Rockland Gazette : December 26, 1872
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POUTER. will receive careful attention. it’ll believe there’s a Santa Claus, papa. I know,” A tall, meek, mild-eyed gentleman, questioned Jemima, making believe not done. A desperate pull gave she, just her this box and ask for my prayer- De/crred Iron, East Week. While dear little Willie climbed up on his knee, this curate—who had gone bald at the to care for the adulation, though it was the congregation began their re book.” Shipbuilding in M aine. Determined no secrets between them should be, top of his In a I, and had a fringe of in truth as the veriest incense to her sponse “ As it was in the beginning,” ‘Is it the turkey, then, that I’ll be And told, in soft whispers, how Annie had said, gray hair round it. lie was immensely heart. “ You can do it well, you know, Miss Tamarind— cooking, after all?” questioned Bridget. In the Boston J o u r n a l of last Saturday that their dear, blessed mamma, so long ago dead , For the Gazette. popular in the district, chiefly because if you will.” What on earth was it? The prayer- “Oh cook anything; do what you appears an interesting statistical letter CHRISTMAS GREETING. Used to kneel down and pray by the side ol' her chair, lrom the /tngusta correspondent of that And that______ God up in__________ Heaven had answered___ __ h'-r pray. lie was unmarried. Ho many single la- “ ’’rust me, missus—and ain’t it for aook had suddenly hurst into a crash like,” replied her unhappy mistress. A Merry Christinas to you nil then wedotupnnd prayed dest as well uswo tould, | dies, Old and VOling—not tO Speak ol the gala dinner o’ tliis blessed day I” of music, and Jemima dropped it on Was it a judgment upon her, she paper, on the revival of shipbuilding in Who sit withiu this festive throng— And Dod answered ourpraver;now wasn't Hedoodf” the widows—had never attended St. was the girl’s answer. “ Oh, but that the crimson cushion before h er; the kept asking herself, as she sat over her this State, giving a statement of the num Such Christmas as the Shepherds saw. -I should say that He was, if He sent you all these. John’s Church as since he came to it, a gownd’s just a rainbow, ma’am I” congregation stopped short in their re lonely fire in the growing dusk of the ber, class and tonnage of vessels built in When Bethlehem’s hills burst forth in song, Well, well, let him think so, the dear little elf, afternoon, the grass green silk put off, And joy absorbed each humble mind, ’ ( would be cruel to tell him I did it myself.” year ago. The previous curate had a What with guarding the gown from sponse ; the Reverend Mr. Macfuseras Maine during the past year, with very To greet the Savior of'mankind. Blind father! who caused your stern heart to relent, wife and seven children ; and the ladies contact with the streets, and what with opened his inouth in consternation. and her old black one on. How dared encouraging estimates of the business And the ha<ty words spoken, so soon to repent ? had then mostly gone to another church the new prayer-book and a white mufl. she go to church on Christmas morn Age on age has rolled since then, “ The Blue-Bells of Scotland” was the of the coming year. Wo copy the follow ’i’was the Being who hade you steal softly up stairs, ing rapt in thoughts of her finery and A vast w orl . heeds that Morning Star saying this was draughty. Mr. Mac Jemima Tamarind had her bauds full air, regaling the scandalized earsjin the ing table of return for 1872 for the And mud- you His agent to answer their prayers. fuseras was turned forty-four, and rea I as siie sailed down the road. Opposite nothing else? Never again as long as Which on Judea’s province rose. sacred edifice. DISTRICT OF WALDOBORO. V X D And beamed with glorious light afar. ly owned it. There was no chance of Mr. Lethridge’s house, she saw master It was too true. There lay the she lived could she he guilty of it; fo. Owned, or by whom Built, The faithful few who viewed it then his marrying; his stipend was too small Richard, a gentleman of ten, mounted prayer-book—or what Jemima had the check would serve her for life. and Whvre Built. Class. Name®. Tons. Have grown to ranks of Christian men. ^liswUanih and he readily owned that. But per on the spikes of the iron gates. taken for her prayer-book—grinding It had been lonely for her, latelv: E. Five Oh ! dark, dark hours our annals show haps he was not believed, lie shook “ Why, Dick, you should not be do away louder than any street organ. and her tears dropped hot and thick, as Which that fai t Eight hasstruggled throug AIISS TAJU M .W ’S CllltlST- hands with Miss Tamarind ; who throw ing that on Christinas Day,” reproved The unhappy lady, st anding like a stat the fact suggested itself that, the future Till every clime beneath the sun U A „ H A Y . her cloak oil’ and began to join in the Jemima Tamarind. “Arc your papa ue struck into stone, bent her near would he more so. After this awful Walker, Dunn & Co., H as felt tin* bri.h ln ess ol its line, exhibition that she had caused in tlie Am<>9 Walker...264.29 And bonds have butM from minds suppressed, wreathing with a will. It was tliis gen and mamma gone to church yet?” sighted eyes on the thing she did not llHtkjEriv i‘in“ & C<a’ do,*Sch L«zz*e Wilson..31U.36 .FOUNDED ON FACT. church, neither of its ministers would 11 lit & liter man, do........Sch Ella Pressev. 165.34 Proud heads have bowed and hearts confessed. tleman that Miss Tamarind would have “Pa and ma’s not going,” responded dare to touch with her fingers. By <"mne! W atN £ r ,,n ttie Turner’.'.2V5.05 liked to ask to share her dinner on the Dick, jumping down. “ Pa's ill.” slow degrees the solution of the mys notice her again. The Reverend Sandy And. oh where heathen lands have slept It was a beautiful little white house, morrow, hut dared not. Jemima Tamarind was early, and tery pawned upon her. This was no’, .17. icfiiseras would not be likely to so ("hiVk ( 3 w L?", llo-"-"',ch ll 'i-U c f,irliind.5lil.il ’Neath Superstition’s darkest vail. villi lilies and loses outside it, and a I ,‘pd w‘?i; i . ,do 'oro- • Mini Shelden..;s.’.27 Now by the Gambia’s sunny tide, Suppressed tittering arose oil the thought she would go in and see what, a prayer-book at all, hut a musical box much as take off his hat to her from tin- ’ a i do........ •t,ctl ‘ Lira G. L oud..280.21 green lawn sloping to the smalt iron I'.dwin Achom & bon. do. .Sch Georcia I) I oud 17*5 S3 And where the Congo speeds her sail. other side the mound of green. A was the matter. Dick marshalled her and she had set it going by pulling opposite side of the street. And she Cu dwell H an d er, .Se li n , , d n S c l . N ^ 'V u ^ ^ . V ^ We find that faith in things unseen gate. That is. lilies and roses in the piece of mistletoe, as big as a piece of into the drawing-room, while he called knew she could have made him so hap Xe son Ilionipson do ........Sch Helen l ho,i,n,nn,IKI.St went she thought was the clasp. She /• & Co” ttrtstol.Sch Pride of the P ort,32.39 Which brings us here this Christinas e’en. proper season for them ; now, Decem parsley, had disclosed its sacrilegious his mother. She sat down by the round must have taken it up by mistake from py ! If that faintly cherished hope ol a . Ac A. Gatnage, do..........8 tr George W . Hunt..5<,97 ber weather, they were replaced by lau oers had ever come to anything she Samuel Kelsey, do................Sell llun-urd.............. 73.27 Where’er the Liberty of Laws presence amid the holly. table, putting the prayer-book upon it.