. Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts. ^ITS ONLY A DEOP !. AN IRISH TALE, BY MRS S. C. HALL. W} T was a cold winter night, and though, the cottag*ela where Ellen and Michael, the two surviving* childrenof old Ben Murphy, lived, was always neat and com-fortable, still there was a cloud over the brow of bothbrother and sister, as they sat before the cheerful fire; it hadobviously been S23read not by anger but by sorrow. Thesilence had continued long, though it was not bitter. At^- ^ last Michael drew away from his sisters eyes the checkedapron she had apphed to them, and taki
. Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts. ^ITS ONLY A DEOP !. AN IRISH TALE, BY MRS S. C. HALL. W} T was a cold winter night, and though, the cottag*ela where Ellen and Michael, the two surviving* childrenof old Ben Murphy, lived, was always neat and com-fortable, still there was a cloud over the brow of bothbrother and sister, as they sat before the cheerful fire; it hadobviously been S23read not by anger but by sorrow. Thesilence had continued long, though it was not bitter. At^- ^ last Michael drew away from his sisters eyes the checkedapron she had apphed to them, and taking her hand affectionatelywithin his own, said: It isnt for my own sake, Ellen, thoughI shall be lonesome enough the long winter nights and the longsummer days without your wise saying, and your sweet song,and your merry laugh, that I can so well remember—ay, sincethe time wheli our poor mother used to seat us on the new rick,and then, in the innocent pride of her heart, call our father to lookat us, and preach to us against being* conceited, at the very timeshe was makin
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