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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Factory Boy + +Author: Madeline Leslie + +Release Date: August 3, 2013 [EBook #43390] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FACTORY BOY *** + + + + +Produced by Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading +Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from +images generously made available by The Internet Archive) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 512px;"> +<img src="images/cover.jpg" width="512" height="800" alt="created cover" /> +</div> +<div class='tnote'>Transcriber's Note: This cover has been created by the transcriber using the book's +original cover as a background. It is placed in the public domain.</div> +<hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_i" id="Page_i">[i]</a></span></p> + + + + +<div class='adtitle1'><span class="smcap">Aunt Hattie's Library</span></div> + +<div class='adtitle2'>for Girls.</div> + + +<div class='center'>SERIES I.</div> + + + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="girl's list"> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Vol.</span></td> +<td align="right">I.</td> +<td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Sheep and Lambs.</span></td> +</tr> +<tr><td align="center">"</td> +<td align="right">II.</td> +<td align="left"><span class="smcap">Lily's Birthday.</span></td> +</tr> +<tr><td align="center">"</td> +<td align="right">III.</td> +<td align="left"><span class="smcap">Little Miss Fret.</span></td> +</tr> +<tr><td align="center">"</td> +<td align="right">IV.</td> +<td align="left"><span class="smcap">Maggie and the Mice.</span></td> +</tr> +<tr><td align="center">"</td> +<td align="right">V.</td> +<td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Lost Kitty.</span></td> +</tr> +<tr><td align="center">"</td> +<td align="right">VI.</td> +<td align="left"><span class="smcap">Ida's New Shoes.</span></td> +</tr> +</table></div> + + +<hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii">[ii]</a></span></p> + + + + +<div class='adtitle1'><span class="smcap">Aunt Hattie's Library</span></div> + +<div class='adtitle2'>for Boys.</div> + + +<div class='center'>SERIES II.</div> + + + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="boy's list"> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Vol.</span></td> +<td align="right">I.</td> +<td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Apple Boys.</span></td> +</tr> +<tr><td align="center">"</td> +<td align="right">II.</td> +<td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Chest of Tools.</span></td> +</tr> +<tr><td align="center">"</td> +<td align="right">III.</td> +<td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Factory Boy.</span></td> +</tr> +<tr><td align="center">"</td> +<td align="right">IV.</td> +<td align="left"><span class="smcap">Frankie's Dog Tony.</span></td> +</tr> +<tr><td align="center">"</td> +<td align="right">V.</td> +<td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Golden Rule.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">"</td> +<td align="right">VI.</td> +<td align="left"><span class="smcap">Lying Jim.</span></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_iii" id="Page_iii">[iii]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 357px;"> +<img src="images/i003.jpg" width="357" height="500" alt="AUNT HATTIE'S +LIBRARY: woman reading to children" /> +</div> + +<hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_iv" id="Page_iv">[iv]</a><br /><a name="Page_v" id="Page_v">[v]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h1>The Factory Boy.</h1> + +<div class='author'>BY AUNT HATTIE,</div> + +<div class='center'><span class='small'>AUTHOR OF THE "BROOKSIDE SERIES," ETC.</span></div> + + +<div class='poem'><br /><br /><br /> +"Trust in the Lord and do good, . . . and verily thou shalt be fed."<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;"><span class="smcap">David.</span></span><br /> +</div> + +<div class='center'> +<br /><br /><br /> +BOSTON:<br /> +PUBLISHED BY HENRY A. YOUNG & CO.,<br /> +<span class="smcap">No. 24 cornhill</span>.<br /> +</div> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_vi" id="Page_vi">[vi]</a></span></p> + + + + +<div class='copyright'> +Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by<br /> +<br /> +REV. A. R. BAKER,<br /> +<br /> +In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of<br /> +Massachusetts.<br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap">Rockwell & Rollins, Stereotypers</span>,<br /> +122 Washington Street.<br /> +</div> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_vii" id="Page_vii">[vii]</a></span></p> + + + + +<div class='center'> +<b>To</b><br /> +<br /> +<b><span class='big'>NELLIE, ROLAND COTTON, ANNIE, AND FULLER APPLETON,</span></b><br /> +<br /> +<span class='small'>CHILDREN OF MY BELOVED NEPHEW,</span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap">The Rev.</span> JOHN COTTON SMITH, D.D.,<br /> +<br /> +<span class='small'>THESE SMALL VOLUMES ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,</span><br /> +<br /> +<span class='small'>WITH THE EARNEST PRAYER</span><br /> +<br /> +<span class='small'>THAT THEIR LIVES MAY PROVE THEM TO BE LAMBS IN THE FOLD</span><br /> +<br /> +<span class='small'>OF THE GREAT AND GOOD</span><br /> +<br /> +<b><span class='big'>Shepherd of Israel.</span></b><br /> +</div> + +<hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_viii" id="Page_viii">[viii]</a><br /><a name="Page_ix" id="Page_ix">[ix]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2>CONTENTS.</h2> + + + + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Contents"> +<tr><td align="center" colspan="2">CHAPTER I.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"> </td><td align="left"><span class='small'>Page</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Silver Dollar</span>,</td> +<td align='right'><a href="#Page_11">11</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />CHAPTER II.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Kind Friends</span>,</td> +<td align='right'><a href="#Page_21">21</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />CHAPTER III.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">The New Boots</span>,</td> +<td align='right'><a href="#Page_32">32</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />CHAPTER IV.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">A Sad Story</span>,</td> +<td align='right'><a href="#Page_41">41</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />CHAPTER V.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_x" id="Page_x">[x]</a></span><span class="smcap">Going to School</span>,</td> +<td align='right'><a href="#Page_53">53</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />CHAPTER VI.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Johnny A Favorite</span>, </td> +<td align='right'><a href="#Page_64">64</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />CHAPTER VII.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Johnny's Trust</span>,</td> +<td align='right'><a href="#Page_74">74</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />CHAPTER VII.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Johnny's New Father</span>,</td> +<td align='right'><a href="#Page_87">87</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />CHAPTER IX.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">The New House</span>,</td> +<td align='right'><a href="#Page_99">99</a></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2><span class="smcap">The Factory Boy.</span></h2> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2>CHAPTER I.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>THE SILVER DOLLAR.</div> + +<div><img src="images/1_dropta.jpg" alt="drop T top" width="175" height="78" class="split" /> +<img src="images/1_droptb.jpg" alt="drop T bottom" width="97" height="116" class="split" /> +</div> +<div class='unindent'><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />AKE a cup of porridge, +Johnny, dear. It's too +cold to go to work without +something warm."</div> + +<p>Johnny looked in the bowl which +stood on the hearth, near a few +smouldering brands, and shook his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span> +head as he answered,—"I'm not +very hungry, mother. There's only +enough for you and Ella." +Then without another word he +hurried away, for the factory bell +was ringing; and he knew that he +must not be late.</p> + +<p>Poor little Johnny! How he +shivered as he shuffled along +that frosty December morning! +He could not pick up his feet, as +the boys say, and run; for his shoes +were much too large for him, and +the heels were so worn that it was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span> +only by shuffling that he could +keep them on his feet. He had +scarce a quarter of a mile to go; but +cold and hungry as the child was, +it seemed a long way to him. He +could not help wishing he were a +baby like Ella, and could lie in bed +all day, with his dead father's coat +thrown over him to keep him warm.</p> + +<p>It was early yet; and few people +were stirring except the men, +women, and children who were +hurrying to enter the factory before +the bell ceased to toll. Johnny<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span> +hurried, too, for he remembered +the scolding he had received the +day before for being five minutes +too late, and was just crossing the +railroad track when his toe hit +against something, which he +stooped to pick up.</p> + +<p>It was a silver dollar; but he +did not know it. He had never +seen one. He thought it was a +temperance medal, like what he +had seen strung around the boys' +necks.</p> + +<p>His eyes shone with pleasure; he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span> +had often wished for a medal, and +he determined that when he reached +the factory he would thread a piece +of yarn through the hole and wear +it outside his jacket.</p> + +<p>The place where Johnny worked +was a stocking factory. His part +was to wind the skeins of yarn +upon the long spools, from which +the men and large boys wove it +into stockings.</p> + +<p>He had forgotten about his +hunger now, and was tying a knot +in the string he had put through<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span> +the dollar, when a young woman +came toward him.</p> + +<p>"What are you doing?" she +asked.</p> + +<p>He held up the medal, saying, +eagerly, "I found it."</p> + +<p>"It's a dollar, a silver dollar, +Johnny."</p> + +<p>"Oh, goody!" cried the boy; +"now I can have some new shoes. +I thought it was a Father Matthew's +medal; but I'd rather have a +dollar. Oh, I'm so glad!"</p> + +<p>The woman looked in his pale<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span> +face, and couldn't help saying, as +she did so,—</p> + +<p>"Are you hungry, child?"</p> + +<p>"Not very."</p> + +<p>"What did you have for breakfast?"</p> + +<p>His lips quivered, but he knew +by her kind face that she was a +friend; and he told her the whole +story of his mother's long sickness; +and how they had grown poorer +and poorer, until there was nothing +now but what he earned.</p> + +<p>"I knew Ella would be hungrier<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span> +than I," he said, looking the woman +full in the face with his clear blue +eyes; "and so I didn't take the +porridge."</p> + +<p>"Wait a minute; you sha'n't go to +work so," was all she said; and then +she was off through the door, down +the long steps in a hurry.</p> + +<p>He pulled his stool close to the +small wheel, on which was a large +skein of fine yarn, and began to +turn it with his foot, when the +woman came back, bringing a +small basket.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Here, Johnny, eat this and this," +giving him a buttered biscuit and a +piece of cold meat; "and carry the +rest home. There is enough for +you, your mother, and Ella, to have +a good dinner."</p> + +<p>Poor Johnny was dumb with +astonishment. He could scarcely +realize that all this was for him; +but as the woman waited to see +him eat, he pulled the hard silver +dollar from his pocket and held it +out to her.</p> + +<p>"No! no!" she exclaimed; "give<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span> +it to your mother. She'll know +what to do with it, I dare say."</p> + +<p>That was a happy day for Johnny; +almost the happiest he had ever +known. He had begun it by giving +up his own comfort for that of his +mother and sister, and by-and-by +God sent him friends to care for +him.</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2>CHAPTER II.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>KIND FRIENDS.</div> + + +<div><img src="images/2_dropda.jpg" alt="drop D top" width="151" height="83" class="split" /> +<img src="images/2_dropdb.jpg" alt="drop D bottom" width="92" height="128" class="split" /> +</div><div class='unindent'><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />ONALD MILES was the +name of the Superintendent +of the stocking factory. +He had just married a young +wife, and brought her to live in one +of the new houses near the mill. +She was a Christian woman, who +tried to follow her Master, and do +good wherever she had opportunity.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span> +She took a class in the Sabbath +school, and told her husband she +meant to have some scholars from +the factory. Two or three times +she had noticed Johnny running +up the steps, and thought, "that +boy is too small for such work." +You can imagine, then, how she +felt when she heard his simple +story.</div> + +<p>In the evening Johnny and his +mother were eagerly talking over +the various events and scenes of +the day when Mrs. Miles opened<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span> +the door and presented herself +before them.</p> + +<p>"I feel sure," she had said to her +husband, "that the child told me +the truth. His eyes were too honest +to deceive; but still I mean to +go this very day and see for myself. +Why, they have nothing to eat and +are on the very verge of starvation!"</p> + +<p>"I wish, Johnny," Mrs. Talbot +was saying, "that the dollar was +ours; and then you should have a +pair of shoes; but it is not, and we<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span> +must contrive some way to find the +owner."</p> + +<p>The room was very poor, but +clean as hands could make it. On +the floor in the corner was a straw +bed, between the windows, a +long chest, and near the fire three +small wooden stools standing +before an old rickety table.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Miles soon convinced the +poor woman that she was a friend; +and, before the visit was ended, she +found that though one was very +poor, and the other comparatively<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span> +rich, there was one tie which bound +them together,—they both loved +Christ, and looked forward to living +with him forever in heaven.</p> + +<p>When she rose to go she said to +Johnny,—</p> + +<p>"I'll take the dollar with me, and +ask my husband what shall be done +to find the owner, and I'll see about +the work for you right away. +Why," she added, with a smile, +"I can earn a dollar a day closing +socks; and I never was called smart +with my needle; so keep up good<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span> +courage. Better days are coming +for us."</p> + +<p>"But I've tried a great many times +to get work," answered the poor +woman, shaking her head. "They +always told me there was none."</p> + +<p>Mrs. Miles gave her head a little +toss, as much as to say, "No one +need tell me that story." Then she +laughed as she exclaimed,—</p> + +<p>"Well, if I can't get work for you, +I'll bring you mine. You need it +more than I do. Now don't cry,—it +will hurt your eyes; but say your<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span> +prayers and go to bed. I'll be sure +to come again soon."</p> + +<p>When she shut the door, Mrs. +Talbot began to cry; but these were +happy tears, which brought relief +to her overburdened heart. Then +she said to Johnny,—</p> + +<p>"Let us kneel down and thank +God for sending us such a friend."</p> + +<p>"O mother!" exclaimed the boy, +when they arose from prayer; +"wasn't that bread and butter +nice? I never tasted anything so +good."</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Yes, dear; and when your father +was alive we had bread and +butter every day."</p> + +<p>The next morning, when the little +boy went to his work, he looked +all about for his kind friend; but he +did not see her until he had been +dismissed for dinner. He was +passing along the sidewalk, when +he heard a tap on the window of a +house close by, and, looking up, he +saw Mrs. Miles beckoning to him. +She had a bundle rolled up in a +towel, which she told him to give<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span> +his mother, and tell her she would +have company in the evening.</p> + +<p>And true enough, just as Ella +was safely in bed, there was a +knock at the humble door, and +Mrs. Miles walked in, followed by +her husband.</p> + +<p>Johnny had never seen this gentleman +except in the factory; and +then he looked very grave as he +talked with the men or with merchants +who came from the city. +Now it was very different. His +young wife had told him a pitiful<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span> +story about the widow; and he +came prepared to help her.</p> + +<p>"So you were lucky to-day, +Johnny, and found a dollar," he +began, taking the silver piece from +his pocket. "I have made inquiries +for you, and can find no one +who claims it; so I think you may +keep it with a good conscience."</p> + +<p>Johnny's eager face expressed +his thanks.</p> + +<p>"What would you like to buy +with it?"</p> + +<p>"A pair of shoes, sir."</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Well, come on to the shoe-store."</p> + +<p>"Yes," said the lady, with a +smile; "and while you are gone, +I'll give Mrs. Talbot a lesson in +closing the seams of the stockings."</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2>CHAPTER III.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>THE NEW BOOTS.</div> + + +<div><img src="images/3_dropaa.jpg" alt="drop A top" width="166" height="78" class="split" /> +<img src="images/3_dropab.jpg" alt="drop A bottom" width="113" height="133" class="split" /> +</div><div class='unindent'><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />S they walked together +toward the store, Mr. +Miles became as much +interested in his young companion +as his wife could have wished. The +child discovered so much intelligence, +and had evidently been so +well trained, that the superintendent +fully agreed with Mrs. Miles, +that it was a pity he should not +have a chance to go to school.</div> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 432px;"> +<img src="images/i033.jpg" width="432" height="395" alt="man walking holding boys hand; other boys watching and pointing" /> +<span class="caption">Mr. Mills going with Johnny to buy Shoes</span> + +<div class='right'><span class='small'>Series II, vol. iii, p. 32.</span></div> +</div> + +<p>When they reached the store, the +gentleman said, laughing,—</p> + +<p>"Show us your best goods, now; +we want a pair of stout brogans, +such as you can warrant will turn +water."</p> + +<p>"For him?" asked the merchant, +nodding his head toward Johnny.</p> + +<p>"Yes, for him. You see he +needs them badly enough."</p> + +<p>"Boots would be better."</p> + +<p>"Ah, yes."</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a><br /><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span></p> + +<p>Mr. Miles's eyes began to twinkle. +He had a happy thought; and so +he put Johnny's silver dollar, which +he had been twirling by the string, +into his vest pocket, and began to +examine carefully one pair after +another of the boots laid out for +him on the counter.</p> + +<p>"This is a good pair," he said, at +last. "What is the price?"</p> + +<p>"Three dollars. I'll warrant +those; they are custom made; but +they were too small for the child +whose mother ordered them<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span>. I +should have charged her five if +they'd suited."</p> + +<p>"Yes, I see they're first-rate +boots,—what, in the hose line, I +should call 'A, number one.' Now +I'll tell you what I propose. This +little fellow is the son of a widow, +who, when my wife found her, had +literally not one mouthful of food. +Just think of such destitution if you +can!—a good Christian, too; but +the death of her husband and her +own long sickness have exhausted +everything. I propose to give half<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span> +the price, and let you give the +other."</p> + +<p>"Oh, I can't afford that! Why, +I've taken off two dollars already."</p> + +<p>"Look here, now," urged Mr. +Miles; "I'm going to start a subscription +for the benefit of the +widow. It would make your heart +ache to see how very destitute she +is of everything. I want your name +down, of course; I must have it. +So here goes,—'Allen Manning, +one dollar and a half.' There, you'll +be glad whenever you think of having<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span> +made a child happy and comfortable."</p> + +<p>"Well, if you say so, I suppose I +must."</p> + +<p>"Thank you. Now I want your +wife to join with mine and just +make the widow's hovel a little +more tenantable. They'll work together +finely, I know. Mrs. Miles +says she is sure a little nourishing +food will do more for the poor soul +than a shop-full of medicine. You +see, the poor creature thinks herself +in a decline."</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span></p> + +<p>Mr. Manning tied up the bundle +and handed it to Johnny; and then +the two started off for home, the +boy having looked the thanks his +trembling lips refused to utter.</p> + +<p>"Now, Johnny," said Mr. Miles, +"here's your medal; wear it around +your neck as long as you are a +truthful boy. When you tell your +first lie, bring it to me."</p> + +<p>"I don't dare to tell lies, sir; +mother says God hates liars; but +'those that speak the truth are his +delight.'"</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span></p> + +<p>"That's true doctrine; and here +we are."</p> + +<p>Mrs. Miles opened the door when +she heard her husband's voice, and +said, in a pleasant tone, and manner,—</p> + +<p>"She learned the stitch in half +the time I did."</p> + +<p>The proud husband tapped her +glowing cheek. I am sure he was +thinking what a darling little wife +he had. And when Johnny eagerly +related the story of the boots, +I know she thought,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span>—</p> + +<p>"That is so like Donald; he has +such a noble heart."</p> + +<p>"And I have the medal,—I mean +the dollar, too, mother. I'm to keep +it till I tell a lie."</p> + +<p>"Which I hope will never happen, +dear. But did you thank our +good, generous friends? I have no +words to express my gratitude."</p> + +<p>"Never mind for words, Mrs. +Talbot. Good-night."</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2>CHAPTER IV.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>A SAD STORY.</div> + + +<div><img src="images/4_dropia.jpg" alt="drop I top" width="134" height="80" class="split" /> +<img src="images/4_dropib.jpg" alt="drop I bottom" width="106" height="128" class="split" /> +</div><div class='unindent'><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />T was, indeed, time that +help should come to the +poor widow, for a cough +had fastened itself on her lungs, +which would soon have ended her +life. The room was damp and +chilly, and her clothing quite too +scant for winter. Mrs. Miles +would not wait till she had earned<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span> +money to buy wood and clothing +and food.</div> + +<p>"They would all freeze and +starve," she told the people where +she went begging. "I want to get +something to save their lives; and +then, when she is comfortable, the +woman can earn enough to support +her family."</p> + +<p>In two weeks you would never +have known the room; the glass +was mended, and now the sun +shone in. There was a pretty, old-fashioned +bedstead, four nicely<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span> +painted chairs, a table with leaves, +a tiny mirror, a patch spread, and +the cunningest little cooking-stove, +which kept the room beautifully +warm. At least, Johnny thought +so when he came dancing home +from his work.</p> + +<p>Besides all this, Mrs. Miles had +procured from an old lady some +healing syrup, which had nearly +cured the troublesome cough; and +Mrs. Talbot could sew now very +well, without that terrible pain in +her side.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span></p> + +<p>She told her dear friend one day, +that if she could only forget her +past trouble, she should be quite +happy,—happier than she had ever +expected to be again.</p> + +<p>"You must tell me about your +troubles," Mrs. Miles said. And +one afternoon, when Johnny was at +work in the factory, and Ella was +taking her nap, Mrs. Talbot began,—</p> + +<p>"I was married when I was only +seventeen, and went with my husband +to the western part of New<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span> +York State. He was a carpenter, +and could get good wages, which +supported us in great comfort. +Johnny was almost seven years old +when Dexter, that is, my husband, +told me he wanted to bring home +one of his workmen to live with us. +The man had no home, and, as he +did not think it right to spend his +evenings in a tavern, he was very +lonely. His name was Robert +Hardy, and he gave very little +trouble. He grew to be fond of +Johnny, and spent many leisure<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span> +hours in amusing him and making +him playthings.</p> + +<p>"But one day he came home +sick; and for two weeks he never +left his bed. Dexter and I took all +the care of him. When he grew +better, he went away to his mother. +He sat by the fire thinking. I expected +he would thank us; but he +did not. He held Dexter's hand +like a vise; and he tried to say +good-by to me; but his voice +failed. I have never seen him +since. I feel sure he was grateful.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span> +The doctor had told him our care +saved his life.</p> + +<p>"The very night he left, Dexter +grew delirious; he had stayed at +home with a cold for a week. The +doctor came again, and said he had +taken the fever.</p> + +<p>"Oh, those were dreadful days! +He grew worse and worse, and I—it +breaks my heart when I think +that I had nursed a stranger, and +couldn't nurse my own husband—I +was lying on a bed in the same +room; and my little Ella lay beside<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span> +me. Every moan of Dexter's went +through my heart; and when he +died, all hope and joy died with +him. I cared for nothing. I remember +but little of those long, +weary months which followed. I +should have died but for the kindness +of my neighbors.</p> + +<p>"The Rector visited me; but I +scarcely understood what he said. +When Dexter died, there were +three hundred dollars laid by in +the bank. Fifty of it went for his +funeral expenses and my mourning;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span> +and the rest went little by little, till +I had not a shilling left. Then +Johnny was taken sick. I hoped +he would die; I hoped we all should +die; but I began to think that I was +not prepared to follow my husband +to heaven. He loved his Saviour, +and I did not.</p> + +<p>"I tried to pray. The Rector's +wife prayed with me, and led me to +Jesus. I learned to trust in him; +but I was wholly inexperienced, +and knew not how to earn a living +for myself and my little ones. I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span> +thought if I could only get home to +my parents that I should be happy; +but I had nothing left to pay my +expenses.</p> + +<p>"One by one my pieces of furniture +were sold, and I was dependent +on charity for my daily food. +At last they raised the money to +pay my fare, and, with all I had in +the world packed in Dexter's chest, +I left the place where I had experienced +the greatest joy and the +greatest sorrow I had ever known.</p> + +<p>"When I reached home I found<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span> +my father helpless from a paralytic +stroke, and mother worn out with +care of him. One of my friends +owned this old house, and offered +me the use of it. He said, as it was +near the factory, we could get work. +I might have done something, but +I took cold and was unable to sit +up. Afterward, when I inquired +again and again at the factory, I +was told that they had already +more applicants than they could +supply.</p> + +<p>"At last Johnny got a place<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span> +there; but his wages were small, +and—and—unless you had found +us, I think we should really have +starved."</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2>CHAPTER V.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>GOING TO SCHOOL.</div> + + +<div><img src="images/5_dropsa.jpg" alt="drop S top" width="136" height="76" class="split" /> +<img src="images/5_dropsb.jpg" alt="drop S bottom" width="106" height="132" class="split" /> +</div><div class='unindent'><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />PRING came at last; and +then what delight Ella +felt in being allowed to +run out of doors, and play on the +new, fresh grass with the pussy +Mrs. Miles had given her!</div> + +<p>Johnny was still in the factory; +and Mrs. Talbot worked away at +the hose, making a very comfortable<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span> +living. She could smile now at +Ella's cunning ways, and laugh +with Johnny at the news he +brought from the mill, after his +day's work was done.</p> + +<p>He was in Mrs. Miles's class +in Sabbath school,—her best +scholar, she said. He had won +a prize already for obtaining two +new scholars; and what do you +think it was? Why, a new Bible +with clasps; and very proud he +was of it, too. Every Sabbath he +learned his verses in it,—putting<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span> +in the red ribbon-mark with great +care.</p> + +<p>In the evening, Johnny read to +his mother while she sewed, and +now he was learning to write.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Talbot made a copy on the +slate, and he wrote underneath, trying +to make every line better than +the last.</p> + +<p>One day he came running home +from his work, his face looking very +bright and happy.</p> + +<p>"Mother! mother!" he called +out; "I'm going to school! I'm<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span> +not going to work any more,—I +mean not all day. Mrs. Miles has +settled it! And O mother! I'm to +go there this evening for a big +bundle of clothes. She's made me +a jacket out of a coat of her husband's, +and that was what she +wanted my other jacket for. Oh! +oh! I'm so glad!"</p> + +<p>"That is news!" exclaimed Mrs. +Talbot.</p> + +<p>"I'm to be advanced," he added; +"she says so, and paid by the hour; +and I shall earn just as much working<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span> +between schools as I do now. +O mother! isn't Mrs. Miles splendid?"</p> + +<p>In the evening, Johnny went for +the bundle; and the lady accompanied +him home to see how the +new clothes fitted.</p> + +<p>"It's my first trial," she said, +laughing; "and I'm very proud +to think that I've succeeded so +well."</p> + +<p>Johnny turned round and round, +as directed, to show first the back, +then the shoulders and front.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span></p> + +<p>"I find I have a natural gift at +tailoring," cried Mrs. Miles. "I +shall throw up making hose, and +devote myself to my new calling. +Just see that sleeve, now! It looks +as well as if it were bought from a +fashionable store."</p> + +<p>"I don't know how to thank +you," murmured the widow, laughing +through her tears. "I should +have tried to cut them over, of +course; but I'm afraid I should +have made a bungling piece of +work of it."</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Well, then, if you confess so +much, I will tell you that I have a +right to be proud; for the times +that jacket has been ripped and +sewed, and ripped and basted and +pressed, are beyond calculation. I +made a study of Mr. Miles's wedding-coat, +at last, particularly the +sleeves, and then I found out what +my trouble was. But the victory +was worth all the pains; so I don't +count the four days I spent on it +lost time."</p> + +<p>"I mean to be very careful of my<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span> +new clothes," said Johnny, who +had been listening in open-mouthed +wonder.</p> + +<p>They both laughed at his grave +tone; and then Mr. Miles came for +his wife; and they talked about the +Sabbath school.</p> + +<p>"I want you, Mrs. Talbot, to do +my wife a favor," said the gentleman, +trying to look serious. "She +is desirous of having an infant class +in the Sabbath school, and wants +you for the teacher. Ella, she says, +is old enough to go with you."</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Me!" exclaimed the widow, in +great astonishment. "Me! Why, +I am not competent to teach any +one."</p> + +<p>"Neither am I," urged Mrs. +Miles; "but I do love my Saviour; +and I want the boys and girls +around me to love him; so I try +to tell them what a good Being he +is, and what he has done for us. +Can't you do that?"</p> + +<p>With a deepened color the widow +answered,—</p> + +<p>"At least, I will try."</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span></p> + +<p>"I knew you would; and if you +will only tell them the 'sweet story +of old,' as I heard you telling it to +Johnny one of the first visits I +made you, and while I was waiting +in the entry for you to answer my +knock, it is all I will ask. Ever +since that time I have only been +waiting for summer so that the little +ones, Ella among the rest, can +go out."</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 408px;"> +<img src="images/i065.jpg" width="408" height="330" alt="two boys walking to Sunday School" /> +<span class="caption">Johnny with a new Scholar for the Sabbath-school.</span><br /> + +<div class='right'><span class='small'>Series II, vol. iii, p. 63.</span></div> +</div> + +<p>"She tells me beautiful stories +about Daniel in the lion's den," +exclaimed Johnny; "and about +Joseph in prison. I can read them, +too, in my new Bible."</p> + +<p>"There is a small vestry which +seems made on purpose for your +school," suggested Mr. Miles.</p> + +<p>"Where we hope to see you next +Sabbath," added the lady.</p> + +<p>"I will do the best I can," was the +humble reply; "and I am sure I +shall love the work."</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a><br /><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2>CHAPTER VI.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>JOHNNY A FAVORITE.</div> + + +<div><img src="images/4_dropia.jpg" alt="drop I top" width="134" height="80" class="split" /> +<img src="images/4_dropib.jpg" alt="drop I bottom" width="106" height="128" class="split" /> +</div><div class='unindent'><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> WISH you could have +seen Johnny the first +morning he started for +school. His face was as clean as +soap and water could make it; his +hair was nicely parted on his broad +forehead; his eyes shone like stars; +and his mouth was wreathed with +smiles. He wore the new suit Mrs.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span> +Miles had given him, and a clean +linen collar around his neck. In +one hand he carried a little pail full +of dinner; and under his other arm, +his spelling-book, reader, and slate. +He was to call at Mrs. Miles's for +a pencil; and so, after bidding his +mother good-by and hearing her +call after him, "Be a good lad, +Johnny, and don't let any idle boys +turn you from your book," he +hurried away to be in season to +choose a seat.</div> + +<p>This was the first day of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span> +term, and the earliest scholars had +the best chance.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Miles met him at the door +with the long slate-pencil nicely +sharpened in her hand; and, having +looked at him from head to foot, +she said, approvingly,—</p> + +<p>"You are just right, Johnny, and +I'm proud of you." Then she +kissed his glowing cheek, and he +ran down the steps.</p> + +<p>I suppose you would like to know +where the silver dollar was all this +time. Why, round Johnny's neck,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span> +to be sure! You know he was to +wear it till he told a lie; and, as he +had never departed from the truth, +it was still there, fastened to a nice +ribbon that his mother had bought +for it.</p> + +<p>At school, Johnny liked his +teacher and the boys; and they +liked Johnny. In school he was +as grave as a judge, studying his +lessons with all his might; but at +recess there was not a merrier boy +among the whole set. Playing ball +or catcher were new games to him,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span> +who had always been obliged to +work so hard, and he enjoyed every +moment of the time given to them.</p> + +<p>Then he was always fair at his +plays, and ready to oblige his companions. +By-and-by it used to be +said,—</p> + +<p>"Don't cheat, now! Be fair, like +Johnny Talbot."</p> + +<p>This pleased Johnny's friends +more than all the rest. To be sure +they liked to have him a good +scholar,—to have him popular +among his school-mates; but it was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span> +best of all to know that he tried to +do what God would approve.</p> + +<p>At home he was just the same +boy that he was when I first began +to tell you about him, and was as +ready to give up his pleasure to his +mother and Ella as he had been +to give up his scant breakfast of +Indian porridge, when he knew +there was not enough for all.</p> + +<p>As you may imagine, Johnny +was a very busy child. He rose +almost as soon as he could see, and +reached the farm where his mother<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span> +and Mrs. Miles bought their milk, +before the farmer was ready for +him. Then he was back with his +two pails, and off for the factory +for a couple of hours.</p> + +<p>He was very happy here, for all +the men and women smiled upon +him, so he whistled away at his +work, though the noise of the +machinery prevented any one but +himself hearing his music.</p> + +<p>When the town-clock struck +eight he was off for home, where he +had only just time to eat his breakfast,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span> +wash and dress for school, +before it was the hour to start.</p> + +<p>After school, he changed his +clothes again, and had three more +hours for work before dark.</p> + +<p>So the summer passed happily +away. Sometimes, indeed, when +the boys were starting off for nuts; +or when he heard them on the common, +flying their kites, he used to +wish, just for one moment, that he +were rich, so that he could have +time to go with them; but he did +not cherish such thoughts. He<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span> +knew that God had been very kind +to him, and that his heavenly Father +had ordered all things for his +best good. His mother had explained +to him that it was for +Joseph's future advancement that +God allowed him to be put into +prison, and that this great and +good Being is always watchful +over those who love and trust +him.</p> + +<p>At home, though Johnny had +little leisure, yet he contrived to +please Ella so much that she longed<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span> +for his presence, and would run +forth to meet him, her apron full +of grass and flowers, which she +had gathered for dear Johnny.</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2>CHAPTER VII.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>JOHNNY'S TRUST.</div> + + +<div><img src="images/6_dropba.jpg" alt="drop B top" width="113" height="84" class="split" /> +<img src="images/6_dropbb.jpg" alt="drop B bottom" width="93" height="123" class="split" /> +</div><div class='unindent'><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Y the industry of Johnny, +and the wages of his kind +mother, the family at the +cottage had passed a very comfortable +summer; but now work was +scarce, and the widow looked forward +with some dread to the cold +weather.</div> + +<p>She well knew that more than<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span> +one third of the women who +worked for the factory had received +no hose for several weeks; +and that it was only through her +friend's exertions that Mr. Miles +sent it regularly to her.</p> + +<p>Then, although her earnings had +provided them with abundance of +good plain food, yet this sum, even +if continued, would not supply fuel +and warm clothes. Nor was there +anything to pay for mending the +roof, where the rain dripped in +during every shower.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span></p> + +<p>It was on a dreary November +evening that Mrs. Talbot talked +with her son while Ella, untroubled +by anxiety or care, lay soundly +sleeping in the bed at the farther +corner of the room.</p> + +<p>With a sigh, the widow told her +boy she feared trouble was before +them.</p> + +<p>"Everything seems dark," she +went on; "I can't see where help +to carry us through the winter +is coming from. We can't live in +this house much longer unless it<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a></span> +has new shingles on the roof; and I +know that is a very costly job. +Then we all need warm clothes. +I'm afraid, Johnny, you'll have to +leave school and work harder than +you have ever worked before;" and +she sighed again.</p> + +<p>Johnny's chin trembled. "I can't +work in the mill, mother," he began, +trying to keep back a sob. "One +of the men told me to-day there +were no orders from the merchants, +and they would have to stop."</p> + +<p>The widow covered her pale face<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[78]</a></span> +with her hands. "We shall starve, +then," she cried out, in a voice of +agony. "Oh, if your father were +only alive!"</p> + +<p>She leaned on the table and wept +bitterly.</p> + +<p>"Mother," faltered Johnny, drawing +his coat-sleeve across his eyes; +"mother, you told me our heavenly +Father loves us better than any +earthly father. Won't he help us +if we pray to him? Don't cry so, +mother; I think he knows about it, +and perhaps he'll take care of us,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></span> +as he did when we were starving +before."</p> + +<p>"Johnny! Johnny! I've been +wicked. I've been doubting him +all day. Yes, my child, he is good, +merciful, and true to his promises, +even to poor, weak creatures like +me. We will pray, and we will +trust. I feel happier already. I +have been carrying my burden of +care when he says we may cast it +on him. Come, Johnny, we will +pray."</p> + +<p>They kneeled together by the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[80]</a></span> +firelight; and the woman, with a +full heart, thanked her heavenly +Father for her precious boy,—that +his faith had not wavered when she +so wickedly doubted his power or +his willingness to help them. She +thanked him again for his former +care of them, and she urged his +gracious promise, "I will be the +widow's God, and a father to the +fatherless."</p> + +<p>She arose and took her seat with +almost a smile.</p> + +<p>"All my anxiety has gone," she<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[81]</a></span> +said, in a cheerful tone; "I know +my heavenly Father is able and +willing to help us. Johnny, my +precious boy, how could I murmur +when you and Ella are spared?"</p> + +<p>"I prayed in my heart all the +way home," faltered the boy; "I +didn't know what we should do; +but I kept saying to myself,—</p> + +<p>"'God knows all about it,—just +as he did about Joseph in prison.'"</p> + +<p>His mother drew him to her side, +and kissed his forehead.</p> + +<p>"Now you must go to bed," she<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a></span> +said. "Though we trust God for +the future, we must do all we can +to help ourselves. I have work for +another week; and you must be off +early to yours. When this fails, I +feel sure that we shall be provided +for somehow."</p> + +<p>Johnny lay quiet on his couch, +and his mother thought him asleep. +She read chapter after chapter of +God's holy word, comforting herself +in his gracious promises, when +she was startled by hearing her +boy say,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[83]</a></span>—</p> + +<p>"Mother, there's my silver dollar, +you know. That will buy a good +deal."</p> + +<p>"Yes, dear."</p> + +<p>Her voice trembled. She knew +how much he prized that dollar, +and how often Mr. Miles had asked +to see it, "to be sure," he said, +"that it was not lost or forfeited." +She resolved that not until everything +else had been sacrificed +should that dollar be parted with.</p> + +<p>Two days later Johnny ran home +with the joyful announcement,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a></span>—</p> + +<p>"Mrs. Miles has come home! +I've seen her. She beckoned me +to go in, and, O mother! what do +you think she showed me? The +cunningest little baby I ever saw. +She wants you to come right over, +and she——"</p> + +<p>Mrs. Talbot interrupted him by +saying,—</p> + +<p>"That is good news! I'll go at +once, and take Ella, so that I can +stay and help her. Rake up the +fire as quickly as you can, and put +on Ella's hood."</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[85]</a></span></p> + +<p>"I felt a little troubled for you," +exclaimed the lady, when, after a +cordial embrace, she had heard a +confession of the widow's fears; +"but I am sure all will come out +right and bright. That dear +Johnny! I hope my boy will be +just like him;" and here she gave +the baby a good squeeze.</p> + +<p>"If the mill is shut, as I suppose +it must be, we shall go to my father's +for the winter. It will be a +trial to all of us; but we will trust +it is for the best. My husband told<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[86]</a></span> +me that he should know certainly +at the end of another week. If no +orders come in before that time, +they can't keep on."</p> + +<p>Mrs. Talbot took the baby and +began to caress it to hide her +troubled face; but presently said, +with a smile,—</p> + +<p>"How thankful we ought to be +that there is One who orders all +events in our lives, and that this +Being is he who calls himself our +Father."</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[87]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2>CHAPTER VIII.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>JOHNNY'S NEW FATHER.</div> + + +<div><img src="images/1_dropta.jpg" alt="drop T top" width="175" height="78" class="split" /> +<img src="images/1_droptb.jpg" alt="drop T bottom" width="97" height="116" class="split" /> +</div> +<div class='unindent'><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />HE cold weather came on +early this year. As he +ran shivering home from +school, Johnny saw, at almost every +house, the preparations for winter. +Here was a pile of wood, and there +a large heap of coal, suggestive of +warmth and comfort. Two days +more and the important question<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[88]</a></span> +about the factory would be decided. +If Mrs. Miles went away, it would +be very desolate. God only knew +how they should be able to get +along.</div> + +<p>He thought of all this one night +as he was returning from the factory, +and to comfort himself began +humming his favorite tune,—</p> + +<div class='center'> +"I have a Father in the promised land."<br /> +</div> + +<p>As he came in sight of the cottage, +he wondered at the bright +light which reflected from the windows;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[89]</a></span> +but he wondered still more +at the scene presented within.</p> + +<p>Their one table was set in the +middle of the floor, and spread with +such abundance as he had never +seen there. His mother was hurrying +to and fro, and intent on the +cakes she was frying, while at the +same time she talked with a well-dressed +man who sat near the fire +holding Ella in his lap.</p> + +<p>"I haven't forgotten your favorite +dish," she said, with an arch +smile. "You liked rye fritters<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[90]</a></span> +best, while Dexter preferred buckwheats."</p> + +<p>"Ah, there is Johnny!" exclaimed +the stranger, holding out +his hand. "Don't you remember +me?"</p> + +<p>It was, indeed, an old friend,—the +man who had been watched +and nursed by Mrs. Talbot and her +husband, and from whom she had +never since heard. He had spent +a week in searching for her, he +said; and now he meant to take +care of her and the children.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a></span></p> + +<p>After supper, he rocked Ella to +sleep, and then begged to hold her +awhile; for, he said, "I have something +to tell you."</p> + +<p>"You know I had not fully recovered +when I went away," he +began. "I tried to thank you, but +I couldn't; my heart was too full. +I heard of Dexter's death, and felt +that I had lost a brother. The next +thing I did was to make a resolution +to be a brother to you and +yours. I worked hard and saved +every penny. Not that I thought<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></span> +money could pay you for your care +of me; but I felt that you might +need help.</p> + +<p>"There," he added, holding out +a package, "is the first I earned. +I laid it aside for you."</p> + +<p>The widow's face flushed as she +saw written on a corner of the +wrapper, "Two hundred dollars."</p> + +<p>"I found a good place and succeeded +well. Every day I repeated +the prayer Johnny taught me on +my sick-bed, and God answered it. +I saw my need of a Saviour, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span> +gladly accepted the one offered me +in the Bible. I wrote again and +again to you, sending my letters to +our old place; but I had no reply. +At last I grew too anxious to wait +longer, and, settling my business, +I set out to find you. I wish I had +started a year ago."</p> + +<p>"God's time is the best time," +murmured the widow, her eyes full +of tears.</p> + +<p>Then Mr. Hardy bade Johnny +bring the Bible, and they had reading +and prayers together.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span></p> + +<p>Early as the widow rose the next +morning, their guest was up before +her, and on the roof examining the +building. In the course of the day +the leak was stopped, the broken +steps mended, and a new lock put +on the door.</p> + +<p>Toward night he went out, but +soon returned with a wagon containing +a barrel of flour, two casks +of potatoes, beside sundry small +parcels. An hour later the wagon +came again with a neat bedstead, +mattress, and two stout blankets,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[95]</a></span> +and a whole web of cotton cloth for +sheets.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Talbot clasped her hands on +her breast, saying to herself, "The +Lord has, indeed, appeared for me." +When she tried, with a broken +voice; to thank Mr. Hardy, he only +smiled as he said,—</p> + +<p>"Wait a little. You'll find I'm +selfish after all."</p> + +<p>They had a long talk that evening, +after the children were asleep, +which accounted perhaps for the +pretty pink in the widow's cheek,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</a></span> +when Johnny saw her the next +morning.</p> + +<p>"Come here, my boy," said Mr. +Hardy, drawing a stool to his side; +"I loved your father. He was one +of the best men I ever knew. But +as he is gone, your mother last +night consented that I should be a +father to you and Ella. Will you +be my true and loving son?"</p> + +<p>He opened his arms, and Johnny +was clasped to his breast.</p> + +<p>"I will try to be a good son," he +whispered.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[97]</a></span></p> + +<p>As Mr. Hardy urged there was +no use in delay, the next Sabbath +morning they went to the Rector's +house and were married, Mr. Miles +giving the bride away.</p> + +<p>When Mr. Hardy examined the +cottage, he did it with the resolution +to repair it, if it proved worth +the expense. But he found many +of the timbers rotten, and the sills +sunken into the ground. He +thought it better, therefore, to put +up a new house, for which he had +abundant means. He hired an old<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[98]</a></span> +barn, and fitted it up for a shop, +and then, when not otherwise engaged, +labored diligently at getting +out the frame, doors, and windows +for his new building.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[99]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2>CHAPTER IX.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>THE NEW HOUSE.</div> + + +<div><img src="images/1_dropta.jpg" alt="drop T top" width="175" height="78" class="split" /> +<img src="images/1_droptb.jpg" alt="drop T bottom" width="97" height="116" class="split" /> +</div> +<div class='unindent'><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />HE factory was closed, but +only for a few weeks. Just +as Mr. Miles was making +preparation to leave, orders came +in, which obliged him to employ +all their old hands.</div> + +<p>Johnny did not leave school, but +worked two hours in the morning, +as before. He did not work at<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[100]</a></span> +night, because his new father insisted +that every boy must have +some time to play; and then, when +Mr. Hardy began to have more +work than he could do, Johnny +must get kindlings for his mother, +or run of errands for her.</p> + +<p>In the spring the new house was +finished; a plain, neat building, with +a pretty portico over the front door. +Johnny and his mother often talked +about their old trials, and always +remembered with pleasure that in +the hour of their sorest need, they<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[101]</a></span> +did not forget to trust in the great +and good God.</p> + +<p>Would you like to know what +kind of a house it was to be? I +will try to describe it as Mr. Hardy +did to Johnny and his mother one +evening, with Ella sitting on his +knee.</p> + +<p>"There," he said, drawing a plan +on Johnny's slate, "is the front +door, which leads into the entry. +Out of this on one side is a room, +which we will call the Sunday-room; +because I shall, by and by,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[102]</a></span> +have an organ in there, and we +will sing psalm tunes on Sunday."</p> + +<p>Johnny gave a scream of delight, +and Ella asked, "May I sing, too?"</p> + +<p>"Certainly, my dear. Now here +on the other side is the room where +we shall live and take our meals. +Behind the front entry is a large +closet, into which I mean to put +lockers and drawers, so that your +mother can keep her dishes nicely +arranged, as they used to be in her +old home. I remember," he added, +with a smiling glance at his wife,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[103]</a></span> +"how cosily the room used to look +when Dexter and I came home +from our work, and how I thought +I should be the happiest man living +if I had somebody to care for me as +you did for Dexter.</p> + +<p>"Besides, there will be a kitchen +and a shed beyond, where you will +have a chance to cut and pile wood. +Ella must have some work, too, and +so here goes the chicken-house, +where she will have to feed the +biddies, and find the nice white +eggs. Upstairs, Johnny, there<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[104]</a></span> +will be four chambers, beside a tiny +room over the front entry."</p> + +<p>"Mother is crying!" exclaimed +Ella, springing to the floor.</p> + +<p>"It seems like a dream, a happy +dream," said Mrs. Hardy, softly. +"Only a few weeks ago, and we +were so destitute, and knew not +where to turn for help!"</p> + +<p>"But we prayed to God, mother, +and he heard us. I guess that's +why he sent Mr. Hardy here, don't +you?"</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<div class='tnote'>Transcriber's Note: Obvious punctuation errors repaired.</div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Factory Boy, by Madeline Leslie + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FACTORY BOY *** + +***** This file should be named 43390-h.htm or 43390-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/4/3/3/9/43390/ + +Produced by Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading +Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from +images generously made available by The Internet Archive) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Factory Boy + +Author: Madeline Leslie + +Release Date: August 3, 2013 [EBook #43390] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FACTORY BOY *** + + + + +Produced by Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading +Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from +images generously made available by The Internet Archive) + + + + + + + + + + + +AUNT HATTIE'S LIBRARY + +for Girls. + + +SERIES I. + + VOL. I. THE SHEEP AND LAMBS. + + " II. LILY'S BIRTHDAY. + + " III. LITTLE MISS FRET. + + " IV. MAGGIE AND THE MICE. + + " V. THE LOST KITTY. + + " VI. IDA'S NEW SHOES. + + + + +AUNT HATTIE'S LIBRARY + +for Boys. + + +SERIES II. + + VOL. I. THE APPLE BOYS. + + " II. THE CHEST OF TOOLS. + + " III. THE FACTORY BOY. + + " IV. FRANKIE'S DOG TONY. + + " V. THE GOLDEN RULE. + + " VI. LYING JIM. + +[Illustration: AUNT HATTIE'S LIBRARY] + + + + +The Factory Boy. + +BY AUNT HATTIE, + +AUTHOR OF THE "BROOKSIDE SERIES," ETC. + + + "Trust in the Lord and do good, ... and verily thou shalt be fed." + DAVID. + + + BOSTON: + PUBLISHED BY HENRY A. YOUNG & CO., + NO. 24 CORNHILL. + + + + + Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by + + REV. A. R. BAKER, + + In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of + Massachusetts. + + ROCKWELL & ROLLINS, STEREOTYPERS, + 122 Washington Street. + + + + + To + + NELLIE, ROLAND COTTON, ANNIE, AND FULLER APPLETON, + + CHILDREN OF MY BELOVED NEPHEW, + + THE REV. JOHN COTTON SMITH, D.D., + + THESE SMALL VOLUMES ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED, + + WITH THE EARNEST PRAYER + + THAT THEIR LIVES MAY PROVE THEM TO BE LAMBS IN THE FOLD + + OF THE GREAT AND GOOD + + Shepherd of Israel. + + + + +CONTENTS. + + + CHAPTER I. + Page + THE SILVER DOLLAR, 11 + + CHAPTER II. + KIND FRIENDS, 21 + + CHAPTER III. + THE NEW BOOTS, 32 + + CHAPTER IV. + A SAD STORY, 41 + + CHAPTER V. + GOING TO SCHOOL, 53 + + CHAPTER VI. + JOHNNY A FAVORITE, 64 + + CHAPTER VII. + JOHNNY'S TRUST, 74 + + CHAPTER VII. + JOHNNY'S NEW FATHER, 87 + + CHAPTER IX. + THE NEW HOUSE, 99 + + + + +THE FACTORY BOY. + + + + +CHAPTER I. + +THE SILVER DOLLAR. + + +"TAKE a cup of porridge, Johnny, dear. It's too cold to go to work +without something warm." + +Johnny looked in the bowl which stood on the hearth, near a few +smouldering brands, and shook his head as he answered,--"I'm not very +hungry, mother. There's only enough for you and Ella." Then without +another word he hurried away, for the factory bell was ringing; and he +knew that he must not be late. + +Poor little Johnny! How he shivered as he shuffled along that frosty +December morning! He could not pick up his feet, as the boys say, and +run; for his shoes were much too large for him, and the heels were so +worn that it was only by shuffling that he could keep them on his feet. +He had scarce a quarter of a mile to go; but cold and hungry as the +child was, it seemed a long way to him. He could not help wishing he +were a baby like Ella, and could lie in bed all day, with his dead +father's coat thrown over him to keep him warm. + +It was early yet; and few people were stirring except the men, women, +and children who were hurrying to enter the factory before the bell +ceased to toll. Johnny hurried, too, for he remembered the scolding he +had received the day before for being five minutes too late, and was +just crossing the railroad track when his toe hit against something, +which he stooped to pick up. + +It was a silver dollar; but he did not know it. He had never seen one. +He thought it was a temperance medal, like what he had seen strung +around the boys' necks. + +His eyes shone with pleasure; he had often wished for a medal, and he +determined that when he reached the factory he would thread a piece of +yarn through the hole and wear it outside his jacket. + +The place where Johnny worked was a stocking factory. His part was to +wind the skeins of yarn upon the long spools, from which the men and +large boys wove it into stockings. + +He had forgotten about his hunger now, and was tying a knot in the +string he had put through the dollar, when a young woman came toward +him. + +"What are you doing?" she asked. + +He held up the medal, saying, eagerly, "I found it." + +"It's a dollar, a silver dollar, Johnny." + +"Oh, goody!" cried the boy; "now I can have some new shoes. I thought it +was a Father Matthew's medal; but I'd rather have a dollar. Oh, I'm so +glad!" + +The woman looked in his pale face, and couldn't help saying, as she did +so,-- + +"Are you hungry, child?" + +"Not very." + +"What did you have for breakfast?" + +His lips quivered, but he knew by her kind face that she was a friend; +and he told her the whole story of his mother's long sickness; and how +they had grown poorer and poorer, until there was nothing now but what +he earned. + +"I knew Ella would be hungrier than I," he said, looking the woman full +in the face with his clear blue eyes; "and so I didn't take the +porridge." + +"Wait a minute; you sha'n't go to work so," was all she said; and then +she was off through the door, down the long steps in a hurry. + +He pulled his stool close to the small wheel, on which was a large skein +of fine yarn, and began to turn it with his foot, when the woman came +back, bringing a small basket. + +"Here, Johnny, eat this and this," giving him a buttered biscuit and a +piece of cold meat; "and carry the rest home. There is enough for you, +your mother, and Ella, to have a good dinner." + +Poor Johnny was dumb with astonishment. He could scarcely realize that +all this was for him; but as the woman waited to see him eat, he pulled +the hard silver dollar from his pocket and held it out to her. + +"No! no!" she exclaimed; "give it to your mother. She'll know what to +do with it, I dare say." + +That was a happy day for Johnny; almost the happiest he had ever known. +He had begun it by giving up his own comfort for that of his mother and +sister, and by-and-by God sent him friends to care for him. + + + + +CHAPTER II. + +KIND FRIENDS. + + +DONALD MILES was the name of the Superintendent of the stocking factory. +He had just married a young wife, and brought her to live in one of the +new houses near the mill. She was a Christian woman, who tried to follow +her Master, and do good wherever she had opportunity. She took a class +in the Sabbath school, and told her husband she meant to have some +scholars from the factory. Two or three times she had noticed Johnny +running up the steps, and thought, "that boy is too small for such +work." You can imagine, then, how she felt when she heard his simple +story. + +In the evening Johnny and his mother were eagerly talking over the +various events and scenes of the day when Mrs. Miles opened the door +and presented herself before them. + +"I feel sure," she had said to her husband, "that the child told me the +truth. His eyes were too honest to deceive; but still I mean to go this +very day and see for myself. Why, they have nothing to eat and are on +the very verge of starvation!" + +"I wish, Johnny," Mrs. Talbot was saying, "that the dollar was ours; and +then you should have a pair of shoes; but it is not, and we must +contrive some way to find the owner." + +The room was very poor, but clean as hands could make it. On the floor +in the corner was a straw bed, between the windows, a long chest, and +near the fire three small wooden stools standing before an old rickety +table. + +Mrs. Miles soon convinced the poor woman that she was a friend; and, +before the visit was ended, she found that though one was very poor, and +the other comparatively rich, there was one tie which bound them +together,--they both loved Christ, and looked forward to living with him +forever in heaven. + +When she rose to go she said to Johnny,-- + +"I'll take the dollar with me, and ask my husband what shall be done to +find the owner, and I'll see about the work for you right away. Why," +she added, with a smile, "I can earn a dollar a day closing socks; and I +never was called smart with my needle; so keep up good courage. Better +days are coming for us." + +"But I've tried a great many times to get work," answered the poor +woman, shaking her head. "They always told me there was none." + +Mrs. Miles gave her head a little toss, as much as to say, "No one need +tell me that story." Then she laughed as she exclaimed,-- + +"Well, if I can't get work for you, I'll bring you mine. You need it +more than I do. Now don't cry,--it will hurt your eyes; but say your +prayers and go to bed. I'll be sure to come again soon." + +When she shut the door, Mrs. Talbot began to cry; but these were happy +tears, which brought relief to her overburdened heart. Then she said to +Johnny,-- + +"Let us kneel down and thank God for sending us such a friend." + +"O mother!" exclaimed the boy, when they arose from prayer; "wasn't that +bread and butter nice? I never tasted anything so good." + +"Yes, dear; and when your father was alive we had bread and butter every +day." + +The next morning, when the little boy went to his work, he looked all +about for his kind friend; but he did not see her until he had been +dismissed for dinner. He was passing along the sidewalk, when he heard a +tap on the window of a house close by, and, looking up, he saw Mrs. +Miles beckoning to him. She had a bundle rolled up in a towel, which she +told him to give his mother, and tell her she would have company in the +evening. + +And true enough, just as Ella was safely in bed, there was a knock at +the humble door, and Mrs. Miles walked in, followed by her husband. + +Johnny had never seen this gentleman except in the factory; and then he +looked very grave as he talked with the men or with merchants who came +from the city. Now it was very different. His young wife had told him a +pitiful story about the widow; and he came prepared to help her. + +"So you were lucky to-day, Johnny, and found a dollar," he began, taking +the silver piece from his pocket. "I have made inquiries for you, and +can find no one who claims it; so I think you may keep it with a good +conscience." + +Johnny's eager face expressed his thanks. + +"What would you like to buy with it?" + +"A pair of shoes, sir." + +"Well, come on to the shoe-store." + +"Yes," said the lady, with a smile; "and while you are gone, I'll give +Mrs. Talbot a lesson in closing the seams of the stockings." + + + + +CHAPTER III. + +THE NEW BOOTS. + + +AS they walked together toward the store, Mr. Miles became as much +interested in his young companion as his wife could have wished. The +child discovered so much intelligence, and had evidently been so well +trained, that the superintendent fully agreed with Mrs. Miles, that +it was a pity he should not have a chance to go to school. + +[Illustration: Mr. Mills going with Johnny to buy Shoes + +Series II, vol. iii, p. 32.] + +When they reached the store, the gentleman said, laughing,-- + +"Show us your best goods, now; we want a pair of stout brogans, such as +you can warrant will turn water." + +"For him?" asked the merchant, nodding his head toward Johnny. + +"Yes, for him. You see he needs them badly enough." + +"Boots would be better." + +"Ah, yes." + +Mr. Miles's eyes began to twinkle. He had a happy thought; and so he put +Johnny's silver dollar, which he had been twirling by the string, into +his vest pocket, and began to examine carefully one pair after another +of the boots laid out for him on the counter. + +"This is a good pair," he said, at last. "What is the price?" + +"Three dollars. I'll warrant those; they are custom made; but they were +too small for the child whose mother ordered them. I should have +charged her five if they'd suited." + +"Yes, I see they're first-rate boots,--what, in the hose line, I should +call 'A, number one.' Now I'll tell you what I propose. This little +fellow is the son of a widow, who, when my wife found her, had literally +not one mouthful of food. Just think of such destitution if you can!--a +good Christian, too; but the death of her husband and her own long +sickness have exhausted everything. I propose to give half the price, +and let you give the other." + +"Oh, I can't afford that! Why, I've taken off two dollars already." + +"Look here, now," urged Mr. Miles; "I'm going to start a subscription +for the benefit of the widow. It would make your heart ache to see how +very destitute she is of everything. I want your name down, of course; I +must have it. So here goes,--'Allen Manning, one dollar and a half.' +There, you'll be glad whenever you think of having made a child happy +and comfortable." + +"Well, if you say so, I suppose I must." + +"Thank you. Now I want your wife to join with mine and just make the +widow's hovel a little more tenantable. They'll work together finely, I +know. Mrs. Miles says she is sure a little nourishing food will do more +for the poor soul than a shop-full of medicine. You see, the poor +creature thinks herself in a decline." + +Mr. Manning tied up the bundle and handed it to Johnny; and then the two +started off for home, the boy having looked the thanks his trembling +lips refused to utter. + +"Now, Johnny," said Mr. Miles, "here's your medal; wear it around your +neck as long as you are a truthful boy. When you tell your first lie, +bring it to me." + +"I don't dare to tell lies, sir; mother says God hates liars; but 'those +that speak the truth are his delight.'" + +"That's true doctrine; and here we are." + +Mrs. Miles opened the door when she heard her husband's voice, and said, +in a pleasant tone, and manner,-- + +"She learned the stitch in half the time I did." + +The proud husband tapped her glowing cheek. I am sure he was thinking +what a darling little wife he had. And when Johnny eagerly related the +story of the boots, I know she thought,-- + +"That is so like Donald; he has such a noble heart." + +"And I have the medal,--I mean the dollar, too, mother. I'm to keep it +till I tell a lie." + +"Which I hope will never happen, dear. But did you thank our good, +generous friends? I have no words to express my gratitude." + +"Never mind for words, Mrs. Talbot. Good-night." + + + + +CHAPTER IV. + +A SAD STORY. + + +IT was, indeed, time that help should come to the poor widow, for a +cough had fastened itself on her lungs, which would soon have ended her +life. The room was damp and chilly, and her clothing quite too scant for +winter. Mrs. Miles would not wait till she had earned money to buy wood +and clothing and food. + +"They would all freeze and starve," she told the people where she went +begging. "I want to get something to save their lives; and then, when +she is comfortable, the woman can earn enough to support her family." + +In two weeks you would never have known the room; the glass was mended, +and now the sun shone in. There was a pretty, old-fashioned bedstead, +four nicely painted chairs, a table with leaves, a tiny mirror, a patch +spread, and the cunningest little cooking-stove, which kept the room +beautifully warm. At least, Johnny thought so when he came dancing home +from his work. + +Besides all this, Mrs. Miles had procured from an old lady some healing +syrup, which had nearly cured the troublesome cough; and Mrs. Talbot +could sew now very well, without that terrible pain in her side. + +She told her dear friend one day, that if she could only forget her past +trouble, she should be quite happy,--happier than she had ever expected +to be again. + +"You must tell me about your troubles," Mrs. Miles said. And one +afternoon, when Johnny was at work in the factory, and Ella was taking +her nap, Mrs. Talbot began,-- + +"I was married when I was only seventeen, and went with my husband to +the western part of New York State. He was a carpenter, and could get +good wages, which supported us in great comfort. Johnny was almost seven +years old when Dexter, that is, my husband, told me he wanted to bring +home one of his workmen to live with us. The man had no home, and, as he +did not think it right to spend his evenings in a tavern, he was very +lonely. His name was Robert Hardy, and he gave very little trouble. He +grew to be fond of Johnny, and spent many leisure hours in amusing him +and making him playthings. + +"But one day he came home sick; and for two weeks he never left his bed. +Dexter and I took all the care of him. When he grew better, he went away +to his mother. He sat by the fire thinking. I expected he would thank +us; but he did not. He held Dexter's hand like a vise; and he tried to +say good-by to me; but his voice failed. I have never seen him since. I +feel sure he was grateful. The doctor had told him our care saved his +life. + +"The very night he left, Dexter grew delirious; he had stayed at home +with a cold for a week. The doctor came again, and said he had taken the +fever. + +"Oh, those were dreadful days! He grew worse and worse, and I--it breaks +my heart when I think that I had nursed a stranger, and couldn't nurse +my own husband--I was lying on a bed in the same room; and my little +Ella lay beside me. Every moan of Dexter's went through my heart; and +when he died, all hope and joy died with him. I cared for nothing. I +remember but little of those long, weary months which followed. I should +have died but for the kindness of my neighbors. + +"The Rector visited me; but I scarcely understood what he said. When +Dexter died, there were three hundred dollars laid by in the bank. Fifty +of it went for his funeral expenses and my mourning; and the rest went +little by little, till I had not a shilling left. Then Johnny was taken +sick. I hoped he would die; I hoped we all should die; but I began to +think that I was not prepared to follow my husband to heaven. He loved +his Saviour, and I did not. + +"I tried to pray. The Rector's wife prayed with me, and led me to Jesus. +I learned to trust in him; but I was wholly inexperienced, and knew not +how to earn a living for myself and my little ones. I thought if I +could only get home to my parents that I should be happy; but I had +nothing left to pay my expenses. + +"One by one my pieces of furniture were sold, and I was dependent on +charity for my daily food. At last they raised the money to pay my fare, +and, with all I had in the world packed in Dexter's chest, I left the +place where I had experienced the greatest joy and the greatest sorrow I +had ever known. + +"When I reached home I found my father helpless from a paralytic +stroke, and mother worn out with care of him. One of my friends owned +this old house, and offered me the use of it. He said, as it was near +the factory, we could get work. I might have done something, but I took +cold and was unable to sit up. Afterward, when I inquired again and +again at the factory, I was told that they had already more applicants +than they could supply. + +"At last Johnny got a place there; but his wages were small, +and--and--unless you had found us, I think we should really have +starved." + + + + +CHAPTER V. + +GOING TO SCHOOL. + + +SPRING came at last; and then what delight Ella felt in being allowed to +run out of doors, and play on the new, fresh grass with the pussy Mrs. +Miles had given her! + +Johnny was still in the factory; and Mrs. Talbot worked away at the +hose, making a very comfortable living. She could smile now at Ella's +cunning ways, and laugh with Johnny at the news he brought from the +mill, after his day's work was done. + +He was in Mrs. Miles's class in Sabbath school,--her best scholar, she +said. He had won a prize already for obtaining two new scholars; and +what do you think it was? Why, a new Bible with clasps; and very proud +he was of it, too. Every Sabbath he learned his verses in it,--putting +in the red ribbon-mark with great care. + +In the evening, Johnny read to his mother while she sewed, and now he +was learning to write. + +Mrs. Talbot made a copy on the slate, and he wrote underneath, trying to +make every line better than the last. + +One day he came running home from his work, his face looking very bright +and happy. + +"Mother! mother!" he called out; "I'm going to school! I'm not going to +work any more,--I mean not all day. Mrs. Miles has settled it! And O +mother! I'm to go there this evening for a big bundle of clothes. She's +made me a jacket out of a coat of her husband's, and that was what she +wanted my other jacket for. Oh! oh! I'm so glad!" + +"That is news!" exclaimed Mrs. Talbot. + +"I'm to be advanced," he added; "she says so, and paid by the hour; and +I shall earn just as much working between schools as I do now. O +mother! isn't Mrs. Miles splendid?" + +In the evening, Johnny went for the bundle; and the lady accompanied him +home to see how the new clothes fitted. + +"It's my first trial," she said, laughing; "and I'm very proud to think +that I've succeeded so well." + +Johnny turned round and round, as directed, to show first the back, then +the shoulders and front. + +"I find I have a natural gift at tailoring," cried Mrs. Miles. "I shall +throw up making hose, and devote myself to my new calling. Just see that +sleeve, now! It looks as well as if it were bought from a fashionable +store." + +"I don't know how to thank you," murmured the widow, laughing through +her tears. "I should have tried to cut them over, of course; but I'm +afraid I should have made a bungling piece of work of it." + +"Well, then, if you confess so much, I will tell you that I have a right +to be proud; for the times that jacket has been ripped and sewed, and +ripped and basted and pressed, are beyond calculation. I made a study of +Mr. Miles's wedding-coat, at last, particularly the sleeves, and then I +found out what my trouble was. But the victory was worth all the pains; +so I don't count the four days I spent on it lost time." + +"I mean to be very careful of my new clothes," said Johnny, who had +been listening in open-mouthed wonder. + +They both laughed at his grave tone; and then Mr. Miles came for his +wife; and they talked about the Sabbath school. + +"I want you, Mrs. Talbot, to do my wife a favor," said the gentleman, +trying to look serious. "She is desirous of having an infant class in +the Sabbath school, and wants you for the teacher. Ella, she says, is +old enough to go with you." + +"Me!" exclaimed the widow, in great astonishment. "Me! Why, I am not +competent to teach any one." + +"Neither am I," urged Mrs. Miles; "but I do love my Saviour; and I want +the boys and girls around me to love him; so I try to tell them what a +good Being he is, and what he has done for us. Can't you do that?" + +With a deepened color the widow answered,-- + +"At least, I will try." + +"I knew you would; and if you will only tell them the 'sweet story of +old,' as I heard you telling it to Johnny one of the first visits I made +you, and while I was waiting in the entry for you to answer my knock, it +is all I will ask. Ever since that time I have only been waiting for +summer so that the little ones, Ella among the rest, can go out." + +[Illustration: Johnny with a new Scholar for the Sabbath-school. + +Series II, vol. iii, p. 63.] + +"She tells me beautiful stories about Daniel in the lion's den," +exclaimed Johnny; "and about Joseph in prison. I can read them, too, +in my new Bible." + +"There is a small vestry which seems made on purpose for your school," +suggested Mr. Miles. + +"Where we hope to see you next Sabbath," added the lady. + +"I will do the best I can," was the humble reply; "and I am sure I shall +love the work." + + + + +CHAPTER VI. + +JOHNNY A FAVORITE. + + +I WISH you could have seen Johnny the first morning he started for +school. His face was as clean as soap and water could make it; his hair +was nicely parted on his broad forehead; his eyes shone like stars; and +his mouth was wreathed with smiles. He wore the new suit Mrs. Miles had +given him, and a clean linen collar around his neck. In one hand he +carried a little pail full of dinner; and under his other arm, his +spelling-book, reader, and slate. He was to call at Mrs. Miles's for a +pencil; and so, after bidding his mother good-by and hearing her call +after him, "Be a good lad, Johnny, and don't let any idle boys turn you +from your book," he hurried away to be in season to choose a seat. + +This was the first day of the term, and the earliest scholars had the +best chance. + +Mrs. Miles met him at the door with the long slate-pencil nicely +sharpened in her hand; and, having looked at him from head to foot, she +said, approvingly,-- + +"You are just right, Johnny, and I'm proud of you." Then she kissed his +glowing cheek, and he ran down the steps. + +I suppose you would like to know where the silver dollar was all this +time. Why, round Johnny's neck, to be sure! You know he was to wear it +till he told a lie; and, as he had never departed from the truth, it was +still there, fastened to a nice ribbon that his mother had bought for +it. + +At school, Johnny liked his teacher and the boys; and they liked Johnny. +In school he was as grave as a judge, studying his lessons with all his +might; but at recess there was not a merrier boy among the whole set. +Playing ball or catcher were new games to him, who had always been +obliged to work so hard, and he enjoyed every moment of the time given +to them. + +Then he was always fair at his plays, and ready to oblige his +companions. By-and-by it used to be said,-- + +"Don't cheat, now! Be fair, like Johnny Talbot." + +This pleased Johnny's friends more than all the rest. To be sure they +liked to have him a good scholar,--to have him popular among his +school-mates; but it was best of all to know that he tried to do what +God would approve. + +At home he was just the same boy that he was when I first began to tell +you about him, and was as ready to give up his pleasure to his mother +and Ella as he had been to give up his scant breakfast of Indian +porridge, when he knew there was not enough for all. + +As you may imagine, Johnny was a very busy child. He rose almost as soon +as he could see, and reached the farm where his mother and Mrs. Miles +bought their milk, before the farmer was ready for him. Then he was back +with his two pails, and off for the factory for a couple of hours. + +He was very happy here, for all the men and women smiled upon him, so he +whistled away at his work, though the noise of the machinery prevented +any one but himself hearing his music. + +When the town-clock struck eight he was off for home, where he had only +just time to eat his breakfast, wash and dress for school, before it +was the hour to start. + +After school, he changed his clothes again, and had three more hours for +work before dark. + +So the summer passed happily away. Sometimes, indeed, when the boys were +starting off for nuts; or when he heard them on the common, flying their +kites, he used to wish, just for one moment, that he were rich, so that +he could have time to go with them; but he did not cherish such +thoughts. He knew that God had been very kind to him, and that his +heavenly Father had ordered all things for his best good. His mother had +explained to him that it was for Joseph's future advancement that God +allowed him to be put into prison, and that this great and good Being is +always watchful over those who love and trust him. + +At home, though Johnny had little leisure, yet he contrived to please +Ella so much that she longed for his presence, and would run forth to +meet him, her apron full of grass and flowers, which she had gathered +for dear Johnny. + + + + +CHAPTER VII. + +JOHNNY'S TRUST. + + +BY the industry of Johnny, and the wages of his kind mother, the family +at the cottage had passed a very comfortable summer; but now work was +scarce, and the widow looked forward with some dread to the cold +weather. + +She well knew that more than one third of the women who worked for the +factory had received no hose for several weeks; and that it was only +through her friend's exertions that Mr. Miles sent it regularly to her. + +Then, although her earnings had provided them with abundance of good +plain food, yet this sum, even if continued, would not supply fuel and +warm clothes. Nor was there anything to pay for mending the roof, where +the rain dripped in during every shower. + +It was on a dreary November evening that Mrs. Talbot talked with her son +while Ella, untroubled by anxiety or care, lay soundly sleeping in the +bed at the farther corner of the room. + +With a sigh, the widow told her boy she feared trouble was before them. + +"Everything seems dark," she went on; "I can't see where help to carry +us through the winter is coming from. We can't live in this house much +longer unless it has new shingles on the roof; and I know that is a +very costly job. Then we all need warm clothes. I'm afraid, Johnny, +you'll have to leave school and work harder than you have ever worked +before;" and she sighed again. + +Johnny's chin trembled. "I can't work in the mill, mother," he began, +trying to keep back a sob. "One of the men told me to-day there were no +orders from the merchants, and they would have to stop." + +The widow covered her pale face with her hands. "We shall starve, +then," she cried out, in a voice of agony. "Oh, if your father were only +alive!" + +She leaned on the table and wept bitterly. + +"Mother," faltered Johnny, drawing his coat-sleeve across his eyes; +"mother, you told me our heavenly Father loves us better than any +earthly father. Won't he help us if we pray to him? Don't cry so, +mother; I think he knows about it, and perhaps he'll take care of us, +as he did when we were starving before." + +"Johnny! Johnny! I've been wicked. I've been doubting him all day. Yes, +my child, he is good, merciful, and true to his promises, even to poor, +weak creatures like me. We will pray, and we will trust. I feel happier +already. I have been carrying my burden of care when he says we may cast +it on him. Come, Johnny, we will pray." + +They kneeled together by the firelight; and the woman, with a full +heart, thanked her heavenly Father for her precious boy,--that his faith +had not wavered when she so wickedly doubted his power or his +willingness to help them. She thanked him again for his former care of +them, and she urged his gracious promise, "I will be the widow's God, +and a father to the fatherless." + +She arose and took her seat with almost a smile. + +"All my anxiety has gone," she said, in a cheerful tone; "I know my +heavenly Father is able and willing to help us. Johnny, my precious boy, +how could I murmur when you and Ella are spared?" + +"I prayed in my heart all the way home," faltered the boy; "I didn't +know what we should do; but I kept saying to myself,-- + +"'God knows all about it,--just as he did about Joseph in prison.'" + +His mother drew him to her side, and kissed his forehead. + +"Now you must go to bed," she said. "Though we trust God for the +future, we must do all we can to help ourselves. I have work for another +week; and you must be off early to yours. When this fails, I feel sure +that we shall be provided for somehow." + +Johnny lay quiet on his couch, and his mother thought him asleep. She +read chapter after chapter of God's holy word, comforting herself in his +gracious promises, when she was startled by hearing her boy say,-- + +"Mother, there's my silver dollar, you know. That will buy a good deal." + +"Yes, dear." + +Her voice trembled. She knew how much he prized that dollar, and how +often Mr. Miles had asked to see it, "to be sure," he said, "that it was +not lost or forfeited." She resolved that not until everything else had +been sacrificed should that dollar be parted with. + +Two days later Johnny ran home with the joyful announcement,-- + +"Mrs. Miles has come home! I've seen her. She beckoned me to go in, and, +O mother! what do you think she showed me? The cunningest little baby I +ever saw. She wants you to come right over, and she----" + +Mrs. Talbot interrupted him by saying,-- + +"That is good news! I'll go at once, and take Ella, so that I can stay +and help her. Rake up the fire as quickly as you can, and put on Ella's +hood." + +"I felt a little troubled for you," exclaimed the lady, when, after a +cordial embrace, she had heard a confession of the widow's fears; "but I +am sure all will come out right and bright. That dear Johnny! I hope my +boy will be just like him;" and here she gave the baby a good squeeze. + +"If the mill is shut, as I suppose it must be, we shall go to my +father's for the winter. It will be a trial to all of us; but we will +trust it is for the best. My husband told me that he should know +certainly at the end of another week. If no orders come in before that +time, they can't keep on." + +Mrs. Talbot took the baby and began to caress it to hide her troubled +face; but presently said, with a smile,-- + +"How thankful we ought to be that there is One who orders all events in +our lives, and that this Being is he who calls himself our Father." + + + + +CHAPTER VIII. + +JOHNNY'S NEW FATHER. + + +THE cold weather came on early this year. As he ran shivering home from +school, Johnny saw, at almost every house, the preparations for winter. +Here was a pile of wood, and there a large heap of coal, suggestive of +warmth and comfort. Two days more and the important question about the +factory would be decided. If Mrs. Miles went away, it would be very +desolate. God only knew how they should be able to get along. + +He thought of all this one night as he was returning from the factory, +and to comfort himself began humming his favorite tune,-- + + "I have a Father in the promised land." + +As he came in sight of the cottage, he wondered at the bright light +which reflected from the windows; but he wondered still more at the +scene presented within. + +Their one table was set in the middle of the floor, and spread with such +abundance as he had never seen there. His mother was hurrying to and +fro, and intent on the cakes she was frying, while at the same time she +talked with a well-dressed man who sat near the fire holding Ella in his +lap. + +"I haven't forgotten your favorite dish," she said, with an arch smile. +"You liked rye fritters best, while Dexter preferred buckwheats." + +"Ah, there is Johnny!" exclaimed the stranger, holding out his hand. +"Don't you remember me?" + +It was, indeed, an old friend,--the man who had been watched and nursed +by Mrs. Talbot and her husband, and from whom she had never since heard. +He had spent a week in searching for her, he said; and now he meant to +take care of her and the children. + +After supper, he rocked Ella to sleep, and then begged to hold her +awhile; for, he said, "I have something to tell you." + +"You know I had not fully recovered when I went away," he began. "I +tried to thank you, but I couldn't; my heart was too full. I heard of +Dexter's death, and felt that I had lost a brother. The next thing I did +was to make a resolution to be a brother to you and yours. I worked hard +and saved every penny. Not that I thought money could pay you for your +care of me; but I felt that you might need help. + +"There," he added, holding out a package, "is the first I earned. I laid +it aside for you." + +The widow's face flushed as she saw written on a corner of the wrapper, +"Two hundred dollars." + +"I found a good place and succeeded well. Every day I repeated the +prayer Johnny taught me on my sick-bed, and God answered it. I saw my +need of a Saviour, and gladly accepted the one offered me in the Bible. +I wrote again and again to you, sending my letters to our old place; but +I had no reply. At last I grew too anxious to wait longer, and, settling +my business, I set out to find you. I wish I had started a year ago." + +"God's time is the best time," murmured the widow, her eyes full of +tears. + +Then Mr. Hardy bade Johnny bring the Bible, and they had reading and +prayers together. + +Early as the widow rose the next morning, their guest was up before her, +and on the roof examining the building. In the course of the day the +leak was stopped, the broken steps mended, and a new lock put on the +door. + +Toward night he went out, but soon returned with a wagon containing a +barrel of flour, two casks of potatoes, beside sundry small parcels. An +hour later the wagon came again with a neat bedstead, mattress, and two +stout blankets, and a whole web of cotton cloth for sheets. + +Mrs. Talbot clasped her hands on her breast, saying to herself, "The +Lord has, indeed, appeared for me." When she tried, with a broken voice; +to thank Mr. Hardy, he only smiled as he said,-- + +"Wait a little. You'll find I'm selfish after all." + +They had a long talk that evening, after the children were asleep, which +accounted perhaps for the pretty pink in the widow's cheek, when Johnny +saw her the next morning. + +"Come here, my boy," said Mr. Hardy, drawing a stool to his side; "I +loved your father. He was one of the best men I ever knew. But as he is +gone, your mother last night consented that I should be a father to you +and Ella. Will you be my true and loving son?" + +He opened his arms, and Johnny was clasped to his breast. + +"I will try to be a good son," he whispered. + +As Mr. Hardy urged there was no use in delay, the next Sabbath morning +they went to the Rector's house and were married, Mr. Miles giving the +bride away. + +When Mr. Hardy examined the cottage, he did it with the resolution to +repair it, if it proved worth the expense. But he found many of the +timbers rotten, and the sills sunken into the ground. He thought it +better, therefore, to put up a new house, for which he had abundant +means. He hired an old barn, and fitted it up for a shop, and then, +when not otherwise engaged, labored diligently at getting out the frame, +doors, and windows for his new building. + + + + +CHAPTER IX. + +THE NEW HOUSE. + + +THE factory was closed, but only for a few weeks. Just as Mr. Miles was +making preparation to leave, orders came in, which obliged him to employ +all their old hands. + +Johnny did not leave school, but worked two hours in the morning, as +before. He did not work at night, because his new father insisted that +every boy must have some time to play; and then, when Mr. Hardy began to +have more work than he could do, Johnny must get kindlings for his +mother, or run of errands for her. + +In the spring the new house was finished; a plain, neat building, with a +pretty portico over the front door. Johnny and his mother often talked +about their old trials, and always remembered with pleasure that in the +hour of their sorest need, they did not forget to trust in the great +and good God. + +Would you like to know what kind of a house it was to be? I will try to +describe it as Mr. Hardy did to Johnny and his mother one evening, with +Ella sitting on his knee. + +"There," he said, drawing a plan on Johnny's slate, "is the front door, +which leads into the entry. Out of this on one side is a room, which we +will call the Sunday-room; because I shall, by and by, have an organ in +there, and we will sing psalm tunes on Sunday." + +Johnny gave a scream of delight, and Ella asked, "May I sing, too?" + +"Certainly, my dear. Now here on the other side is the room where we +shall live and take our meals. Behind the front entry is a large closet, +into which I mean to put lockers and drawers, so that your mother can +keep her dishes nicely arranged, as they used to be in her old home. I +remember," he added, with a smiling glance at his wife, "how cosily the +room used to look when Dexter and I came home from our work, and how I +thought I should be the happiest man living if I had somebody to care +for me as you did for Dexter. + +"Besides, there will be a kitchen and a shed beyond, where you will have +a chance to cut and pile wood. Ella must have some work, too, and so +here goes the chicken-house, where she will have to feed the biddies, +and find the nice white eggs. Upstairs, Johnny, there will be four +chambers, beside a tiny room over the front entry." + +"Mother is crying!" exclaimed Ella, springing to the floor. + +"It seems like a dream, a happy dream," said Mrs. Hardy, softly. "Only a +few weeks ago, and we were so destitute, and knew not where to turn for +help!" + +"But we prayed to God, mother, and he heard us. I guess that's why he +sent Mr. Hardy here, don't you?" + + * * * * * + +Transcriber's Note: Obvious punctuation errors repaired. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Factory Boy, by Madeline Leslie + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FACTORY BOY *** + +***** This file should be named 43390.txt or 43390.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/4/3/3/9/43390/ + +Produced by Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading +Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from +images generously made available by The Internet Archive) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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