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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Travellers, by Catharine Maria Sedgwick
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+Title: The Travellers
+       A Tale. Designed for Young People.
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+Author: Catharine Maria Sedgwick
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+Release Date: March 31, 2010 [EBook #31832]
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+                                 THE
+                             TRAVELLERS.
+
+                               A TALE.
+
+
+                     _DESIGNED FOR YOUNG PEOPLE._
+
+
+                                BY THE
+                          AUTHOR OF REDWOOD.
+
+
+               "Then slowly climb the many-winding way,
+               And frequent turn to linger as you go,
+               From loftier rocks new loveliness survey."
+                                             CHILDE HAROLD.
+
+
+                              NEW-YORK:
+
+                  PUBLISHED BY E. BLISS AND E. WHITE,
+
+                             And Sold by
+              COLLINS AND HANNAY, NEW-YORK, AND CUMMINGS,
+                       HILLIARD, AND CO. BOSTON.
+
+
+                                1825.
+
+
+
+
+  _Southern District of New-York, ss._
+
+  BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the fourth day of April, A.D. 1825,
+  in the forty-eighth year of the Independence of the United States
+  of America, E. Bliss and E. White, of the said District, have
+  deposited in this Office the title of a Book, the right whereof
+  they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit:--
+
+  "The Travellers; a Tale Designed for Young People. By the author
+  of Redwood.
+          'Then slowly climb the many-winding way,
+          And frequent turn to linger as you go,
+          From loftier rocks new loveliness survey.'
+                                           _Childe Harold._"
+
+  In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States,
+  entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing
+  the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and
+  proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned."
+  And also to an Act entitled, "An Act supplementary to an Act
+  entitled, an Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the
+  copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors
+  of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending
+  the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and
+  etching historical and other prints."
+                                                    JAMES DILL,
+                         Clerk of the Southern District of New-York.
+
+
+  J. Seymour, printer.
+
+
+
+
+    The following pages are inscribed to the youthful
+    brother and sister, who are associated with every
+    picture of unfolding virtue, in the mind of their
+    affectionate friend,
+                                       THE AUTHOR.
+
+
+
+
+THE TRAVELLERS.
+
+
+In the month of June, (the jubilee month of poets and travellers) in the
+year eighteen hundred and eighteen, Mr. Sackville, his wife, and their
+two children, Edward and Julia, made the grand tour of Niagara, the
+lakes, Montreal, Quebec, &c. Both parents and children kept journals,
+in which they recorded with fidelity whatever they observed which they
+deemed worthy of note. We have been favored with the perusal of them
+all, and have been permitted to make a few extracts from them, which we
+intend to combine into a brief narrative, that we are sure will amuse
+our young readers, provided their delicate essence does not escape our
+unskilful hands.
+
+First, it will be necessary that our readers should know into whose
+society they are thus unceremoniously introduced.
+
+Mr. Sackville, in the prime of life retired from the successful practice
+of the law, to a beautiful estate in the country. Various motives were
+assigned by his acquaintances for his removal; but as those diligent
+inquirers, who so conscientiously investigate their neighbor's affairs,
+are apt to pass over simple and obvious motives, those which, in this
+instance, governed Mr. Sackville's conduct, escaped their observation.
+
+The truth was, he had a strong predilection for a country life; he was
+wearied with briefs and declarations; he loved above all things, the
+society of his accomplished wife, and he ardently desired to participate
+with her the happiness of educating their fine children; and besides, he
+had many little plans of utility and benevolence, such as are naturally
+suggested to an active and philanthropic mind on entering a new sphere
+of life.
+
+Mr. Sackville purchased a fine estate in the town of ----, in the state
+of ----. We have left these blanks, which we are well aware are very
+provoking to all, and especially to young readers, in order to allow
+them to locate the amiable Sackvilles (the name we confess to be
+fictitious) wherever they choose, north or south of the Potomac, east
+or west of the Alleghanies; for we sincerely believe that such pattern
+families are to be found in every section of our favored country.
+
+Edward was ten, Julia eight years old, when they removed from town. They
+felt a very natural reluctance at leaving the city, their companions,
+and the only pleasures they had ever known. But the state of their
+feelings will best appear by a conversation which occurred between
+them and their mother, shortly before their removal, while Edward
+was assisting her to pack up some vials, which with their contents,
+composed his chemical laboratory.
+
+"You are very good, dear mother," he said, kissing her, "to take such
+pains to pack up these things: you have been in such a panic about
+spontaneous combustion ever since the night you found the phosphorus[1]
+on fire, that I expected my little cupboard and all its treasures would
+be condemned. But," he added, with a sigh, "I suppose you think I shall
+want my chemistry more than ever to amuse me in the country."
+
+  [1] Phosphorus is a matter which shines or even burns
+      spontaneously, and without the application of any sensible
+      fire.
+
+"No, my dear boy, not more than ever."
+
+"Oh, mother! Bob Eaton's father says the country is such a bore--and Bob
+thinks so too."
+
+"And what," asked Mrs. Sackville, "do Bob Eaton's father and Bob Eaton,
+mean by a bore?"
+
+"Why, they mean, certainly"----Edward began in a confident tone, and then
+faltered a little: "that is, I suppose they mean, that----that----that----"
+Edward found it as difficult to explain their meaning, as the original
+utterers of the profound remark would have done if suddenly called on:
+and he was glad to be interrupted by a soliloquy of his little sister,
+who stood in one corner of the room, wrapping something in half a dozen
+envelopes.
+
+"Farewell!" she exclaimed, as the man says in the play, "'a long farewell'
+to my dear dancing shoes--"
+
+"Pardon me, Miss Julia," said her mother, "for cutting short such a
+pretty pathetic parting: but here is another pair of dancing shoes,
+which you will please to put with those you already have, and I trust
+you will have the pleasure of dancing them both out before you come to
+town again."
+
+"Dancing them out, mother! shall we dance in the country?" exclaimed
+both the children in one breath. "I thought," continued Edward, "that
+we should have nothing to do in the country but get our lessons; and
+all work and no play, you know, mother, makes Jack a dull boy."
+
+"Oh yes, Ned, I know that favorite proverb of all children. I am sorry
+to find that you have such a dread of the country. You know, my dear
+children, that your father and I are devoted to your welfare, and that
+we should do nothing that would not contribute to your happiness."
+
+Edward had quick feelings, and he perceived that there was something
+reproachful in his mother's manner. "I am sure," he said, "that Julia
+and I wish to do every thing that you and papa like."
+
+"That is not enough, my dear boy, we wish you to _like_ to do what we
+like."
+
+"But surely, mother, you cannot blame us for not wishing to go and live
+in the country."
+
+"No, Edward, I should as soon think of blaming poor blind Billy, because
+he cannot see. Unhappily you have been entirely confined to town, and
+are ignorant of the pleasures of the country. I only blame you for
+thinking that your father and I would voluntarily do any thing to lessen
+your innocent pleasures."
+
+"Oh, mother!" exclaimed Edward, "we did not think any thing about that."
+
+"Well, my dear, perhaps I am wrong in expecting you to _think_--reflection
+is the habit of a riper age than yours. You must trust me for one year,
+and at the expiration of that period, you and your sister shall decide
+whether we return to town or remain in the country."
+
+"Oh, mother! how very good you are. One year--well, one year won't be so
+very long--only think, Julia, in one year we shall be back again."
+
+"Not quite so fast, Edward," said his mother; "you are not to decide
+till the end of the year."
+
+"Oh, I know that, mama, but of course we shall decide to come back."
+
+Mrs. Sackville looked incredulous, and smiled at his childish confidence
+in his own constancy. "I see, mother, you don't believe me; but of
+course, Julia and I can't wish to live away from every thing that is
+amusing."
+
+"Come, Julia, your brother has taken it upon himself to be spokesman,
+but let me hear from you, what are the amusements that you so dread to
+leave."
+
+"Why, in the first place, mother, there is our dancing-school: every
+time I go to take my lesson, Mr. Dubois says, 'Pauvre, Miss Julie, point
+de cotillon; point de gavots in de country; ah, qu'il est sauvage--de
+country.'"
+
+"Dubois for ever!" exclaimed Edward, as Julia finished her mimicry
+of her master's tone and grimace. "Oh, he is the drollest creature--and
+Julia is such a mimic--the girls will have nobody to make them laugh
+when she is gone."
+
+Mrs. Sackville secretly rejoiced that Julia was to be removed, in a
+great degree, from the temptation to exercise so mischievous a faculty.
+She, however, did not turn the drift of the conversation to make any
+remarks on it. "Console Mr. Dubois," she said, "my dear, Julia, with the
+assurance, that your mother will take care that you do not lose the
+benefit of his labors in the service of the graces. Your father tells
+me, there is in our neighborhood a very decent musician, who does all
+the fiddling for the parish. I have purchased some cotillon music, and
+I hope your favorite tunes will soon resound in our new mansion."
+
+"Oh, that will be delightful, mother, but Edward and I cannot dance a
+cotillon alone."
+
+"No, but we are not going to a desert. There are enough clever children
+in the neighborhood, who will form a set with you; and now, Julia, that
+I see by your brightened eye, that you think the affliction of leaving
+the dancing-school will be alleviated, what is the next subject of your
+regret?"
+
+"The next, mother? what is next, Edward?"
+
+"I do not know what you will call next, Julia, but I think the theatre
+comes next."
+
+"O! the theatre--yes, the theatre--how could I forget the theatre?"
+
+"Well, my children, I think you can live without the theatre, as you
+go but once, or at most twice in a season; a pleasure that occupies
+so small a portion of your time, cannot be very important to your
+happiness, or regretted very deeply."
+
+"A small portion of time, to be sure, mother," replied Edward; "but then
+you will own it is delightful: you yourself exclaimed the other night
+when the curtain drew up, 'what a beautiful spectacle!'"
+
+"Yes, my love, but nature has far more beautiful spectacles, and I have
+kept you too long from them."
+
+"But, mother," insisted Edward, "nothing can be so pleasant and
+startling, as when the curtain suddenly draws up and discovers a
+beautiful scene."
+
+"It may be more startling, my dear Ned, but it is not half so delightful
+as to see the curtain of night withdrawn in a clear summer morning, and
+the lovely objects of nature lighting up with the rays of the rising
+sun."
+
+"But, mother, there is the orchestra--"
+
+"And in the country, my dear, we have bands of voluntary musicians on
+every side of us, who set all their wants, and all their pleasures to
+music, and pour them forth in the sweetest notes, from morning till
+night. These musicians will hover about our house and garden the entire
+summer, and ask no reward, but to share with us our cherries and
+raspberries; a small pittance from the generous stores of summer. But,
+come, my children, what next?"
+
+"What next, Julia? Let us think--Oh, there is the museum. I am sure,
+mother, you cannot say a word against the museum--such a variety of
+curiosities, and elegant specimens of every thing, and I have heard you
+and papa both say, that it is a very instructive as well as amusing
+place to visit."
+
+"Certainly it is, my dear, a vast collection of natural wonders, and
+artificial curiosities; and I am glad you value it sufficiently to
+regret it. But, my dear children, nature has her museums every where:
+her productions are all curiosities, and the more you study them, the
+more you will admire the wisdom and goodness of their Creator. Every
+vegetable that springs from the kind bosom of the earth--the earth
+itself--the rocks--the pebbles--living creatures, their instincts and
+habitudes--are all a study for you. The volume is open and outspread
+before you: God grant me grace to train your minds and hearts, that
+you may read therein--read with that enlightened understanding and
+benevolent spirit, which prompted a christian philosopher to say, 'the
+air, the earth, the water, teem with delighted existence. On whichever
+side I turn my eyes, myriads of happy beings crowd upon my view.'"
+
+Any farther record of the conversation would be superfluous, and might
+prove tedious. It is our purpose to give some anecdotes of Edward and
+Julia, and not their history.
+
+As might have been expected, our young friends in the country, were like
+beings rescued from an artificial mode of existence, and restored to
+their native element; and when their mother, at the expiration of the
+year, asked them if they were ready to return to town--
+
+"Return to town, now, mother!" exclaimed Edward, "it is impossible."
+
+"Some time or other, mama, perhaps we should like to go back, but not
+now," said Julia. "We cannot go now, when we have so much to do. The
+frost is just out of the ground, and Ned and I are as busy as bees in
+our garden."
+
+"And, besides," said Edward, "there is my brood of ducks, that the old
+hen has just brought off; I am so curious to see her fright when they
+take to the water; and there are my bantam pigeons; bantams are so
+delicate, that you know, mother, I could not trust them to any body's
+care but my own."
+
+"I think old Caesar might take charge of your bantams, Ned," said Julia;
+"but I am sure my pet lamb--"
+
+"Oh, Julia," interrupted Edward, laughing, "give her the sentimental
+french name."
+
+"Very well, I will, and you may laugh as much you please: Orpheline--I
+am sure Orpheline would not relish her food from any hand but mine, she
+is so used to me; and my darling little partridges, that I am trying to
+bring up to be domestic birds, I would not leave them before I have made
+a 'satisfactory experiment,' as papa says; and then, mother, we did not
+half fill our herbariums last summer. Oh, we have a world of business on
+our hands," continued Julia, with the air of one who duly realized the
+importance of her momentous concerns.
+
+Mrs. Sackville smiled, but made no reply, and Edward said, "I was
+thinking, mother, as I sat on the door-step last evening, and listened
+to the hum of the happy little creatures that are waking up for the
+season, that I had new eyes and new ears given to me, since I came
+to live in the country. Even the hoarse croaking of the frogs in our
+meadow, sounded pleasantly to me; quite musical."
+
+"Equal to the music of the orchestra, my dear Ned."
+
+"Not quite so fine, mother," replied Edward, "but it seemed to have
+more meaning in it."
+
+"You are right, my dear Edward," said Mrs. Sackville; "you have new
+senses, or rather, your senses are unlocked to the reception of the
+sweet influences of nature. I have more happiness than I can express to
+you, my dear children, in finding that you have already imbibed a taste
+for those pure pleasures, that will remain the same, whatever change of
+condition or circumstances may await you."[2]
+
+  [2] Miss Hannah More, at the age of seventy-five, said to
+      Professor Griscom, 'the love of the country, and of
+      flowers, is the only natural pleasure that remains to me
+      unimpaired.'
+
+Another year passed to this virtuous family, full of useful and innocent
+occupations, and in the month of the already noted June, they left their
+home. The parents with rational expectations of pleasure, from visiting
+some of the most interesting scenes in our country, and the children
+with the anticipation of unbounded delight, so characteristic of
+childhood.
+
+Their travelling party included Mr. Ralph Morris, a bachelor brother
+of Mrs. Sackville. Mr. Morris was a man of intelligence and extreme
+kindness of disposition, a little irritable, and when the sky was
+clouded, and the wind blew from the wrong quarter, somewhat whimsical.
+
+As we hope that our young readers will conceive a friendship for Edward
+and Julia, before they part with them, they may have a natural curiosity
+to know whether they were brown or fair, and all the etceteras of
+personal appearance. Edward was tall for his age, (twelve) and stout
+built, with the rich ruddy complexion and vigorous muscle of an English
+boy. His eyes were large and dark, and beaming with the bright and
+laughing spirit within: his hair was a mass of fair clustering curls,
+which he, from a boyish dread of effeminacy, had in vain tried to subdue
+by the discipline of comb and brush. His teeth were fine and white, and
+with as little prompting from his mother as could be expected, he kept
+them with remarkable neatness. His mouth was distinguished by nothing
+but an expression of frankness and good temper. His nose, (a feature
+seldom moulded by the graces) his nose, we are sorry to confess, was
+rather thick and quite unclassical. His character and manners preserved
+all the frankness and purity of childhood, with a little of that
+chivalrous spirit which is such a grace to dawning manhood. For the
+rest, we will leave him to speak for himself.
+
+The sister's person was extremely delicate and symmetrical, with too
+little of the Hebe beauty for childhood, but full of grace and
+_gentillesse_.
+
+Her complexion was not as rich as her brother's; but it had an
+ever-varying hue, which indicated the sensibility that sometimes
+suddenly swelled the veins of her clear open brow, lit up her hazel eyes
+with electrifying brilliancy, and played in sweet dimples about her
+mouth; in short, though she was not beautiful, she had an expression of
+purity, truth, and gentleness, far more attractive than mere beauty; an
+expression that was once happily described by a French lady, who said to
+Mrs. Sackville, "when your daughter smiles, it seems to me, that it is
+frankness and virtue that smile."
+
+                  *       *       *       *       *
+
+We are well aware that young people do not like to be harangued about
+scenery; therefore, though our travellers sailed up the Hudson, we shall
+resist every temptation to describe its beautiful features, features as
+well known and loved as the familiar face of a friend; neither will we
+detain them on the scarcely less beautiful Mohawk, though we are sure
+they are not rebels against nature, and that their hearts would dilate
+if we had the power to present to their imaginations this lovely stream,
+winding through the valley it enriches, as it looked to the eyes of our
+young travellers, brimfull from recent rains, reflecting in its living
+mirror the verdant banks, the overhanging trees, the richly-wooded
+hills, and the clear heaven.
+
+It would be impossible to record the exclamations of the children. "It
+is a perfect picture, mother, all the way," said Julia.
+
+"I like every thing but these dronish farmers," said Edward. "See, papa,"
+he continued, (not, perhaps, unwilling to display his agricultural
+observation) "see, that groupe of men, black and white, all leaning
+on their hoes, and staring at us, and they will stand and look just
+so, until the next carriage comes along, while their corn is trying
+in vain to shoot above the weeds that choke it. They seem to have no
+more soul than the clods they stand upon. I wish some of the farmers
+on the cold desolate hills of New-England had this fine soil."
+
+"My dear Ned," replied Mr. Sackville, "I do not wonder at your
+indignation. I have myself been marvelling, that, as a poet says,
+'Nature should waste her wonders on such men;' but there is compensation
+every where, or, as your mother would say, there 'are divers gifts.'
+The man born to the inheritance of cold and sterile hills, is compelled
+to be industrious, frugal, vigorous, and resolute to live, and thus the
+advantages of his moral condition are more than an equivalent for the
+physical advantages of a fine soil or climate, or both."
+
+"Ah, well, papa," replied Edward, "if I had my choice, I should take
+this fine soil on the Mohawk, and cultivate it with the mountain
+virtues, industry, resolution, &c. and I might make a paradise here."
+
+"A paradise, Ned!" exclaimed Mrs. Sackville, "do you remember that
+Milton says,
+
+        Now morn her rosy steps in the eastern clime
+        Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl,
+        When Adam wak'd?
+
+If you would be a tiller of the earth, Ned, you must learn to like
+early rising and hard work, better than you do now, and not go on living
+so like the lilies of the field, that are clothed, though they toil
+not." Edward looked a little crest-fallen.
+
+"Your self-confidence provoked a gentle rebuke," said his father; "but
+it is a very common mistake, my dear son, for those much older than you
+are, to fancy they should avoid the faults others commit, if placed in
+their situation. But, before you permit such a presumption, be sure
+that you have resisted all the temptations in your own path, and have
+performed all the duties which belong to the sphere Providence has
+assigned to you. Here we are at the close of our day's journey, and my
+admonition comes in very well, like the moral at the end of a tale; this
+I think is one of the prettiest places on the river. If I mistake not,
+the village opposite to us is Palatine."
+
+The party alighted at Mrs. B's inn. The children entreated their mother
+to take her port-folio, and stroll with them along the bank of the
+river, while the tea was getting in readiness.
+
+As they came opposite the ferry, they stopped for a moment to look at a
+scow approaching the shore. There were several men in it, and among them
+a black lad, who, at the moment the boat touched the shore, either by
+accident, or by the contrivance of his mischievous companions, fell
+overboard. While they gave way to a burst of merriment, the poor blackey
+regained a footing on terra firma, and shook the water from his woolly
+locks and dripping garments.
+
+"You an't white yet, Cuffee," said one of his persecutors. "Look if he
+has dyed the water," said another.
+
+"Don't laugh," said Julia to Edward, who, with a boyish love of fun, had
+joined in the laugh; "it is too bad to laugh at the poor fellow."
+
+"You are right, Julia," said Mrs. Sackville. "It is hard to belong to a
+degraded _caste_, to be born to the inheritance of jibes and jokes."
+
+They continued their walk a little farther down the bank, discovering
+new beauties at every step, till they came to a spot which Julia
+insisted could not be surpassed; and arranging a nice cushion on the
+grass with her shawl, she begged her mother to make a sketch there.
+"Now, mama," she said, "you must take both sides of the river."
+
+"You forget, Julia, that I cannot take a panorama view."
+
+"Then you must leave out the inn, and the beautiful hill behind it, with
+its sycamores and locusts, and the road that winds along the bank of the
+river."
+
+"Yes, my dear, here is the boundary of your picture:--this magnificent
+elm-tree, that seems to pay its debt to the nourishing waters, by
+extending its graceful branches over them."
+
+"And don't fail, mother," said Edward, "to mark the deep shadow it casts
+on that pier of the bridge they are building--and oh, do put in that
+little skiff so snugly moored in the shade, and hooked to the tree--and
+that taper church spire that stretches above the thick wood on the
+left;--oh, if you could but paint it as it looks now, with that bright
+gleam from the setting sun on it. And see, mother, just at this instant,
+what a golden mist there is in the topmost branches of that tree."
+
+"Stop your chattering one moment, Ned, till I get in this little brook
+on the left, that is creeping so softly into the bosom of the Mohawk.
+Oh, my children, it is an easy task to draw these lines so as to convey
+a correct idea of forms and distances, but very difficult to imitate the
+colouring of nature, the delicate touch of her skilful hand. How shall I
+represent the freshness and purity that marks the youth of the year?--like
+childhood, Ned, smiling and promising, and as yet unchanged by time."
+
+"If not changed, not perfected by time, dear mother," said Edward,
+kissing his mother. His manner expressed a mixture of admiration and
+tenderness that went to her heart.
+
+"You have spoiled my picture, Ned," she said, "I cannot make another
+straight line. Come, Julia, take up the port-folio, and we will return
+to the inn."
+
+                  *       *       *       *       *
+
+We hope our readers will not complain that we have not kept good faith
+with them, if we have been tempted to loiter longer than we promised on
+the banks of the Mohawk. To reward them for their patience (if perchance
+they have exercised that difficult virtue, without availing themselves
+of the skipping right--the readers' inalienable right) we shall make but
+one stage of it from Palatine to Oneida, not once halting at any of the
+beautiful grounds, waterfalls, or villages, that intervene.
+
+It was mid-day, and a hot day too, when our travellers entered this
+Indian town, which presents a striking aspect, situated as it is in the
+heart of a cultivated and civilized country.
+
+Huts are planted irregularly at some distance from the road, in fields
+overgrown with rank grass. Half-naked Indians, yelling and hallooing,
+were riding to and fro without saddles or bridles; on horses that looked
+as wild as themselves. Some were stretched along the road-side, in a
+state of brutal intoxication; others were lying under the shadows of
+the noblest patriarchs of their woods, showing their patent right to
+indolence as lords of the creation, while their women and girls were
+sitting around them, busily making baskets and brooms. On the green
+were groupes of men shooting arrows at a mark, playing at jack-straws,
+football, and the various games of skill and chance by which the savage
+drives away ennui--that demon that persecutes most fiercely at the
+extremes of the human condition.
+
+"One might almost fancy here," said Mr. Sackville, "that the march
+of time had been stayed, and the land spell-bound, by some mighty
+magician. The log-huts of these poor Indians are as rude structures
+as the bark wigwams of their forefathers, and these rich lands are a
+complete waste, except where we see here and there a little patch of
+corn or potatoes. The savages certainly evince their faith in the
+traditionary saying that 'the Great Spirit gave a plough to the white
+man, and a bow and arrow to the Indian.'"
+
+"And there," said Mrs. Sackville, pointing to some women who were
+hoeing, "there is an illustration of another of their proverbs--'men
+were made for war and hunting, and squaws and hedge-hogs to scratch the
+ground.'"
+
+Edward interrupted the conversation, to beg his father to stop in the
+village long enough to allow him time to look into the interior of some
+of the huts. While Mr. Sackville hesitated whether to incur the delay
+necessary to afford this gratification to his son, the driver announced
+that his off-leader had lost his shoe, and asked leave to stop at a
+blacksmith's to have it replaced.
+
+This request was readily granted; and while Mrs. Sackville entered into
+some conversation with the blacksmith, who was a white man, Edward
+bounded over a fence and across a field, towards a hut which was
+scarcely perceptible except by a smoke that rose from it, and curled
+through the branches of a lofty oak which stood before it.
+
+As he drew near the hut, he heard a low voice, broken by sobs; he paused
+for a moment, and then cautiously and softly advanced, till he came so
+near as to hear distinctly what was said, and to see enough, through a
+small aperture where the clay had fallen away from the logs, to prevent
+his proceeding farther, and to excite his curiosity to its highest
+pitch. An old Indian woman was sitting on the hearth-stone, her arms
+folded, and her blanket wrapped close around her. It appeared that she
+had seated herself there for the purpose of watching an Indian cake that
+was baking on a shovel before the fire; but her attention had been so
+abstracted, that the cake was burnt to a cinder. Her face and person
+were withered by age; but her eye, as if lit up by an undying spark,
+retained a wild brightness, and was steadfastly fixed on two young
+persons who stood before her, apparently too much occupied with their
+own emotion to notice her observation of them. The one was a young girl,
+dressed in a riding habit and Leghorn travelling bonnet. Edward was
+not very well situated for accurate observation; but though he was
+at the first glance deceived by the brilliancy of the girl's colour,
+heightened as it was by the excitement of the moment, his unpracticed
+eye soon detected unequivocal marks of the Indian race, accompanied
+and softened by traits of fairer blood. A young Indian stood beside
+her, who, as Edward fancied, had a certain air of dignity and heroism,
+that characterised a warrior chief;--still there was something in his
+attitude and motions, that bespoke the habits of civilized life. His
+dress, too, was a singular mixture of the European and Indian costumes.
+He wore a jacket with long sleeves made of deer skin, and closely fitted
+to his arms and breast. He had a mantle of blue broad cloth, lined with
+crimson, made long and full, hanging over one shoulder, and confined at
+the waist by a wampum belt. On a table beside him was lying a cap, like
+the military undress cap of a British officer, with a plume of black
+feathers tinged with crimson, and attached to the cap by a silver arrow.
+
+The conversation between him and the girl was in French, and made up of
+ejaculations and vehement protestations, from which Edward could not at
+first gather any thing intelligible to him. The girl wept excessively;
+the Indian's passion seemed too powerful for such an expression.
+
+"You promise," he said, "Felice; but our old men say the winds are not
+more changing than a woman's mind."
+
+"Others may change; I cannot, Nahatton; you know I would not leave you
+if I could help it."
+
+"Could help it! can your father's right control nature's law? Oh,
+Felice!" he added, smiting his breast, "that which I feel for you is
+like the fires from the sun--the hurricane from the south--the tide of
+the ocean;--I cannot resist it."
+
+"Nahatton! Nahatton! you know I will return to you."
+
+"Let me place this around your neck then," said he, detaching from his
+own a chain made of porcupine quills, and curiously woven. "My mother
+made it. She said it was a charm, and would keep me true to my own
+people. I wore it in France, and I have returned to my tribe."
+
+"Not about my neck, Nahatton," said Felice, as he raised his hands to
+clasp the chain; "it looks too savage--bind it on my arm.----Why do you
+hesitate?" she asked, as she stood with her arm extended, and her sleeve
+pushed up.
+
+"It looks too savage! Already ashamed of your mother's blood! Oh, there
+is poison in your veins!" and as he said this he broke the chain, threw
+it down, and crushed it under his foot.
+
+"Oh, Nahatton, I did not mean that;--I am not ashamed of my indian
+blood--I will make you any promise--I will swear, on my knees I will
+swear to return to you."
+
+"Swear then upon this," said he; and he took from his bosom a silver
+crucifix, and offered it to her lips.
+
+At this moment the old woman, who, as they spoke in French, only
+understood as much as she could interpret from their gestures, rose,
+and darting towards them, she laid her hand on the crucifix. "No, no,
+Felice; swear not!" she said; "the oath will be written there," and she
+pointed upward, "when you have broken and forgotten it."
+
+Edward, in the intensity of his interest in the scene, had forgotten the
+necessity of secrecy. He carelessly leaned his arm on some rails that
+had been placed against the hut, one of them fell; the party within
+started and looked around them, and Edward instinctively retreated. If
+he went as swiftly as the wind, and once or twice thought he heard an
+arrow whirring through the air behind him, we hope our readers will
+impute it to the excited state of his imagination, and not deem him a
+coward, 'even upon instinct.'
+
+"Just in time, Edward, my son," said Mr. Sackville, who was standing by
+the carriage in which the rest of the party were already seated; "but
+what in the world ails you? you look as wild as if you had met a bear up
+in the wood there."
+
+"Oh, you would look wild too, father, if you had seen and heard what I
+have. Oh, mother! Oh, Julia! you never will believe what I have to tell
+you."
+
+"I have something to tell you, too, Mr. Edward," said his mother; "and
+as you are out of breath, and out of your wits, I will tell my story
+first, which I assure you is quite a romantic little tale to pick up by
+the way-side."
+
+"Well, do be quick, mother, if you please, for what I have to say is so
+wonderful."
+
+"No doubt; each one always thinks his own wonder the most wonderful. But
+I will not try your patience any longer. Do you remember our speculating
+on an empty carriage, which we saw drawn up under a tree with a man
+standing by it, about half a mile back?"
+
+"Yes, very well--but what of that, mother?"
+
+"It was an idle inquiry about that carriage of the good-natured
+communicative blacksmith that led to the story, which I am going to tell
+you. It seems that carriage is to convey a young woman to New-York,
+whence she sails for France."
+
+"Oh, I saw her--I saw her," exclaimed Edward. "It can be none other."
+
+"Well, Edward," said Mrs. Sackville, "I will give place to you; for I
+see you are in such a state of fermentation, that I am afraid your story
+will evaporate in exclamations, while I am telling mine."
+
+Edward thus relieved from restriction, proceeded to recount with the
+animation of an eye-witness, all he had seen and heard. His audience
+listened to him with the most flattering attention, and at the
+conclusion, repaid him with exclamations, that proved they were
+adequately impressed with the extraordinary scene he had witnessed.
+
+Julia wished he had noticed whether the chief (for thus he had chosen
+throughout his narrative to designate his hero) wore moccasins or shoes,
+and whether his legs below his mantle, were bare, or covered with
+leggins. She thought too, he might just have staid to see whether the
+girl made the vow or not: and his mother congratulated him that the
+Indians had not executed summary justice on him, and shot him flying for
+a spy.
+
+"My story," said Mrs. Sackville, "will serve, Ned, as a sequel to yours,
+or rather, an explanation of it. It seems that this young girl, who is a
+Miss Bernard, had left the carriage when we saw it, on the pretence of
+going to take leave of her mother's sister, who is doubtless the old
+woman you saw. You were so fortunate as to discover her real errand. She
+is the daughter of a Frenchman--Rodolph Bernard. His family was noble
+and rich: they and their fortunes were sacrificed in the convulsions of
+the French revolution, and Bernard alone escaped and reached America,
+with nothing but his life. It appears from my blacksmith's story, that
+young Bernard had a good deal of spirit and enterprise, and more
+education than most of the young nobles of that time. I wish you to
+observe, my children, that knowledge is a treasure not impaired by a
+change of circumstances, but an immutable good in every extreme of
+fortune. Bernard remained in New-York for a year or two, and subsisted
+by teaching French to some Americans, and mathematics to his own
+countrymen. He was then employed by a company of French gentlemen,
+to explore the western part of this State, then a wilderness, and
+to furnish them such information as should enable them to make an
+advantageous purchase of the government. This was not quite thirty years
+ago: and then the cultivated country and beautiful villages through
+which we have passed, were for the most part a trackless wilderness.
+
+"At a wigwam in Oneida, where he had been compelled to ask for such
+hospitality as it afforded, he was seized with the fever of the country
+that usually attacked strangers. For weeks and months he was nursed by
+an indian girl, famed among her people for her skill in such remedies as
+their native wilds supply. You know, that in the history of the early
+periods of all ages, we find the healing art assigned to women. You will
+remember, Ned, in your favorite old ballads, many a kill or cure,
+performed by cruel or tender leeches.
+
+"Whether it was the indian maid's skill in medicine, that prevailed over
+the disease at last, or her devoted kindness, it might be difficult to
+determine; probably, Bernard thought the latter; for though she was,
+as my narrator's tradition says, 'an uncouth maiden to look upon,' he
+declared his love to her, and asked her hand of her father. The father
+consented, but not till after some delay, nor till he had ascertained
+that Bernard's rank entitled him to wed the daughter of a distinguished
+chief. She was an only child too, and she was heir to enough land within
+this Oneida reservation, to make a principality.
+
+"The Frenchman understood how to manage it. His ties to his own country
+were broken. All his affections and interests were concentrated here. He
+has been a good husband and father--so indulgent as to permit his wife
+on ordinary occasions, to wear her indian dress, to which it seems she
+has a bigoted attachment. His children are well educated: and, Ned, our
+blacksmith thinks, that your heroine Felice, would be a perfect beauty,
+if she had such hair as your sister's, and the olive tinge could be
+washed out of her skin.
+
+"Bernard, since the late reverses in France, has returned there, and
+recovered an immense property which had been sequestered by Napoleon.
+
+"Last year his family received dispatches from him, by your 'chief,'
+Ned--who, if not in reality a chief, is the son of a distinguished
+sachem of the Seneca tribe, which is located some where on the shores
+of Lake Erie. The old Seneca chief was converted to the Romish religion,
+by a Catholic missionary, who persuaded him to resign his son into his
+hands, to be educated a priest.
+
+"It appears that neither European intercourse, nor the strict discipline
+of a catholic school, have overcome the young man's preference of the
+wild and lawless life of his tribe. As I said, on his return from
+France, he brought letters from Bernard to his family, and here he
+has played successfully the part of Othello the Moor, with this young
+Desdemona; and the blacksmith thinks that Bernard will play the enraged
+father to the life, as it has been his declared resolution from his
+daughter's birth, that she should not wed an indian.
+
+"For the rest of my story, it is explained by what you have witnessed,
+Edward. The Seneca youth has visited his people, and returned here just
+as Felice is on the eve of departure for France, in compliance with her
+father's requisition. As to the future, whether she will remain constant
+to her lover, as we are not seers, we cannot predict--we can only
+guess."
+
+Edward and Julia professed unbounded confidence in Felice's fidelity.
+Mr. Morris did not see what the girl could do better. Indian she
+undoubtedly was, and he thought it was a clear case for the application
+of the Scottish proverb, 'hawks won't pick out hawks' een;' at any rate
+it would be a piece of effrontery for her to turn her back upon her
+indian lover, and expect to win a white one.
+
+Mr. and Mrs. Sackville thought it possible that Julia might find
+Frenchmen in whose estimation an ample fortune would atone for the
+slight dishonour of her maternal ancestry.
+
+Our travellers proceeded without accident or adventure along the
+accustomed route through fine villages, whose rapid growth to maturity
+remind one of the construction of a fairy palace by the touch of a
+magician's wand. A few years ago this country was unexplored save by
+the indian hunter, or perhaps a devoted missionary, or lawless trader.
+A wheel had never entered it--a _shodden_ horse was a curiosity; now,
+the road is thronged with market-waggons, stage coaches, and carriages
+filled with idle, curious, or classic travellers, who go to 'the Falls'
+to kill time, to increase their stores of knowledge, or to gratify
+taste.
+
+Mr. Sackville was constantly directing his children's observation to the
+prompt enterprise and industry so conspicuous in a new country, and
+stimulating their patriotism by pointing out to them the increasing
+riches and resources of their native land. "For my own part," he said,
+"I prefer the sentiment that is inspired by the peaceful triumphs of man
+over nature, to the patriotism that is kindled on battle-grounds--if not
+as romantic, it is certainly more innocent."
+
+"Then I suppose, papa," said Edward, "that you prefer Virgil's georgics
+to his epic."
+
+"Thank you, Ned," replied his father, "for an illustration which proves
+that your travels have not quite put your school out of your head. I
+certainly do prefer the aspect of our cheerful dwellings, blooming
+gardens, and fruitful fields, associated as they are in my mind with
+innocent occupation and moral cultivation; to the ivy-mantled towers
+and triumphal arches of the old world--they are the records of feudal
+grandeur and high heroic deeds, but deeds too often of doubtful virtue,
+and of fatal consequences. The melancholy poet may exult in describing
+the 'spectres that sit and sigh' amid their ruins; but if I had the
+_gifted eye_, my children, I should rather look upon the spirit of
+Contentment that hovers over our land, and her sweet sister Hope, who
+points with her finger of promise to the smiling prosperity produced by
+busy hands and active independent minds."
+
+                  *       *       *       *       *
+
+When the travellers reached Black-rock, where they were to cross the
+Niagara, they were compelled to await for some time the return of the
+ferry-boat, which was then plying towards the Canada shore. While they
+were detained, they amused themselves with a company of Irish people--raw
+emigrants, who had just entered our territory, and were awaiting the
+departure of the Erie steam-boat to convey them to the State of Ohio.
+They had spread tents for their temporary accommodation--Edward and
+Julia went from one to another, asking questions, and giving cakes and
+dried fruit from their travelling stores to the children.
+
+They were particularly struck with one buxom young girl with laughing
+eyes and ruddy cheeks, who seemed to be a favorite with the whole
+company, and not to belong to any one; for she went from tent to tent
+kneading an oat-meal cake for one woman--dressing a lame arm for
+another, and performing sundry miscellaneous offices that always fall
+to the lot of those most useful people who have nothing in particular
+to do. Julia offered her a piece of cake, by way of introduction, and
+then asked her name:--"My name is Biddy Burns, an' please you, miss."
+
+"And who did you come with, Biddy?"
+
+"I left home with my cousin; but it pleased the Lord to take her to
+himself before we came to Quebec, and she has left such a pretty
+complement of children to her husband to take care of, that I must
+e'en shift for myself."
+
+"Do you like our country, Biddy?" asked Edward.
+
+"Och, my master, I could not miss liking it, ye are all so free and
+hospitable."
+
+"But Biddy," said Julia, "how could you leave your father and mother,
+and all your friends?"
+
+"Sure it is, miss, if it thrives well with me they will all come after."
+
+"Sure enough," said Mrs. Sackville, "these poor Irish do all come
+_after_, sooner or later. Are you a catholic, Biddy?"
+
+"I come from the north of Ireland, my leddy."
+
+"You are a protestant, then?"
+
+"Yes, my leddy; thank God and my mother, that taught me the rasonable
+truth."
+
+"Can you read, my good girl?"
+
+"Indeed can I, my leddy. Thanks to the Sunday school, I could read in
+the bible if I had one, without a blunder."
+
+"Well, Biddy," said Mrs. Sackville, who thought it a good opportunity to
+give a God-speed to the girl's pilgrimage--"here is a bible in my
+basket--take it, and may it be the guide of your life."
+
+Biddy poured forth her thanks in many a God-reward-ye, and then after
+hesitating for a moment, she said, "I wish my leddy would condescend to
+walk up here a bit, to a poor woman who needs a kind christian word,
+poor crater." Mrs. Sackville and the children followed Biddy to a tree
+which stood a little above the encampment of the Irish, where a woman
+was sitting on a log with a sick child in her arms, and a boy of five
+or six beside her.
+
+She was a middle-aged woman, with a face originally plain, and deeply
+seamed with the small-pox; but withal, there was an expression of honesty
+and goodness, and of deep sadness, that interested Mrs. Sackville, though
+at first it failed to draw the attention of the children from their
+good-humored blithe companion.
+
+"Does this woman belong to your company, Biddy?"
+
+"Bless you, no, my leddy."--"I thought not," said Mrs. Sackville, who
+was struck with the extreme neatness of the woman's appearance, which
+presented a striking contrast to all the Irish, even to our friend
+Biddy.--Her child's head was covered with a linen handkerchief--coarse
+and patched, but white as the driven snow. There was scarcely a thread
+of the original cloth in her children's clothes--neither was there a
+hole in them--their faces and hands were perfectly clean, and their hair
+neatly combed.
+
+"You seem to find it possible, my friend," said Mrs. Sackville, patting
+the little boy's face, "to keep your children clean in the most difficult
+circumstances." "I try my best, ma'am," replied the woman. "And a slave,
+my leddy," interposed Biddy, "she makes of herself for it. Do you know
+that when I offered this morning to stay by the childer while she took
+a bit of sleep, that instead of resting her soul and body, she went and
+washed her things in the river, and got leave to iron in the house
+yonder, and did it all as particular as it might have been done for you,
+my leddy."
+
+The poor woman was wetting the sick child's lips from a cup of water that
+stood by her; and she took no notice of Biddy's remark. Mrs. Sackville
+inquired into the particulars of the child's sickness, which she thought
+would yield to some common restoratives which she had at hand; and just
+as she was dispatching Julia for the dressing case which contained them,
+a little rugged impish looking boy came towards them, throwing himself
+heels over head, with a segar in his mouth, which he continued smoking
+while he was making his somersets.--"Come, come, Goody Barton," said he,
+without heeding Mrs. Sackville's presence, "come, we must be up and
+moving. If we don't get over in this boat, I shall disappoint the
+company at Chippewa to-night."
+
+"Don't speak so loud, Tristy," replied the woman, "but take the pack to
+the boat, and I will follow you."
+
+"That surely is not your child?" said Mrs. Sackville, as the boy walked
+off with the bundle singing, at the top of his voice, a very vulgar
+song, and affecting to reel like a drunken man.
+
+"No, thank God," said the woman, "he is a poor heaven-forsaken lad, who
+is going into Canada. He has helped me along from Buffalo, and has
+offered to carry my bundle to Chippewa."
+
+It occurred to Mrs. Sackville to caution the woman to be on her guard,
+for she thought Tristy looked wicked enough for any mischief; but a
+signal from the boat obliged them all to hasten to the shore. Biddy good
+naturedly took the eldest boy by the hand and led him to the boat, and
+then took leave of all her new friends, pouring forth a shower of
+prayers that God would bless them all, rich and poor.
+
+The woman, whom we shall henceforth call by her name, Mrs. Barton, was
+reserved in the expression of her feelings; but the tear of gratitude
+she dropped on Biddy's hand at parting, was an equivalent for the girl's
+voluble expressions.
+
+There was, in all the poor woman's manner, an unobtrusiveness and
+reserve uncommon in a person of her humble degree, and it interested
+Mrs. Sackville more than any solicitation could have done. She
+ascertained that Mrs. Barton was on her way to Quebec, where she _hoped_
+to find her husband.
+
+"And have you the means of getting there?" asked Mrs. Sackville. "It is
+a great distance, my friend, and you cannot get across Ontario and down
+the St. Lawrence for a trifle."
+
+"I know that, madam; but I have some money; and if I find my own country
+people as kind to me as the people in the States have been, I shall do
+very well. Every body feels pitiful to a lone woman with little children.
+If it please God to mend my little girl, I shall go on with good courage."
+
+Mrs. Sackville commended the poor woman's resolution, and busied herself
+putting up some medicines for the child, and giving directions about
+them, and was so occupied with her benevolent duty, that she gave little
+heed to Edward's continued exclamations. "Oh, mother! how beautiful the
+colour of the water of the Niagara is!" "Mother, does not it give you
+sublime feelings to think you are on the Niagara?" "Mother, does not
+Lake Erie look grand from here?" &c. &c. &c. Suddenly his attention was
+diverted, and he was attracted to the extremity of the boat, where
+Tristy, the little "Flibbertigibbet" we have before mentioned, was
+exhibiting various feats for the amusement of the passengers. He was a
+little, pale, wizened-face fellow, with a bleared and blood-shot eye,
+his hair black, strait, and matted to his head, his mouth defiled with
+tobacco, and in short his whole appearance indicating the depravity of
+one experienced in vice. He dislocated the joints of his fingers, stood
+firmly on his head, and performed some of the difficult exploits of a
+tumbler; and when he had done all this, "Come, gentlemen," said he,
+"shall I sing you a song, or pray you a prayer? I'll suit your fancy
+with either for a sixpence."
+
+"No, no; none of your prayers, you little son of the old one," said one
+of the men; "we shall have your master with the cloven foot after us
+before we get to the shore: you may sing us a song, though, only let it
+be a decent one."
+
+"Oh, well gentlemen, suit yourselves--I am a Jack at all trades, you
+know--that is to say, at any of the trades my father, that is dead and
+gone, followed before me."
+
+"Trades! your father followed no trade, but the trade of the
+light-fingered gentry."
+
+"I beg your pardon, sir; my dad was a noted man in his day:--a
+carpenter, joiner, tooth-drawer, barber, gardener, studying-master,
+dancing-master, whipping-master, fiddling-master, school-master,
+music-master, play-actor, &c. &c.--all of which I am yours gentlemen
+to command. Now for the song:--there is Erie, and my song is Perry's
+glorious victory." He then half sung, half recited, a ballad recounting
+Perry's gallant exploits on the lake.
+
+It was impossible for a compassionate being to see the little outcast
+without an emotion of pity; or not to be affected by the weak and almost
+infantine tones of his voice.
+
+"How old are you, child?" asked Mr. Sackville, as the boy concluded his
+song, and opened his mouth to catch the sixpence that was tossed to him.
+
+"How old? I do not justly remember; but there is my age set down in our
+family Bible, as my father called it, by his own honored hand, on the
+day he got through, as I have heard him say, his fourth term of service
+at the state-castle."
+
+Mr. Sackville took from the child's hand a filthy little dream-book, on
+the title-page of which was scrawled, and scarcely legible,--"Tristram
+McPhelan, born in the Bridewell, city of New-York, on Friday--bad luck
+to him--March 1807."
+
+"You are then but eleven years old."
+
+"Yes sir; and in that time I have seen more of life than many of my
+betters twice my age. I have been in every state in the Union, and
+in every city of every state. I have been in six alms-houses, two
+workhouses, and ten jails, on my own account, besides the privilege of
+visiting my father in two different state prisons. While my father lived
+we travelled in company, and now I am obliged (he concluded, bowing to
+Mr. Sackville,) to put up with what company chance throws in my way."
+
+Mr. Sackville took Edward by the hand, and turned away, grieved and
+disgusted. His eye fell on his daughter, who was sitting beside
+Mrs. Barton, carefully sheltering the sick child from the sun with her
+parasol, while she nicely prepared an orange and offered it to her.
+The little sufferer seized it eagerly and devoured it, and then fixed
+her eyes on Julia and smiled. The first smile of a sick child is
+electrifying.
+
+"Oh! miss," said the mother, "does not she seem to say, 'God bless you,'
+though she cannot speak it?"
+
+Julia was delighted with the revival of the child, and with the mother's
+gratitude, which was even more manifest in her brightened countenance
+than in her words.
+
+"My medicine," said Julia, "has worked wonders; if I could but find one
+more orange, I should quite cure my little patient;" and she zealously
+ransacked the carriage, and turned out every basket and bag in the hope
+of finding another, but all in vain. Disappointed, she turned to her
+mother,--"Cannot we, mama," she said, "do something more for this poor
+woman before we leave her?"
+
+"I do not see that we can, my dear," replied Mrs. Sackville, "I have
+offered to pay her stage fare hence to Newark, but she says she has
+money, and declines receiving any thing."
+
+"Oh, then she is not obliged to go on foot--I could not endure to think
+of the child's being exposed to this hot sun."
+
+"That, I am afraid, cannot be helped; for the mother does go to Newark
+on foot. I could not persuade her to ride. She insists that she is very
+strong, and that her child is so wasted she scarcely feels the burthen
+of it; and besides, she travels but a very short distance in a day."
+
+Julia paused for a moment. She was very reluctant to give up the point,
+and finally, as the last resource of her ingenuity, she proposed that
+her mother should take the woman into the carriage. "We can just squeeze
+her in for a few miles, mama; she looks so perfectly nice, that even
+uncle can't object; and I want so to know if the little girl continues
+to get better."
+
+Mrs. Sackville could scarcely refrain from smiling at Julia's odd
+proposition to take in a way-faring woman and two children, but it had
+its source in such kind feelings, that she would not ridicule it. "I am
+afraid, my dear Julia," she said, "that it is quite impossible to
+gratify you. You know your uncle already complains of wanting
+elbow-room."
+
+"Well then, mother, just listen to one more proposal:--take the woman
+into the carriage, and let Edward and me walk two or three miles. Three
+miles will be quite a lift to her, and Ned will lead the little boy."
+
+Mrs. Sackville could not resist Julia's eagerness, and after some
+consultation with her husband and brother, she consented to the
+arrangement, though it involved them in some inconvenience and delay. It
+was as much a matter of principle as feeling with her, never to permit
+her own personal accommodation to interfere with the claims of humanity.
+A child is more impressed with a single example of disinterestedness,
+than with a hundred admonitions on the subject. Mrs. Sackville had some
+difficulty in overcoming the scruples of Mrs. Barton, who felt a modest
+awkwardness at seating herself in the carriage with her superiors; but
+when they reached the Canada shore, the necessary arrangements were
+made, and she being at last persuaded, on the ground of gratifying the
+children, took their place in the carriage, and it drove off and left
+Edward and Julia to follow with little Richard Barton, and Tristram with
+the wallet.
+
+Mr. Morris was one of those thrifty people, who can never see any
+necessity of poverty, and though he was in the main kind hearted, he was
+rather inclined to be severe in his judgment of the wretched. Poverty
+was always suspicious in his eyes. No sooner were they seated and well
+under way, than he said, "It is a mystery to me, my good woman, why
+people who have not any spare cash should always be travelling.
+Sometimes they are going up country to see a relation--and sometimes
+down country. All their kindred are sure to live at their antipodes."
+
+Mrs. Barton kept her eyes downcast on her child, and made no reply.
+"Now," continued Mr. Morris, "what use or pleasure there can be in
+lugging children from Dan to Beersheba, is more than I can imagine."
+
+"God knows, I do not travel for the pleasure of it," meekly replied the
+poor woman.
+
+"Oh, no, no--I dare say not--I dare say not"--said Mr. Morris, who had
+whiffed away his pet with the first breath. "You are of another sort.
+But, pray, my friend, what are you travelling for?"
+
+"To join my husband at Quebec."
+
+"Your husband at Quebec--and you here! how the deuce came that about?"
+
+"My child has fallen asleep," replied Mrs. Barton, turning to
+Mrs. Sackville; "and if you, ma'am, will condescend to hear the cause
+of my being here--there is no reason that I should be loath to tell it;
+only you know, ma'am, one does not like to be forward about speaking of
+troubles to strangers--and those so kind as you, it seems like begging,
+which I am not forward to do."
+
+Mrs. Sackville assured Mrs. Barton, that she felt great interest in
+knowing how she came into her present circumstances.
+
+"My husband," she said, "was a corporal in the fortieth ----. We were
+in Spain through all Wellington's campaigns, and had just crossed the
+Pyrennees into France, and were thinking of going home to England
+again, when the regiment was ordered to America. This was no great
+disappointment to me--I have no known relation in the world but my
+husband and child--then I had but the one. My husband is a sober man,
+who fears God and serves his king with all his heart: and his pay with
+my earnings, (for I did up all the linen of our officers) furnished us
+a decent living. When we arrived at Quebec, our regiment was sent into
+Upper Canada.
+
+"Soon after we came to Newark, a detachment from the De Watteville
+regiment was ordered to make an attack on Fort Erie. In this detachment
+was a corporal, a great friend to us, who once saved my boy from
+drowning. At the moment he was ordered off, he had a child seemingly at
+the last gasp. The poor man was distracted like, and my husband, who had
+that tender heart that he could never bide to look on misery, offered to
+go as his substitute, and he went. You've doubtless heard of the sortie
+of Erie: that dreadful night my husband was taken prisoner. He got a
+letter written to me from Buffalo, to tell me all his ill-fortune. He
+had been mistaken by some American soldiers for a deserter from the
+American army; and not being with his own regiment when he was taken, or
+even among his acquaintance, he could not prove who he was. He had been
+ironed, and was to be taken to Greenbush, near Albany.
+
+"He entreated me to procure from his captain, the necessary papers to
+prove that he was a true man, and to forward them to him. Our captain
+was a great friend to us; he gave me the writings, and I determined
+myself to go to Greenbush. I met with some troubles, and much kindness
+by the way. The people in your States, ma'am, are the freest and the
+kindest I have ever seen. They seemed to me like God's stewards, always
+ready to open their storehouses to the naked and hungry. I had money
+enough to pay for my boy's riding the most of the way; for myself I
+seldom felt weary, but pressed on beyond my strength; still I did not
+feel it till I got to Greenbush, and was told my husband had escaped
+from confinement the week before. Whither he had gone, no one knew, but
+all told me that if he was not retaken, he had probably reached Canada.
+
+"I would have come straight home again, but my strength was utterly
+gone. I have not much recollection from this time: I remember having a
+fear that they would take my boy from me, but all seems as a dream, till
+I came to myself two months after in the alms-house in Albany. From that
+time I remained in a low wretched state, for four months, when this poor
+baby was born into this world of trouble."
+
+Here the poor woman gave way to a burst of tears, which seemed to be
+a relief to her full heart; for afterwards, she proceeded with more
+composure. "Many months passed before I was able to do any thing for
+myself. It pleased God to hear my prayer for patience; and though I was
+often without any hope that times would ever mend with me, I was kept
+from fretting. You are very kind to feel for me, but I will not tire
+you with all my ups and downs for the last three years. I have sent
+many letters into Canada, but have never received any return. My heart
+sometimes misgives me, and I think my husband has gone to Europe--or
+maybe is dead."
+
+"But, why," asked Mrs. Sackville, "have you remained so long in the
+States?"
+
+"O, ma'am, I was afraid to undertake the journey with my poor baby, who
+has always been but delicate, and I was determined not to leave Albany,
+where I had made many kind friends, till I had earned something to help
+us on our journey. I know how to turn my hands to almost any kind of
+work; and the last year has prospered so well with me, that when I left
+Albany I had forty dollars. At Buffalo my poor baby was taken down; and
+I have been obliged to spend ten dollars; with the rest I hope to get to
+Quebec; and if worst comes to worst, I may there find friends to send
+me to Europe."
+
+The poor woman's story was not one of unparalleled misfortunes, but it
+was unusually interesting to her hearers--there was so much resolution
+and mildness blended in her countenance, such perfect cleanliness in her
+coarse apparel, and such an evident solicitude to avoid any exaggeration,
+or even display of her troubles, that could be an appeal to the charity
+of her auditors, that when she concluded, they felt convinced of her
+merit, and deeply interested in her welfare. They were now arrived at
+the inn, where they were to await the children, who arrived in the
+course of an hour, heated and dusty--but declaring they had never a
+more delightful walk.
+
+"Lord bless you, Miss," exclaimed Mrs. Barton, "you've heated yourself
+to that degree, that the blood seems ready to burst from your cheeks. I
+shall never forgive myself if you get sick by it."
+
+"Oh never fear," replied Julia, "I did not feel the heat at all."
+
+"But there is such a thick sickly feeling in the air to-day."
+
+"Sickly feeling," exclaimed Edward, "I am sure I thought the air was
+never fresher and sweeter."
+
+"You can now understand," said Mrs. Sackville, speaking in a low voice
+to her children, "the charm of the ring in the Fairy tale, bestowed by
+the benevolent Genius; which whenever worn, produced a clear sky, a
+smooth path and fragrant air. There is a happiness, my dear children,
+in the simplest act of genuine kindness, which is much more than a
+compensation for the loss of any gratification of taste. The relief of
+this poor woman, and the sweet sleep into which her child has been
+lulled by the motion of the carriage, have quite reconciled me to the
+delay of the sight of the Falls; for which I confess I began to feel a
+little but here comes your uncle, full of concern about something."
+
+Mr. Morris entered the room in great perturbation. "Here is a pretty
+spot of work," said he. "I believe in my soul, Mrs. Barton, that that
+scamp Tristy has gone off with your bundle."
+
+"Gone off with it!--God forbid!" exclaimed the poor woman,--"my money
+was all in it."
+
+"Oh uncle," said Edward, "he has not gone off with it;--he laid himself
+down under a tree in the wood just back, and said he would follow on as
+soon as he had rested him."
+
+"Rested him! a mere pretence to get rid of you--you should have had more
+discretion than to have trusted him, Ned;--but when was ever discretion
+found in a boy?"
+
+"But what reason, brother, have you to think he has gone off?" asked
+Mrs. Sackville.
+
+Mr. Morris said there had a man just come over the road, of whom he had
+inquired if he had seen him:--he had not, but he was certain he should
+have observed him if he had been by the road side. Mr. Morris had
+despatched a servant on horseback in pursuit of him, and he begged
+Mrs. Barton to calm herself till his return.
+
+The poor woman's agitation could not be allayed as easily as it had
+been excited:--she said nothing; but she became as pale as death, and
+trembled so excessively, that Mrs. Sackville took her child from her
+arms and laid it on a bed.
+
+Mr. Morris's compassion once excited, was never stinted. "Bless you,
+woman," he whispered to Mrs. Barton, "don't tremble so. If the little
+imp has really made off, your loss shall be made up to you. Come, cheer
+up--I have engaged a place for you and your children in a return
+carriage, and you will all be in Newark to-night, safe and snug."
+
+"God bless you, sir," replied Mrs. Barton. "I am ashamed of myself; but
+my courage and strength seem quite spent."
+
+At this instant, Edward, who had gone out on the first notice of the
+boy's delinquency, returned, shouting, "He's coming, he's coming;" and
+directly the messenger made his appearance with the wallet unharmed, and
+followed by Tristram, who came doggedly on muttering, "that it was a
+poor reward for lugging the old woman's bundle to be hunted for a
+thief."
+
+"Stop your clamor, Tristy," said Mr. Morris, "the devil shall have his
+due; there is a shilling for you, which is full as much as your
+character is worth."
+
+"I don't know as to that," replied the boy, pocketing the shilling:
+"those that have much character can do as they please, but I have so
+little, that I set a high price on it."
+
+The carriage was now ready in which Mrs. Barton was to proceed, and her
+friends saw her depart cheered and comforted by their kindness, and
+themselves enriched by the opportunity they had improved of imitating
+our heavenly Benefactor by 'raising the sinking heart, and strengthening
+the knees that were ready to fail.'
+
+After our travellers were again on their way, Mr. Morris said he did not
+at all like Tristram's look, when he said Goody Barton would remember
+him the next time she felt the weight of her wallet. "The little rascal
+said too, that he had changed his mind, and was going back to the
+States--putting that and that together, I am afraid his evil fingers
+have been inside the poor woman's bundle."
+
+Julia was sure he could not be so wicked--she had herself observed the
+bundle, and that it was very nicely sewed.
+
+Mrs. Sackville hoped and believed that there was no harm done to the
+poor woman's property; and the concern of the party for their protegee,
+gradually gave place to their admiration of the beauties of their ride,
+and the animated expectation of seeing the Falls.
+
+Edward declared that his ears already began to tingle,--and after they
+passed Chippewa, Julia resolutely shut her eyes, for fear of having the
+first impression weakened by the imperfect glimpses that could be caught
+of the cataract from the road.
+
+                  *       *       *       *       *
+
+We hope our young readers do not think us so presumptuous as to attempt
+to give them a description of the Falls of Niagara; one of the sublimest
+spectacles with which this fair earth is embellished. Neither can we
+attempt to define the emotions of our travellers. We find in Edward's
+and Julia's journals, noted with an accuracy and taste that does them
+great credit, all the constituent parts of this great whole--a poet or
+a painter might perhaps weave them into a beautiful picture.
+
+The vehement dashing of the rapids--the sublime falls--the various
+hues of the mass of waters--the snowy whiteness, and the deep bright
+green--the billowy spray that veils in deep obscurity the depths
+below--the verdant island that interposes between the two falls, half
+veiled in a misty mantle, and placed there, it would seem, that the eye
+and the spirit may repose on it--the little island on the brink of the
+American fall, that looks amidst the commotion of the waters like the
+sylvan vessel of a woodland nymph gaily sailing onward; or as if the
+wish of the Persian girl were realized, and the 'little isle _had_
+wings;'--a thing of life and motion that the spirit of the waters had
+inspired.
+
+The profound caverns with their overarching rocks--the quiet habitations
+along the margin of the river--peaceful amid all the uproar, as if the
+voice of the Creator had been heard, saying "It is I, be not afraid."--The
+green hill, with its graceful projections, that skirts and overlooks
+Table-rock--the deep and bright verdure of the foliage--every spear of
+grass that penetrates the crevices of the rocks, gemmed by the humid
+atmosphere, and sparkling in the sun-beams--the rainbow that rests on
+the mighty torrent--a symbol of the smile of God upon his wondrous work.
+
+"What is it, mother?" asked Edward, as he stood with his friends on
+Table-rock, where they had remained gazing on the magnificent scene for
+fifteen minutes without uttering a syllable, "what is it, mother, that
+makes us all so silent?"
+
+"It is the spirit of God moving on the face of the waters--it is this
+new revelation to our senses of his power and majesty which ushers us,
+as it were, into his visible presence, and exalts our affections above
+language.
+
+"What, my dear children, should we be, without the religious sentiment
+that is to us as a second sight, by which we see in all this beauty the
+hand of the Creator; by which we are permitted to join in this hymn of
+nature; by which, I may say, we are permitted to enter into the joy of
+our Lord? Without it we should be like those sheep, who are at this
+moment grazing on the verge of this sublime precipice, alike unconscious
+of all these wonders, and of their divine Original. This religious
+sentiment is in truth, Edward, that promethean fire that kindles nature
+with a living spirit, infuses life and expression into inert matter, and
+invests the mortal with immortality." Mrs. Sackville's eye was upraised,
+and her countenance illumined with a glow of devotion that harmonized
+with the scene. "It is, my dear children," she continued, "this
+religious sentiment, enlightened and directed by reason, that allies
+you to external nature, that should govern your affections, direct your
+pursuits, exalt and purify your pleasures, and make you feel, by its
+celestial influence, that the kingdom is within you; but," she added
+smiling, after a momentary pause, "this temple does not need a
+preacher."
+
+"Perhaps not," said Mr. Sackville; "but the language of nature sometimes
+needs an interpreter to such young observers as Ned and Julia."
+
+"That it does, papa," exclaimed Edward, whose exalted feeling was
+gradually subsiding to its natural level; "and there are people, too,
+older than Julia and I, that I think need an interpreter. That
+Yorkshireman, for instance, who lives in the stone house just at the
+turn of the road as we came down from Forsyth's, said to me, 'Well,
+young master, this is a mighty fine sight to come and see, but you would
+be sick enough of it if you lived here. It seems, when I am lying on my
+bed at night, like an everlasting thunder-storm, such a roaring from the
+Falls and dropping from the trees: and in winter my poor beasts are
+covered with icicles. I wish some of the quality that cry the place up,
+and come half the world over to see it, would change births with my
+wife and me,' and so he went on railing till I ran away from him to
+overtake you."
+
+"Poor fellow!" said Mr. Sackville; "the sentiment, 'Il n'y a rien de
+beau que l'utile,'[3] is quite excusable in a laborer. I think, Ned, I
+feel more disposed to pity than to blame your Yorkshireman."
+
+  [3] There is nothing but the useful which is beautiful.
+
+"Well, papa, what do you think of that party of city shop-keepers who
+dined at the inn with us to-day? I heard one of the ladies say, 'I have
+been so disappointed in my journey.' I dropped my knife and fork, and
+exclaimed, 'Disappointed, madam! does not the fall look as high as you
+expected?' 'Oh, child,' she replied, laughing, 'I was not speaking of
+the fall; but I find it is quite too early in the season to travel in
+the country. I have not seen a roast pig or a broiled chicken since I
+left the city.' What do you think of that, papa?"
+
+"Why I think, my dear, she is a vulgar woman, who travels because others
+do; and is naturally disappointed in not meeting with the only
+circumstances that could give her pleasure."
+
+"There's Mrs. Hilton, papa, who, I am sure, is not vulgar--at least she
+is as rich as Cr[oe]sus--and I heard her say to a gentleman, that if she
+could have remained at the Springs, and then could have gone home and
+_said_ she had been to the Falls, she should have been glad; for she was
+sure no one came here but for the name of it."
+
+"Mrs. Hilton is of the class of the vulgar rich, among whom vulgarity is
+quite as obvious, and much more disgusting, than with the vulgar poor.
+But come, dear Ned; the faults and follies of others is a theme scarcely
+worthy of this place; and just at the moment that you are enjoying this
+festival of nature, you must take care you do not commit the pharisaic
+fault, and thank God that you are not as these people, without reflecting
+that Providence has arranged the circumstances which have made the
+difference."
+
+"But, papa," said Julia, "it would not be wrong, would it, for Edward
+to feel that there is a difference?"
+
+"Perhaps not, provided the feeling is properly tempered with humility
+and gratitude; but it is far safer to be in the habit of comparing
+yourselves with your superiors, than your inferiors."
+
+"It may be safer, papa," said Julia, "but"--
+
+"But what, my love?"
+
+"It is not half so natural."
+
+"Nor so pleasant," interposed Edward.
+
+"Well, my children, I hope you will make it habitual, and then it will
+be natural. For the present I am satisfied that you speak frankly your
+opinions and feelings, without disguise or affectation."
+
+Thus these vigilant parents extracted some moral good from every object
+and every scene; and at that early age, when most children are thoughtless
+of the future, theirs were constantly directed to virtue, which they
+were taught is immortal in its nature, is man's support and solace
+through all the vicissitudes of life, and his crown of glory when the
+'terrestrial puts on the celestial.'
+
+Our travellers remained at the Falls for a week, that they might become
+familiar with them, see them by the rising and the setting sun; by
+daylight, and moonlight, and starlight, in all the radiance of the
+clear, full day, and in mists and storm; and then, after offering a Te
+Deum from the temple of their hearts, they left them with beautiful and
+imperishable pictures traced on their memories.
+
+In following the windings of the Niagara to Newark, they passed the
+celebrated heights of Queenstown, 'where ceas'd the swift their race,
+where fell the strong;' but even then, though then so recent, there were
+no traces of the disastrous battle fought there. The children, whose
+home was in a hill-country, and who valued a mountain as much as a
+New-Englander does a 'water privilege,' rambled over the heights, and
+gazed delighted on the green Niagara, which, escaped from its rocky
+prison, rejoices in its freedom, sweeps freely and gracefully around the
+bluff promontories that indent its course, flows past the headland,
+where Fort Niagara guards the American shore, and enters Lake Ontario,
+which stretches, sparkling in the distance,
+
+                            "To where the sky
+        Stoops, and shuts in th' exploring eye."
+
+Edward had, in common with most spirited boys, a natural taste for
+military exploits. "I think," he said to his mother, "that a coward
+might play the hero on these heights, or at Lundie's-lane. Only think,
+mother, of fighting within the sound of the roaring of the Falls: would
+it not give you grand feelings?"
+
+"I think, Edward, if I could hear the Falls at such a moment, they would
+seem to me to speak in a voice of rebuke, rather than encouragement."
+
+"O, mother, you never seem to admire courage; but I suppose it is
+because you are a woman."
+
+"No, my dear: women have been accused of having rather an undue admiration
+for what you mean by courage--fighting courage; but I confess that war
+seems to me a violation of the law of God, and it appears a profanation
+of such beautiful scenes as these, to convert them into fields of
+battle."
+
+When they reached Newark, the party walked up to Fort George; a slight
+embankment, surrounded by a palisade, is still dignified by that name.
+"This palisade as they call it, Ned," said Mr. Morris, "we should
+scarcely think a sufficient defence against the batteries of pigs and
+chickens."
+
+"It has served, though, to keep the yankees at bay," said a soldier,
+gruffly, who was cutting up Canada thistles, and who had suspended his
+labour for a moment, to regard the strangers.
+
+"A fair hit, friend," said Mr. Morris; "but all our fighting is over
+now, and forgotten I hope. This work you are doing here, cutting off
+these thistles, is far better than cutting off heads."
+
+"It is far aisier, sir," replied the man, with a slight curling of the
+lip, which betrayed a professional contempt for Mr. Morris's preference
+of the plough-share over the sword; then turning towards the gate he
+called to a little boy who was just entering it--"Come, come Dick, what
+do you gaze at, boy? bring me the basket."
+
+The boy, without heeding the command, dropped the basket; and uttering
+a cry between joy and surprise, scampered off in the direction of a
+cottage, or rather hovel, which stood just without the palisade.
+
+"That is Richard Barton!--that is certainly Richard Barton!" exclaimed
+the children in one breath.
+
+"Surely is it Richard Barton," said the soldier.
+
+"Is his mother, here? Has he found his father?" asked Edward impatiently;
+while all the party drew nearer the soldier, anxious to learn the fate of
+their humble friend.
+
+"Ay, his mother is in by there, poor cratur; but his father has been
+gone since the summer after the war, when the 40th was sent from
+Canada--where, God knows--there's none but he that made them can keep
+track of a British regiment: one year they are here with the setting
+sun, and then off to where he rises--shifting and changing like the
+waves of the sea, beating from one world to another; and I should know
+it by rason that I myself was fighting, and baiting gentaly under
+Wellington on the sunny side of the Pyrennees in one month, and the
+next comes an order and whips us off for Canada in the twinkling of an
+eye, among the indians and the yankees, who know nothing about fighting,"
+he concluded, glancing his eye at Mr. Morris, "according to the civil
+rules of war."
+
+"Poor, Mrs. Barton!" said Mrs. Sackville. "I am grieved at her
+disappointment, though I expected it."
+
+"Oh, do let us go in and see her," said Julia.
+
+"We will wait a moment, my dear," replied her mother; "her little boy
+must have told her that we were here, and I think she will come out to
+us."
+
+"She'll not be right free to come before you," said the soldier, "if, as
+I now partly suspect, you are the gentlemen and ladies that were so
+hospitable like to her." The man now doffed his cap, and stood with it
+in his hand, with an expression of respect in his manner far different
+from the hostile air he had at first assumed.
+
+"But, why not, my friend, come before us?" asked Mrs. Sackville. "I
+trust she has nothing to be ashamed of."
+
+"Ashamed! no, thank God--it would be hard indeed if she had to bear the
+burthen of shame with her other misfortunes; but though a soldier's
+wife, she has an English spirit, and a proud one; and she says, while
+she has her health and her hands, she will never be seen asking charity;
+and that destitute is her condition, that as she said to-day, to make
+her case known to christian people, is asking charity of them."
+
+"Do, mother, let us go now and see her," again interposed Julia.
+
+"Stop, a moment, my love," replied Mrs. Sackville; and then turning
+again to the soldier--"You say she is utterly destitute; but when she
+left us, she said she had a considerable sum of money."
+
+"And she spake the truth, ma'am--or, what is the same, she thought she
+did; but a little limb of the old one, saving your presence, my lady,
+had fingered all the poor cratur had been earning in three years, in as
+many minutes, and was off to the States with it."
+
+"Ah," exclaimed Mr. Morris, who had been intently listening--"the son of
+Belial--I told you so--I knew the rascal had it."
+
+"So dame Barton said one of the gentlemen told her; but the bundle was
+all tight and snug, for the little devil had sewed it up again, and
+she did not examine it till she come to look for the money to pay the
+captain of a schooner, who had agreed to take her down the lakes: and
+just think, my lady, at that moment what an overcast it was."
+
+"That mischief was done," said Edward, as soon as he had an opportunity
+of speaking, "when you and I, Julia, left that little wretch Tristy in
+the wood. I shall always think we were to blame for leaving him."
+
+"Does the poor woman," asked Mrs. Sackville, "still think of returning
+to Quebec?"
+
+"To Quebec! ah, madam, and to the world's end, but she'll find her
+husband if he is above ground. She is that resolute, that neither wind
+nor tide can turn her. If she was left on a naked island in mid ocean,
+she would contrive to get off from it."
+
+"Come, children," said Mrs. Sackville, "we will just leave your father
+and uncle to finish their survey here, while we look in upon our poor
+friend."
+
+"Well, go on mother," said Edward, "I will overtake you; first I must
+run up to the flag-staff and get at least a clover stalk for a memorial
+of the gallant Brock who is buried there."
+
+"And I will overtake you too, mother," said Julia, falling back with
+Edward.
+
+The soldier's eye followed the children: "God bless them--God bless
+them!" said he, "that is better than a monument."
+
+"What is better than a monument, friend?" asked Mrs. Sackville, riveted
+to the spot, as most mothers would be, by an honest commendation of her
+children.
+
+"The memory of an innocent heart--and a tear from eyes that never cried
+for sin, my lady--we soldiers die, and are turned into the turf--but we
+are honored in our officers."
+
+"Farewell, my friend; I wish you well," said Mrs. Sackville, dropping a
+piece of money into the soldier's hand, and then turned from him while
+he was still uttering his hearty, "God bless you, my lady."
+
+Julia hailed Edward as he was bounding off towards the flag-staff, and
+begged him to stop for her, as she had something private to say to him.
+He laughed at her passion for secrets, said he could not possibly be
+detained, and at last good naturedly stopped to listen. "Ned," she said,
+"I tell you what I was thinking of--as it was our fault, you know, that
+poor Mrs. Barton lost her money--and she is so anxious to get to
+Quebec--and that little Dick is such a good good natured little
+fellow--I was thinking, Ned--"
+
+"For mercy's sake think a little faster, Julia."
+
+"Well, I was thinking, if we could contrive some way to have her go down
+in the boat with us."
+
+"Contrive! it could not take us long to contrive I think: we can only
+ask papa, you know, and all the contrivance in the world will do her no
+good, if he does not think it best."
+
+"But, then, Ned, there is one thing I would like to propose to father
+and mother, if you are willing to join me."
+
+"Don't be so round-about, Julia, as if I was the great Mogul. Speak
+out."
+
+"Well then, to speak plain--you know Edward, you and I have each of
+us five dollars that papa gave us to buy Canada curiosities with; now
+I think if we were to club, we might have enough to get Mrs. Barton
+to Quebec, if the captains of the boats are good-natured men, and
+reasonable in their charges, and if papa approves the scheme--and
+if"----
+
+"If--if--if," said Edward, "we shall never move the woman with all
+these _ifs_ to clog the way; one _if_ is sure, that if we spend our
+money this way, we might have saved ourselves all the trouble of
+planning so many times over how we should lay it out."
+
+Edward continued for a few moments silent and moody, while Julia urged
+her cause zealously. The person, young or old, to whom a charity is
+suggested, is not often as eager for it as the original projector.
+Edward, however, after having walked up to the flag-staff, plucked a
+clover-stalk, and retraced a part of the way to the little wicket by
+which they entered, said, with the air of a sage, "I did not think it
+best, Julia, to say yes, without some consideration; but on the whole I
+like the plan, and if father and mother consent, I shall be very glad."
+Once agreed, they were impatient for the execution of their scheme, and
+they hurried forward to the cottage, at the door of which they were met
+by both the children. The little girl now quite recovered, clung to
+Julia, while Richard plucked Edward by the sleeve, and expressed his joy
+awkwardly, but naturally enough, by laughing in his face.
+
+"Ah, they are indeed right glad to see ye," said Mrs. Barton, "as I'm
+sure I am, as I have reason; but they, poor things--their hearts would
+not jump so at sight of their father's face, as indeed how should they,
+seeing they can have no recollection of him."
+
+The children replied to all these kind expressions from mother and
+children, and then drawing Mrs. Sackville to the door, they suggested
+their plan. She kissed them both, and bade them await her in the
+cottage, while she went to consult their father and uncle, whom she saw
+approaching.
+
+As soon as she had communicated the children's wishes, Mr. Morris
+laughed at them. "Why," said he, "the poor foolish woman is on a
+wild-goose chase, and the sooner she is stopped the better--travelling
+over the world after a husband, who I have no doubt she is vastly better
+without than with."
+
+"But she is the best judge of that, brother."
+
+"Lord bless you, no--a wife is no judge at all about her husband. She is
+evidently an ingenious worthy woman, and can get a good living if she is
+not footing it over the world after this soldier--a good riddance--a
+good riddance, Mrs. Sackville. I am surprised you do not see it is a
+good riddance."
+
+Mrs. Sackville, who did not esteem matrimonial ties so lightly as her
+bachelor brother, appealed to her husband, but he joined Mr. Morris in
+thinking Mrs. Barton had much better remain where she was; not because
+he was sure the father and husband, though a soldier, might not be worth
+looking up, but because there was not the slightest chance of finding
+him. "What good will it do the woman to get to Quebec?" he asked; "her
+husband's regiment has left Canada."
+
+"She tells me," replied Mrs. Sackville, "that she has many friends in
+Quebec from whom she might expect assistance. She has worked for the
+governor's lady, and she builds much on her benevolence, and thinks she
+will get her a free passage to her husband in a government ship; and
+besides," added Mrs. Sackville, "even if her hopes fail utterly, we
+shall confer an essential benefit on our children by complying with
+their wishes; for if they give this poor woman all their little store of
+wealth, it will cost them the sacrifice of sundry personal gratifications
+that they have reckoned much on, and thus give them a practical lesson
+of self-denial and disinterestedness, better than all our precepts, and
+it will associate with the more selfish and transient pleasures of their
+journey, the pure and enduring sentiment of benevolence."
+
+"Well, my dear wife," said Mr. Sackville, "do as you please--you have
+arrayed before me irresistible motives."
+
+Thus sanctioned, Mrs. Sackville returned to the cottage, whispered to
+the children their father's acquiescence, and then saying aloud, "I
+leave you to make all the arrangements with Mrs. Barton," she left them.
+
+We shall not attempt to describe the poor woman's gratitude, which
+overflowed in words and tears, nor the children's noisy joy when they
+heard they were to go down the lake with their friends. Suffice it to
+say, that in the course of two hours, and just as the steam-boat
+appeared in sight, heavily plying down from Lewistown, Mrs. Barton was
+on the wharf with her children, as clean and nice as soap and water and
+fresh and well-patched clothes could make them, and looking so grateful
+and joyful, that Mr. Morris, who, like the good vicar of Wakefield,
+'loved happy human faces,' forgot all his objections to the procedure,
+and shaking the good woman's hand heartily, said, he "was glad they were
+to be fellow-passengers."
+
+Our friends, with many others, were now impatiently waiting a conveyance
+to the steam-boat, which had stopped near the opposite shore. The wharf
+exhibited the usual signs of a small garrisoned town. Half drunken
+soldiers were idling about, and sentinels were posting to and fro,
+stationed there to prevent the desertion of the soldiers to the opposite
+side, a crime which the vicinity and hospitable habits of the State
+render very common. Edward accosted one of the sentinels, and asked him
+if the captain of the steam-boat sent his small boat ashore. "Fraquently
+he does, and fraquently he don't," replied the fellow, rather surlily.
+"Does the boat stop at fort Niagara?"
+
+"Indeed sir, and that is what I cannot tell you."
+
+"Well," pursued Edward with simplicity, "do you think they will send
+ashore to-day?"
+
+"Indeed master, and it's what I am not thinking about."
+
+Edward turned away, making a mental comparison between this man and
+his own civil countrymen, greatly to the disadvantage of the former,
+when his attention was attracted by the approach of a boat which came
+skimming over the water like a bird, and as it neared the shore, a
+little tight-built sailor leaped on to the wharf, and announced himself
+as Jemmy Chapman, the captain's mate. While the baggage was arranging in
+the boat, Edward seized the favorable moment to make the best bargain he
+could with the mate for his protegee.
+
+But the mate averred he had no power to transact that business, and
+referred him to his captain. "You may safely trust to him, my young
+man," said he, "for captain Vaughan is not a man to take advantage of
+a ship in distress."
+
+And so it proved--for the captain, (as every body knows, who ever
+crossed the lake in the steam-boat Ontario) was a man of distinguished
+humanity; and pleased with the good appearance of Mrs. Barton and her
+children, and the zeal of her youthful protectors, he said, that if she
+had brought her thread and needles a-board, she might work her passage
+to Ogdensburg, for he and some of his men were sadly out at elbows. The
+good woman's eyes glistened with delight, at the thought of paying her
+way thus far, and she seated herself directly to put new pockets in an
+old coat of Jemmy's, when a sudden attack of tooth-ache put a stop to
+her progress.
+
+The children were soon acquainted with her malady, for they were
+continually hovering about her, and Julia procured some camphor and
+laudanum from an invalid passenger, and gave them to her. She applied
+them, but the horrible pangs were not allayed, when Jemmy Chapman was
+attracted by the report of her distress. "Stand away, all," said he;
+"stand away--fall back, my young man; and you, my little lady, and
+give place to me. I am the seventh son of a seventh son, and I can cure
+any body's tooth-ache but my own." Mrs. Barton was not free from the
+superstition which pervades her class, and she gladly permitted him to
+stroke her face, which he did with a gravity that evinced perfect faith
+in his own powers; and in the course of fifteen minutes, she declared
+herself completely relieved, and cheerfully resumed her labors. Julia
+ran to announce the cure to her mother.
+
+"Is not it strange, mama," she said, "that she could believe it was
+Jemmy that cured her?"
+
+"Strange to us, my dear, who do not believe in any such supernatural
+powers; but we will not quarrel with a faith that cures the
+tooth-ache."
+
+As the boat passed Fort Niagara, where the river debouches into the
+lake, "There," said Jemmy Chapman to Edward, who stood beside him;
+"there, on that point stood a noble stone light-house, that has saved
+many a poor fellow from finding a grave in this stormy lake: it was like
+the good scripture light which shines equally upon all."
+
+"And what has become of it?" asked Edward.
+
+"Oh, it was taken down like Solomon's temple, till there was not one
+stone left upon another, by one of our generals--thank the Lord he was
+not an American born--he it was, that first set the example of burning
+on the frontier, and burnt down this pretty town of Newark here--and cut
+down all the orchards."
+
+"The orchards! what in the world did he do that for?" asked Edward.
+
+Jemmy paused for a moment, apparently at a loss what motive to assign
+for such reckless destruction, and then said, "Out of curiosity I
+believe."
+
+                  *       *       *       *       *
+
+We fear that we have already protracted our details beyond the patience
+of our readers.
+
+We shall not therefore describe the prosperous passage of the boat over
+the beautiful expanse of Lake Ontario: nor the visit of our friends
+to the town of Rochester, which five years before was a complete
+wilderness; but now had fine houses, shops, and warehouses, and Edward
+said, reminded him of Adam, who was born grown up: nor their passage
+from the lake into the St. Lawrence, where these mighty waters passing
+St. Vincent on one side, and Grand Island on the other, contract their
+channel, and assume the form of a river.
+
+Our friends, wrapped in their cloaks and shawls to defend them from the
+chill night air, clustered around Jemmy Chapman, who stood at the helm
+guiding the boat through the difficult and shifting channels, amid the
+'thousand isles'--now in silence gazing on them, as they were lit up
+with the rosy hues of twilight, and then with the mild but insufficient
+lustre of the half orbed moon. These verdant islands are of every size
+and form. Some lying in clusters like the 'solitary set in families:'
+and some like beautiful vestals in single loveliness. Some stretching
+for miles in length, and some so small, and without a tree or shrub,
+that they look like lawns destined for fairy sporting grounds; while
+others are encircled by such an impenetrable growth of trees, that one
+might fancy that within this sylvan barrier wood-nymphs held their
+courts and revels; in short, might fancy any thing; for there are no
+traces of human footsteps to break the spell of imagination, save where
+the fisherman's hut, placed on the brink of the element by which he
+lives, is disclosed with its dark relief of unbroken woods by the bright
+glare of the pine torch, which is his beacon light, and which serves to
+show the gleaming path-way of his little canoe. Jemmy recounted to the
+children the sad mishaps and disastrous chances that had befallen
+unskilful or unfortunate navigators in these dangerous passes, and the
+kind captain repeatedly fired his signal gun, which seemed to wake the
+spirits of these deep solitudes, to send back the greeting in echo and
+re-echo, till their voices died away on the most distant shores.
+
+"Don't they hollow well?" said Jemmy, after the last report, turning
+briskly around to dame Barton who sat near him.
+
+"Well, I did not hear them," said she, mournfully.
+
+"Not hear them--why, they spoke as plain as preaching--are you deaf,
+good woman?"
+
+"Deaf! oh, no--but my thoughts were far from here."
+
+Mrs. Sackville thought there was something in Mrs. Barton's devotedness
+to her husband, not common in her class of life. She had been deterred
+from putting any questions to her, by the habitual silence and diffidence
+of the poor woman. But now they had become so much more acquainted, that
+she ventured to say to her, "Come, Mrs. Barton, suppose you favor us
+while we sit here, with a little history of your life. My children are
+so much interested in you, that they want to know all they can about
+you."
+
+"Oh, you are very good ma'am to say so; but what is there in the history
+of the like of me to tell? not that I have any objection to make known
+my story--thank God, that's kept me in his fear--but then what happens
+to poor plain bodies like me, is not made much count of in the world."
+
+"But, remember, my good friend," said Mrs. Sackville, "the happiness of
+all his creatures, rich and poor, is of equal account in the sight of
+our heavenly Father, and as I wish my children continually to bear in
+mind that it is this great Being, whom they are commanded by their
+Saviour to imitate, I trust that the happiness of their fellow-beings,
+whether high or low, will be of equal importance in their view."
+
+Thus encouraged by the kindness of the mother, and the eager looks of
+the children, who stationed themselves close to her, Mrs. Barton began
+her simple and brief story.
+
+"I never knew my parents," she said. "I was, as I have been told, given
+by a gipsey woman to a magistrate of the town of Lichfield, in England,
+when I was three years old. The woman was sick, and died shortly after.
+She declared herself ignorant of my parentage. She believed I had been
+stolen in London, by some of her tribe, about a year before; and said
+that I had been committed to her charge for some months, I had a
+necklace, with a gold clasp with initials, which I had been permitted
+to retain; and the worthy magistrate, in the hope that this might lead
+to a discovery, advertised me, with a description of the necklace; but
+no one appearing to claim me, he finally placed me in the Lichfield
+alms-house.
+
+"When I was seven years old, don't laugh at me, Miss Julia, I was called
+a beauty. My skin was as smooth as yours; and my hair hung in curls
+about my neck and face. At this time a whimsical gentleman, who had a
+fancy to bring up a wife to his own liking, came to the alms-house: he
+was pleased with my appearance, and selected me. He taught me himself,
+and procured teachers for me, and from morning till night I was poring
+over hard tasks: this lasted for three years, and perhaps Mr. Leslie,
+for that was the gentleman's name, might have remained constant to his
+purpose, but then I took the small-pox; and after lying at the gates of
+death for weeks, I recovered, but with my face blotched and seamed as
+you see it. For many months my eye-sight and hearing were gone, and when
+I could see, my eyes had this cast in them, which looks as if I were
+born cross-eyed.
+
+"No one could blame Mr. Leslie for giving me up. I am sure I never did.
+He placed me with a poor widow, and paid my lodging with her till I was
+one and twenty, and gave me a draft on him for a hundred pounds, which
+was to be paid when I came of age. With Mrs. Gordon I was happier than I
+had ever been in my life. My book tasks I never had liked, but I sewed
+or spun with Mrs. Gordon, from morning till night, without ever being
+weary or discontented. She taught me her own ways, and she was noted
+through the whole town, for her industry and neatness. She was a good
+christian too, and she brought me up to fear God and to love his
+service. She had one child--an only son, two years younger than myself.
+He was sometimes wild and wilful, for his mother, though she was resolute
+with every thing else, could never deny him. He was sometimes as I said,
+wild and wilful--but when he was himself, he was the pleasantest lad in
+the village, and the best. Mrs. Gordon was as a mother to me; and you
+know it was natural I should love her son Richard; and I thought I but
+loved him as a sister should, till one Sunday I saw him come up the
+little path-way that led to our cottage, with a blue ribband bow in
+his hand, which he kissed again and again, and then thrust it into
+his bosom. I knew it was a love token from Sally Wilton the miller's
+daughter, for I had seen it that day in her hat, and I felt a pang at
+my heart, that told me it was not as a brother I loved Richard.
+
+"I have skipped over many years, for I would not weary you. I was now
+one and twenty, and my draft on Mr. Leslie was due. Mrs. Gordon began
+to talk to me of marrying Richard. I only answered her with silence and
+tears; but one woman can read another's heart, and she knew what was in
+mine; and she, poor woman, thought to make all right by taking it into
+her own hands.
+
+"It so happened one night, that I was in an adjoining room when she
+supposed I was absent from the cottage, and she put many questions to
+Richard about me, but she could get no satisfaction from him. She then
+told him (oh, at the moment I thought I could never forgive her for it)
+she was sure I loved him. She said much in my favor, ma'am, that I
+cannot repeat, and tried with it all to put a veil over my poor ugly
+face, and then concluded with saying, for she was a thrifty woman, and
+never lost sight of the main chance, that I should not come empty
+handed. At this his spirit rose--he said, he would not be bought by all
+the gold in the king's coffers. My heart rose to my lips, but I held
+my breath, for his mother grew very angry, and said something from
+Solomon's proverbs, about my being the virtuous woman whose price was
+far above rubies. Then Richard burst into tears, and said he knew that,
+and he would go round the world to serve me, but he could not marry me.
+He confessed that he had already plighted his truth to Sally Wilton; and
+he declared that he never would marry any body but Sally Wilton. His
+mother lost all patience--she said he would make a beggar of himself for
+life--that the Wiltons were an idle race, and that none of the name had
+ever come to any good.
+
+"A great deal more she said, but it seemed to me the more she talked,
+the firmer Richard was in his own mind.
+
+"You may be sure ma'am I did not close my eyes that night; my love had
+been blasted, and my pride cast down. It was long before I could think
+of any one but myself, or compose my mind to any good thoughts; but
+when I began to see things in a right light, it seemed to me a pity we
+should all be miserable together; and I began to contrive some way to
+make Richard happy. He had just served his time with a shoemaker, but he
+had no capital to enable him to set up for himself. I knew Sally Wilton
+was a gay thoughtless thing; but so were most girls, and I believed that
+when she was married, she would do her duty; to me it seemed, that
+duty would be all pleasure with such a husband as Richard. I had some
+struggles with my own heart, but before the morning light dawned, I had
+made up my mind what to do. When I met Richard and his mother in the
+morning, I was far the happiest of the three. She was angry, he was
+sullen and downcast; but I had that feeling which I need not describe
+to you ma'am, who have so often the power and the will to make others
+happy. Immediately after our morning meal, I went and presented my draft
+to Mr. Leslie's agent, and received my hundred pounds. Half the sum I
+returned to him to invest for me, the other half I placed in the hands
+of the shoemaker, with whom Richard had served his time, and with whom
+he was a great favorite, and I requested him to lay it out in tools and
+stock for Richard. The purchase was made--a little shop hired, and every
+thing in readiness; and then I told Richard in the presence of his
+mother what I had done. At first he said he never could accept so much
+from me; but I told him, (and I smothered my feelings, and smiled when
+I said it,) that in spite of his mother's fancies, it was as a sister I
+loved him, and as a sister and older than himself too, I had a right to
+provide for him. He was far more grateful and happy than I expected. His
+mother gave her consent to his marriage, though grudgingly, for she was
+a set woman, and she had no faith in Sally Wilton. They were married.
+Richard was industrious, and we hoped would be prosperous, but as it
+proved Mrs. Barton's distrust of Sally was too well founded. She was
+idle and extravagant, and such a wife soon ruins a poor man. In five
+years Richard was reduced to such straits, that in a fit of desperation
+he enlisted. From the sorrowful day he came to take leave of us, for his
+regiment was soon after sent to the East-Indies, his mother never had
+a well day or a happy hour. After he went away, his wife led a vicious
+life; and four years after she came to our door to beg a crust of
+bread--a poor, wasted, sick, half-famished creature. We took her in.
+To be sure she had been a sad sinner, but she was Richard's wife, and
+besides it is always better to pity than condemn, and it is not for
+the like of us ma'am you know, who have no hope but because God's
+compassions fail not, to turn our backs upon a fellow-creature in sin
+and misery.
+
+"For a whole year she laid in a distressing sickness. Mrs. Barton had
+become so old and feeble, that she could do nothing but pray for us,
+and I had as you may suppose a toilsome life of it; but I was as I
+trusted, doing my duty, and that makes a light heart, and according to
+my experience ma'am, no one can be very wretched that has enough to do,
+and that tries to do their duty faithfully, be that duty ever so humble.
+We never suffered. Sally had some help from the charitable; and when we
+had no other resource, I drew on my fifty pounds.
+
+"It would have been a great comfort to us to have seen Sally take hold
+of religion, when every thing else failed; but the poor soul was racked
+with pains and coughing, and could only think of her suffering body, and
+she was perfectly deaf too, and could hear nothing that the clergyman
+said to her, though Mrs. Barton thought it right he should talk to her.
+Oh ma'am, I think there is not a more mournful sight on the earth than
+to see a young creature thus cut off by her sins.
+
+"Richard returned to us two days before she died, but she did not know
+him, and could not hear his forgiveness, though he spoke it over and
+over again."
+
+Mrs. Barton paused for a few moments, quite overcome by the recollection
+of that sad period, and then resumed her story.
+
+"And now came brighter days. Richard had endured many hardships, and
+past through many temptations, but he had not lost his integrity. He
+had come home in attendance on an officer who had obtained a furlough.
+Not many months passed over before Richard expressed a wish to marry
+me, though my little fortune was gone, and ten years had not as you
+may suppose improved my beauty. Our mother said, our wedding-day was
+the happiest of her life. She did not long survive it. Before my
+husband rejoined his regiment she had gone to her rest. From that
+time till Richard was taken prisoner by the Americans, we have never
+been separated, and he has proved faithful and kind to me, and being,
+as he is, all the world to me who have never known other kindred but
+my little ones, it cannot seem strange to you, ma'am, that the world
+is a lonely place without him; and that I should be willing to take
+the help of your blessed children to get on my way to him."
+
+"Oh no indeed, my good friend," said Mrs. Sackville, "I am delighted
+that my children have found one so worthy of their assistance; you may
+rest assured that we shall not part from you till we arrive at Quebec.
+Come now Edward and Julia to your berths--and dream of the 'thousand
+isles,' or Mrs. Barton, or what you will." The children obeyed their
+mother, and doubtless had such sweet visions as hover about the pillow
+of youth, and health, and innocence.
+
+Jemmy Chapman had not been an uninterested listener to this simple tale
+of patient virtue; and though Mrs. Barton had spoken so low that he had
+lost some parts of her narrative, he heard enough to touch his kind
+heart. As she rose from the bench near him, "Stop, stop, good woman,"
+said he, and he jerked some tears from off his cheeks; "it is not much
+that such as I can pity you, but a drop is something in a gill-glass,
+and (turning his pockets inside out, and collecting a half handful of
+small change,) I should not be my mother's son if I did not feel for a
+woman in distress, and so will you just take this which may help to
+raise a little breeze for you when you are becalmed. Nay, don't haul
+off, but take it, and remember the poor sailors in a stormy night. It
+is good luck to us to have a friend a-shore to speak a good word for
+us when we have no time to speak for ourselves."
+
+Jemmy's hearty kindness was irresistible, and Mrs. Barton received his
+gift, scarcely able to command her voice to utter her thanks.
+
+                  *       *       *       *       *
+
+The next morning found the steam-boat at the wharf at Ogdensburg. Edward
+undertook to settle with the captain for the passage of his protegees;
+but the captain would receive nothing, and persisted in declaring that
+he was amply compensated by Mrs. Barton's industry. The travellers
+parted from him and from our friend Jemmy with expressions of the esteem
+which their virtues even on this short acquaintance had not failed to
+produce; and then they proceeded to make arrangements for their passage
+down the St. Lawrence by chartering and provisioning a Durham boat.
+
+While this was getting in readiness, Mrs. Sackville, whose curiosity,
+like that of a more celebrated traveller, 'extended to all the works
+of art, all the appearances of nature, and all the monuments of past
+events,' walked with her children to view a rare curiosity on our
+continent--an _American_ antiquity. On a point of land at the junction
+of the Oswegatchie with the St. Lawrence, there is a broken stone wall,
+the remains of a French fortification. While they stood surveying with
+pleased attention this monument of the olden time, they were joined by a
+gentleman who appeared like them to have been attracted to the spot by
+curiosity. He took off his hat, bowed to Mrs. Sackville, and asked if he
+might take the liberty to inquire of her whether she resided at
+Ogdensburg.
+
+When she replied in the negative, he begged her pardon, and said he had
+been extremely anxious to authenticate a traditionary story he had
+picked up in his journey through Canada, some of the events of which had
+been located at this place. He had hoped to find some record of it in
+Charlevoix's History, but he had searched in vain. Mrs. Sackville became
+in her turn the inquirer. She said she delighted in those traditionary
+tales, which, with the aid of a little fancy, reconstructed ruins, and
+enclosed within their walls living beings with affections and interests
+like our own; and she should hold herself very much obliged to the
+gentleman if he would enrich her with some interesting associations with
+this place. The stranger seemed highly gratified to have found so ready
+a sympathy in his feelings, and he related the following particulars.
+
+"A commandant of this fort (which was built by the French to protect
+their traders against the savages,) married a young Iroquois who was
+before or after the marriage converted to the Catholic faith. She was
+the daughter of a chieftain of her tribe, and great efforts were made by
+her people to induce her to return to them. Her brother lurked in this
+neighbourhood, and procured interviews with her, and attempted to win
+her back by all the motives of national pride and family affection; but
+all in vain. The young Garanga, or, to call her by her baptismal name,
+Marguerite, was bound by a threefold cord--her love to her husband, to
+her son, and to her religion. Mecumeh, finding persuasion ineffectual,
+had recourse to stratagem. The commandant was in the habit of going down
+the river often on fishing excursions, and when he returned, he would
+fire his signal gun, and Marguerite and her boy would hasten to the
+shore to greet him.
+
+"On one occasion he had been gone longer than usual. Marguerite was
+filled with apprehensions natural enough at a time when imminent dangers
+and hairbreadth escapes were of every day occurrence. She had sat in the
+tower and watched for the returning canoe till the last beam of day had
+faded from the waters;--the deepening shadows of twilight played tricks
+with her imagination. Once she was startled by the water-fowl, which, as
+it skimmed along the surface of the water, imaged to her fancy the light
+canoe impelled by her husband's vigorous arm--again she heard the leap
+of the heavy muskalongi, and the splashing waters sounded to her fancy
+like the first dash of the oar. That passed away, and disappointment and
+tears followed. Her boy was beside her; the young Louis, who, though
+scarcely twelve years old, already had his imagination filled with
+daring deeds. Born and bred in a fort, he was an adept in the use of the
+bow and the musket; courage seemed to be his instinct, and danger his
+element, and battles and wounds were 'household words' with him. He
+laughed at his mother's fears; but, in spite of his boyish ridicule,
+they strengthened, till apprehension seemed reality. Suddenly the sound
+of the signal gun broke on the stillness of the night. Both mother and
+son sprang on their feet with a cry of joy, and were pressing hand in
+hand towards the outer gate, when a sentinel stopped them to remind
+Marguerite it was her husband's order that no one should venture without
+the walls after sunset. She, however, insisted on passing, and telling
+the soldier that she would answer to the commandant for his breach of
+orders--she passed the outer barrier. Young Louis held up his bow and
+arrow before the sentinel, saying gaily, "I am my mother's body-guard
+you know." Tradition has preserved these trifling circumstances, as the
+events that followed rendered them memorable.
+
+"The distance," continued the stranger, "from the fort to the place
+where the commandant moored his canoe was trifling, and quickly passed.
+Marguerite and Louis flew along the narrow foot path, reached the shore,
+and were in the arms of ---- Mecumeh and his fierce companions. Entreaties
+and resistance were alike vain. Resistance was made, with a manly
+spirit, by young Louis, who drew a knife from the girdle of one of the
+indians, and attempted to plunge it into the bosom of Mecumeh, who was
+roughly binding his wampum belt over Marguerite's mouth, to deaden the
+sound of her screams. The uncle wrested the knife from him, and smiled
+proudly on him as if he recognised in the brave boy, a scion from his
+own stock.
+
+"The indians had two canoes; Marguerite was conveyed to one, Louis to
+the other--and both canoes were rowed into the Oswegatchie, and up the
+stream as fast as it was possible to impel them against the current of
+the river.
+
+"Not a word nor cry escaped the boy: he seemed intent on some purpose,
+and when the canoe approached near the shore, he took off a military cap
+he wore, and threw it so skilfully that it lodged, where he meant it
+should, on the branch of a tree which projected over the water. There
+was a long white feather in the cap. The indians had observed the boy's
+movement--they held up their oars for a moment, and seemed to consult
+whether they should return and remove the cap; but after a moment,
+they again dashed their oars in the water and proceeded forward. They
+continued rowing for a few miles, and then landed; hid their canoes
+behind some trees on the river's bank, and plunged into the woods with
+their prisoners. It seems to have been their intention to have returned
+to their canoes in the morning, and they had not proceeded far from the
+shore, when they kindled a fire and prepared some food, and offered
+a share of it to Marguerite and Louis. Poor Marguerite, as you may
+suppose, had no mind to eat; but Louis, saith tradition, ate as heartily
+as if he had been safe within the walls of the fort. After the supper,
+the indians stretched themselves before the fire, but not till they had
+taken the precaution to bind Marguerite to a tree, and to compel Louis
+to lie down in the arms of his uncle Mecumeh. Neither of the prisoners,
+as you may imagine, closed their eyes. Louis kept his fixed on his
+mother. She sat upright beside an oak tree; the cord was fastened around
+her waist, and bound around the tree, which had been blasted by lighting;
+the moon poured its beams through the naked branches upon her face
+convulsed with the agony of despair and fear. With one hand she held a
+crucifix to her lips, the other was on her rosary. The sight of his
+mother in such a situation, stirred up daring thoughts in the bosom of
+the heroic boy--but he laid powerless in his uncle's naked brawny arms.
+He tried to disengage himself, but at the slightest movement, Mecumeh,
+though still sleeping, seemed conscious, and strained him closer to him.
+At last the strong sleep, that in the depth of the night steeps the
+senses in utter forgetfulness, overpowered him--his arms relaxed their
+hold, and dropped beside him and left Louis free.
+
+"He rose cautiously, looked for one instant on the indians, and assured
+himself they all slept profoundly. He then possessed himself of Mecumeh's
+knife, which lay at his feet, and severed the cord that bound his mother
+to the tree. Neither of them spoke a word--but with the least possible
+sound they resumed the way by which they had come from the shore. Louis
+in the confidence, and Marguerite with the faint hope of reaching it
+before they were overtaken.
+
+"You may imagine how often the poor mother, timid as a fawn, was
+startled by the evening breeze stirring the leaves, but the boy bounded
+forward as if there were neither fear nor danger in the world.
+
+"They had nearly attained the margin of the river, where Louis meant to
+launch one of the canoes and drop down the current, when the indian yell
+resounding through the woods, struck on their ears. They were missed,
+pursued, and escape was impossible. Marguerite panic-struck, sunk to the
+ground. Nothing could check the career of Louis. "On--on, mother," he
+cried, "to the shore--to the shore." She rose and instinctively followed
+her boy. The sound of pursuit came nearer and nearer. They reached the
+shore, and there beheld three canoes coming swiftly up the river.
+Animated with hope, Louis screamed the watch word of the garrison, and
+was answered by his father's voice.
+
+"The possibility of escape, and the certain approach of her husband,
+infused new life into Marguerite. "Your father cannot see us," she said,
+"as we stand here in the shade of the trees; hide yourself in that
+thicket, I will plunge into the water." Louis crouched under the bushes,
+and was completely hidden by an overhanging grape-vine, while his mother
+advanced a few steps into the water and stood erect, where she could be
+distinctly seen. A shout from the canoes apprised her that she was
+recognised, and at the same moment, the indians who had now reached the
+shore, rent the air with their cries of rage and defiance. They stood
+for a moment, as if deliberating what next to do; Mecumeh maintained an
+undaunted and resolved air--but with his followers the aspect of armed
+men, and a force thrice their number, had its usual effect. They fled.
+He looked after them, cried, 'shame!' and then, with a desperate yell,
+leaped into the water and stood beside Marguerite. The canoes were now
+within a few yards--He put his knife to her bosom--"The daughter of
+Tecumseh," he said, "should have died by the judgment of our warriors,
+but now by her brother's hand must she perish:" and he drew back his
+arm to give vigour to the fatal stroke, when an arrow pierced his own
+breast, and he fell insensible at his sister's side. A moment after
+Marguerite was in the arms of her husband, and Louis, with his bow
+unstrung, bounded from the shore, and was received in his father's
+canoe; and the wild shores rung with the acclamations of the soldiers,
+while his father's tears of pride and joy were poured like rain upon his
+cheek."
+
+The stranger paused, and Edward breathed one long breath, expressive of
+the interest with which he had listened to the tale; and then said,
+"You have not told us, sir, how the commandant was so fortunate as to
+pursue in the right direction."
+
+"He returned soon after Marguerite's departure, and of course was at no
+loss to determine that she had been taken in the toils of her brother.
+He explored the mouth of the Oswegatchie, thinking it possible that the
+savages might have left their canoes moored there, and taken to the
+land. Louis's cap and feather caught his eye, and furnished him a clue.
+You have now my whole story," concluded the stranger; "and though I
+cannot vouch for its accuracy, many similar circumstances must have
+occurred, while this country was a wilderness, and my tradition is at
+least supported by probability."
+
+"You have not told us, sir," said Julia, "whether Mecumeh was really
+killed. I do not see how Marguerite could leave him without finding out,
+for after all, he was her brother."
+
+"Marguerite," replied the stranger, "justified your opinion of sisterly
+duty. Mecumeh was conveyed to the fort--the arrow was withdrawn, and
+after a tedious illness, he recovered from the wound. There is too a
+tradition that the pious sister converted him to the catholic faith; but
+about this part of the story there seems to rest some uncertainty."
+
+"And don't you know, sir," asked Edward, "what became of Louis
+afterwards?"
+
+"I really do not," replied the gentleman, smiling; "but I doubt not that
+the man kept the promise of the heroic boy; and I think it extremely
+probable that he has led some gallant fellows to those deeds of high
+emprise which were achieved by the armies of Louis fourteenth."
+
+"My dear children," said Mrs. Sackville, "you must really ask no more
+questions. You will be good enough to pardon," she added, turning to the
+stranger, "the eagerness of their youthful curiosity."
+
+"Oh, madam," he replied, "the evidence of curiosity is the most grateful
+reward to a story-teller, and I feel that my acknowledgements are due to
+your children for their patient listening."
+
+A few more courteous words passed, and the stranger bowed and departed.
+
+"This was a lucky meeting, mother," said Edward; "this crazed leaning
+wall looks quite interesting to me now. I can almost fancy I see
+Marguerite and Louis issuing from the gate--Louis holding up the bow
+and arrow that was to do such memorable service that night."
+
+"You have had a good lesson this morning, my children, on the pleasures
+of association. When we first saw that ruin, it looked to you like any
+other stone wall--mere mason-work: and you, Julia, afraid of being
+buried in its shadow, wondered what interest any one could feel in
+looking at it; and now, I see you are venturing on the most tottering
+part of it for a piece of moss, which I suppose is to be carefully
+treasured in your herbal."
+
+"Yes, mama, as a keep-sake for Marguerite and Louis."
+
+                  *       *       *       *       *
+
+We shall not condemn our readers to attend the travellers in their
+tedious passage down the St. Lawrence. Sometimes a favoring breeze
+filled the single sail of their little boat, and aided by the oars of
+the lazy boatmen, wafted them gently forward, till, coming to a more
+rapid descent in the river, their light vessel seemed urged on by an
+irresistible force to the 'rapids,' where the waves, fretting and
+foaming over the invisible rocks, threatened to engulph it. The boatmen
+threw themselves prostrate on the bottom of the boat to avoid the
+splashing of the waves; their oars lay useless beside them, while the
+pilot strained every nerve to guide the boat in safety through the
+perilous channel. These passages, like the brilliant events of life,
+are rare and brief, and are succeeded by the sleepy lakes of the river,
+bordered by shores uniformly low and monotonous, save where the green
+mountains of Vermont dimly define the eastern horizon.
+
+Arrived at Montreal, Mrs. Sackville, from consideration for Mrs. Barton,
+determined to avoid delay, and therefore deferred the examination of
+this city, so singular and picturesque to an American eye, till their
+return from Quebec. There was, however, no boat to sail before the
+evening, and a half day of leisure afforded our industrious travellers
+an opportunity to visit the churches and convents of Montreal.
+
+The churches are spacious, and decorated with gaudy tinselled ornaments,
+and indifferent pictures. Edward and Julia were dazzled and delighted
+with the seeming splendor. A little demure Presbyterian girl, who acted
+as their guide, smiled at the animated expressions of their wonder.
+"Notre Dame, is," she said, "as my grandmother often says, just fit for
+a baby-house for children."
+
+This remark caused a sudden revulsion in Edward's mind. He had a truly
+manly, or rather boyish aversion to be suspected of a juvenile taste,
+and averting his eye from his conductor, it fell on a miserable,
+half-famished looking old woman, who was kneeling in one of the aisles
+absorbed in her devotions.
+
+"Look there, mother," said he, pointing to the wretched object, "what
+a contrast to all this pomp.--It reminds me of an anecdote I have
+somewhere read of a pious pilgrim to whom one of the popes was
+ostentatiously displaying the decorations of the Vatican.
+
+"Dites a ces ornemens," said the pilgrim, "de se changer en pain."[4]
+
+  [4] Command these decorations to be changed into bread.
+
+Quite satisfied with this display of his superiority to the childishness
+indirectly ascribed to him by his conductor, though it was entirely lost
+on her, Edward left the church, and attended his friends to the Hotel
+Dieu, the convent of the black nuns. They were shown the different
+apartments by one of the sisterhood, a well-bred Irish lady, whose fine
+intelligent dark eyes, benevolent and happy expression of countenance,
+and short plump figure, made a delightful impression on Edward and
+Julia, who had always fancied a nun must be tall and thin, with a sad
+solemn face, condemned to wither under an immoveable veil. She led them
+to the hospital where the sick of every nation are received and treated
+with equal kindness according to the law of christian benevolence, which
+is of universal obligation.
+
+"Do the rules of your order, (the order of St. Joseph I believe,")
+inquired Mr. Sackville of the sister, "impose on you the performance of
+severe penances?"
+
+"No," she replied, "we are exempted from extraordinary penances, on
+account of the fatiguing and often loathsome offices that we have to
+perform for the sick; these are received as sufficient mortifications.
+We open our doors to the sick mendicant and wounded soldiers. We had in
+this apartment at one time during the late war seventeen American
+soldiers."
+
+"My countrymen," replied Mr. Sackville, "had abundant reason to be
+grateful that they fell into your skilful and benevolent hands,--the
+beautiful order and neatness of your hospital prove with what fidelity
+your samaritan duties are performed."
+
+While the nun, courteously bowing her head at this merited compliment,
+led the way to an adjoining ante-room appropriated to medicines,
+surgical instruments, &c. Mrs. Sackville said in a low voice to Edward,
+"Take notice, my dear son, that where the _precepts_ of the christian
+religion are strictly applied they produce the same fruits; no matter by
+what name the particular faith is called, Catholic or Protestant."
+
+"Oh look there, mother," exclaimed Julia, pointing to large cases with
+glass doors which contained the medicines, "I am sure that in spite of
+your laws of association, those vials and gallipots look quite
+beautiful."
+
+"And I suspect they contain nothing very disagreeable," replied her
+mother; "these sisters do not appear to deal in the harsh medicines
+of our daring doctors, but content themselves with emollients and
+palliatives. See those labels, 'eau hysterique'--'eau celeste;' even
+you, Julia, would have no objection to medicines that deserve such
+pretty appellatives."
+
+From the Hotel Dieu they went to the chapel and sacristie. Julia pointed
+to the altars on which were standing vases filled with white lilies and
+carnations. "Every where, mother," she said, "we see these beautiful
+flowers, even in the churches."
+
+"And they are certainly not inappropriate, Julia," replied her mother,
+"in His temple whose pencil paints and breath perfumes them."
+
+After all had been shown that is usually exhibited, the sister invited
+her visiters to go to the garden. Mrs. Sackville said that though she
+had heard it much extolled, their time would not permit them the pleasure
+of seeing it, but she said there was a farther trouble that she must
+venture on imposing. She understood the sisters sometimes permitted
+their visiters to buy specimens of their work; and she was anxious to
+carry some to their friends.
+
+Their conductor seemed gratified with this hint, and directly left them,
+and returned with a large basket filled with embroidered needle-books,
+reticules, work-boxes, purses, scissor-cases, &c. &c.
+
+Edward and Julia eagerly examined the beautiful productions of the taste
+and industry of the cloistered sisters. Edward was particularly struck
+with a sack or purse, made of birch bark, and wrought with porcupine
+quills of the richest dyes. On one side of it was an indian woman,
+carrying an infant according to the aboriginal fashion, laced to a board
+which was laid on her back; the little creature's head was just visible,
+peeping over her shoulder. A boy was standing beside her with a bow and
+arrow, on the reverse was a group of indians seated under an oak tree,
+smoking the long feathered and beaded pipe, which they call the calumet
+of peace, "Oh, mother," said Edward, holding up the sack, "is not this
+very valuable?"
+
+"It is certainly very handsome," replied his mother.
+
+"But that is not all, mother--it is certainly very valuable, as an
+illustration of indian customs.--I wish"----he added and paused.
+
+"What do you wish, Ned?" asked his mother.
+
+"Nothing, mama," he replied, sighing, laying down the sack, and turning
+away; "I only wish I had not seen it."
+
+Julia was all this time looking at a very curious work-basket, which she
+thought a masterpiece. She turned it from side to side, examined the
+roses, carnations, jessamines, and violets, that had been wrought with
+such exquisite skill as to represent to the life the peerless flowers
+they were made to imitate; and for one moment she too wished that her
+five dollars was still at her own disposal. Mrs. Sackville read what
+was passing in the minds of her children. She took them aside: "My dear
+Ned and Julia," she said, "I fear you may be regretting your hasty
+benevolence, when you devoted to a charitable purpose all the money your
+father gave you for such gratifications as are now offered to you; you
+did it from a sudden impulse of generosity: you have, I believe, as yet
+expended but a small portion of your money, and if you now prefer to
+appropriate it to the purchase of these very tempting articles, I will
+myself assume the expense of getting Mrs. Barton to Quebec."
+
+Edward and Julia looked at their mother, and at one another without
+replying a word. Mrs. Sackville returned to the table to make some
+selections for herself.
+
+"What had we best do, Ned?" whispered Julia.
+
+"Why do you ask me, Julia? you know as well as I. I should like to have
+something to show that I had been in Canada."
+
+"So should I excessively--but then"--
+
+"But what, Julia? I am sure mama says it shall make no difference to
+Mrs. Barton."
+
+"No, that is true--it will make no difference to her; but it will make a
+great difference to us."
+
+The last member of Julia's sentence was quite lost on Edward, for he had
+abruptly returned to the table, and to the examination of the coveted
+purse. Julia stood for one half instant wavering, and then walked to a
+window, and kept her eye steadily fixed on the garden it overlooked.
+Mrs. Sackville ventured one glance at her children. 'Ah,' thought she,
+'Julia, you will prove faithful, but Ned I fear for you; 'he who
+deliberates is lost,'' Her mind was more intent on her children than on
+the little traffic she was making, and when she had set aside articles
+to a considerable amount, and was about to pay for them, the nun said,
+"I think, madam, you might make a better selection--allow me to exchange
+this basket for the awkward one you have there. I am a little vain of
+this, for I made it myself, and I should have begged your daughter to
+accept it when I saw her admiring it, but these articles are devoted to
+a specific object, and I have no control over them. I should, however,
+be particularly gratified if you would purchase this for Miss Julia,
+instead of that you have taken."
+
+"You are very good," replied Mrs. Sackville, "but I have permitted my
+daughter to select for herself. Julia, do you hear what this lady says?"
+
+"Yes, mama."
+
+"Will you look at the basket, my love?"
+
+"No, I thank you, mama."
+
+This last reply was uttered in a faltering voice, and caught Edward's
+attention. He had just taken out his pocket-book to pay for the purse.
+He looked towards Julia, and then to his mother. Mrs. Sackville's eyes
+were fixed on Julia with an expression of love and approbation which
+flashed to Edward's heart; he dropped the purse, put up his pocket-book,
+and going up to his sister, whispered a proposal that they should return
+to the inn, without waiting for their mother to finish her business.
+
+They then took a respectful, though rather a hurried leave of the kind
+sister, impatient to be out of sight of a temptation, which no one will
+deride as inconsiderable, when it is remembered that Edward was twelve,
+Julia ten years old.
+
+"What upon earth ails the children?" asked Mr. Morris, who saw that
+something agitated them. Mrs. Sackville explained as far as she could
+without making a display of their charity. "They are good children, very
+good children," said Mr. Morris, "and I think you have tried them a
+little too far, sister; but, dear souls, it shall all be made up to
+them. Where is that purse poor Ned was fingering? and that basket for
+Julia? I'll buy them both; they shall have them."
+
+"No, my dear brother, you must not indeed interpose your kindness--you
+will spoil all. The result has proved that I did not try them too far,
+though I confess I was at one time a little afraid I had done what I
+have often seen children do, pulled up the flower in trying to ascertain
+whether it had taken root. I have now more confidence that their hearts
+have that good soil into which the roots of virtue may strike deeply;
+and they now know the full cost of a charitable action which is
+performed by the voluntary and deliberate sacrifice of personal
+indulgence."
+
+"You are right, perfectly right my dear," said Mr. Sackville.
+
+"Yes, I believe you are right," said Mr. Morris, reluctantly replacing
+the articles, "but it's deuced hard upon the children."
+
+"It is more blessed to give than to receive," said the nun, in a sweet
+tone of voice, and added, "I assure you madam, I never missed a sale of
+our little wares with so much satisfaction."
+
+The visiters then took leave of the amiable sister, and in the course
+of the evening embarked on board the steam-boat. When they arose in the
+morning, they had already reached the mouth of the Sorrel. It was one
+of the most beautiful of all the bright days of summer. A gentle west
+wind tempered the sun's heat, and if, as saith the good book, 'a
+cheerful countenance betokeneth the heart in prosperity,' it might be
+inferred from the happy faces of our friends, that their minds were
+as bright and clear as the cloudless sky. Even Mrs. Barton had lost
+her downcast despondent look, and the pleasant light of gratitude and
+hope was diffused over her honest countenance. Edward and Julia were
+unusually animated, and their mother observed their joyous step as they
+bounded over the decks, their sparkling glances, and their gleeful
+chatterings which fell like music on her ear: she traced their uncommon
+spirits to the little struggle and victory of the preceding day, and
+rightly, for it is active goodness that commands the secret spring of
+joy--virtue that opens all the sweet fountains of happiness within us.
+
+It was late in the afternoon when the level and uniform shores of the
+river, studded with an unbroken line of white-washed houses, or only
+broken where they clustered around a catholic church, as children gather
+under the wing of a parent, began to assume more picturesque forms. Bold
+promontories stretched into the river, and beautiful hills presented
+their verdant and graceful slopes to the clear mirror. There was a band
+of musicians on board the boat, who at the command of the captain, (who
+understood the laws of international courtesy,) had been playing yankee
+doodle. Edward was far enough from home to feel grateful for this
+tribute from the English captain, and when the music suddenly changed,
+at a signal from him, to a mournful requiem, Edward inquired with a look
+of disappointment, the cause of the transition.
+
+"Look there," he replied, "my young friend, at that pretty grassy point.
+It is called Cape Laboniere; just above the point you see a thicket of
+tall trees, which extend their shadows now beyond the church. Under
+those trees were buried three beautiful girls, the daughters of the
+honourable Mrs. Laboniere. The young ladies were called by the villagers,
+'Les s[oe]urs de la charite;' and are now, I am told, reckoned as their
+guardian saints by these poor catholic peasants. I happened to be there
+when the last was buried. You know the catholics have great pomp and
+expense at their funerals; but I believe the childless parents had no
+heart for this, for though the father is seignior of the place, and
+a man of great wealth, he granted the request of the poor villagers
+who went in a body to him, to beg permission to bury their beloved
+benefactress. I saw the procession--every one in it was a mourner. The
+girls strewed the grave with white roses, and all, even the old men and
+the little children, shed tears on the turf that covered it; and I could
+not but think how much better than their consecrated water were these
+tears of gratitude. We call the place the 'Three sisters,' now,"
+concluded the captain, "and I never pass it without some tribute of
+respect."
+
+                  *       *       *       *       *
+
+Before nine o'clock the steamboat was gliding along under the heights
+of Quebec. Having, as Mr. Morris (who kept strict note of time) remarked,
+achieved a sail of 180 miles in 18 hours. Edward stood on the deck
+beside his mother, straining his eyes to the proud summit of Cape
+Diamond, where the British flag waved in a flood of moonlight. "Oh,
+mother," he exclaimed, "what a kind friend the moon has been to us."
+
+"She has indeed," replied Mrs. Sackville; "and I am very glad that you
+notice and enjoy her favors; her pale crescent was reflected in the
+waters of Ontario--her beams revealed to us some of the secret places
+of the 'thousand isles'--the glittering spires of Montreal sent back her
+silver rays, and now she pours a flood of light from her full orb, upon
+these fortified heights. But, come, dear Ned, I believe it is time for
+us to leave the moon, and attend to our sublunary concerns. Your uncle
+has gone to settle our bill, and you had best attend to yours." Julia
+poured the contents of her purse into Edward's, and he left them, and
+returned in a few moments holding a single shilling between his fingers;
+"here is all we have left," he said; "what is to be done now, mother? I
+cannot bear to turn poor Mrs. Barton adrift the moment we arrive."
+
+"No, dear Ned," replied his mother; "she shall be cared for still
+further. I had too much respect for good examples," she continued,
+smiling, "to spend all my money for fancy articles, and I shall take
+Mrs. Barton to the City Hotel with us, till she can make some provisions
+for herself. I confess I have not much expectation that the governor
+will think proper to do any thing for her, but your father has letters
+to him, and he will call at the Chateau to-morrow, and say and do what
+he can in her behalf." Mrs. Barton received this additional kindness
+with unfeigned gratitude; "But after to-morrow, ma'am," she said, "I
+will trouble you no further, for I am sure to find some acquaintance
+here, who will help me to shift for myself."
+
+The next morning passports were procured to visit the fortifications.
+Edward, who had a great regard to our own heroes and patriots, had
+previously sallied forth in quest of the spot where the gallant
+Montgomery fell in our cause; and his father, after awaiting his return
+for some time, proceeded without him, leaving a note of directions how
+he should follow him.
+
+Edward obeyed the directions. He reached Cape Diamond without meeting
+his friends, and he was biting his lips with vexation, that he should
+have come to this celebrated fortification alone, without any one to
+explain it to him, and must leave it as ignorant as he had entered; when
+he was accosted by a good natured looking soldier, who, doffing his
+military cap and making a slight bow, said, "This is a pleasant place,
+young gentleman, of a sunny summer's day."
+
+Edward turned his bright glance on the man, delighted to have found any
+one who could answer the questions that were rushing to his lips. "Is
+not that," he said, pointing to the island opposite, "the island of
+Orleans?"
+
+"The very same, sir: and the point there, is point Levi, which Wolfe
+fortified, and destroyed from it all the lower town of Quebec: but brave
+as he was, I think he never would have come within the rampart, if
+Montcalme had not been the fool to go out and meet him on the Plains of
+Abraham--once there, you know, we beat of course; for, other things
+being equal, one Englishman is as good as two Frenchmen any day--and
+that's what every English soldier knows."
+
+"But," replied Edward, with a smile, "what every French soldier does not
+admit I suspect."
+
+"No--no--not exactly--for you know they are a bragging nation."
+
+"Well," said Edward, "they seem to have something to brag of about you
+here in these beautiful villages:" and he pointed towards Beauport and
+Charlebourg, whose white houses, green fields, and churches, seem to
+promise every thing that poets have dreamed of village simplicity,
+peace, and contentment.
+
+"Yes, sir," said the soldier, "those have a decent genteel appearance
+from here, but if you were once to go to them, and see the houses like
+painted pigeon-holes--white without, but within full of all manner of
+uncleanliness; the bits of gardens with little but onions in them;
+whole fields overrun with Canada thistles; and then the little bits of
+dowdy images that they worship; and slivers of wood set in frames, that
+they call pieces of the true cross, and there are enough of them, as I
+have heard said, to build a seventy-four. If you were to see all this,
+my young master, you would agree with me, they were but a set of poor
+ignorant superstitious deluded creatures, far enough behind us English,
+or even the Americans." The soldier then proceeded to point out and name
+the most attractive objects from this commanding point of view. The deep
+black ravine, through which the Montmorenci, after taking its graceful
+and wondrous leap, passes into the St. Lawrence; and the indentation of
+the shore beyond the Plains of Abraham, called Wolfe's Cove, where he
+landed his forces on the morning of his victory and death. Edward found
+it very difficult to tear himself from a spot which has so much natural
+beauty, and historic interest, but anxious to follow his friends, he
+offered the soldier a few pieces of change, and asked him if he was
+willing to show him the fortification, and then guide him to the Plains
+of Abraham, whither his father had gone.
+
+The soldier civilly, and indeed thankfully assented, and they proceeded
+together. The man, evidently pleased with the intelligent questions put
+to him by Edward, which he answered in a way that indicated a knowledge
+of his profession quite unusual in a common soldier. Edward inquired the
+design of the Martello towers, of the bastions, scarps and counterscarps,
+of this fosse, that glacis, &c. &c. at last, stopping suddenly, while
+his dilating form and beaming face expressed the youthful heroism that
+glowed in his breast, he said, "It is a strong place, a very strong
+place indeed; but I do think _we_ could take it."
+
+"_We!_" exclaimed the soldier, darting at him a look of eager inquiry;
+"who are _we_?"
+
+"Why, we Americans."
+
+"Americans!" echoed the soldier, and then starting back and dashing the
+silver Edward had given him to the ground. "Have I," he said, "served my
+king four and twenty years, to be bribed by an American boy at last? has
+it come to this, Richard Barton?"
+
+"Richard Barton!" echoed Edward in his turn.
+
+"Yes, my young man, Richard Barton; a poor name, but an honest one,
+thank God."
+
+"Richard Barton!" again repeated Edward. "But it cannot be the Richard
+Barton I mean."
+
+"I don't know who you mean, sir, but I shall take care and report you to
+my officer, and clear myself of all blame."
+
+"Do not be so hasty, my good friend," said Edward, with an expression of
+innocence and good nature, that went far to remove the honest soldier's
+suspicions; "it is true I have troubled you with a great many questions,
+but I had no motive but curiosity; we yankees, you know, are a curious
+race. Come, I shall hold you to your agreement; take up the money and go
+along with me."
+
+"No--no--I never will touch the money; but I will go with you, there can
+be no harm in that."
+
+"Well," said Edward, picking up the pieces, "if you won't take it, I
+know a Richard Barton that will, and he shall have it too; and now, if I
+was not afraid you would take me to the guard-house, I would put some
+more questions to you."
+
+"Oh, put them and welcome, young man; now I know that you are an
+American, I can use my discretion in my answers. You do not look as if
+you could do wrong yourself, or tempt another: but I have lived long
+enough to know that it is not all gold that glitters, though I think
+nothing but true metal can bear the stamp that is on your face."
+
+"We are friends again then, are we? Can you tell me where the 40th
+regiment is stationed now?"
+
+"That I cannot; they have been gone from here three years this July."
+
+"Had you any acquaintance in that regiment?"
+
+"Indeed had I. I served with them more than twenty years."
+
+Edward stopped, jumped at least three feet from the ground, (as the
+soldier afterwards averred) clapped his hands, and exclaimed, "It must
+be--it must be."
+
+"Why, what is the matter now?" asked the soldier, amazed at his emotion.
+
+"Tell me," continued Edward, with all the calmness he could summon, "why
+you are here, if your regiment has returned?"
+
+"I got myself transferred to this regiment, to finish my term of service
+in America, in the hope of then finding my wife and little boy, who
+followed me to the States when I was a prisoner."
+
+There was no longer any room in Edward's mind for doubt that his
+companion was the husband of Mrs. Barton. His natural and first impulse
+was, to make known to the husband the happiness that was in store for
+him. He began to speak, half laughing, half crying; then checked
+himself, and considered what a beautiful surprise it would be if they
+should meet without any preparation: he took the soldier's hand, and
+said, "I see my friends; you need go no farther; but come in one hour to
+the City Hotel, and my mother will tell you good news of your wife."
+
+"News of my wife! are you an angel from heaven?"
+
+"Oh, no," replied Edward, laughing; "nothing but an _American boy_."
+
+"God bless you, my lad, tell me now--tell me now," said the soldier,
+and tears of joy had already gathered in his eyes.
+
+"No, not another word now," said Edward, bounding away from him; "in one
+hour you shall know all."
+
+The soldier gazed after Edward with an intense curiosity: vague
+expectations of some good, and then more defined hopes filled his mind.
+'That boy never could have deceived me,' he said, to himself: 'what did
+he mean by exclaiming when he first heard my name? what, by saying he
+knew another Richard Barton? Is it possible that he has seen my wife
+and boy?' The result of all his deliberations was, that he would go
+instantly to the Hotel--to wait an hour was impossible--an hour was an
+age. In the mean time, Edward joined his party, who were already on the
+return, and was chid for his delay; without giving the least heed to the
+rebuke, he drew Julia aside, and communicated his discovery to her. They
+then laid their heads together, and concerted a fine plan for a
+denouement.
+
+They would first show Barton the little girl; he could not remember her
+of course, for she had been born some months after he was separated
+from his wife; but then he might find her out from her resemblance to
+her mother; Julia remembered many stories she had read of similar
+discoveries, and Edward affirmed his belief in natural affection,
+though he allowed that his father said, that Dr. Franklin and many
+other philosophers laughed at the idea. If the little girl proved
+an insufficient clew, Dickey was to be brought into the room, as if
+accidentally, and with many cautions by no means to tell his name;
+and finally the door was to be thrown open, and good Mrs. Barton,
+all unprepared for the sight, was to behold her long-lost husband.
+Mrs. Sackville saw in the truth-telling faces of her children, that
+something in their view very important was in agitation; but she
+seemed to take no notice of their whisperings, and hurried pace, till
+Mr. Morris called out, "Fall back children, one would think we were
+walking for a wager; remember we carry weight of years."
+
+"Oh," whispered Julia, "uncle Morris is such a snail; but there is no
+use in our hurrying, because you know we should lose half the pleasure
+if papa and mama and uncle were not there." Edward assented, and
+patience had her perfect work while the children made their feet, which
+seemed suddenly to have been furnished with the wings of Mercury, to
+keep time with the dignified movements of their parents.
+
+When they turned into St. John's-street, and came in sight of the hotel,
+Edward saw the soldier standing by the step to the front entrance, and
+looking eagerly towards him, "there he is!" said he to Julia, and they
+both involuntarily changed their pace from a walk to a run, but before
+they reached the hotel, the soldier sprung into the door, and disappeared
+from their sight. He had caught the sound of his wife's voice, and
+their first joyful recognition had passed before the children entered
+the door.
+
+                  *       *       *       *       *
+
+Our youthful readers have, we trust, been entire strangers to those joys
+that are preceded by suffering, and which remind us of some clouds that
+send down their showers after the sun has broken through. They would
+have been as much surprised as were Edward and Julia, if they had seen,
+instead of smiles and ecstasies, the deathlike paleness of Mrs. Barton,
+her husband dashing the tear from his eyes that he might gaze upon his
+children; Dickey looking timidly at him, and the little girl burying her
+face in her mother's gown. Yet this was joy--joy that no words could
+express; the joy of kind and faithful hearts--joy with which a stranger
+cannot intermeddle; and Mrs. Sackville felt it to be such, for when she
+saw the family group, she drew her children into the parlour, and left
+their humble friends to themselves.
+
+                  *       *       *       *       *
+
+It was our intention to have described the soldier's gratitude--the
+contentment and thankfulness of his wife--the neat little cottage in
+which she was immediately placed by the officers of the regiment, who
+seemed delighted thus to manifest their regard for their corporal
+Barton. The emotion of this good family at parting with their
+benefactors--little Dickey's resolution, that when he grew to be a man,
+he would go and live with Mr. Edward--the hospitable honors rendered
+to the Sackville party by the officers of the regiment, who felt their
+beneficence to the British soldier's wife as a personal obligation--to
+which was to have been added, a particular description of some very
+beautiful curiosities presented to Edward and Julia by the governor's
+lady; but we fear our young readers will think we have already
+protracted a dull tale to an unconscionable length; and we will
+therefore take our leave of them, with simply expressing a wish, that
+if they should ever travel to Quebec, or indeed in any other direction,
+they will remember that after the delightful but evanescent pleasures
+of their jaunt had faded, and were almost effaced from the minds of
+Edward and Julia, they possessed a treasure that fadeth not away
+in the consciousness of having rendered an essential service to a
+fellow-creature. A consciousness that strews roses in the path of
+youth and age--not 'the perfume and suppliance of a moment,' but
+those amaranthine flowers that exhale incense to Heaven.
+
+                                FINIS.
+
+
+
+
+  [ Transcriber's Note:
+
+  The following is a list of corrections made to the original. The
+  first line is the original line, the second the corrected one.
+
+
+  "And what," asked Mrs. Sackville, "do Bob Eton's father and Bob Eaton,
+  "And what," asked Mrs. Sackville, "do Bob Eaton's father and Bob Eaton,
+
+  "Dubois for ever!" exclaimed Edward, as Julia finished her mimickry
+  "Dubois for ever!" exclaimed Edward, as Julia finished her mimicry
+
+  "Oh, that will be delightful, mother but Edward and I cannot dance a
+  "Oh, that will be delightful, mother, but Edward and I cannot dance a
+
+  'The next, mother? what is next, Edward?"
+  "The next, mother? what is next, Edward?"
+
+  sun.
+  sun."
+
+  suddenly swelled the veins of her clear open brow, lit up her hazle eyes
+  suddenly swelled the veins of her clear open brow, lit up her hazel eyes
+
+  "My dear Ned," replied Mrs. Sackville, "I do not wonder at your
+  "My dear Ned," replied Mr. Sackville, "I do not wonder at your
+
+  "Now, mama," she said, you must take both sides of the river."
+  "Now, mama," she said, "you must take both sides of the river."
+
+  of the skipping right--the readers inalienable right) we shall make but
+  of the skipping right--the readers' inalienable right) we shall make but
+
+  "One might almost fancy here," said Mr. Sackville, that the march
+  "One might almost fancy here," said Mr. Sackville, "that the march
+
+  "At a wigman in Oneida, where he had been compelled to ask for such
+  "At a wigwam in Oneida, where he had been compelled to ask for such
+
+  the road is thronged with market-waggons, stage coaches, and carriages
+  the road is thronged with market-waggons, stage coaches; and carriages
+
+  riches and resources of their native land, "For my own part," he said,
+  riches and resources of their native land. "For my own part," he said,
+
+  eyes and ruddy cheeks, who seeemed to be a favorite with the whole
+  eyes and ruddy cheeks, who seemed to be a favorite with the whole
+
+  then asked her name:--"My name is Biddy Burns, an' please you, miss."
+  then asked her name:--"My name is Biddy Burns, an' please you, miss."
+
+  little, pale, wizzened-face fellow, with a bleared and blood-shot eye,
+  little, pale, wizened-face fellow, with a bleared and blood-shot eye,
+
+  "How old?" I do not justly remember; but there is my age set down in our
+  "How old? I do not justly remember; but there is my age set down in our
+
+  "I do not see that we can, my dear," replied Mrs. Sackville," I have
+  "I do not see that we can, my dear," replied Mrs. Sackville, "I have
+
+  "Sickly feeling," exclaimed Edward, I am sure I thought the air was
+  "Sickly feeling," exclaimed Edward, "I am sure I thought the air was
+
+  to her children, " the charm of the ring in the Fairy tale, bestowed by
+  to her children, "the charm of the ring in the Fairy tale, bestowed by
+
+  "What, my dear, children, should we be, without the religious sentiment
+  "What, my dear children, should we be, without the religious sentiment
+
+  festival of nature, you must take care you do not commit the pharasaic
+  festival of nature, you must take care you do not commit the pharisaic
+
+  of he future, theirs were constantly directed to virtue, which they
+  of the future, theirs were constantly directed to virtue, which they
+
+  of such beautiful scenes as these, to convert themi n tofields of
+  of such beautiful scenes as these, to convert them into fields of
+
+  wife, she has an Enlish spirit, and a proud one; and she says, while
+  wife, she has an English spirit, and a proud one; and she says, while
+
+  he does, and fraquently he dont," replied the fellow, rather surlily.
+  he does, and fraquently he don't," replied the fellow, rather surlily.
+
+  to see a young creature thus cut off by her sins."
+  to see a young creature thus cut off by her sins.
+
+  Come now Edward and Julia to your births--and dream of the 'thousand
+  Come now Edward and Julia to your berths--and dream of the 'thousand
+
+  roughly binding his wampun belt over Marguerite's mouth, to deaden the
+  roughly binding his wampum belt over Marguerite's mouth, to deaden the
+
+  He rose cautiously, looked for one instant on the indians, and assured
+  "He rose cautiously, looked for one instant on the indians, and assured
+
+  led the way to an adjoining anti-room appropriated to medicines,
+  led the way to an adjoining ante-room appropriated to medicines,
+
+  silver Edward had given him to the ground. "Have I," he said, served my
+  silver Edward had given him to the ground. "Have I," he said, "served my
+
+  and boy? The result of all his deliberations was, that he would go
+  and boy?' The result of all his deliberations was, that he would go
+
+  something in their viewvery important was in agitation; but she
+  something in their view very important was in agitation; but she
+
+  instead of smiles and ecstasies, the deathlike paleness of Mrs. Barton
+  instead of smiles and ecstasies, the deathlike paleness of Mrs. Barton,
+  ]
+
+
+
+
+
+
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