The farm-yard club of Jotham: . no summer breeze stole in at the win-dow and tossed the legal papers over the dusty floor ; nosmoke curled from the chimney on the hard winter morn-ings, to tell of the life and warmth and comfort below. Infact, Mr. Wright had been obliged to take up his abode inthe remote He stationed himself in a new, muddy,sprawUng, dismal Western town, where he worked for hisclients and sighed for his neat New England home. It 2l6 THE FARM-YARD CLUB OF JOTHAM. was to this town that his daughter Fanny went with theyoung minister whom she married ; in fact, it was throu
The farm-yard club of Jotham: . no summer breeze stole in at the win-dow and tossed the legal papers over the dusty floor ; nosmoke curled from the chimney on the hard winter morn-ings, to tell of the life and warmth and comfort below. Infact, Mr. Wright had been obliged to take up his abode inthe remote He stationed himself in a new, muddy,sprawUng, dismal Western town, where he worked for hisclients and sighed for his neat New England home. It 2l6 THE FARM-YARD CLUB OF JOTHAM. was to this town that his daughter Fanny went with theyoung minister whom she married ; in fact, it was throughMr. Wrights influence that the parish was offered toFannys husband immediately on his graduation. Thecircumstances of the affair were all deemed fortunate, —the investment of the people in those doubtful lands,the employment of Squire Wright in the investigation,the engagement of the lovely Fanny to the minister, thewants of that young and rising Western parish, the set-tlement, the chances which attended the growing town,. A WESTKRN TOWN. — all seemed to conspire to give the family of the Squireunusual good fortune. But trouble and disappointmentcame apace. The young minister broke down under theinfluences of the climate; the malaria was too much forhim ; he was fretted by the ragged edge of society there ;he was too sensitive for the rough vitality of border-life ;and he died after a few months of exhausting and unsatis-factory toil. Fanny was shocked and broken-hearted by PASTURE LANDS. 2 I J the sudden calamity ; and when, the father being dead, herboy was born, she felt that she had travelled the full circleof life, had grown old before her prime, and was left to toilfor years along that road, which to the aged is but a stepinto the joy and repose of heaven. Pier brother, a sturdylad, who had accompanied his father to the West, lost hishealth entirely through exposure in the forests and river-bottoms, which he was called on to explore ; her mothergrew rapidly old und
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