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mttt id wge . And y # t nobo 4 y could work hwfct tfmn ato did ; she wouH do as much in half a day as another her own age would do in two . I don t know wb ** you tbink * -sir , but it seqips to me that many a father , and mother teo , go the way to oiato their children cotoq to barm , when they take the hard way with them , instead of the . kindly : bo it happened with that poor girL
4 atranger came up to the hills ope autumn tune , just as you might be here , sir , to look about h \' w . He stopped late one night , and begged a lodging ; and the farmer , seeing him a man who could pay his way * jnade him very welcome . Wei ] , to ipake the matter short , he staid , and he staid ; and he used to go up with the girl into the fields , when she waa at work , and pick up , pebble * and things for her , and tell her their Dames , and the names of the flowers ; and he seemed to Jike them
just as much as she did . Then they would sit together on a J > ank , after work was done , and talk , and look at the mountains together , and all the things , just as gheha 4 used to <^ o by herself . The farmer ' s man said that at first he neve * saw two people run on as they did , particularly the girl , for she seemed to be saying * U the things she had been thinking for years , and had bad nobody to say them to . He staid the winter through , and would sit reading to her , while she knitted her father ' s
stockings . While there he got very thin , and had an illness in which she nursed him and got him well . In a little while after , as the spring came round , she began to be less lively , and to look pale and thin ; and though the still did her work , like her father ' s daughter , she never looked at it in the , doing , as she used , but seemed to be thinking and thinking , as if all the cares of the world had come upon her . The stranger used to go away for days together , wandering up among the
hills . Time went on ; and at last , one July day , he went too for good and all * though I am afraid ' tis for bad with him : but long before that , the girl had lost her happy look altogether . He went very early one morning , leaving two packets—one for the father , and another for the daughter . The farmer seemed satisfied witb his : but no one knew
what her letter said ; but she was seen to take something up that fell out , and throw it from her as if she hated it ; and hate was a look they had never seen before in her face , so they well remembered it . No one ever knew—for she took to her bed next day , and never left it for six weeks , and then it was to be turned out of her father ' s house very soon after— -no one knew what became of her , or why she went .
* The young man , for he does not deserve the name of gentleman , fof behaving to her as no honest man could , came once again to the farm * The father waa very angry , but appeared pacified after a little . The other looked unhappy , and said he should like to find out where she was , for she had sent back his letter , and returned the money i Poor girl ! she is one of those who would rather starve on the high-road , than touch a halfpenny that had belonged to such as he ! but the
high-Toad she never goes near , if she can help it ; and perhaps that may be the reason why she has never been seen by any one who knew her before her trouble . It is a sight to see tier carrying that boy and his hatktfc , and their bundle of clothes . She never lets any one do it for her ; it seems to kejep her pacified when she can do it herself ; but it is t sight to see such a poor ,. thin , pale creature do that day after day , and the . hard work that she does besides in the fields . She answer * us in
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1834, page 519, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2635/page/59/
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