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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Charles Duran + Or, The Career of a Bad Boy + +Author: The Author of The Waldos + +Release Date: March 30, 2005 [EBook #15507] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHARLES DURAN *** + + + + +Produced by Internet Archive; University of Florida, PM Childrens +Library, Melissa Er-Raqabi and the Online Distributed Proofreading +Team at https://www.pgdp.net. + + + + + + +</pre> + +<hr style="width: 95%;" /> + +<h1>CHARLES DURAN:</h1> +<h3>OR,</h3> +<h1>THE CAREER OF A BAD BOY.</h1> + + +<h2>BY THE AUTHOR OF +"THE WALDOS."</h2> + + +<div class="figcenter"> +<a name="c04" id="c04"></a> +<img src="images/c04.png" +alt="CHARLES ON HIS DEATH BED.—SEE PAGE 52." title="" /> + +</div> + + + + +<h1>CHARLES DURAN:</h1> +<h3>OR,</h3> +<h1>THE CAREER OF A BAD BOY.</h1> + + +<h2>BY THE AUTHOR OF +"THE WALDOS."</h2> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="center">New-York:<br /> +PUBLISHED BY CARLTON & PORTER,<br /> +SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, 200 MULBERRY-STREET. +</p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="center">Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by<br /> +LANE & SCOTT,<br /> +in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern<br /> +District of New-York. +</p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>CONTENTS.</h2> + + + + <p><a href="#CHAPTER_I"><b>CHAPTER I.</b></a></p> + +<p>THE HOMESTEAD.</p> + +<p>The house—Court-yards—Garden—The well—"Oaken bucket"—The +fields—Flocks—River—Fish—Forest—Church</p> + + <p><a href="#CHAPTER_II"><b>CHAPTER II.</b></a></p> + +<p>THE BIRTH OF CHARLES.</p> + +<p>Effects on the parents—The Joneses—Parental expectations—An instance +of disappointment—Ann's prophecy</p> + + <p><a href="#CHAPTER_III"><b>CHAPTER III.</b></a></p> + +<p>HIS EARLY TRAINING.</p> + +<p>Opinions—The Durans indulgent—The sulks—They produce blindness—"I +will"—"I won't"—Faults of parents</p> + + <p><a href="#CHAPTER_IV"><b>CHAPTER IV.</b></a></p> + +<p>CHARLES DURAN AT SCHOOL.</p> + +<p>Good children at home are good in school—Conduct—Inattention to +studies—Unkind to his school-mates—Samuel Howard—Helen Fay—John and +Louisa—Severe whipping—Mr. Spicer—Charles expelled from school</p> + + + <p><a href="#CHAPTER_V"><b>CHAPTER V.</b></a></p> + +<p>CHARLES'S HABITS.</p> + +<p>Good habits—Proverbs of the Rabbins—Charles not +improved—Idleness—Fishing and hunting—No idle boy can be +good—Shooting—Roughness of manners—One vice is followed by +another—Lying—Sabbath-breaking—Intemperance—A standard of wickedness</p> + + + <p><a href="#CHAPTER_VI"><b>CHAPTER VI.</b></a></p> + +<p>THE FATAL NIGHT.</p> + +<p>Village balls—Description—Culpability of parents—Demand for +money—Fit—House stoned—Windows broken in—Mr. Duran with the +bag—Charles's wrath appeased—The ball—Charles intoxicated—Falls to +the floor—Brought home speechless—Laid upon his death-bed</p> + + + + <p><a href="#CHAPTER_VII"><b>CHAPTER VII.</b></a></p> + +<p>SICKNESS AND DEATH.</p> + +<p>Sufferings from the debauch—Crisis—Favorable change—Hopes of recovery +cut off—Consumption—Contrivance to change his position—State of +mind—The minister visits him—No evidence of penitence—The dying scene</p> + + + <p><a href="#CHAPTER_VIII"><b>CHAPTER VIII.</b></a></p> + +<p>THE CONCLUSION.</p> + +<p>The way of transgressors hard—Disobedience to parents a fearful +sin—Parental restraint—Pleasures of parental approbation—Disobedience +in scholars—Reflections—Sporting habits in children not to be +encouraged—Importance of early religious training—History of young +Duran a warning to Sabbath-breakers, &c.—Beware of the first sin—The +End</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>CHARLES DURAN.</h2> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_I" id="CHAPTER_I"></a>CHAPTER I.</h2> + +<h2>THE DURAN HOMESTEAD.</h2> + + +<p>Before giving the history of Charles Duran's birth, life, and early +death, I will partially describe his father's residence. It was situated +in the town of ——, in the State of Connecticut, and about six miles +from the west bank of the beautiful Connecticut river. The house stood +on a level road, running north and south, and was about one mile from +the centre of the town.</p> + +<p>Mr. Duran's house was large and commodious. It was built of wood, two +stories high, and painted a deep yellow. In the front was a fine +court-yard. In this yard were lilacs of a large growth, roses of various +kinds, and flowering almonds. These shrubs blossomed early in the +spring, and sent forth their fragrance to perfume the air.</p> + +<p>On the south was a rich and well-cultivated garden, producing an +abundance of vegetables, gooseberries, currants, and raspberries. The +borders of the main alley were decked with pionies, pinks, and +sweet-williams.</p> + +<p>Between the garden and the house was the well. A long sweep, resting on +the top of a high post, with a pole fastened to the upper end, was the +rude contrivance for drawing water. To the lower end of the pole was +attached a bucket. How many of New-England's sons remember with delight +the "old oaken bucket that hung in the well!"</p> + +<p>On the north side of the house was a small orchard. In the rear were the +barn, sheds, crib, and other out-buildings.</p> + +<p>The grounds in the immediate neighborhood were level or slightly +undulated. On the north and east were beautiful meadows. On the south +and west were excellent tillage and pasture lands. The season that I +spent there was one of nature's bountifulness. The tall herd's-grass, +the rustling corn, and the whitened grain waved in the summer's breeze, +and bespoke the plenty that followed the toil and industry of the +husbandman. The herds were feeding in the fields. The innocent lambs, +free from care, were leaping and frisking about—some in the sun and +some in the shade—while their more sober dames were either grazing, or +quietly masticating the food they had previously collected.</p> + +<p>Half encircling these premises was a fine stream of water, varying from +three to seven yards in width. It was supplied with dace, trout, roach, +and perch. Its plaintive, monotonous murmur sometimes impressed the mind +with sadness. This was soon dispelled, however, by the twittering, the +glee, and the sweet notes of the birds, that hopped from spray to spray, +or quietly perched themselves on the overhanging branches.</p> + +<p>Some little distance to the northwest of Mr. Duran's house was a forest +of thrifty growth, covered with a varied and beautiful foliage. Its +shady bowers and pleasant walks made it a delightful place of +resort,—especially toward the time of sunsetting. Nature seemed to lend +to it then peculiar charms.</p> + +<p>In the centre of the town stood the old church, antiquated in its +appearance, but venerable and holy in its associations. In that +old-fashioned church have been settled three successive ministers of the +gospel. In those high-backed, square pews were other generations wont to +sit. Those pastors and their flocks now sleep in the grave. Their sons +occupy their places in the sanctuary, and another herald of the cross +proclaims to them the word of life. It was in this pleasant place, which +I have briefly described, that Charles Duran was born.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_II" id="CHAPTER_II"></a>CHAPTER II.</h2> + +<h2>THE BIRTH OF CHARLES.</h2> + + +<p>The birth of Charles was an occasion of great joy in Mr. Duran's family. +Blessings long withheld are frequently more highly prized when at length +received. Mr. Duran had no children, and was now past the meridian of +life. To him this child seemed like one born out of due time.</p> + +<p>It was amusing to see the effect produced on the parents by this, till +recently, unexpected event. "Well, Molly," said Mr. Jones,—a neighbor +of Mr. Duran, whose wife had just been to see the strange visitant, and +who had reared a large family of children,—"how do Mr. and Mrs. Duran +act with the boy?" "Act? why just like two grown-up children. And they +think it is the most wonderful child that ever was born. But they don't +know what it may live to be!"</p> + +<p>These last words were spoken in a tone of voice which told of hidden +springs of sorrow. One of Mrs. Jones' own dear children, a promising, +lovely boy, had early become intemperate, and was now sleeping in a +drunkard's grave!</p> + +<p>Having passed through the ordinary nursery incidents of the first months +of infancy, Charley—for so he was familiarly called—became a fine fat +child. "Sweet boy," said his mother, as she rather clumsily patted his +cheeks, and felt of his tender limbs, "you will be a comfort to your +parents in their old age."</p> + +<p>"I was just thinking of that," added the father. "What a blessing he +will be to us! He will manage the farm—administer to our comfort, and +inherit our estate."</p> + +<p>Many a bright sunny morning has been followed by a dark cloudy evening. +Our supposed blessings often prove to us a source of disappointment and +sorrow. I have seen the mother clasp her lovely infant to her breast, +and fondly and dotingly caress it, and press its little hands and feet, +soft as velvet, with her lips. And I have seen that child, the rainbow +of promise, and the cause of so much joy, bring down that mother's head, +ere it was gray, with sorrow to the grave.</p> + +<p>Thoughts like these, however, never crossed the minds of Mr. and Mrs. +Duran. They dreamed not that sickness and death might blast their +hopes, and leave them more lonely than they were before. So staid and +uniform had been their own life, that they never once supposed that +Charles, if he should grow up, could pursue any other course.</p> + +<p>Every day little Charles became more and more the object of cherished +hopes and affections. The hearts of the parents were bound up in him. He +became their idol. His wants, real and imaginary, were all met. His +danger was of being spoiled by too much indulgence.</p> + +<p>"I believe they will kill him with kindness," was the remark of Ann, a +colored woman, who had long lived in the family. "It is just the way Mr. +Parsons used to do with his Jim, who never amounted to anything."</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_III" id="CHAPTER_III"></a>CHAPTER III.</h2> + +<h2>HIS EARLY TRAINING.</h2> + + +<p>"Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will +not depart from it." Prov. xxii, 6. The proper training of children is +of the utmost importance. Upon it to a great extent depend their +usefulness and happiness in the world. And as the happiness of parents +is so intimately connected with the course of conduct pursued by their +children, it should be with them a constant study how they may promote +the well-being of their offspring.</p> + +<p>On this subject much has been said and written. Some recommend +indulgence as the surest way to give a child a good disposition, and to +lead to the formation of correct habits. Others urge the necessity of +restraint and uncompromising obedience, on the part of children, to the +commands of their parents. There may be extremes in both. Children +should be taught to fear and love their parents, and to respect their +wishes. The government of children should be strictly parental. The +parent's will should be the law of the child. Proper indulgence should +be allowed; entire obedience enforced. Parents and children should both +remember the words of the apostle: "Children, obey your parents in all +things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not +your children to anger, lest they be discouraged." Col. iii, 20, 21.</p> + +<p>Mr. and Mrs. Duran were very indulgent to their only child. His wants +were met with a liberal hand, and his wishes, as far as possible, +gratified. If his desires were not immediately granted, he soon learned +that a little crying would accomplish his object.</p> + +<p>Improper indulgence begets unlawful desires. Unlawful desires can never +be fully satisfied. So it was with Charles Duran: everything he saw, he +wanted. When he was not indulged, as he could not be always, he soon +showed his bad spirit. Sometimes he pouted out his lips, and had a long +fit of the sulks.</p> + +<p>Perhaps my readers never saw a child affected with the sulks. I will +briefly describe them. First, the eyes begin to roll rapidly in their +sockets, and the sight turns upward. The chin falls down a little, and +the corners of the mouth are slightly drawn back. The lower lip then +rolls down nearly to the chin. Soon a whining commences, which grows +louder and louder, and becomes disagreeable to every person present. At +the same time the eyes turn red, the face gets out of shape, and the +child becomes <i>blind!</i> I saw a little boy once have the sulks so badly +that when his mother sent him into his room to get his apron, before +sitting down to dinner, he could not find it, though it was in plain +sight! Before he was two years old, Charles showed a very bad +disposition. This, instead of being corrected, was fostered by the +training which he received. To the domestics in the family he was +insolent and unkind; and even to his parents, <i>"I will"</i> and <i>"I won't"</i> +were said with fearful frequency. Still the doting parents would merely +say to him, "You should not do so, Charles! You should say, 'I don't +want to,' or, 'I do want to,'" as the case might be. Thus they +indirectly taught him disobedience, which he was learning fast enough +without such assistance. In this way did these parents, with cruel +kindness, help on the ruin of their child!</p> + +<p>Charles Duran, with all his faults, was a bright, active boy. What he +needed was training,—<i>parental training</i>. His parents committed two +very common errors: they promised him correction for his disobedience, +without inflicting the punishment; and they often repeated his sayings, +and spoke of his doings, to others, in his presence. Parents should +always keep good faith with their children; and, while they encourage +them, when they are alone, by suitable and well-timed praise, they +should rarely repeat what they have said, or speak of what they have +done, to others, in their presence. This is injurious to the child, +betrays vanity in the parents, and is not very edifying to others. The +singing of a young raven may be music to its parents, but to us it is +like the cawing of a crow.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IV" id="CHAPTER_IV"></a>CHAPTER IV.</h2> + +<h2>CHARLES DURAN AT SCHOOL.</h2> + + +<p>Charles was now old enough to go to school. He was accordingly sent to +the district school, not far from his father's house. Teachers say that +they can tell whether children are good and obedient at home by their +conduct in school. Those children who mind their parents will generally +obey their teachers; and those scholars that are obedient generally +learn well.</p> + +<p>How was it with Charles Duran at school? Did he obey his teacher? At +first, as all things in the school were new and strange to him, he was +somewhat restrained. He soon, however, became acquainted with his +teacher and the scholars, and as soon learned to break the rules of the +school. He became disrespectful to his teacher, and caused him much +trouble.</p> + +<p>Charles was also very inattentive to his books. The teacher did the best +he could to make him learn; but his lessons were never more than half +learned, and the greater part of the time they were not studied at all: +and, though naturally he was a bright, smart boy, he seemed determined +to grow up a blockhead.</p> + +<p>The next thing I notice in the school history of this boy is the +unkindness which he showed his school-fellows. If he played with them, +he was quite sure to get offended before the play was through. He was +surly, self-willed, and disposed always to have his own way in +everything.</p> + +<p>One day Samuel Howard, a boy smaller than himself, was flying his kite. +There was a fine breeze, and the kite floated beautifully in the air. +Charles seized the twine, and began to pull in the kite. Samuel +remonstrated with him; but the more he remonstrated the more ugly was +Charles. He pulled in the kite, tore it all to pieces, and broke and +snarled the twine. Samuel cried at the loss of his pretty kite, and +Charles Duran was mean enough to mimic the boy whom he had thus injured.</p> + +<p>At another time, a little girl, whose name was Helen Fay, was returning +from school: Charles threw a stone, and hit her on the cheek-bone. It +cut a great gash in her face, and made the blood run freely. Had the +stone struck a little higher, it would probably have put out her eye; as +it was, her face was badly scarred.</p> + +<p>A poor widow lady lived some distance beyond Mr. Duran's house. She had +two dear little children, John and Louisa, whom she sent to school. This +poor mother was industrious and very neat, and her children were always +dressed in neat, clean clothes. Charles Duran, who was out of his +element when he was not in mischief, seemed to take delight in +tormenting these little children. On their way from school one day, when +they had on their nice clothes, he covered them from head to foot with +dirt and mud. In that sad plight John and Louisa went home crying. Their +mother felt as badly as they did, when she saw the ugliness of her +neighbor's spoiled child.</p> + +<p>So constantly was Charles injuring the smaller boys and girls in the +school that none of them loved him. If he got hurt, none of them pitied +him. The whole school seemed glad, one day, when he had shoved a little +girl into a mud-puddle, and upset an inkstand on a boy's writing-book, +and spoiled it, to see the master give him a severe whipping,—such as +he deserved.</p> + +<p>It is not agreeable to dwell longer upon the conduct of this boy in +school. He became so quarrelsome and disagreeable that no one was +willing to sit next to him. He was always spoken of as the worst boy in +school.</p> + +<p>Mr. Spicer was now his teacher, and he had borne with him till he could +bear with him no longer. He had pretty much made up his mind that he +would turn him out of his school. Before doing that, however, he was +desirous of knowing the minds of his scholars. He called the school to +order, and then told Charles what he had thought of doing; reminded him +of his disobedience, of his unkindness to his school-mates, and of his +general neglect of his studies. He told him if he did not do differently +he would grow up without friends, and, in all probability, in +consequence of his sins, come down to an early grave.</p> + +<p>Mr. Spicer then addressed the scholars, and said, "All of you who think +Charles Duran ought to be expelled from the school for continued bad +conduct, raise your right hands." In a moment every right hand was +raised up!</p> + +<p>Then Mr. Spicer said, in a solemn and affecting manner, <i>"Charles Duran, +with the voice of all your school-mates, you are expelled from this +school, for bad conduct."</i></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_V" id="CHAPTER_V"></a>CHAPTER V.</h2> + +<h2>CHARLES'S HABITS.</h2> + + +<p>Good habits are of the greatest importance. If they are cultivated by +the young, they become fixed and permanent. Evil habits, unless they are +corrected, will increase in number and strength. The young should beware +of the first evil habit. A boy does not become a bad boy all at once: he +gives way to one bad habit, and then to another. One small sin prepares +the way for another and a greater one. Dr. Clarke says, "Sin is a small +matter in its commencement; but by indulgence it grows great, and +multiplies itself beyond all calculation." The old rabbins used to say +it was like a spider's web at first, and that it increased till it was +like a cart-rope. This is seen in the case of Charles Duran. His +expulsion from school did not improve him: he grew up in the indulgence +of his bad temper, and, instead of being a lovely, industrious boy, fond +of his studies, and attentive to his various duties, he was idle, lazy, +and vicious. When he ought to have been in school, he was fishing, and +idling away his time along the margins of the brooks and rivers. He soon +learned to use a gun, and much of his time was spent in the woods, +hunting birds, squirrels, and rabbits. Idle habits are very dangerous. A +boy or man that is habitually idle cannot be good,—mark that. The devil +will always find mischief for such persons, and he will be very sure +to get them into it.</p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/c36.png" +alt="CHARLES HUNTING." title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Charles had, what many boys desire, a gun, and was very fond of +shooting. Besides shooting squirrels and birds, he would shoot at marks +on his father's out-buildings and fences. There was not a door, not a +board, not a post, and scarcely a rail, in all the out-buildings and +fences, that was not full of shot-holes. This kind of shooting was a +dangerous practice. I wondered, when I examined the premises, that the +barn and sheds had not taken fire from the burning wads. It was +dangerous also to the poultry and cattle. But he thought nothing of +these things; from day to day it was shoot! shoot! shoot!</p> + +<p>Pursuing this course, it is not strange that Charles should grow up +rough in his manners, and coarse in his language. Gentleness is lovely +always, wherever found; but it appears most lovely in children and +youth. It indicates a good heart, and good training. It helps young +persons into the best society, and secures them warm and valuable +friends. Roughness of manner drives our friends from us, and prevents +many from becoming friends. This fact is illustrated in the history of +this spoiled boy. He might have had a large circle of friends, but now +few, very few indeed, loved or esteemed him.</p> + +<p>One vice does not long remain alone. Idleness begets vice. Viciousness +shows itself in various forms: in lying, Sabbath-breaking, theft, +swearing, and intemperance. Charles grew worse and worse,—adding sin +to sin. He became greatly addicted to swearing. He frequently spent the +Sabbath in wandering about the fields, instead of attending church. He +found, as the depraved always do, kindred spirits, with whom he +associated. With these he learned to drink to excess, and was not +unfrequently under the influence of strong drink.</p> + +<p>There is a standard in vice as well as in virtue. While some are held up +as models of virtue, others may be regarded as the very personification +of evil. We should learn to profit by both,—be encouraged by one, and +warned by the other.</p> + +<p>The unfortunate boy whose history I am detailing finally became a +proverb in his native town. Good mothers often exhorted their children +not to be like Charles Duran! Who of my little readers would like such a +distinction as this? Try to live so that parents may point you out as +good examples for their children to follow.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VI" id="CHAPTER_VI"></a>CHAPTER VI.</h2> + +<h2>THE FATAL NIGHT.</h2> + + +<p>In country villages, as well as in larger cities, parties often meet for +dancing; and balls are frequently held, especially in the winter season. +Many young people, whose thoughts and time are not better occupied, seem +to derive a great deal of pleasure from such amusements.</p> + +<p>These gatherings frequently embrace a large number of the young of both +sexes, from the towns in which they are held, and often many from +neighboring towns. They are usually held at some tavern where rum is +sold. The parties arrive in the forepart of the evening, and the dance +commences at eight, or from eight to nine o'clock, according to +arrangement. Wine, cordials, and other stimulating drinks, are freely +furnished, and freely used. Toward midnight, when chaste young ladies +and sober young men should be at home, the ball-supper is served up. +Rich viands and sparkling drinks are on the table. One becomes drunken, +and another surfeited. The sound of the viol is again heard, and the +merry dance is kept up till near morning light. The parties then +gradually retire. Some of the young ladies, from over excitement in the +ball-chamber, and subsequent exposure to the night air, take severe +colds, become speedily consumptive, and from the place of rioting and +mirth are carried to the grave! In this country, where consumption is +so prevalent, and accomplishes its work so rapidly, the distance from +the midnight ball-room to the grave is very short.</p> + +<p>Most young men who attend balls go home inflamed with wine. I say <i>most</i> +of them. It is not unfrequently the case, however, that some of them +cannot get home. They have to stay behind until they have, in a measure, +slept off the fumes of strong drink: and then, with bloodshot eyes, +fetid breath, and staggering gait, they reach their homes. Such young +men have received a new impetus in the way that leads to destruction, +and such are the common fruits of a village ball.</p> + +<p>Why do fathers and mothers,—and some of them professedly Christian +parents, too,—allow their daughters to mingle in these scenes, and +expose themselves to the contaminating influence of such associations? +How any well-disposed <i>mother</i> can do this I am at a loss to determine.</p> + +<p>Such a ball as I have described was to be held in the town of ——. +Young men and young ladies impatiently waited for the time appointed to +arrive. Among those who designed to attend this ball was Charles Duran, +then in his eighteenth year. Notwithstanding his habits and character, +the position and respectability of his parents prevented him from being +entirely excluded from society. He was still further aided in gaining +admission to such parties by always having money. While some despised +him in their heart, they were quite willing, for the sake of his purse, +to have him in their company.</p> + +<p>The anxiously looked for day arrived. The preparations were made. At +night the ball was to come off. After dinner, Charles asked his father +for money to bear the expenses of the evening. Mr. Duran gave him what +he thought would be sufficient for the occasion. The amount did not +satisfy him: more was asked. It was refused; and Charles, not having +forgotten his early habits, immediately went into a fit of rage. More +money he wanted, and more he would have. He went out, and arming himself +with stones and blocks, soon commenced a regular assault upon the house. +The weather-boards were battered, one window was smashed in, panes in +the others were broken, and the fragments rattled on the floor and on +the ground. The aged parents trembled for their safety; while the son, +raving as a madman, seemed bent on their destruction. Stooping somewhat +with age, and in great fear, Mr. Duran went to the door, with a bag in +his hand, containing a quantity of specie:—</p> + +<p>"Here, Charles," said the feeble old man, "come and get what money you +want, and don't stone the house any more."</p> + +<p>Thus appeased, the demon became quiet. Charles helped himself to as much +money as he wanted, and was ready for the ball in the evening. Alas, +what degradation for a parent! and what persevering depravity in a son!</p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/c47.png" +alt="CHARLES TAKING MONEY FOR THE BALL." title="" /> +</div> + +<p>The evening came. Parties began to assemble. Arrangements had been +made for a great ball. The saloon was tastefully decorated. The kitchen +gave evidence that a sumptuous repast was in preparation. The bar was +fully supplied with all kinds of sparkling liquors. As the new-comers +arrived, they met a smiling host, an attentive and ready bar-tender, and +obsequious waiters and servants.</p> + +<p>Fancy the scene. Groups of persons, gayly dressed, are in conversation +in different parts of the ball-chamber. More are constantly coming in. +The musicians, who for some time have been tuning their instruments, +enter, and take their place. Partners are selected, the circle is +formed, and the dancing begins. A scene of hilarity ensues. During the +intervals, the merry laugh is heard, wine is drunk, and the glee becomes +general. Sparkling eyes are made more sparkling by strong drink; and, +under the influence of multiplied potations, the coarse jest is now and +then uttered. In this scene of gayety and mirth Charles Duran +mingled,—a prominent actor. A young and inexperienced girl had +accompanied him to the place. Round and round went the dance, and round +and round went Charles's head. He was flush with money, and many a +friend did he treat at the bar. Long ere the festivities closed he was +unable to walk steadily. Still, stimulated by the excitement of the +occasion, and urged on by unprincipled comrades, he poured down the +deadly poison. His brain reeled under its influence. He alternately +roared and laughed as a maniac. "Another drink! another drink!" he said. +His youthful system could endure it no longer: he uttered a moaning, +sepulchral groan, and sunk to the floor!</p> + +<p>The ball was over, and the night was nearly gone. A friend took charge +of the thoughtless young girl that had accompanied Charles to the dance. +Two young men, his companions in riot, undertook to convey him to his +father's house. The stars were just beginning to fade away as they +reached the threshold. Speechless, and almost lifeless, they laid him +upon his bed. <i>It proved his death-bed!</i></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VII" id="CHAPTER_VII"></a>CHAPTER VII.</h2> + +<h2>SICKNESS AND DEATH.</h2> + + +<p>The debauch of the previous night laid the foundation of disease, from +which Charles never recovered. On the following day he seemed at times +wild, and partially deranged. A violent fever set in, and for many days +he was confined to his bed. His sufferings were extreme; so high did his +fever rise that it seemed as though the fire within would consume him. +His physician watched the progress of his disease, and did all in his +power to restore his health. The fever ran its course, and the crisis +came. There was a change for the better. It was thought that he would +get up. The hopes of his parents were revived; and many were the wishes +that, with restored health, there might be a reformation of manners. Of +this, however, there was little prospect.</p> + +<p>These hopes of a recovery were soon cut off. Charles's disease assumed a +new form. He was taken with a cough, and night-sweats followed. His eyes +were a little sunken, but full of expression. His countenance was pale, +and, slightly tinged with blue, gave evidence that consumption had +marked him for its victim, and that the grave must soon swallow him up: +he was rapidly sinking into the arms of death.</p> + +<p>Toward the latter part of his sickness, a rude contrivance was adopted +to change his position in bed. Two hooks were driven into the ceiling, +over the foot of the bedstead. To these pulleys were attached. These +pulleys were rigged with cords, one end of which was made fast to the +upper part of the bed. By hoisting on these cords he could be raised to +any desired angle; and, instead of being bolstered up, he hung as if in +a hammock. [<a href="#c04">See Frontispiece.</a>]</p> + +<p>During his illness Charles gave little evidence of any change in his +feelings. No sorrow was expressed for anything in his past conduct. He +was still fretful, still obstinate. He appeared like one early sold to +sin.</p> + +<p>The minister of the parish came in to pray with him. He found him +ignorant of spiritual things. He talked to him on the subject of +religion,—urged him to prepare to meet God. He offered prayer by his +bed-side. He left him, however, showing very little evidence of +penitence, and entertaining for him very little hope.</p> + +<p>Charles lingered along till early in March. The day of his departure +came. The father and mother bent over his bed: they saw that the hopes +which they entertained at his birth were now to perish. Instead of his +closing their eyes in death, they were now to perform that office for +him. He spoke not. Oppressive stillness reigned in the room. Not a sound +was heard, save the rattling in the throat of the dying youth. The last +breath was drawn; life, for a moment, quivered upon his lip. The spirit +took its flight; and the poor mother, in anguish of soul, exclaimed, +<i>"He is dead!"</i></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VIII" id="CHAPTER_VIII"></a>CHAPTER VIII.</h2> + +<h2>CONCLUSION.</h2> + + +<p>The way of transgressors is hard. Early did Charles Duran indulge in +habits of disobedience,—early was he forgetful of God,—early did he +run into the paths of vice and intemperance, and early did he go down to +his grave.</p> + +<p>Disobedience to parents is a fearful sin! Children think they know what +is best for themselves. Parental restraint sometimes seems irksome to +them; but God has wisely ordained that in our youth we should be under +the instruction and control of our parents. Children, instead of feeling +that parental control is oppressive to them, should learn to be +thankful for it. It is enough for well-instructed and well-disposed +children, generally, to know what the wishes of their parents are. Much +of their happiness is derived from compliance with those wishes. The +approbation of their parents will afford such children far more pleasure +than all their forbidden indulgences.</p> + +<p>The school history of Charles Duran will not fail, I trust, to make a +suitable impression upon the minds of my youthful readers. Scholars +sometimes think that it is not a great offense for them to violate the +rules of their school, neglect their books, or be unkind even to some of +their school-associates. So this boy thought. The result of his course +is before us. All such children should know that by such a course of +conduct they are laying the foundation for a bad character. They may, +for awhile, escape punishment; they may not be expelled from school; +they may possibly retain their places in their class; but they are +acquiring those habits which, if not corrected, will bring ruin upon +them by and by.</p> + +<p>This boy's sporting habits ought not to be lightly passed over. He was +exceedingly fond of a gun. The indulgence of this passion led him into +habits of idleness and cruelty. Boys should rarely, if ever, be allowed +the use of fire-arms: they are always dangerous. The habits and +associations to which their use leads are generally objectionable. Boys +that are constantly around the brooks after little fishes, and in the +woods in pursuit of little birds, had better be at their books. We +always fear that idle boys will make idle men.</p> + +<p>We see from the history of Charles Duran the importance of early +religious training. Had his parents pursued a different course with him, +he might have grown up to be a blessing to them, and a useful member of +society: "Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old +he will not depart from it." Prov. xxii, 6.</p> + +<p>When, O when will parents lay this to heart! How many fathers and +mothers have been brought down to the grave with sorrow, by neglecting +this important duty!</p> + +<p>The history of Charles Duran is a warning to all boys who are inclined +to indulge in Sabbath-breaking; to form bad associations; to tipple; or +to visit places of improper amusement. See his dreadful end! Mark that +fatal night! Remember that he had been preparing for that season of riot +and debauch by previous indulgence. He came not to his wretched +condition all at once. He was preparing for it in his early +disobedience,—in his neglect of instruction,—in his unkindness to his +school-mates,—in delighting to injure those who were smaller and weaker +than himself,—in his idle sporting habits,—in the indulgence of his +bad temper,—in ministering to his perverse will,—in his Sunday +rambling,—in associating with the vile,—in his tippling habits,—and, +finally, in throwing off all parental regard and restraint. He had now +come to the verge of the whirlpool of destruction, and, in a frenzied +moment, he threw himself into the awful vortex! <i>Beware of the first +sin!</i> "Enter not into the paths of the wicked, and go not in the way of +evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away." Prov. +iv, 14, 15.</p> + + + + +<h4>THE END.</h4> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>ADVERTISEMENTS</h2> + + + +<p>BOOKS FOR SUNDAY-SCHOOLS, 200 Mulberry-street, New York.</p> + +<p> +LIFE OF ADAM CLARKE.<br /> +An Account of the Religious and Literary Life of Rev. Adam Clarke, LL.D.<br /> +18mo., pp. 223.<br /> +<br /> +PIZARRO;<br /> +Or, the Discovery and Conquest of Peru. By GEO. CUBITT. 18mo., pp. 179.<br /> +<br /> +STORIES of RAGGED SCHOOLS<br /> +And Ragged Scholars. Four Illustrations. 18mo., pp. 104.<br /> +<br /> +NOAH;<br /> +Or the Man of Two Worlds. With the Story of the Deluge. 18mo., pp. 173.<br /> +<br /> +THE PEOPLE OF PERSIA.<br /> +By JOHN KITTO, D.D., F.S.A. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Charles Duran + Or, The Career of a Bad Boy + +Author: The Author of The Waldos + +Release Date: March 30, 2005 [EBook #15507] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHARLES DURAN *** + + + + +Produced by Internet Archive; University of Florida, PM Childrens +Library, Melissa Er-Raqabi and the Online Distributed Proofreading +Team at https://www.pgdp.net. + + + + + +CHARLES DURAN: +OR, +THE CAREER OF A BAD BOY. + + +BY THE AUTHOR OF +"THE WALDOS." + +[Illustration: CHARLES ON HIS DEATH BED.--SEE PAGE 52.] + +New-York: +PUBLISHED BY CARLTON & PORTER, +SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, 200 MULBERRY-STREET. + + + + +Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by +LANE & SCOTT, +in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern +District of New-York. + + + + +CONTENTS. + + +CHAPTER I + +THE HOMESTEAD. + +The house--Court-yards--Garden--The well--"Oaken bucket"--The +fields--Flocks--River--Fish--Forest--Church + +CHAPTER II. + +THE BIRTH OF CHARLES. + +Effects on the parents--The Joneses--Parental expectations--An instance +of disappointment--Ann's prophecy + +CHAPTER III. + +HIS EARLY TRAINING. + +Opinions--The Durans indulgent--The sulks--They produce blindness--"I +will"--"I won't"--Faults of parents + +CHAPTER IV. + +CHARLES DURAN AT SCHOOL. + +Good children at home are good in school--Conduct--Inattention to +studies--Unkind to his school-mates--Samuel Howard--Helen Fay--John and +Louisa--Severe whipping--Mr. Spicer--Charles expelled from school + + +CHAPTER V. + +CHARLES'S HABITS. + +Good habits--Proverbs of the Rabbins--Charles not +improved--Idleness--Fishing and hunting--No idle boy can be +good--Shooting--Roughness of manners--One vice is followed by +another--Lying--Sabbath-breaking--Intemperance--A standard of wickedness + + +CHAPTER VI. + +THE FATAL NIGHT. + +Village balls--Description--Culpability of parents--Demand for +money--Fit--House stoned--Windows broken in--Mr. Duran with the +bag--Charles's wrath appeased--The ball--Charles intoxicated--Falls to +the floor--Brought home speechless--Laid upon his death-bed + + + +CHAPTER VII + +SICKNESS AND DEATH. + +Sufferings from the debauch--Crisis--Favorable change--Hopes of recovery +cut off--Consumption--Contrivance to change his position--State of +mind--The minister visits him--No evidence of penitence--The dying scene + + +CHAPTER VIII. + +THE CONCLUSION. + +The way of transgressors hard--Disobedience to parents a fearful +sin--Parental restraint--Pleasures of parental approbation--Disobedience +in scholars--Reflections--Sporting habits in children not to be +encouraged--Importance of early religious training--History of young +Duran a warning to Sabbath-breakers, &c.--Beware of the first sin--The +End + + + + +CHARLES DURAN. + + + + +CHAPTER I. + +THE DURAN HOMESTEAD. + + +Before giving the history of Charles Duran's birth, life, and early +death, I will partially describe his father's residence. It was situated +in the town of ----, in the State of Connecticut, and about six miles +from the west bank of the beautiful Connecticut river. The house stood +on a level road, running north and south, and was about one mile from +the centre of the town. + +Mr. Duran's house was large and commodious. It was built of wood, two +stories high, and painted a deep yellow. In the front was a fine +court-yard. In this yard were lilacs of a large growth, roses of various +kinds, and flowering almonds. These shrubs blossomed early in the +spring, and sent forth their fragrance to perfume the air. + +On the south was a rich and well-cultivated garden, producing an +abundance of vegetables, gooseberries, currants, and raspberries. The +borders of the main alley were decked with pionies, pinks, and +sweet-williams. + +Between the garden and the house was the well. A long sweep, resting on +the top of a high post, with a pole fastened to the upper end, was the +rude contrivance for drawing water. To the lower end of the pole was +attached a bucket. How many of New-England's sons remember with delight +the "old oaken bucket that hung in the well!" + +On the north side of the house was a small orchard. In the rear were the +barn, sheds, crib, and other out-buildings. + +The grounds in the immediate neighborhood were level or slightly +undulated. On the north and east were beautiful meadows. On the south +and west were excellent tillage and pasture lands. The season that I +spent there was one of nature's bountifulness. The tall herd's-grass, +the rustling corn, and the whitened grain waved in the summer's breeze, +and bespoke the plenty that followed the toil and industry of the +husbandman. The herds were feeding in the fields. The innocent lambs, +free from care, were leaping and frisking about--some in the sun and +some in the shade--while their more sober dames were either grazing, or +quietly masticating the food they had previously collected. + +Half encircling these premises was a fine stream of water, varying from +three to seven yards in width. It was supplied with dace, trout, roach, +and perch. Its plaintive, monotonous murmur sometimes impressed the mind +with sadness. This was soon dispelled, however, by the twittering, the +glee, and the sweet notes of the birds, that hopped from spray to spray, +or quietly perched themselves on the overhanging branches. + +Some little distance to the northwest of Mr. Duran's house was a forest +of thrifty growth, covered with a varied and beautiful foliage. Its +shady bowers and pleasant walks made it a delightful place of +resort,--especially toward the time of sunsetting. Nature seemed to lend +to it then peculiar charms. + +In the centre of the town stood the old church, antiquated in its +appearance, but venerable and holy in its associations. In that +old-fashioned church have been settled three successive ministers of the +gospel. In those high-backed, square pews were other generations wont to +sit. Those pastors and their flocks now sleep in the grave. Their sons +occupy their places in the sanctuary, and another herald of the cross +proclaims to them the word of life. It was in this pleasant place, which +I have briefly described, that Charles Duran was born. + + + + +CHAPTER II. + +THE BIRTH OF CHARLES. + + +The birth of Charles was an occasion of great joy in Mr. Duran's family. +Blessings long withheld are frequently more highly prized when at length +received. Mr. Duran had no children, and was now past the meridian of +life. To him this child seemed like one born out of due time. + +It was amusing to see the effect produced on the parents by this, till +recently, unexpected event. "Well, Molly," said Mr. Jones,--a neighbor +of Mr. Duran, whose wife had just been to see the strange visitant, and +who had reared a large family of children,--"how do Mr. and Mrs. Duran +act with the boy?" "Act? why just like two grown-up children. And they +think it is the most wonderful child that ever was born. But they don't +know what it may live to be!" + +These last words were spoken in a tone of voice which told of hidden +springs of sorrow. One of Mrs. Jones' own dear children, a promising, +lovely boy, had early become intemperate, and was now sleeping in a +drunkard's grave! + +Having passed through the ordinary nursery incidents of the first months +of infancy, Charley--for so he was familiarly called--became a fine fat +child. "Sweet boy," said his mother, as she rather clumsily patted his +cheeks, and felt of his tender limbs, "you will be a comfort to your +parents in their old age." + +"I was just thinking of that," added the father. "What a blessing he +will be to us! He will manage the farm--administer to our comfort, and +inherit our estate." + +Many a bright sunny morning has been followed by a dark cloudy evening. +Our supposed blessings often prove to us a source of disappointment and +sorrow. I have seen the mother clasp her lovely infant to her breast, +and fondly and dotingly caress it, and press its little hands and feet, +soft as velvet, with her lips. And I have seen that child, the rainbow +of promise, and the cause of so much joy, bring down that mother's head, +ere it was gray, with sorrow to the grave. + +Thoughts like these, however, never crossed the minds of Mr. and Mrs. +Duran. They dreamed not that sickness and death might blast their +hopes, and leave them more lonely than they were before. So staid and +uniform had been their own life, that they never once supposed that +Charles, if he should grow up, could pursue any other course. + +Every day little Charles became more and more the object of cherished +hopes and affections. The hearts of the parents were bound up in him. He +became their idol. His wants, real and imaginary, were all met. His +danger was of being spoiled by too much indulgence. + +"I believe they will kill him with kindness," was the remark of Ann, a +colored woman, who had long lived in the family. "It is just the way Mr. +Parsons used to do with his Jim, who never amounted to anything." + + + + +CHAPTER III. + +HIS EARLY TRAINING. + + +"Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will +not depart from it." Prov. xxii, 6. The proper training of children is +of the utmost importance. Upon it to a great extent depend their +usefulness and happiness in the world. And as the happiness of parents +is so intimately connected with the course of conduct pursued by their +children, it should be with them a constant study how they may promote +the well-being of their offspring. + +On this subject much has been said and written. Some recommend +indulgence as the surest way to give a child a good disposition, and to +lead to the formation of correct habits. Others urge the necessity of +restraint and uncompromising obedience, on the part of children, to the +commands of their parents. There may be extremes in both. Children +should be taught to fear and love their parents, and to respect their +wishes. The government of children should be strictly parental. The +parent's will should be the law of the child. Proper indulgence should +be allowed; entire obedience enforced. Parents and children should both +remember the words of the apostle: "Children, obey your parents in all +things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not +your children to anger, lest they be discouraged." Col. iii, 20, 21. + +Mr. and Mrs. Duran were very indulgent to their only child. His wants +were met with a liberal hand, and his wishes, as far as possible, +gratified. If his desires were not immediately granted, he soon learned +that a little crying would accomplish his object. + +Improper indulgence begets unlawful desires. Unlawful desires can never +be fully satisfied. So it was with Charles Duran: everything he saw, he +wanted. When he was not indulged, as he could not be always, he soon +showed his bad spirit. Sometimes he pouted out his lips, and had a long +fit of the sulks. + +Perhaps my readers never saw a child affected with the sulks. I will +briefly describe them. First, the eyes begin to roll rapidly in their +sockets, and the sight turns upward. The chin falls down a little, and +the corners of the mouth are slightly drawn back. The lower lip then +rolls down nearly to the chin. Soon a whining commences, which grows +louder and louder, and becomes disagreeable to every person present. At +the same time the eyes turn red, the face gets out of shape, and the +child becomes _blind!_ I saw a little boy once have the sulks so badly +that when his mother sent him into his room to get his apron, before +sitting down to dinner, he could not find it, though it was in plain +sight! Before he was two years old, Charles showed a very bad +disposition. This, instead of being corrected, was fostered by the +training which he received. To the domestics in the family he was +insolent and unkind; and even to his parents, _"I will"_ and _"I won't"_ +were said with fearful frequency. Still the doting parents would merely +say to him, "You should not do so, Charles! You should say, 'I don't +want to,' or, 'I do want to,'" as the case might be. Thus they +indirectly taught him disobedience, which he was learning fast enough +without such assistance. In this way did these parents, with cruel +kindness, help on the ruin of their child! + +Charles Duran, with all his faults, was a bright, active boy. What he +needed was training,--_parental training_. His parents committed two +very common errors: they promised him correction for his disobedience, +without inflicting the punishment; and they often repeated his sayings, +and spoke of his doings, to others, in his presence. Parents should +always keep good faith with their children; and, while they encourage +them, when they are alone, by suitable and well-timed praise, they +should rarely repeat what they have said, or speak of what they have +done, to others, in their presence. This is injurious to the child, +betrays vanity in the parents, and is not very edifying to others. The +singing of a young raven may be music to its parents, but to us it is +like the cawing of a crow. + + + + +CHAPTER IV. + +CHARLES DURAN AT SCHOOL. + + +Charles was now old enough to go to school. He was accordingly sent to +the district school, not far from his father's house. Teachers say that +they can tell whether children are good and obedient at home by their +conduct in school. Those children who mind their parents will generally +obey their teachers; and those scholars that are obedient generally +learn well. + +How was it with Charles Duran at school? Did he obey his teacher? At +first, as all things in the school were new and strange to him, he was +somewhat restrained. He soon, however, became acquainted with his +teacher and the scholars, and as soon learned to break the rules of the +school. He became disrespectful to his teacher, and caused him much +trouble. + +Charles was also very inattentive to his books. The teacher did the best +he could to make him learn; but his lessons were never more than half +learned, and the greater part of the time they were not studied at all: +and, though naturally he was a bright, smart boy, he seemed determined +to grow up a blockhead. + +The next thing I notice in the school history of this boy is the +unkindness which he showed his school-fellows. If he played with them, +he was quite sure to get offended before the play was through. He was +surly, self-willed, and disposed always to have his own way in +everything. + +One day Samuel Howard, a boy smaller than himself, was flying his kite. +There was a fine breeze, and the kite floated beautifully in the air. +Charles seized the twine, and began to pull in the kite. Samuel +remonstrated with him; but the more he remonstrated the more ugly was +Charles. He pulled in the kite, tore it all to pieces, and broke and +snarled the twine. Samuel cried at the loss of his pretty kite, and +Charles Duran was mean enough to mimic the boy whom he had thus injured. + +At another time, a little girl, whose name was Helen Fay, was returning +from school: Charles threw a stone, and hit her on the cheek-bone. It +cut a great gash in her face, and made the blood run freely. Had the +stone struck a little higher, it would probably have put out her eye; as +it was, her face was badly scarred. + +A poor widow lady lived some distance beyond Mr. Duran's house. She had +two dear little children, John and Louisa, whom she sent to school. This +poor mother was industrious and very neat, and her children were always +dressed in neat, clean clothes. Charles Duran, who was out of his +element when he was not in mischief, seemed to take delight in +tormenting these little children. On their way from school one day, when +they had on their nice clothes, he covered them from head to foot with +dirt and mud. In that sad plight John and Louisa went home crying. Their +mother felt as badly as they did, when she saw the ugliness of her +neighbor's spoiled child. + +So constantly was Charles injuring the smaller boys and girls in the +school that none of them loved him. If he got hurt, none of them pitied +him. The whole school seemed glad, one day, when he had shoved a little +girl into a mud-puddle, and upset an inkstand on a boy's writing-book, +and spoiled it, to see the master give him a severe whipping,--such as +he deserved. + +It is not agreeable to dwell longer upon the conduct of this boy in +school. He became so quarrelsome and disagreeable that no one was +willing to sit next to him. He was always spoken of as the worst boy in +school. + +Mr. Spicer was now his teacher, and he had borne with him till he could +bear with him no longer. He had pretty much made up his mind that he +would turn him out of his school. Before doing that, however, he was +desirous of knowing the minds of his scholars. He called the school to +order, and then told Charles what he had thought of doing; reminded him +of his disobedience, of his unkindness to his school-mates, and of his +general neglect of his studies. He told him if he did not do differently +he would grow up without friends, and, in all probability, in +consequence of his sins, come down to an early grave. + +Mr. Spicer then addressed the scholars, and said, "All of you who think +Charles Duran ought to be expelled from the school for continued bad +conduct, raise your right hands." In a moment every right hand was +raised up! + +Then Mr. Spicer said, in a solemn and affecting manner, _"Charles Duran, +with the voice of all your school-mates, you are expelled from this +school, for bad conduct."_ + + + + +CHAPTER V. + +CHARLES'S HABITS. + + +Good habits are of the greatest importance. If they are cultivated by +the young, they become fixed and permanent. Evil habits, unless they are +corrected, will increase in number and strength. The young should beware +of the first evil habit. A boy does not become a bad boy all at once: he +gives way to one bad habit, and then to another. One small sin prepares +the way for another and a greater one. Dr. Clarke says, "Sin is a small +matter in its commencement; but by indulgence it grows great, and +multiplies itself beyond all calculation." The old rabbins used to say +it was like a spider's web at first, and that it increased till it was +like a cart-rope. This is seen in the case of Charles Duran. His +expulsion from school did not improve him: he grew up in the indulgence +of his bad temper, and, instead of being a lovely, industrious boy, fond +of his studies, and attentive to his various duties, he was idle, lazy, +and vicious. When he ought to have been in school, he was fishing, and +idling away his time along the margins of the brooks and rivers. He soon +learned to use a gun, and much of his time was spent in the woods, +hunting birds, squirrels, and rabbits. Idle habits are very dangerous. A +boy or man that is habitually idle cannot be good,--mark that. The devil +will always find mischief for such persons, and he will be very sure +to get them into it. + +[Illustration: CHARLES HUNTING.] + +Charles had, what many boys desire, a gun, and was very fond of +shooting. Besides shooting squirrels and birds, he would shoot at marks +on his father's out-buildings and fences. There was not a door, not a +board, not a post, and scarcely a rail, in all the out-buildings and +fences, that was not full of shot-holes. This kind of shooting was a +dangerous practice. I wondered, when I examined the premises, that the +barn and sheds had not taken fire from the burning wads. It was +dangerous also to the poultry and cattle. But he thought nothing of +these things; from day to day it was shoot! shoot! shoot! + +Pursuing this course, it is not strange that Charles should grow up +rough in his manners, and coarse in his language. Gentleness is lovely +always, wherever found; but it appears most lovely in children and +youth. It indicates a good heart, and good training. It helps young +persons into the best society, and secures them warm and valuable +friends. Roughness of manner drives our friends from us, and prevents +many from becoming friends. This fact is illustrated in the history of +this spoiled boy. He might have had a large circle of friends, but now +few, very few indeed, loved or esteemed him. + +One vice does not long remain alone. Idleness begets vice. Viciousness +shows itself in various forms: in lying, Sabbath-breaking, theft, +swearing, and intemperance. Charles grew worse and worse,--adding sin +to sin. He became greatly addicted to swearing. He frequently spent the +Sabbath in wandering about the fields, instead of attending church. He +found, as the depraved always do, kindred spirits, with whom he +associated. With these he learned to drink to excess, and was not +unfrequently under the influence of strong drink. + +There is a standard in vice as well as in virtue. While some are held up +as models of virtue, others may be regarded as the very personification +of evil. We should learn to profit by both,--be encouraged by one, and +warned by the other. + +The unfortunate boy whose history I am detailing finally became a +proverb in his native town. Good mothers often exhorted their children +not to be like Charles Duran! Who of my little readers would like such a +distinction as this? Try to live so that parents may point you out as +good examples for their children to follow. + + + + +CHAPTER VI. + +THE FATAL NIGHT. + + +In country villages, as well as in larger cities, parties often meet for +dancing; and balls are frequently held, especially in the winter season. +Many young people, whose thoughts and time are not better occupied, seem +to derive a great deal of pleasure from such amusements. + +These gatherings frequently embrace a large number of the young of both +sexes, from the towns in which they are held, and often many from +neighboring towns. They are usually held at some tavern where rum is +sold. The parties arrive in the forepart of the evening, and the dance +commences at eight, or from eight to nine o'clock, according to +arrangement. Wine, cordials, and other stimulating drinks, are freely +furnished, and freely used. Toward midnight, when chaste young ladies +and sober young men should be at home, the ball-supper is served up. +Rich viands and sparkling drinks are on the table. One becomes drunken, +and another surfeited. The sound of the viol is again heard, and the +merry dance is kept up till near morning light. The parties then +gradually retire. Some of the young ladies, from over excitement in the +ball-chamber, and subsequent exposure to the night air, take severe +colds, become speedily consumptive, and from the place of rioting and +mirth are carried to the grave! In this country, where consumption is +so prevalent, and accomplishes its work so rapidly, the distance from +the midnight ball-room to the grave is very short. + +Most young men who attend balls go home inflamed with wine. I say _most_ +of them. It is not unfrequently the case, however, that some of them +cannot get home. They have to stay behind until they have, in a measure, +slept off the fumes of strong drink: and then, with bloodshot eyes, +fetid breath, and staggering gait, they reach their homes. Such young +men have received a new impetus in the way that leads to destruction, +and such are the common fruits of a village ball. + +Why do fathers and mothers,--and some of them professedly Christian +parents, too,--allow their daughters to mingle in these scenes, and +expose themselves to the contaminating influence of such associations? +How any well-disposed _mother_ can do this I am at a loss to determine. + +Such a ball as I have described was to be held in the town of ----. +Young men and young ladies impatiently waited for the time appointed to +arrive. Among those who designed to attend this ball was Charles Duran, +then in his eighteenth year. Notwithstanding his habits and character, +the position and respectability of his parents prevented him from being +entirely excluded from society. He was still further aided in gaining +admission to such parties by always having money. While some despised +him in their heart, they were quite willing, for the sake of his purse, +to have him in their company. + +The anxiously looked for day arrived. The preparations were made. At +night the ball was to come off. After dinner, Charles asked his father +for money to bear the expenses of the evening. Mr. Duran gave him what +he thought would be sufficient for the occasion. The amount did not +satisfy him: more was asked. It was refused; and Charles, not having +forgotten his early habits, immediately went into a fit of rage. More +money he wanted, and more he would have. He went out, and arming himself +with stones and blocks, soon commenced a regular assault upon the house. +The weather-boards were battered, one window was smashed in, panes in +the others were broken, and the fragments rattled on the floor and on +the ground. The aged parents trembled for their safety; while the son, +raving as a madman, seemed bent on their destruction. Stooping somewhat +with age, and in great fear, Mr. Duran went to the door, with a bag in +his hand, containing a quantity of specie:-- + +"Here, Charles," said the feeble old man, "come and get what money you +want, and don't stone the house any more." + +Thus appeased, the demon became quiet. Charles helped himself to as much +money as he wanted, and was ready for the ball in the evening. Alas, +what degradation for a parent! and what persevering depravity in a son! + +[Illustration: CHARLES TAKING MONEY FOR THE BALL.] + +The evening came. Parties began to assemble. Arrangements had been +made for a great ball. The saloon was tastefully decorated. The kitchen +gave evidence that a sumptuous repast was in preparation. The bar was +fully supplied with all kinds of sparkling liquors. As the new-comers +arrived, they met a smiling host, an attentive and ready bar-tender, and +obsequious waiters and servants. + +Fancy the scene. Groups of persons, gayly dressed, are in conversation +in different parts of the ball-chamber. More are constantly coming in. +The musicians, who for some time have been tuning their instruments, +enter, and take their place. Partners are selected, the circle is +formed, and the dancing begins. A scene of hilarity ensues. During the +intervals, the merry laugh is heard, wine is drunk, and the glee becomes +general. Sparkling eyes are made more sparkling by strong drink; and, +under the influence of multiplied potations, the coarse jest is now and +then uttered. In this scene of gayety and mirth Charles Duran +mingled,--a prominent actor. A young and inexperienced girl had +accompanied him to the place. Round and round went the dance, and round +and round went Charles's head. He was flush with money, and many a +friend did he treat at the bar. Long ere the festivities closed he was +unable to walk steadily. Still, stimulated by the excitement of the +occasion, and urged on by unprincipled comrades, he poured down the +deadly poison. His brain reeled under its influence. He alternately +roared and laughed as a maniac. "Another drink! another drink!" he said. +His youthful system could endure it no longer: he uttered a moaning, +sepulchral groan, and sunk to the floor! + +The ball was over, and the night was nearly gone. A friend took charge +of the thoughtless young girl that had accompanied Charles to the dance. +Two young men, his companions in riot, undertook to convey him to his +father's house. The stars were just beginning to fade away as they +reached the threshold. Speechless, and almost lifeless, they laid him +upon his bed. _It proved his death-bed!_ + + + + +CHAPTER VII. + +SICKNESS AND DEATH. + + +The debauch of the previous night laid the foundation of disease, from +which Charles never recovered. On the following day he seemed at times +wild, and partially deranged. A violent fever set in, and for many days +he was confined to his bed. His sufferings were extreme; so high did his +fever rise that it seemed as though the fire within would consume him. +His physician watched the progress of his disease, and did all in his +power to restore his health. The fever ran its course, and the crisis +came. There was a change for the better. It was thought that he would +get up. The hopes of his parents were revived; and many were the wishes +that, with restored health, there might be a reformation of manners. Of +this, however, there was little prospect. + +These hopes of a recovery were soon cut off. Charles's disease assumed a +new form. He was taken with a cough, and night-sweats followed. His eyes +were a little sunken, but full of expression. His countenance was pale, +and, slightly tinged with blue, gave evidence that consumption had +marked him for its victim, and that the grave must soon swallow him up: +he was rapidly sinking into the arms of death. + +Toward the latter part of his sickness, a rude contrivance was adopted +to change his position in bed. Two hooks were driven into the ceiling, +over the foot of the bedstead. To these pulleys were attached. These +pulleys were rigged with cords, one end of which was made fast to the +upper part of the bed. By hoisting on these cords he could be raised to +any desired angle; and, instead of being bolstered up, he hung as if in +a hammock. [See Frontispiece.] + +During his illness Charles gave little evidence of any change in his +feelings. No sorrow was expressed for anything in his past conduct. He +was still fretful, still obstinate. He appeared like one early sold to +sin. + +The minister of the parish came in to pray with him. He found him +ignorant of spiritual things. He talked to him on the subject of +religion,--urged him to prepare to meet God. He offered prayer by his +bed-side. He left him, however, showing very little evidence of +penitence, and entertaining for him very little hope. + +Charles lingered along till early in March. The day of his departure +came. The father and mother bent over his bed: they saw that the hopes +which they entertained at his birth were now to perish. Instead of his +closing their eyes in death, they were now to perform that office for +him. He spoke not. Oppressive stillness reigned in the room. Not a sound +was heard, save the rattling in the throat of the dying youth. The last +breath was drawn; life, for a moment, quivered upon his lip. The spirit +took its flight; and the poor mother, in anguish of soul, exclaimed, +_"He is dead!"_ + + + + +CHAPTER VIII. + +CONCLUSION. + + +The way of transgressors is hard. Early did Charles Duran indulge in +habits of disobedience,--early was he forgetful of God,--early did he +run into the paths of vice and intemperance, and early did he go down to +his grave. + +Disobedience to parents is a fearful sin! Children think they know what +is best for themselves. Parental restraint sometimes seems irksome to +them; but God has wisely ordained that in our youth we should be under +the instruction and control of our parents. Children, instead of feeling +that parental control is oppressive to them, should learn to be +thankful for it. It is enough for well-instructed and well-disposed +children, generally, to know what the wishes of their parents are. Much +of their happiness is derived from compliance with those wishes. The +approbation of their parents will afford such children far more pleasure +than all their forbidden indulgences. + +The school history of Charles Duran will not fail, I trust, to make a +suitable impression upon the minds of my youthful readers. Scholars +sometimes think that it is not a great offense for them to violate the +rules of their school, neglect their books, or be unkind even to some of +their school-associates. So this boy thought. The result of his course +is before us. All such children should know that by such a course of +conduct they are laying the foundation for a bad character. They may, +for awhile, escape punishment; they may not be expelled from school; +they may possibly retain their places in their class; but they are +acquiring those habits which, if not corrected, will bring ruin upon +them by and by. + +This boy's sporting habits ought not to be lightly passed over. He was +exceedingly fond of a gun. The indulgence of this passion led him into +habits of idleness and cruelty. Boys should rarely, if ever, be allowed +the use of fire-arms: they are always dangerous. The habits and +associations to which their use leads are generally objectionable. Boys +that are constantly around the brooks after little fishes, and in the +woods in pursuit of little birds, had better be at their books. We +always fear that idle boys will make idle men. + +We see from the history of Charles Duran the importance of early +religious training. Had his parents pursued a different course with him, +he might have grown up to be a blessing to them, and a useful member of +society: "Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old +he will not depart from it." Prov. xxii, 6. + +When, O when will parents lay this to heart! How many fathers and +mothers have been brought down to the grave with sorrow, by neglecting +this important duty! + +The history of Charles Duran is a warning to all boys who are inclined +to indulge in Sabbath-breaking; to form bad associations; to tipple; or +to visit places of improper amusement. See his dreadful end! Mark that +fatal night! Remember that he had been preparing for that season of riot +and debauch by previous indulgence. He came not to his wretched +condition all at once. He was preparing for it in his early +disobedience,--in his neglect of instruction,--in his unkindness to his +school-mates,--in delighting to injure those who were smaller and weaker +than himself,--in his idle sporting habits,--in the indulgence of his +bad temper,--in ministering to his perverse will,--in his Sunday +rambling,--in associating with the vile,--in his tippling habits,--and, +finally, in throwing off all parental regard and restraint. He had now +come to the verge of the whirlpool of destruction, and, in a frenzied +moment, he threw himself into the awful vortex! _Beware of the first +sin!_ "Enter not into the paths of the wicked, and go not in the way of +evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away." Prov. +iv, 14, 15. + + + + +THE END. + +ADVERTISEMENTS + + + +BOOKS FOR SUNDAY-SCHOOLS, 200 Mulberry-street, New York. + +LIFE OF ADAM CLARKE. +An Account of the Religious and Literary Life of Rev. Adam Clarke, LL.D. +18mo., pp. 223. + +PIZARRO; +Or, the Discovery and Conquest of Peru. By GEO. CUBITT. 18mo., pp. 179. + +STORIES of RAGGED SCHOOLS +And Ragged Scholars. Four Illustrations. 18mo., pp. 104. + +NOAH; +Or the Man of Two Worlds. With the Story of the Deluge. 18mo., pp. 173. + +THE PEOPLE OF PERSIA. +By JOHN KITTO, D.D., F.S.A. Three Illustrations. 18mo., pp. 178. + +WORK TO DO: +An Account of a Wicked Boy who became Diligent and Pious. 18mo., pp. 73. + +THE LIFE OF ESTHER. +By Rev. 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