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the easement ofth lonely rhabitation stu.


ated in that enclosure. The night was in.


4ensely cold, and the low moaning of the


wind were the only Sounds to be heard


around the dwelling, while occasionally


at the uncartained window, or the hall


opened door, appeared the face of a pale


and anxious woman.


She could see the lights Of the village,


and she watched until they all gradually


disappeared-unril the last star which


twinkled from the windows of the farm


houses beneath her, had been extingui-


shed, until darkness settled ON every


object, and she could no longer catch the


slimmering light of distant habitation.
She must then have felt more sad and lone
1y but still she heaped her fire, and the
pine torch shed its bright and warm light


around the room. Tomorrow would be


the Sabbath; and how many wives and
mothers, around and below her, had sunk
into peaceful slamber, and would awake
70 all the sacred enjoyments of its holy
hours and then as such thoughts passed
through her breast, she turned to the bed
OF her little ones, and then fastened and
watched-yet still dreaded the return Of
the husband and father.


That husband was drunkard, and the
wife knew as he staggered home, his mouth
would be filled with imprecativns, and
unlike the patriarch Of old. who returned
to bless his dwelling, as he entered his
home, curses ard revilings would be poured
upon his family.


1t was not unusual for him to be absent
late at night, or through the night; yet
still she was required to watch his hearth
and trim his FIRE, while he was engaged in
drunken revelling and angry brawls. Once
Or twice she thought she heard him, and
her head sunk, and her breath came quick
in dread Of his abuse; yet when he did
not appear, and she remembered his pro-
bable exposure to the piercing cold-of
The danger Of losing life or limb, as he
wandered like maniac over that bleak
bill, she forgot all his brutality; she tho't
Of him only as the husband of her youth,
the father Of her children. Fear and pru-
dence still withheld her, and morning at
length dawned upon the sleepless and anx-
ous wife.


With the light ofthe morning the chill.
lren rose, and as the eldest boy left the
house TO fodder the few sheep. his eyes
fell upon the PROSTATE body of his father
The man had perished in sight Of his own
5welling-in sight Of the FIRE which he re-
auired his wife TO keep-and perhaps with
bis eyes fixed upon that illuminated case
nent. There he lay, with the ground bea-
len for many feetaround him; his hands
:lenched and filled with snow, as if he
bad perished like a strong man in agony
Dis limbs frozen, his face purple, and his
.yes glazed and open.


His tale was soon told. When the last
,iliage grocery was closed, he started for
lis distant and solitary home. He was
raced by his oaths until he passed the last
,abitation on his way, and some benevo-
ent individuals who heard him, fearing
hat he might lose himself and perish that
litter night, rose from their beds and watch