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him (it must have been his beauty), Emigration, and had found that a man I a,n excitement, and a crowd gathered
and while his mother had a patient», named Job Perkstrupp, and his Bon around the two boys.
Certain donkeys being required by good little fellow named “ Lager,” and Phillibert, had come over in the
O, ’tis an old brown house—
When the Principal became aware
Alone with the wind and the dust ;
some invalid ladies at the sea shore Jem had Ji Gingerbread,” and Giles Washington, on such a dateK which
of
the facts, he allowed Adrian to take
Leaves are adrift on the porch,
this summer, we were referred to an hail “ Kraut,” (all' Job Pigstirrup’s corresponded with Job’s story.
the rescued Pickieback home, telling
The lock—it is locked with rust.
old gentleman who kept some of these donkeys) Adrian and Shicken strug­
Could this be"'Pigstirrup' and him, however, that he had committed '
We will enter the old, old house
useful animals at a farm two miles gled along behind the party, and Job Pickieback ?
some small crime which had caused
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Push upon the créa king door ;
from the beach. •
Wl5 concluded that it might be; him to be sent to the “ Home for
would prod, and talk, and tell the
07 Hollow echoes the tread
We found a stout, dirty little Ger­ story of Pickieback, and they would then Adrian took up the search, He Juvenile Delinquents” for a year.
Of steps on the dusty floor.
man man, with a face nearly-as large ride along the beach* find enjoy the traced them to the beer-shop, but no Pickieback, hungry and lost in New
The bat disturbed as we ent >r.
as a barrel top, and covered with great salt air, and the great waves, and the further; there he lost all trace.
Flies from his darkened domain,
York, had, after being separated from
warts, who, however, had a pleasant splendid music of the sea. The little ’ In the meantime Jem and Giles his father, stolen an egg, and had thus
The rat is prince of thé corners,
smile and no end of donkeys to let.-
The spider king^of thp gane.
sandpipers would come olit and get went^ahout asking every little Ger­ rendered himself amenably to the law.
Me talked a queer lingo, which 1* crushed under^he donkeys’ feet, and man whoni they saw, “Are yo"u Pickle- After getting out, he had led a pre­
We will live in the o’d, old house
cannot attempt to write out, so shall the birds would run away before the back'?’ But no one responded “ yes,” carious existence as ^bootblack and .
Drive out the silenoe and gloom,
And the sounds of dur life and mirth,
tell you his story as well as I can in waves, and all the party would be very They got rid of all their pennies, but newsboy, until rescued by Adrian.
Will echo from rdotq to room.
the American language. _______ ____ _ happy, except poor Job Pigstirrup, — fftiinH ■ aaxz
nothing
vs six « ______ ............................ Perhaps some day Adrian will tell you '
HS^atne from Strasburg, he said, w;no always pointed to Giles.
A trace to the old,i >1<1 house.
»Adrian continued to work, conscien­ ■the adventures of Pickieback.
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Farewell ! Its glovin and decay.
and was as poor as he could be, but by
“ He just like Pickieback" he would tiously. He visited Blackwell’s Is­
it was a happy day for the'three
And under its time worn bairns
sweeping the streets he got enough say, “ in size.”
land, he went to the German Hospi­ boys when they escorted Pickieback,
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Welcome ! tlie joys of to-day.
money to start a donkey-cart, and
Now, Adrftih was a very clear­ tals—he rtas clever and industrious in clad in one of Jem’s cast-off suits, back
We ^11 lighten with color and cheer
then made more and more money headed boy of twelve years, and he his search. All the time he could to Job Pigstirrup.
Its windows, doorways and halls
until he- had reached his present had a great idea of conquering both. spare from school he spent in search­
It did them all good to see the poor
The pictures we h allo-w most dear
proud poaj^n of 'large donkey owner Fate and Donkeys. He liked to ride ing for Pickieback. He got thin over father and. son meet agnin. They
Will smile from the brightenej ^walls.
near a fashionable watering-place.
Shicken because he had to fight the it, and his mother finally told him were ugly, poor, rather dijty, but their
O, come to the old, old house
" But,” said he, after he got in­ donkey’s obstinacy all the time, and that it was useless—that she had no love for each other wWras bright as a
New hope wilt light up onr eyes
timate, “ I dent care for monish— he felt the same strong determination doubt but that Pickieback had gone diamond, more precious than gold, and
We will strive as we furhiSh'and gijd
-To take-a new lease on our Jives.
I loss mine leetle poy !”
to find Pickieback. Old Job was very west with Mr. Brace’s boys, or else together they would grow better.
» “ Did he die ?" asked one of his kind and obliging and did'the boys a had sickened and died, alone in • a
Let us call up the loves and joys
Job gave them all a donkey ride on
We cherished in other years,-
customers.
thousand services. He had donkey­ strange city, poor boy, or perhaps the beach, and some pretzels and
We will abut from the house the gloom
“ No, he vas stole from me in New carts in which they took drives when drifted out to the small German cheese. Lager, Kraut and Ginger­
Shut from our prospects the fears.
York ! Oh ! mein dear little Pickle-' tired of riding, and he knew, some vegetable gardens in the neighborhood’ bread were very well, and made their
’Tis only an bld fesown house,
back!"
.
. secrets of fishery.
of New-YorieT—
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musical chaunt—“ A'f-rfarnfr / ?ri------- —
We'H crowd it’with love life bright
And here Job Pigstirrup shed a few
“ That, is .an idea ’ said -Adrian, chunk !" like poor, lost Shicken.
One
day,
however,
they
found
him
And the courage that comes with faith
tears and wiped them off on the in great grief. Shicken had disap­ starting up. “Give me a week more»
Each sorrowing heart will light.
“ Let us go to Shicken’s grate,* said
donkey.
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peared I Allowed to go and graze on mother, . and let me have some’ car Adrian. “ Come, Job, tell us where
Pickieback and Pigstirrup were un­ a sort of common near the stable, the fare»!”
you buried him.”
In The Long Run.
doubtedly good German names, if we, donkeys had picked up much of their - So this indefatigable boy visited
“ Buried him !” said Job. “ No,,no,
In the long rnn rime finds deserving mm. could only have understood his queer
own living, aqd had never shown any many of these green patches of land 1 sell him to zee bone-boiler man—
The lucky wight may prosper for a day, provincial ; but hé Was totally unin­
desire to stray. It appeared that a about New York, where the patient dat’s his skin down dere. No use—
But in good time true merit leads the van,
telligible,
sometimes,
was
Job
Pigstir
­
young lady had brought her own .Germans raise water-cresses, spinach, dead donkey, but tor bone-boiler
And vain pretense, unnoticed goes its
♦"
rup,
so
we
gave
up
trying
to
imagine
donkey to the beach, and possibly,” salads, and late and early vegetables man !”
way.
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There is no Chance, no Destiny, no d'ate. what they meant.
Job thought, Shicken might have gone for the New York market. There
The boys were shocked at this
But fortune smiles on those who 'work
•One of our ladies was a pbilanthro-* off to pay the new donkPjTa call. But were plenty of poor German boys who
want
of ]>oetical sensibility in Job i
. and wait.
pist, and she felt very sorry for the no one knew anything about the stray would have been very glad to be
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but they left him and Pickieback very
In the lon£ run.
poor foreigner who .hall lost Ins boy, animal, and certain cruel boys de­ Pickieback—only they-were not.
happy in each other’s society, each
‘ In' the long run all goodly sorrow pays,
Adrian, of course, had not left the
so she got all the particulars from clared. that they were very .glad he
one. of.them with his arm about
.
—
There is no better thing than righteous
him. It seémsThat tKë wiTeTiàï cirëï" was gone, remembering certain back­ .newsboys* lodging bouse unvisited;
donkey’s neck, and smiling cheerfully.
pain.
but had met few German boys there.
The sleepless nights, the awful thorn- on the emigrant steamer coming over ward kicks from Shicken’s hind legs.
—M. E. W. S., in August Wide
here
;
-end-
no
wonder
either,
for
they
crowned days,
However, the poor little bad donkey He, however, knew that, that was al­ Awake.
.Bring sure reward to tortured soul.and treat these poor people shamefully, was found dead at the foot of the ways «hanging its population, so he
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brain.
Our Girl Graduates.
sometimes ; and then J ob, and Pickie­ bluff, next mori^ng, having walked off determined to go once more. He -is
Unmeaning joys enervate in the end,
back, had landed at Castle Garden. in the night; and Job sat down by one of thoso tenacious people who
But sorrows yield a glorious dividend
The graduates of our colleges for
They went walking round the street, his dead body, and kissed the poor, never give up hoping and working,
In the long run.
women
are "becoming every year a
and such aro sure to be rewarded
and ate some cheese and drank some hairy face, and wept bitterly.
In the long run all hidden things are
larger
and
more influential class, and
beer at a German shop. Perhaps Job |- No matter what Shicken was—a sometime.
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known,
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whoever
has
personal knowledge of
He went down‘one morning to hear
The eye of Truth will penetrate the drank too much beer, at any rate 11Î ! donkey, and a bad donkey at that—
their
employments
and aims knows
lost Pickieback somewhere and never Job loved him, and he mourned him the boys singing and to enjoy the
night.
that
they
are
by
ho
means
a force at
And good or ill, thy secret "shall be known found him—“ never, no more,” as he
scene of their comforts, when a great
.
as
he
had
never
mourned
anything
rest.
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Active,
earnest,
aspiring,
they
However well ’tie guarded from the tight said.
thrill ran through him.
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before but hrs wife and Pickieback.
All the unspoken motives of the breast
are
already'breathing
a
new
life
of
“ Surely,” said he, pressing his hand
•“ How old was he ?” asked the lady.
“ I lofes ’em all, and they all goes
,
Are fathomed by the years'and stand
intelligence
into
the
sluggish,currents
Job held up the dirty fingers of I away,” said the poor lonely affection­ to his forehead, " surely, those are Job
confessed
of society in the places in which they
Pigstirrup’s warts !”
both hands, bending down one.
In the long run.
ate fellow.
There on the fifth bench, and -the live. There are not a few small towns
“ Nine ?” said the lady.
In the long rnn all love is paid by love,
Shicken’s remains were taken away
Job nodded his head and whipped on a dray, his two companions, -Gin­ third seat front the end, sat Job Pig- in which the number of young women
Though undervalued by. the hearts of
given to self-culture far exceeds that
• earth ;
the donkey.
gerbread and Kraut, being harnessed .stjrrup’s living image.
The great eternal Governor snt above
It was all that Adrian could do to of the young men. Clearsighted ob­
To look for a young German of n ine to the melancholy duty. Adrian,
Keeps strict account and wil^redeem its
years in crowded New York, after two Jem and Giles were chief mourners, repress his curiosity until the services servers note the fact that, while young
work.
were nearly at an end, when he whis­ men are drawn at a very early age
Give thy love freely ; <io not count the years had gone by, seemed like looking for Job», although weeping had to
into pursuits which absorb them to
for a needle in a hay-stack ; but this drive the mules. Adrian was ashamed pered to Mr. Brace:
cost ;
“ Sir, may I speak to that third boy the entire exclusion of further educa­
So lieautifhl a thing was never lost
lady did not despair. She knew that to cry, but Jem and Gilei were not
tion of themselves, girls are" steadily ’ -
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In the long run.
stranger things had happened than i big enough' for any false shame, so on the fifth bench ?”
pushing
back the old line which con­
“ Oh, certainly, certainly,” said Mr.
the recovery of a lost child, and as she they lifted up their voices and wept
ventional
usage drew across the path
had three boys of her own—Adrian, aloud, which comforted poor Job, for Brace.
,
• Fin'shed.
of
their
development,
and are looking
So Adrian walked quietly up to the
Jem, and Giles-—she told them that if i ‘ sympathy is always sweet. Shicken’s
Somehow there lurketh a sadness,
forward
to
a
time
when
the average
they would be her “ police,” and look remains, with the mouth wide open, fifth bench, and leaned over to asmall»
To me, in this simplè word.
education
of
American
women
will be
This mournful word was in anguish heard for Pickieback, she would give them .
i and the poor little tail straight out, round-heqded boy :
higher than the average of American
From the lips of our dying Lord.
“ What is your name ?”
unlimited credit with Job, and as looked mors amiable and contrite than
men. Margaret Fuller’s ambition for
"
Johnny
Schmoker,
”
said
the
boy,
many
donkey
drives
and
rides
as
they
Thongli rest is the meed of labor,
he had ever done in his life,—which
her
friends, that they should have
chose
to
take.
Adrian,
Jem
and
Giles
and
the
others
laughed
loud.
Though rest is tjbe boon we ask,
was very heartless of us, and I daresay
some
“generous seeking,” promises to
OJJ turn we yet. ^.itb a vague regret.
Adrian
was
terribly
disappointed.
were delighted with this permission, we shall all be punished for it some
Away from a finished task.
and made a solemn compact jttesearch I day by losing a donkey whom we love, Could it be that this was anybody but find among her country-women a far
wider fulfillment than she dreamed
Whatever the task that’s finished.
Pickieback ?
New York for the lost heir of the ; as we deserve to be.
even
in her prophetic moods.
However, or w'.ien, or where.
“
We
call
him
so
because
he
is
a
donkey trade, when they should go I We were sorry for him and ashamed
Be it good or ill, we are certain still,
It
is
quite possible that this higher
German,
”
sa,id
a
boy
near.
“
We
call
home again.
! of oursJlves when we heard, as we did
That a part of onr life is there.
education of women is the most signi­
Now, next to Pickieback, Job loved , I later, that Shicken h%d been blind of him Johnny Schmoker.’’.
When I look in an empty bird's-neet
a donkey whom he caltel ’’ Shicken ’’ I one eye, which fact, probably led to
Adrian thought a minute, and ficant and momentous movement of
Oftimes I think, with a sigh.
looked at the boy; he grew more and the day ; that when all contemporan­
Of the brooding there, the feeding and care We supposed that he meant chicken, j his accident.
as
he
always
pointed
out
one
of
these
r Adrian became a great favorite more like Job Pigstirrup every minute. eous political and social changes are
.E re the little ones could fly.
familiar
birds
as
he
said
“
Shicken.
”
" Pickieback I” said Adrian, finally. measured by their results it will ap­
with Job after this) who, poor fellow,
Th« ’’•o heme looks so lonely.
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I
suppose
Shicken
was
the
roo3t
The boy gave a start, and looked as pear that the liberal education of
accepted an invitation to ’ have .his
I think, with a touch of pain, _
That thé feathered breast, which has obstinate donkey that ever was born. photograph taken, which was certainly if he would iun away, but Adrian women involved more radical and far-
reaching effects than any other single
pressed tne nest.
He^lways went backward when fié a striking one. His ooarse hair stood eaught him by the sleeve.
May never press it again.
cause.
Precisely what are to be the
did not go sideways, and stopped short up all over his head like the donkey's,
“ Who told you that I” said the boy,
fruits
of
this wide sowing it is not
Oh, comes there not an aching
when you, was ip a hurry. Job used and his warts came out like little adgrily. " You send me to prison f
To the loving mother’s breast,
possible
as
yet to discover; but re­
to Hatter him, give him sugar, and I cheeses all over his cheeks, and his
And he struggled to get away.
When one by one, each daughter and son,
sults
are
already
apparent which no
prod
him
with
an
iron-pointed
stick,
I
Adriari put his hand in his pocket,
nose looker! as if one of the donkeys
Goes from the dear home nest,
but on some days Shicken was proof had trodden on it—yet Job had a and took out Job Pigstirrup’s picturje, intelligent observer can mistake.—'
And she feels that the careful labor,
Christian Union.
against all these endearments. He pleasant expression, and in spite of and held it before the boy’s eyes.
Which wearied her in the past,
" Mein fader, mein fader!” said the
For those dsaughters and sons—her “ lit­ • was a very pretty mouse-colored little his personal disadvantages we all
—Mrs. Susan N. Carter, Superia-
donkey, with a cross on his back, and liked to look at him and at his pic­ poojr>y, grasping
wd bursting indent of the New York Cooper'
tle ones,”
Is finished, all finished at last? v/f-
a voice like an old pump-handle ture. It reminded us of many pleasant- . out crymg.
.
Union
Union Art
Art School
School for
fpr Wnn,»
Women, „7-
estf-*“
—Ellen A. Ttmarind.
which has never been oiled <4h ! it hours.
“ Then you dm Piclfabaick!" said mates that only one-third of her pu­
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When the time came for returning Adrian. “ I mean you no harm. 1
, made your teeth ache to hear Shicken
— A Japanese lady, M im k»ma
pils ever become professional artists or
to town, Adrian found that his mother want to take you back to your father.”
loads her class at Vassar College. Hhe is J express his feelings !
teachers. The other two-thirds either
very popular among both teaci err Md
to ‘the Gommissionets of
However, Adrian. took aj fancy to , had written
Thisjjttie scene had created quite n arry or are indecisive.
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- The Old, Old House.
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