SUNDAY IN THE SETTLER'S CABIN.
\ "Farm Festivals." By Will Carleion. : RrsDAYs. we didn't propose, for lack o 1 church, To have our souls left wholly in the lurch. so I shaved and dressed'up, well's 1 could, ; And did a day's work trying to be good. ■ My wife was jwavs band-box sleek : and when Our fat old bull's-eye nr.it.-h >aid hali-i>.ist ten And lied ou" Sunda. sT same as any day), The fumilv Bible from its i.i.-h percli started ; (The one her mother eave h-r when they parted). ■ The hymn-book, full of music, halm, and *re- . The one she used to sing irom in t: e choirf Ouj I sang witli her from -I've cot it yet— ■ Tiie very first time that we really met ? (I recollect. wli-.-a rirst our voices jo ned, [ A feeling that declines to be described', A kind of old acquaintance look in hers, '■ And something went from mine, which I d.'dare I never knew lief ore was there : , And when our hands touched, slight .is slight couli «> A streak o' sweetened lightnm" thrilled through s:«. But that's enough of that: cerhaps. even no" , , ; You'll think I'm softer than the law '11 allow ; But you'll protect an old man with his \ For yesterday I turned uiy eightieth page ; ' Besides, there'd be less couples falling out 1 j If such things were more freely talked about. Well, we would take these books, sit down aloa?, J I And have a two-horse meeting all our owr.: \nd read our verses, sin; oar sacred rhymes, ■ And make it seem a good deal like old time'. But tinallv across her face there'd glide A sort of sorrv shadow from inside, i And once she'dropped her head like a tired flu'rtr Upon my arm. and cried a half an hour ; I humoured her until she had it out, And didn't ask her what it was about ; I knew right well: our reading, s.im. and prayer . Had brought the old times back, too true and siiui."'. The large attended meetings morn and night; The spiritual an 1 mental warmth and light; Her lather in his pew, next to the aisle ; Her mother, with the mother of.her smile ; I 1 er brother's sly. forbidden >/rfna"Sv .Kleej. 7 Her sisters. e'en,aifii"6st as sweet as'slie , : .. & * Her gi.-l and bov friends not too warai or ceoi ;' Her little scrub'cla=s in the <u:iday-seh.-01. The social, and the singings, and the bull. And happy home chair waiting for them all. These marched in close procession through her d-dj Aud didn't forget to leave their tracks behind. In another oolunui will be found a numrT of fresh tt-stimouials which Trofessor Gus-cc, herijalist, of Shortland-street, has received "mi various iudiriduals. for curiu,- them of dyspep^ rheumatism, neuralgia, dropsy, asthma, "blceiii-^ IJiles. .ve. He announces his maxiui as *'no cuiw> pay." .vhieh is oue which all professors of t ! - / 1,,-aling art, unfortunately, do not adopt. Trofesi" Gusscott states that, unlike other birds of passagf a the .-ame line, who have him, ho intenit'to s-iitle permanently in Auckland, and has purchaT! both landed and household property in tlie mJh--Eden district, which fact should satisfy tho publio'f. his bolt-* fides in entering into business here. > * Good Advice.—Xow is the time of yeati-r Pneumonia Lung Fever, ic. Kvery family shqild have a botUe of Uoschee's Gekmax Svru/. Da't allow for one moment that cough to take hold oiycu: child, your family or yourself CoasumpUc, AstUma, Pneumonia Croon Hemorrhages and nth fatal dise ; ises may set in. Although it«trie Ge*^ aviicp is curing thousands of these dreaded dfiSsS yet it :s much better to have it at hand wheif tw' doses «iU cure you. One bottle will last youl fa^Sjj a winter and keep you safe from danger. If TO lfnS Donsumpt.ve, do not rest until you have biS tt™ remedy. Sample bottles Cd. Eeffuiarlu e %t Sold by all chemists aud wholesale by SwzSi 4
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6261, 10 December 1881, Page 6
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