leaving 



Mr. How LAM' !'■'■ I :> ii V, ;i, l...n].'l lo bear. 



■ ■ ■.," -Ii'j UDOoq. 



loud, ■■ 1 -i.i-l(I mhu them both— bnt 



.'.,'.<, the moil " 



■■ Why then do you got" came to bcr startled 

 ear, and Rtcuaan H< .«■ tvn Itood before her. 



■ -I !>lammcred 

 un 1 wo ething about ihc tw/tk <bv> ['■>•,'.<, whom 



t do. Mr. 



I in hertell-talo 

 the woA-4 di>'„< rVnfe oroant ubnaelf! 



"Auica," 1, 

 hank and Ul] . 1VB at." 



Aucn obeyed, bul oetftun ol themwpoke un 



Mr. Howl- nd ■ 1 bold, wun 



. . ■ 



lute he hades 

 found bun-. . . ii., v nnd thou 



it was very 1 t, UJttd it • 



ill about the adoption, and bcndii 

 low, so that in case of an emergency, h 



touch her check, he whispered, "Alicb " 



But what cite he said the lmirmunng nvcr ncr 

 summer air which tifted the guldl 



binifcclf to another. To W11 



however. ,l,e news brought j.iy and gladness, lie 

 but bis health 

 did not improve, and now be seldom lei 

 Still he did whatever he could do fur his family, 



ith flowers, which be lended with the utmost 

 care and sold in small bouquets to such of the vil- 

 lagers as wished lo buy When he beard that 

 A mob was to be a bride ere the summer days were 

 gone, be set apart bis choicest flowers, watching 

 them with jealous care and experiencing a childish 

 delight in thinking how he would form a rare bou- 

 quet, worthy of bcr to whom it should be given 



There was no reason why the marriage should 

 be delayed, Mr. IIowi.anu laid, nnd so one balmy 

 evC, when the harvest moon w:i- in its tofauOJ, St 

 Luke's Church was filled to overflowing, aud tho 

 aome man who. over lli.oo WanniVs grave bad 

 read the buriut service, now spoke ihesoleinn words 

 which made one flesh of two. And when the ritB 

 was ended and Alice was a bride, from Ihe three 

 towers of Oakland there ran- a merry |u-:il, l..i Mi 

 Hon lami wai greatly honmed hv tin- e- 

 thus would keep bid R'edd I 



Across the grassy meadow, <i|> Ihc wooded bill, 

 and down into the Uol low, floated the muajcof 

 those hells, ira 



in every lit .11 1 save that nl Hie IVrOlcllOd AoSLAlDB, 

 who, grinding her teeth together, lied toiler lonely 

 garret aud Bluffed niton in Inr cars, so as lo shut 

 out iho batofbl sound, which told horoFbor riral't 



happiness. Anon, and from tin- n.>cl:y hrr-Jil 



which overlooked the town, ami i , Hi, rfllage 



green, there ebons a Ihrfd light, DonDrei had be n 

 kindled by tho workmen from tbofhetory nnd ihop, 

 ami among the boya who danced aroand the hin,-- 

 ■ Lhrcn his hat so high or cut so many 

 ■ ■ '..■..'," who, in In-, bran 

 new suil, the gift of Mr. IIowLAKD, forgot his 

 grievances on that memornb'o day when bis mas- 

 ter tried toBcehow it would seem to live without 

 Alice Waiirsn. 



From her window Adelaide looked out upon 

 tho scene, shedding bitter teais nfciny and of 

 rage; then wishing ebe had nev. 

 of day, she sought her solitary pillow and en-d 



robes of white, looked lov ugly up l.i linn win. was 



her nil in all, Nor were the tttes ofthe Brown 



House in the Hollow forgotten by Alice in her 

 prosperity. From Mr. IU'nti\<iton she had re- 

 ceived a beautiful bouquet; 'twas till save his bless- 

 ing thai be hud lo give, he said, and Alicb prized 

 il the more when she knew bow carefully he had 

 watched each opening bud, shielding them alike 

 from sti'im and noon-day heat. 



"I will remember him Tor this," she thought, 

 and as the days wore on, many a timely gilt found 

 its way to the brown cottage, where il was sorely 



needed, for U the lull a.hanr- fj \\ , II 



!W worse, and to the other labOTBof hlsfhtnlrj 



? Lidded (he ta-k of mmi-teiin^ to him and pi u 



lius for his wants. 



is yet no reul for the cottage had been paid, and 



U BUKOA, when she re :■ -I il.. 



ieh Adelaide hud called bcr, i-.u-ilv wi.-ln-d 

 1 might be turned into the ilrcet. But her 

 ilhcr was more forgiving, aud when An 1. 

 leteenth birlhdoycame he gave her the Drown 

 use 111 tlie Hollow, telluiir her playfully that sin 

 st collect the rent of her own prnpcitv ' 

 'And [vouUdoit,Uio,"apokc 

 o, nevertheless, was just as Bore thi D of who 



MISCELLANIODS ENIGMA. 



u bo imitupnuattt lo e 



1 town in 1: kalern Massachusetts. 



CBAMMATICAL ENIGMA. 



■ ■ 

 ; ■ 



■nded 



MUg 



when she saw upon her sister's writing 



rcceipl iu full for the rent, pnd heard - 



11 servant take it with sundry other 1liin-_-s In the 



Drown House in the Hollow as aNou i..,:M;,u 

 IV0111 her! 



Suro 'lis more hles-ed to give than to receive, 

 ami the prayer which the .<.ick man breathed for 

 Alicb Hqwl»m. waa worth for mine to berthan 

 th.' |i iiti.v .inn which -.ii- had lost by 1 



she d ; d. AnGLMDS, too, was softened, foi ilu- 

 pangs of poverty were beginning l., be keenly felt. 









ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, &c , IN No. 472. 

 Answer to Duuul<- Acrusllcul Knlgnia :— Qcocrol Jo- 



IHoovc's Uuvfil Jfeuj-Jjot-Ifcr, 



Agrienltural, Literary aud Family Weekly, 



Oflicc, fuioD BniLGngij Oppmile lb t'oart House, Buffalo St. 



1 fJiu, 



i bil 1 



It did uodn • 

 ; thet* dins brought to mind the dainty nest 

 the Wtai tc tree h here its own lo.rd mat* w«a 

 dream l low » WC et to bim ii I 



gatbrrirg iwilghi I head, i I pi u reed ibi wing* for fog-bland dew away, 

 da they I ainglog as it flc.r, "Sho'e woo— she's won." 



Itboi yar ha* nearly gone, iinil fro 

 dowi of the cottage thi 1 

 light, whih. gathered round the be . 

 I) women it Thaj are now indi 

 bed in the corner i. em 



... 

 blooming and the voice of spring wai mi the bills, 



d bim out into thoopen air, juBt 



■ ■ I the blind man, and ... | 

 church van), not far from Huco Wahoes's groTc, 

 ■ ■ . ■ down 1 



1 .wi utp'i wife 

 1 iwiii bis family »vci" nol 

 BUVOB took good - 

 enough assistance should be given them "to keep 

 the trollop, Adslaidb, froni working " 

 In BtcesJU IIowlam/s home all ■, . 



_;!i the enrlnins of on* room arc 

 dropped, ami the bill 



because the fussy old nurse will have it so, aod not 

 "■'"'-' is in any 

 danger do*, la the rosewood crib lb 



IDd the bottom of his cambric skirt » 

 trimmed with the veritable tm&roiiitry which we 

 have oflcu seen in ibe bands of Hi v. i, 

 calls bcr^-lf the baby's "Aunty" liliv | 

 Site bad fully expected that It would 



.fry 1 * 



