Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1877 — AMY'S VOYAGE. [ARTICLE]

AMY'S VOYAGE.

“ MAitifA’, if yoJ were my dear little Amy and-1 wad: your mamma, I should say, * Come, darling. Jet me button, ymr boots for you.’” ■ • . Mamma looked at the fat hands tugging* at thq buttop-hook., the brown head down, and tie small face, and smiled. . >■: ■> “ If I were your dear little Amy,” she. said, “ I would not wet my feet by plavfag fa forbidden placed and bare urn Change my boots.” , “Oh, yes you Would!'*cried Amy,tnumphantly, f ‘ Fog theft you’d be. adittfo girl, and grandma says children have no, discretion.” 1 * », “They have understandings however, MS yore aSiShe tugged ai[her bootA ,)ly* u ‘ She did mean, to obey. She Out on one of the frOlich, so surC to lead her into mischief ,that she did not resolve to be very good keepm ta&swb, filaCeS as mamma Approved. But Amy oved the water is a duck does, andfatnptatfon was alwaysnear., » JiThe IHWh behind the house sloped ddwn tp the edge df the beautiful river, a little brook raced across the orchard.,and net far from the hodse was the CSriaT, with its tow-path and pypcessicm. fa slow-moving horses and large, unWieldly boats. It WM tfgrtet eotertatnmehtto Watch stand, on the brfagp and tee. faem gw travej, fa it continually, but®! yet she‘lad the half-howls aawip g-*~Which i waa pwiu hop and nwfa- viau 1 n 1 ft'--’, h bro<*j ( AaqstoM teifiley. j4l should ihfak pafat them better,” thought Amy, looking the, dingy Me : just w mghtJ “Jfihe’shhH looking Jjtfrtousay >.hr thb -hnatf wa» faokfag man,;stbl4wy dfa fa, a funny 1W grasqboppwy,' HomdWafa. ■ 7 °“ !not ’ Aid 1 .Amyipett|shlf, jy .jxj m hflolj*» , Hl 6 ■cdnaL ~i idtifto > nevasri fa tacsi and was qt bethpxpianatiope ofi where the man Mid hn and his tiny faHwe- --u . .;.r

Amy ptfttfeit thofighrit-teHW too clean, lyut Jt. vaa contracted and very netts- “ Well. Mid the mefi.'** ! WlVatyA don’t reckon she »l laaee MMUnfetyM away to the h<Mfe a iatt te»'J»«>6url|pL none out, and erandnja was not to be found. Mtlmtiy deoae <Mv«df,’’ ’<iW<fcofl|lt, and, rushing starting, and caTTed,' desperately: IVWaitferpaef-Mbitiy. flnl A he jumped 1 down among scWrie-boles, 7 aridrejbl«i#g*h» r WftUW wW WIt was ntehoiaide, hut ttWMCvnrjr teate*. motion, and Amy, heated with running, arid MMted ftft-tM” tester, leaned .Uqk, qn the n box<fQ wwtfexjng Rd took so long to reach the bridge, ana so wtrfKtaringvfelbasleep. , tuiovM «A wjyc^dtke,fonpd borealf- akxl A “I want to go home, 1 do!’! , *Aft&teAilste> sprang frotn his place at the rudder. ■» tl ( ~ “If I haven’t forgotten you clean ouW’t -h« safld.v **You peer little- kit*«s!J J t’JFWW’TOMft did I, while Bam was at the fore, And here , wb are!” oiTTTried

Amy wailed loudprfbaq before, aqdher frtenrftried awkwardly'tocbmfol't het. It was ot bq «se, «ti< w|jei. presently, they . met a boat going toward the town, aqcepted, with relief, Sam’s suggestion that she beseot ., _. t . . -n-/ “ It’s Joe Bangs, and h» wife is alodg. '3116’1l beikinif to you,”baid Sdm;' * as Amy, still weeping, handed oyer, with a hurried explanation, and received by a frowsy: woman in a greasy gownu i How Amy hated the .jIT-smeiling cabin , into which she' waslaftten, ahfl even the kind, but untidy, peopletyhAtried SO cdm- '. fort her. She could not sleep on tlye stuflty bed; she wottjld not ebt, though Mite. Bimga.QffererJ j b«r & i slices of Ijread ana molasse’s.' She could only cry, and think of home, and ’happiness, And ntettiw - ma. as the slow hours went .Qp, ~ M It way ten o*t!ldek when Amy was aei livered at het fathctls doat. to find all the > household in alarm, about her naughty self. She iJltingra ’ intb the arms* of mamma, whq [sat„ pele and agx£Qup,.on tilt SOXH. ‘♦•lf you Wakmy littii Amy,- I'd fbrgive ’ .you for yop’d bapyped of , f aqa| l .bppts i !’’ j sobbed the child, and then mamma and Amy tfied torethter.-:, ■ r And certainty Amy has, never taken aq* « other canal voyage since tbit tirnd.—' FewtAty ConipawiM.i! L hiw.rtko <i

—lt is related of the Hon. B. F. Mbore, “thefather df Ihe harV of North: Catalina, that when Mr. Clay visited that State heWaS selected to rfihko ffie welcoming address to , that, statesman.. Ha made r a great effort in its preparation; he called > on a friend, Mr. Simmons, in orddf tb Vead.it to.bfay said ftimiJV’PL ironically, ‘‘ I puppose you wish me to . criticise tot! ’correct, <bilng aft educated ' and schpfarly gentleman?.” “Npt that.?! • said Mr. Moore, “but to see how it will strike the vulgtrn mifid.’’* ' i * M